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Bank of Canada to Simulate Crypto Adoption Cases using Quantum Computing

Bank of Canada to Simulate Crypto Adoption Cases using Quantum Computing

Decrypt | Stacy Elliott | Apr 14, 2022 The researchers’ model can complete in half an hour what would take a regular PC longer than a human lifetime. The Bank of Canada has become the first G7 country to turn to quantum computing to simulate scenarios where cryptocurrency and fiat currency can coexist. This week,


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Scott Galloway:  Umpires, Not Kings

Scott Galloway: Umpires, Not Kings

Scott Galloway | Apr 15, 2022 The most prosperous societies are built around free-market competition. It’s uncomfortable — harsh even — so we’ve tried to design societies based on planning and enforced economic equality. But communism leads to stagnation, repression, and economic collapse. China’s economy went from starving its people to minting self-made female billionaires


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Hong Kong’s Web3 ‘Mr. Metaverse’ vs. Mark Zuckerberg

Hong Kong’s Web3 ‘Mr. Metaverse’ vs. Mark Zuckerberg

CNBC | Rebecca Fannin | Apr 14, 2022 In the evolving metaverse economy, Yat Siu, the founder of a once little-known mobile gaming startup, is becoming known by a nickname: Mr. Metaverse. He's pivoting his Hong Kong-based company Animoca Brands to help shape Web3 in a way that he says will offer an alternative to


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How to make sure you're taking advantage of all employer benefits to boost your wealth

How to make sure you're taking advantage of all employer benefits to boost your wealth

"There's a huge value to the employee for those benefits," said Sherri Bockhorst, senior vice president of innovation and strategy at Businessolver.

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DeFi Advocates Call out the SEC (Again) over attempts to define ‘Exchange’

DeFi Advocates Call out the SEC (Again) over attempts to define ‘Exchange’

ComplianceX | Jack Kelly | Apr 20, 2022 For the second time in a month, the Securities and Exchange Commission has the crypto industry up in arms about what it calls an attempt at backdoor regulation that, depending on who you ask, falls anywhere on the spectrum between opaque and unconstitutional. At issue is an


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How to make sure you're taking advantage of all employer benefits to grow your wealth

How to make sure you're taking advantage of all employer benefits to grow your wealth

"There's a huge value to the employee for those benefits," said Sherri Bockhorst, senior vice president of innovation and strategy at Businessolver.

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Inflation is taking a big bite from retirees' pension income

Inflation is taking a big bite from retirees' pension income

Pensions' cost-of-living adjustments largely aren't keeping up with inflation. The dynamic is most acute for state and local government retirees, experts said.

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Supreme Court rejects challenge to SALT limit from New York, New Jersey

Supreme Court rejects challenge to SALT limit from New York, New Jersey

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from New York and other states to overturn the $10,000 limit on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

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What we learned from the Biden, Harris tax returns, according to experts

What we learned from the Biden, Harris tax returns, according to experts

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have released their 2021 tax returns. Here are a few key takeaways, according to experts.

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CB Insights: Global fintech funding declines in Q1’22 while Europe, Canada and Australia see Growth

CB Insights: Global fintech funding declines in Q1’22 while Europe, Canada and Australia see Growth

CB Insights | Apr 19, 2022 Global fintech funding in Q1'22  was down 18% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) at $28.8B— the largest percentage drop in quarterly funding since 2018.  However Europe, Canada and Australia experienced degrees of funding growth In our State of Fintech 2021 Report, we dive into global investment trends to spotlight takeaways including: See: 


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Here are the sacrifices young adults have made to pay their student loans

Here are the sacrifices young adults have made to pay their student loans

Saving for emergencies and retirement top the list of financial decisions most often delayed because of student loan debt.

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Here's how to get the most money towards college

Here's how to get the most money towards college

There are ways to get more financial aid or negotiate for additional scholarship money towards a college education.

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These states are poised to pass personal finance education legislation this year

These states are poised to pass personal finance education legislation this year

Georgia will likely be the next state to pass a personal finance education mandate, according to a bill tracker from Next Gen Personal Finance, a nonprofit.

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Why Compound is redesigning it’s token-economics

Why Compound is redesigning it’s token-economics

The Defiant | Samuel Haig | Apr 19, 2022 Background In the summer of 2020, Ethereum lending protocol Compound worked out that if you give away free governance tokens for borrowing and lending crypto, people will flock to your platform and pump the value of your new token.  But when that free money spigot ran


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Epic Games Raises $2 Billion From Lego Investors & Sony for Family-friendly Metaverse

Epic Games Raises $2 Billion From Lego Investors & Sony for Family-friendly Metaverse

Upload VR | Ian Hamilton | Apr 11, 2022 Epic Games continues to align with partners on efforts to build a 3D-focused version of the Internet with $2 billion raised from the investors behind Lego and Sony. Epic just launched Unreal Engine 5 for a wide range of 3D creation tasks ranging from film production


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