I’ve written about the natural-occurring tension between Product and Compliance teams within Fintech companies before. Product teams are in the business of maximizing the growth of transacting users while Compliance teams are in the business of implementing legally-required controls which necessarily restrict the growth of the business. …

DarkSide is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operator responsible for the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May last month, which caused gasoline futures to rise to their highest level in 3 years and disrupted fuel delivery across the Southeastern U.S. This article highlights what we know about DarkSide and explains how BTC…

Dogecoin — the cryptocurrency forked from Litecoin in late 2013 as a joke — has gained 475% in the past 30 days to become the seventh largest cryptocurrency by market cap in the world. …

Classical vs. Jazz Music 🎶 Classical music is very technical in nature; each and every pitch is prescribed to the musician on sheet music, and the musician is expected to play it exactly as it appears. Improvisation is not tolerated. …

BizDev & Compliance: A Love Story ❤️ Two teams with seemingly competing interests exist internally at each and every FinTech and traditional financial institution in the US — Business Development (“BizDev”) and Compliance teams, specifically. BizDev is often if not always the revenue-driver of the business; its mission is to get the product into as many hands…

The Libra “Blockchain” is a unique database system, but it is not a blockchain. Blockchain Defined A blockchain is a distributed ledger containing a growing list of records (transactions) that are batched in blocks which are linked together using cryptography. Generally, blockchains involve the following players: Developers: geographically distributed Programmers who create…

On June 11th 2018, Coinbase announced its intent to add full support for Ethereum Classic (“ETC”) to all but one of its products, with the possibility of supporting it across all products given healthy market conditions. …