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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Jonah said that didn’t map to his views on the history of the media business or to his own experiences at BuzzFeed where he contents that he is being paid to produce content by companies like Facebook and Snapchat. Video is the new HTML.” He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

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