Interview with STRATUM CEO Today we have the pleasure to bring to you a brief interview with Rocelo Lopes (STRATUM CEO). As referred in our post related with STRATUM, Rocelo came in 4th place in Cointelegraph of most influential crypto people in Brazil. So, let’s start our interview (questions will mark as SC meaning Simplify Crypto and RL meaning Rocelo Lopes). SC:” At first place, congratulations for the work done in the crypto world and the place in the Cointelegraph…
Cypherpunks and the Prehistory of Bitcoin - Part 1 In the 1990s, there was a group of crypto enthusiasts who met to discuss online and in person in California, about the future of the Internet and how they could make it private and secure. They called themselves Cypherpunks and their online forum was the Cryptography Mailing List - the first site to see Bitcoin's white paper by Satoshi. Cypherpunks is a pun on the cyberpunk movement including cypher, which in English means…
Satoshi Nakamoto – The missing creator The blockchain creator was never revealed. In fact, even today we don't know if, who invented blockchain and created Bitcoin, it was a man, a woman, a group of people or something else. Although Satoshi Nakamoto introduced himself as a 37-year-old Japanese man on a Peer-to-Peer Foundation profile, this information has never been confirmed. The foundation dedicated to instigating direct dynamics between peers - between people - therefore…
Banks being banks Today we will comment an event that happened at 18th June in Brazil. The Animal rights activist Luísa Mell received a donation of 50€ ( R$284) from a person that lives in Europe and the moment he converted to reais for the purpose of buying things for animals she saw his account having a negative balance. **The bank applied a fee of R $ 300 to exchange euros to reais, leaving the account with a negative balance of R $ 16 (not even in the Donation…
Stratum Some week ago, I listened a talk about a company named STRATUM and its CEO participating in two/three YouTube lives related to crypto. So, I decided to “study” better this company. Stratum was founded in 2017 from the need for growth and internationalization of CoinBR (CoinBR was a company in the crypto world since 2013 that searched foreign investment to expand and reach new markets). However, that year it was decided the operation between STRATUM and CoinBR were…
Investing is not easy Normally, I don’t comment this type of news respecting the kid and their family. However, **I think we need to understand that’s happening in society.** Yesterday, a young man (20 years old) suicide after seeing a $730,000 negative balance at Robinhood. Currently, it has become to easy to talk about investments, that people need to have a start-up, that people needs to be entrepreneurial ending up becoming a **movement/pressure from society that people…
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