FinTech / Crypto

'Future of the Future' or 'Flaming Bag'? In this Disruptive Technologists' Webinar Event, we chatted live with Esther Dyson, " the most influential woman in all the computer world " and Graham Morehead, Principal Research Scientist at AON on the Metaverse and its governance. As the founding chair of ICANN, Esther has thoughts about "how effectively decentralized governance *actually* works" and what that means to the future of the metaverse. What is the thing 'The Metaverse'?

In this Disruptive Technologists' webinar, Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and one of the Fathers of the Internet, and Noreen Whysel, Director of Validation Research at Me2B Alliance , speak with Oliver Christie , Artificial Intelligence Architect and Chief Innovation Officer at Voltare Consulting about The Metaverse Future of the Internet and what that may mean for all of us. Vint and Noreen speak about where the Internet started and what drives it forward. Th

The word “metaverse” gets thrown around a lot these days. You hear it in interviews, on podcasts, and at conferences. But what is the metaverse, and why is it so hyped? The metaverse is not a "universe" like the one we live in. Instead, it’s really more of a concept used to describe the next generation of online experiences—ones that blend the physical and digital worlds. And it’s a concept that is continuing to gain momentum. So, what is it, can you really experience it, an

“The new world of finance requires leveling the playing field between regular traders and hedge funds. Until that point is reached, we will continue to innovate and increase accessibility of the Coinrule platform to all. Long term, we intend to expand into traditional assets such as stocks as well as the new field of Decentralised Finance. Adding decentralised apps to Coinrule strategies would open endless opportunities like staking coins, smart routing, and trading synthetic

ABOUT THE EVENT April 7, 2021 Disrupting Finance: The Unbanked and Underbanked in NYC 11% or 350,000 people in New York City are unbanked (have no bank account) and a further 22% or 700,000 people are underbanked. This lack of access to financial services for the most vulnerable encourages a cycle of poverty. In this webinar we discuss what that means to society as a whole and what we might be able to do to solve it. Who are the unbanked? What are the reasons for being unba

Growing up, I remember my dad watching Jim Cramer all day yelling about the stock market on cable TV. Ah, simpler times. It seems like now, all it takes is following Twitter, especially Elon Musk, to see where the market is going. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing — I’m just a marketer with some risk-adverse investments. And I draw cartoons. This week, the stock market stories gave me inspiration for a couple of doodles about stock market influencers, a new p

Watch our Quick Byte 6-minute Interview with Jordan Gitterman, CEO of Item banc on Blockchain on Dec 18, 2019. Watch Jordan Gitterman discuss why blockchain is the future of currency. "Blockchain softwares are superior to what we're using, So banks are already starting to institute blockchains to their everyday use," he said.

By Tereza d’Andrade I’m thrilled to share the Viziotagged and YouTube video of the Disruptive Technologists' event held Monday July 30, 2018 held at Microsoft in NYC , with Vint Cerf , the Father of the Internet! Were you there? Revisit your favorite moments. Couldn’t make it? Watch it now. Watch the Viziotagged version of the event on Digital Preservation, Privacy & Protocols with Vint Cerf. Digital Preservation, Privacy, Protocols (ie Blockchain) What is Digital Preserv

ABOUT THIS EVENT Disruptive Technologists' Event: Is Blockchain & Bitcoin Our New Banking March 26, 2018 Microsoft Offices in Times Square, NYC Two years ago, Bitcoin was considered a fringe technology for libertarians and computer geeks. Now, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum , are gaining mainstream adoption. Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies . Smart Contracts -- many people have now heard of the rapidly changing ecosystem of financial technology, but few have

“ Crypto Currency, utility token, blockchain, digital coins ....” these heated tech buzzwords have flooded us, so much so you would feel illiteracy not mixing some of them into mundane conversations. Apart from being a fancy chit-chat topic and a volatile investment vessel, some ambitious and gallant young entrepreneurs are taking the technology to evolve the “the oldest profession in the world”, we all know what we are talking about right? Leah Callon-Butler , the cofounder

Disruptive Technologists' writer Xiling Gu talks with Leah Callon-Butler , the founder of intimate.io , about how she started her career and how she deals with the media about the delicate business of sex. XG: Could you tell us a bit about your education and career background before becoming a co-founder of intimate.io ? Leah Callon-Butler : My career has been a lot of fun. I delivered a sustainability award-winning community bulk-buy project that saw $6.5mil worth of solar t

Cryptocurrency - or Crypto for short - is the topic at the center of Disruptive Technologists' next panel, and it’s definitely going to be a divisive one—apart from space exploration, few topics elicit the same visceral reactions among technologists, investors, and futurists. The central idea behind cryptocurrency is the blockchain, a digitally distributed ledger that keeps track of trades and individual balances. Paired with the ledger technology is mining, the process by w

Giovanni Fumei, Disruptive Technologists’ Podcast Director, interviews the three young and very enthusiastic founders of Crescent Crypto Enjoy this educational podcast as all three founders discuss their views on Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and how this all fits into Banking . “Here at Disruptive Technologists, we have a shared fascination with different and unique views -- idiosyncratic minds, as we'd like to call them. So when we decided the Disruptive March event will be

This spurs attention from even the most cautious and conservative investors, is this digital coin a huge bubble? How to get a foothold in this profiting rocket? What unforeseen risks are there and how to avoid those? Disruptive Technologists talked with the three founders of Crescent Crypto Asset Management, a private index fund that aims to capture the best investment value by selecting 10 coins that represent a coverage ratio of approximately 80% of the crypto market cap an

By Coco Kee As I travel back and forth frequently between the U.S. and China, I have a first-hand view what is happening on the other side of the pond. In particular, in the past few years I have witnessed the FinTech boom in China. FinTech in China is more than a buzz word; people breath it. FinTech provides more and more convenience and benefits to people because historically banks have served them poorly, from payment to lending to borrowing, etc. Let me share with yo

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco “Most banking apps are pretty bland,” according to Jerry Rudisin, the CEO of Flybits . “ They know where you are, and who you are, which is great. You can transfer money and do the usual things, but that’s not enough to really be competitive. Enterprise mobile app users get tired of having a cookie-cutter, one-size fits all app, and that puts the enterprise at a competitive disadvantage. Flybits is a software product company with a uniqu

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Co-founder Scott Reynolds created Armor Payments with his partner Mark French to act as a kind of B2B Escrow Service. He designed it to focus on business-to-business transactions that tend to be of the larger size. He feels that consumer-oriented payment methods, such as credit cards and PayPal, are just taken for granted by consumers, and aren’t particularly suited for B-to-B transactions. Armor's disruption stems from the fact that it

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco iQuantifi is unique in that it is the only robot advisor in the marketplace that doesn’t require a human advisor to personalize comprehensive financial advice. The service works with all financial institutions including banks, credit unions, investment and insurance companies, who can now provide financial advice to their entire customer bases, not just the wealthy. Tom White: We call ourselves robo-planners because I believe we’re the on

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco FinMason started as a financial education concept a little less than three years ago. Kendrick Wakeman , the founder, pulled together a group of scientists, investors, analysts and technical leads to try and help what he saw as a major problem in the United States: the retirement crisis. He found that people had a lot of anxiety around investing because they didn’t have a good understanding of the process; they were holding back from engagin