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Daily Fintech’s most popular post from 2020

To give the experts who bring you  insights daily based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives a break during this holiday season (for some people), we are reposting the most popular posts from last 5 years. Daily Fintech’s most popular post from 2020 was Bye-bye SWIFT Share this: Like this: Like Loading…


28 December 2021 0

Bitcoin in El Salvador Part 4. Then they fight you (first with words).

We know how that is supposed to end after “then they fight you” but that is only one of 4 scenarios that could play out. First, let’s look at who is attacking El Salvador with words. A lot of people who should not care a damn about a country that represents 0.02% of global GDP,…
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28 December 2021 0

Chinese social media users blast Elon Musk over near miss in space

Chinese social media users have attacked Elon Musk after satellites of SpaceX, his private rocket company, forced the country’s space station to manoeuvre out of the way to avoid collisions twice this year. The country’s mission to the UN complained this month that the Chinese space station had to take “preventive collision avoidance control” measures…
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28 December 2021 0

Lira slide pushes young Turks to virtual working overseas

About two years ago, as the Turkish lira was continuing on its long downward slide, Batikan Erdogan created a graph that made him reassess his career choices. Seeing that his earnings in the previous five years were flat in dollar terms, he decided he needed to earn in foreign currency. But, rather than join the…
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28 December 2021 0

Battle royale games keep players fighting to the death

It’s Makoto Naegi’s first day at the elite Hope’s Peak Academy and he’s a little nervous. As players embark on this first game of the Danganronpa series, just reissued alongside its sequels for Nintendo Switch, they learn that Hope’s Peak is not what it seems. The eager students are soon imprisoned in a sadistic game…
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28 December 2021 0

China’s social media influencers play safe with wholesome content

Wang Jing’s hand dives into a mound of soil and pulls out a bulging bunch of oyster mushrooms. “Look how pretty they are,” the mushroom-farmer-turned-influencer says to her fans on Douyin, the Chinese version of the short-video platform TikTok, as she strokes the soft caps of the fungi. Wang is one of the many internet…
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28 December 2021 0

China increases scrutiny of companies seeking overseas listings

China said domestic firms must gain approval before they can list overseas if they operate in areas deemed off-limits to foreign investors, closing a loophole for the country’s tech groups to raise capital in the US without going through regulatory scrutiny at home. The National Development and Reform Commission, the state’s economic planning agency, said…
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27 December 2021 0

Didi blocks employees from selling shares indefinitely

Didi Chuxing has barred current and former employees from selling shares in the company indefinitely, dealing a new blow to staff of the Chinese ride-hailing group that has come under intense regulatory scrutiny after listing in New York. December 27 was supposed to mark the end of a 180-day period during which current and former…
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Daily Fintech’s most popular post from 2021

To give the experts who bring you  insights daily based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives a break during this holiday season (for some people), we are reposting the most popular posts from last 5 years. Todays post was the most popular in 2021 but was actually posted late in  in 2020 Should…
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27 December 2021 0

Bitcoin in 2021: A Year in Review

In terms of price, bitcoin climbed from around $29,000 at the start of the year to a fresh all-time high of nearly $69,000 in November, and in the process, it reached a market cap of more than $1 trillion for the first time. Bitcoin began the year being the institutional favorite, with multinationals and hedge…
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