As bond risks grow and contagion appear more likely than ever, every investor needs to consider bitcoin as portfolio insurance.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2022 Eliza Strickland | IEEE Spectrum “The 2022 AI Index, which came out this week, is as impressive as ever, with 190 pages covering R&D, technical performance, ethics, policy, education, and the economy. I’ve done you a favor by reading every page of the report […]

The growth and adoption of cryptocurrencies in the past two years is huge where NFT sales exploded last year. The

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An analysis of two ransomware attacks has identified overlaps in the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) between BlackCat and BlackMatter, indicating a strong connection between the two groups. While it's typical of ransomware groups to rebrand their operations in response to increased visibility into their attacks, BlackCat (aka Alphv) marks a new frontier in that the cyber crime cartel

Synthetix is a financial primitive enabling the creation of synthetic assets, offering derivatives and exposure to real-world assets on the blockchain.

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The surge of at-home and small-scale bitcoin miners is driving new hardware offerings, hosting services and a return to the practice’s roots.

Cryptocurrency company, Luno has launched an early-stage investment arm, Luno Expeditions, to back fintech and crypto or web3 startups across the globe, according to an announcement from TechCrunch. Luno launches investment arm to back over 200 fintech and crypto/web3 startups yearly https://t.co/Jc4jLltUef by @ulonnaya — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) March 16, 2022 The investment arm will fund between 200-300 startups annually and diversify beyond crypto into the broader fintech space. The fund will invest between $50,000 to $250,000 and dig out between $15 million to $75 million yearly which essentially means an investment between $50 million to $300 million range will be committed when looking at typical investment periods of funds of around three-four years. CEO Jocelyn Cheng will spearhead this new project as she leads an all-female team of five. She has prior experience in investing in the startup industry over the last six years as the managing director at Global Innovation Fund, an impact investment VC. “There are very few truly global and very early-stage fintech funds in the world; we see an exciting opportunity here to build one. The reason why it’s not just pure crypto is that over the past few years, as operators scaling some of the largest crypto businesses in the world, we have noticed that there is such a strong intersection between some of the traditional fintechs and crypto,” said Cheng. Venture Capital Firms Bullish on Crypto Companies Earlier last year, leading venture capital firms such as Paradigm and Andreessen Horowitz have launched crypto funds upto $2.2 billion and $3 billion respectively. Additionally, there have been more crypto funds from Hack VC, Electric Capital, Crypto.com, and Inflection, all launched within the last three months. Luno Expeditions has already invested in 20 crypto and fintech companies such as Nala, a Tanzanian remittance solution; Oraan, a digital bank for Pakistani women; Notabene, a crypto compliance solution in Israel. Others include African crypto exchange platform Busha and fintechs Stitch and Root.

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A year and a half ago Netflix released The Social Dilemma, a docu-drama that dug into the harmful consequences of social media. Think political polarization, the spread of misinformation, and upticks in anxiety and depression across multiple demographics. Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, is a […]

Bitcoin accumulation trends have softened in the short term, despite extremely constructive long-term demand trends. The potential energy for a capitulation event is in place, but is yet to manifest as it has in previous market cycles.

OKEX or OKX, as they have recently rebranded to (more on that later), is a large cryptocurrency exchange and one of the OG’s in the crypto space established all the way back in 2016. Using its expertise in the spot market, OKX offers its users the opportunity to trade Futures, perpetual swaps and options markets. In […]

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Quantum 6, 666 (2022).

https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-03-11-666

In this paper we describe an algebraic/geometrical approach to quantum scrambling. Generalized quantum subsystems are described by an hermitian-closed unital subalgebra $cal A$ of operators evolving through a unitary channel. Qualitatively, quantum scrambling is defined by how the associated physical degrees of freedom get mixed up with others by the dynamics. Quantitatively, this is accomplished by introducing a measure, the geometric algebra anti-correlator (GAAC), of the self-orthogonalization of the commutant of $cal A$ induced by the dynamics. This approach extends and unifies averaged bipartite OTOC, operator entanglement, coherence generating power and Loschmidt echo. Each of these concepts is indeed recovered by a special choice of $cal A$. We compute typical values of GAAC for random unitaries, we prove upper bounds and characterize their saturation. For generic energy spectrum we find explicit expressions for the infinite-time average of the GAAC which encode the relation between $cal A$ and the full system of Hamiltonian eigenstates. Finally, a notion of ${cal A}$-chaoticity is suggested.