Akin Sawyerr is the co-founder of RocRemit, a blockchain remittance company, a director of Splash Mobile Money, a mobile payments company in Sierra Leone and the Africa Lead for Decred an open-source, Bitcoin fork that places emphasis on development funding, on-chain governance, and consensus mechanisms. Akin is a long time executive and entrepreneur operating in mobile money, remittances, and payments in sub Saharan Africa.
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Interview with Decred on-chain analyst + Crypto-accounting theorist
Adaptive Capital is a multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund with a deep focus on on-chain analytics. The fund is operated By Murad Mahmudov, Willy Woo, Misir Mahmudov & David Puell
Placeholder is a crypto venture capital partnership based in New York City with over $150 million in committed capital under management. Placeholder believes cryptonetworks will change the structure of global markets to counteract global inequality by decentralizing access to data, wealth and power.
Privacy, liquidity, and availability. According to a user survey from exactly one year ago, the Decred community overwhelmingly identified these three areas of improvement. While the embers of privacy smolder and tease against the silent backdrop of excitement and anticipation, I’d like to focus on solid progress on the other two fronts.
Litecoin Foundation's Franklyn Richards, Decred's Marco Peereboom, eToro's Yoni Assia, and CNN Business' Ivana Kottasová on our CryptoConf stage at Web Summit 2018. It has been a tough time for the cryptocurrency market. A rollercoaster year sees investors, holders, traders and speculators look with concern as to what will happen next. Will these surging currencies survive? And what does the future hold for everyone with an interest in crypto?
Decred is a hybrid Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency that offers many benefits over a pure PoW or PoS blockchain.
Over the last few months we have seen a steady rise in demand for Decred right across the board. We?ve had a big increase in the number of people joining our community on all social networks, hash rate is booming, and relative to inflation the circulating supply of Decred is dropping!
I was one of the people fortunate enough to be around for Decred?s airdrop. This means that I was given a share of their currency in the very beginning stages just for believing in them.
When you say, ?cryptocurrency,? your average Joe may not know to think any more than: ?Oh, she means Bitcoin.?