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ARK Disrupt Issue 136: Autonomous Cars, Batteries, Crypto, Blockchain, and CRISPR
Please enjoy ARK Disrupt Issue 136. This blog series is based on ARK Brainstorming, a weekly discussion between our CEO, Director of Research, thematic analysts, ARK’s theme developers, thought leaders, and investors. It is designed to present you with the most recent innovation takeaways and to keep you engaged in an ongoing discussion on investing in […]
Financial Blockchains: The Peril and Promise
We recently had the pleasure of sitting on a panel hosted at ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum startup, to discuss the future of financial blockchains. Below we include a brief summary of some of the topics we found most interesting from the panel discussion. Digital Assets Trading within the capital markets currently involves a mixture of […]
Bitcoin: A Means of Exchange – Investigating Bitcoin 2/5
Investigating Bitcoin 1 | 5. A series of articles investigating the disruptive potential of bitcoin and evaluating it as a currency. The software underlying Bitcoin enables bitcoin as an elegant means of exchange. In this article, “Bitcoin” refers to the open source, decentralized technology platform upon which “bitcoin”, the digital currency, depends. Like cash, transactions […]
Cryptocurrencies Will Challenge Traditional Transaction Platforms and Monetary Policies
Until cryptocurrencies surfaced seemingly out of nowhere, merchants and consumers seemed resigned to a 2.5-3% transaction toll with each credit or debit card purchase, while lower income individuals accepted the 8% remittance fee charged by companies like Western Union . Now, those payment platforms are facing the threat that cryptocurrencies could usurp their roles as intermediaries. Cryptocurrencies such […]
