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 MUST READ Leaked documents show what Goldman Sachs really thinks of Bitcoin
One slide suggested that the most notable feature of cryptocurrency is that it's a "conduit for illegal activity," including Ponzi schemes and ransomware, while another invoked the Dutch tulip mania. Not surprisingly, Bitcoin's many ardent fans on Twitter lashed out at Goldman Sachs.
BY JEFF JOHN ROBERTS MAY 27, 2020
  MUST WATCH Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi discusses the company's post-pandemic plan
"I think it's a question as to what happens with mass transit. Do you have other categories of transportation moving into ours? The focus is what does a safe trip look like, and what are the categories of travel inside of a city that are first going to come back."
MAY 26, 2020
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Develop an age-appropriate filter. Don’t sell our kids’ data (and if you do sell it, tell us). Encourage less screen time. BY MICHAL LEV-RAM MAY 26, 2020
A monthlong battle left 67 million French without their biggest online retailer when almost all physical stores were closed. BY VIVIENNE WALT MAY 20, 2020
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“Once each potential good has a financially tradable and storable equivalent, “a bitcoin,” if you will, trade will explode in a myriad of directions impossible to predict by current algorithms. Intermediaries will come and go, and the end points of exchange nodes will become more important. To many bankers, this is a scary thought.” —Why banks fear Bitcoin by Trond Undheim, November 2014 . This email was sent to newsletter@newslettercollector.com Unsubscribe | Edit your newsletter subscriptions
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