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The Wu-Tang Clan Goes Crypto
 

It may have been a joke when the Chapelle Show did the bit about Wu-Tang Financial in 2003, but life does have a tendency to imitate art — and these days, it gets an assist from cryptocurrency. Dennis Coles, Wu-Tang Clan’s “Ghostface Killah,” is getting into the initial coin offering (ICO) game with his new business partners at Cream Capital. Are you a “cash-rules-everything-around-me” — C.R.E.A.M., from Wu-Tang’s 1993 hit song — type of person? If so, Wu-Tang says it’s time to make that “C” in C.R.E.A.M. stand for “crypto.”

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Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
 

When the Grand Bazaar opened 557 years ago, it thought it had a lock on commerce across three continents. And, for nearly four centuries, it did — until new technologies introduced new competition and changed the profile of the buyers coming to shop its merchants. Traditional retail has been in the throes of this same shift for the last 150 years, Karen Webster says, thanks to this same mindset. But that’s nothing compared to what’s to come — or to the massive disintermediation that’s facing commerce and many of the players who enable it today. Why? According to Webster, it’s time to ask Alexa, or maybe Allo.

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