unrelated to everything else on this blog but i noticed you mention that you do copywriting now....was wondering if you could say anything abt how you found your job/what kinds of things you do day to day etc (only if you want to + are able ofc!!) its just im an advertising major dangerously close to graduating with no idea what to do but i've taken some copy classes recently and it's got me interested...would love to hear stuff from someone working in it that isn't just extremely generic blurbs about linkedin or personal branding or teamwork or whatever. ugh.

Um yeah so this is like my education and career story of how I ended up an English Major With A Job. This is a really long and more personal, but I feel like having context explains how/why a lot of this happened and is more Real than like trying to give advice.

So I’m not getting into details of this, but important context is that my parents intentionally manipulated/tricked/forced me into going to a really crappy tiny Christian college in the middle of nowhere because they believed big schools were “dangerous.” I got into a lot of really good schools but was not allowed to go.

ANYWAY, while I was in college I basically felt like my life was fucked forever because of the above so it was all hopeless and was not interested in a lot of internships or career stuff. Being a junior during Covid contributed to this feeling a lot and I was just not focused on job experience when it felt like the world was ending. One tiny good part of this school, though, is because it was so fucking terrible, I could basically do whatever I wanted.

So I “started a zine” and also started interviewing bands for college radio. Because the school wasn’t actually policing this, I continued this for a bit after graduation in 2021. Over 200 bands were interviewed. I was also incredibly obsessed with the Burger/SWMRS Implosion and live-blogging it on Tumblr and it felt, to me, like that mattered more than anything I was “supposed” to be doing.

This consumed all of my time, and I had a clear vision that either this was going to rocket launch me directly into becoming like a Real Music Journalist or I was going to crash and burn and like wait tables for the rest of my life or become an English teacher. At no point did I feel anxiety that I was doing the wrong thing.

So anyway, I moved to Chicago. Shortly after, I got a message on Tumblr from someone who did not really use Tumblr, but read my posts about the SWMRS thing. We became acquainted and hung out a few times. (important later)

Meanwhile, it really started to feel like the zine was “””getting cool opportunities””” and I had a tangible career path there. So I kept focusing on that. I was mostly paying rent with restaurant gigs, but I was also working part-time booking live music and doing social media for a small business back in Iowa, and was doing sketchy writing jobs on Craigslist for extra money / to put on a resume.

However, it soon felt like these supposed grand music opportunities were not actually going anywhere, and this new """cool""" work was benefiting these random PR people and not the zine. It caused a lot of tension within the zine. There was also tension because I felt "My Zine" had become "Everyone's Zine" against my will, but somehow in spite of this, I was doing the vast majority of the work and felt pressured into doing a lot of this work by people on the zine who wanted to talk to every PR person and band and label ever but did not want to commit to doing that work themselves.

Anyway then, one day, like 2 days after posting my PGMG essay, I got a mysterious email with huge ginormous red letters on it asking my zine to cover a record label Pete Wentz and Mark Hoppus were doing. Deep down, a part of me will always believe that Pete saw my essay and liked it enough to change my life forever.

Anyway, ~surprise~, it involved cryptocurrency (important later), which at no point was specified to me and I had been bamboozled. I was so upset I cried and people called me dumb on Tumblr and I tried to defend myself and it was all very embarrassing. I am glad this happened to me but it also hurt. Some days I believe whoever was behind this knew they had to trick me so I would obtain the benefits, some days I feel like this was purposefully mean, some days I believe this was some 4D chess ploy for what actually ended up happening, some days I think it was a random coincidence, and some days I feel like none of it ever happened and I’m crazy.

Regardless, the fact that this happened, and the fact that I believed it was because of my essay, also contributed a massive amount to ongoing tension within the zine. (I promise this is all relevant at some point.)

Anyway like 6 months later the band from the Crypto Incident was in town. We interviewed them and they were the biggest band we'd ever talked to. Honestly, this was the worst and weirdest experience I’ve ever had interviewing a band bc of their manager. The band was a pleasure to talk to but the experience was Bad. Also, due to ongoing tension, the other zine person was being difficult leading up to the interview. During, she went off script and asked the band to "spill tea" regarding Blink182 drama. This was so out of character for her and our friendship and the professional standard I held myself to and everything we had done together prior. The band and their manager took it very badly, and I felt like she deliberately did it because this was so important to me.

Anyway, I had deluded myself some reason that I ABSOLUTELY needed to write a huge dramatic feature. The band did not repost it and their manager left me on read. They also made a glowing post about a crypto fluff piece written by a hot girl at like the same time. I know there are plenty of girls in the world who are way hotter than me and also way more talented writers than me, but I was very bothered about the crypto aspect.

All of this upset me so badly I decided my dream of making it in music journalist was pointless and childish because I was not hot or willing to write crypto fluff pieces. I was also really upset with my friend for sabotaging the interview and felt like I couldn’t trust her anymore. It was all very dramatic and there was a huge blowout and I was like crying in the street outside Target and Hey Chris almost ran me over with his bike.

ANYWAYYYY, at this point I decided the zine was over and my dream of being in music was over permanently and I was going to grow up and get a job and never interview a band again. It all hurt a lot.

SO, I talked to that former SWMRS fan I mentioned at the beginning of this, and asked if she knew anyone that was hiring. Because she was the only genuinely employed person I knew. She then talked to her manager (VP of marketing at the company), and they were hiring a copywriter in India but were willing to make an exception for me. The job was a really good job, and asked for 5 years of full time copywriting experience. I had graduated a year and a half prior and had basically no experience. I had done a few things like write blog articles on occasion and do a "summer internship" at a "magazine", but NOTHING of this caliber. Again, I was working a few hours a week posting on Instagram and booking music for a small business, but this was not “copywriting.”

Anyway, my life for the next three months became hardcore studying marketing nonstop and kind of crash-course prepping for interviewing for this job I had no experience for. This felt do or die, this was my one shot, and I could not blow it. I took prepping very seriously and I was handwriting out over and over marketing concepts and vocabulary terms for hours each day, as well as answers to typical interview questions, and I was also reciting these things and filming myself.

There were 2 interviews but the process somehow dragged out for three months. The first interview was pretty quick and with HR, and was very technical. It was so stressful I almost cried during it. It was definitely a "weed-out" interview.

But the final interview took forever to schedule. I know now was because the guy from earlier was in India on business. There is a 12 hour time difference. They told me this, but at the time, I felt like they were actually moving forward with other applicants and I was extremely upset.

I did not tell anyone I was applying because I felt I was going to either get this job or shoot myself. The stress of this and how intensely I was prepping ruined Thanksgiving and Christmas, and once it dragged out towards my birthday I got really fed up and wanted it to be over, so I sent an email saying I was available to interview from midnight-2am.

I think they thought I was bluffing because they scheduled an interview at a normal time and then suddenly moved it to like the next night at 1am.

Anyway, I absolutely slayed this interview. I felt super high on life and at my absolute best during this. I had sort of transcended to a state where I didn’t even want the job, I just wanted this to end. He was blown away by the fact that I was interviewing at 1am, but I definitely feel my best and brightest at 1am so this helped too.

There was no discussion of marketing stuff at all in this 2nd interview. I pretty much just talked about myself and my zine with the interviewer.

And this is where all the extended CRYPTOCURRENCY BACKSTORY comes in. Basically the jewel of my """"portfolio""""" and the only real marketing writing I had done was unwittingly advertising Pete Wentz Cryptocurrency. I had poured like every ounce of my heart and soul and passion and effort into writing this because it was Pete Wentz and I did not know it was cryptocurrency.

And because it was CRYPTOCURRENCY (even though I hadn’t known that) the interviewer was very interested in this. I did not really have any context for this at the time because ChatGPT was not public, but this was an AI tech startup. So there was a lot of like marketing language and company values type things that overlapped a lot, and like buzzwords about Venture Capital and Disrupting The System or Literally Whatever.

I also think an important part of why I did so well was that the interviewer had his camera off and I had no clue who I was talking to. I didn’t know who he was in the company at the time, he sounded very young and like he didn’t have an accent, and he went by a very young-sounding nickname.

I believed I was talking to a boy my age instead of a 40 year old, and I felt very confident and like I was socializing with a peer. This is a bit awkward to say, but because I believed this, there was a lot of natural chemistry. I didn’t feel nervous or like I had to be polite or try and impress a grown-up, and I felt like he should be impressed by me. Which was like the secret to slaying job interviews, I think.

Anyway, I don’t know how much of getting the job was this PW-NFT experience and how much it was the reference from the SWMRS fan. I feel like in this post I’ve understated that aspect, but me spending all of senior year of college obsessively posting about SWMRS instead of going to job fairs was counterintuitively also critical to my eventual career even though everyone thought I was being dumb as all fuck and wasting my breath.

And also it’s hard to know how much of getting this job was just me being confident and prepared and dedicated and passionate. One part I remember clearly was he asked me to talk for five minutes without stopping and teach him about something, and he said it was OK if I couldn’t because most people can’t and I could still get the job. And then it literally wasn’t a problem for me at all, and I definitely feel like maybe that was the moment he decided.

Another thing I remember is that the foster cat I had from Hey Chris was DESTROYING the couch behind me and I was kinda distraught over this but then the interviewer started baby talking to the cat and it brought up fostering, and he was super impressed by the volunteer work. Finally, I like made a huge PowerPoint for the interview (they made me do some project IIRC) and he liked that too.

This was on like a Friday night at 1am or something ridiculous like that, and I didn’t expect to hear back for at least another week, but they were really eager to give me the job immediately.

I did not immediately contact any of my professors about references or send a thank you note because it was a weekend and thought I had like a week, which I regret because my professors were kind of Big Mad about this, so I would recommend contacting your references in advance even if you think you won't get the job.

Anyway I was so relived this was all over and I had a feeling deep down so I drank cactus juice for the first time ever on Saturday night and my roommate was gone so I took a bath for the first time in 6 years in her bathtub and used a Lush bomb and reread Gray, and it was very magical and special and then when I got out at 4am when the water was ice cold and I was still like on another planet, I had an offer letter on my phone (it was like 5am on a Sunday), and I couldn’t believe it was actually real.

Anyway the job is very good (originally 65k base plus 6.5k possible bonus and some different stipends, but I got a raise and make 70k + 7k bonus now. Was making 15/hr previously). It is 100% WFH with dental and vision, 4 weeks PTO, 10 sick days, sign-on stipends for a home office, provide the computer, 1 business trip to the beach per year plus occasional office stuff where there’s like a lot of restaurant food and alcohol, 1k donation matching, and a bunch of stuff with retirement and stocks. I bought an espresso machine and milk steamer with the WFH setup stipend and it was the best decision ever.

Most people there have worked at like Disney and Spotify and Netflix and GoT and stuff. My friend was directly recruited from an obscure job board because she has worked at places like Young Hollywood. One of the other girls I am closest with there worked as a celebrity matchmaker.

Then there’s….me and the PWNFTs lol. It is a bit insane to be honest, but I think that I am honestly one of their best guys because I don't see this as just a job and I don't really take working at places like this for granted whereas everyone else is used to it and always was headed there. Getting a job like this was one in a million and was never ever in the cards for an English major new grad from Bettendorf Iowa that went to a liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere. I worked really, really, really fucking hard to get here and like actually bled and kicked and cried the whole way so I deserve it. I also deserve to be there and have gotten above expectations on all my reviews to date.

ALSO BTW, a big reason why I felt kind of like this was a suicide mission was because I was on Accutane and physically could not continue to work my job in a brewery because it wrecks your bones.

Also towards the end I applied at a college, and by the time they got back to me I had signed on. But they actually told me I was their top candidate and I think would've counteroffered but I told them no. I cold applied there, but I wrote a carefully tailored cover letter to the position, which I think most people don't do and is important if you're cold applying. I didn't do this at my job because I had a reference, but a lot of people I work with messaged the head of the department they applied to on LinkedIn.

Another thing is like yes the LinkedIn is important and headshots are also really important. I follow Courtney Johnson on TikTok and think she mostly has good advice.

Anyway, I guess to recap my advice would be 1) Obsessively pursue your dreams instead of trying to be "practical" and like everyone else. You're only settling early, and shoot for the moon because even if you miss you will land among the stars or whatever that corny quote is. 2) Working via connections is critical, but this actually means like friends from band Tumblr instead of what they tell you in school about awkward job fairs 3) The interview process for good jobs is going to be really time consuming and miserable but you need to take it super seriously 4) Even if you aren't qualified you can still get the job and do well. 5) You need to approach the interview like you know you already have the job or it doesn't matter if you get the job, and you need to be insanely confident. You need to want the job. 6) Stuff like hobbies and volunteering is important to bring up.

ANYWAY, I have been there for about a year. Moving on to what I actually do—

I write basically everything that has to do with marketing. So stuff for all types of ads, landing pages, emails, etc, captions for every single ad on every imaginable platform, etc. I know this doesn't sound like a lot but I counted recently and it's like 10k words a month at least. It is a constant churn of high volume stuff combined with periods of nothing between campaigns where I take marketing classes or do research projects, like analyzing and making powerpoints about competitors or interviews with customers. I feel like that even sounds like not a lot but all of it is really short individually and a lot of this stuff goes through a lot of revisions, there's also like meetings and planning and approval chains and stuff.

Companies make like bazillions of webpages and emails and posts every day so that is p much what I do. I also turn things around on insanely, insanely tight deadlines (one of my biggest strengths), often minutes or hours.

I am basically the only writer in a traditional sense (there are UX writers but that's v different). There is a linguist that copyedits what I do (love her). The girl who referred me in used to be another writer for the emails and blog, but I don't think she wanted to work there at all anymore after the public reaction to AI, so now it is just me. There was like other stuff too but I would like to be vague. Then there are external contractors who make the blog posts but that doesn't really have anything to do with me….. until now, lol.

My old team was mostly bunch of people who actually launched ads and targeted them and collected/analyzed data on them, but there were other random marketing roles too. Now I'm on a new team with people who make the videos/images of stuff I write for, a girl who codes the emails I make (and does other stuff), and our manager. I really really really like my new manager.

Other people I deal with include lawyers, who make sure the ads/emails are OK-- for example, if a company runs a promotion over email, lawyers have to be involved. I also interact a lot with the social media and influencer people (also amazing), to help writing briefs for influencers and brainstorming posts. I also work a lot with business development (love her also also), which is making promotional materials to circulate in schools/businesses.

One of the coolest projects I got to work on, for example, was that we partnered with a ton of athletes and they were wearing company merch at games and making posts/doing courtside interviews. I reviewed and kind of wrote what they said because they are not really able to write their own stuff. I also wrote some billboards recently.

For the most part, I genuinely love my job and I love all my coworkers and think leadership is awesome. However, I will say that any writing job probably has certain challenges, especially if you're young and inexperienced. I feel like people who don't know anything about writing feel the need to contribute, or don't value what I do because I turn things around so quickly. Like if someone in charge of me tells me to do something different I will change it without question 99% of the time, but when it comes to random other people it's frustrating and hard for me to deal with.

Like I know I'm only 25 and I don't know everything, but I am basically the only writer, lol. This was like a source of like a lot drama and crying and being upset in my life, but I feel like there have been a lot of recent changes that have made this a lot better and it's continuing to get better, which is good, and I also feel like my manager is doing all of the right stuff and I'm also learning 2 deal with my own issues and not get so upset more.

But anyway yeah that's kind of my job and how I got my job, I know this turned into a million page long post but <3 hope it helps

Bobby Zagotta, US CEO of Bitstamp, on US Crypto Regulation, The Banking Crisis, and Web3 Innovation | Ep. 257

Bobby Zagotta, US CEO of Bitstamp, on US Crypto Regulation, The Banking Crisis, and Web3 Innovation | Ep. 257

In an exclusive interview with cryptonews.com, Bobby Zagotta, US CEO & Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp, talks about 2023 market movements, Web3 innovation, navigating regulation, and the banking crisis. 

About Bobby Zagotta

Bobby Zagotta, US CEO & Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp. He came to Bitstamp from Kraken, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer responsible for strategy, business development, marketing, M&A, research and analytics, and global growth initiatives. Before that, he was a Senior Managing Director, Strategy & Execution and a member of the Executive Team for CME Group Inc., a global, publicly traded financial exchange.

As CEO for the Americas and Global Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp, Bobby is responsible for strategy and growing our presence and business globally, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations in the Americas.

Bobby Zagotta gave a wide-ranging exclusive interview which you can see below, and we are happy for you to use it for publication, provided there is a credit to www.cryptonews.com. 

Highlights Of The Interview

2023 General Market Movements

Stories from growing CME and the parallels to present-day crypto

Regulation/American Adoption; The cryptocurrency industry has the potential to create significant economic value through job creation, investment, and innovation

Banking crisis – The collapse of Silvergate and the regulatory takeover of Signature Bank certainly impacts the efficiency of traders and investors on crypto exchanges

Web3 innovation and navigating regulation 

Bitstamp growth

      Full Transcript Of The Interview

Matt Zahab  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Cryptonews Podcast. You’re buzzing as always, and I’m super pumped to have today’s guest on the show, Bobby Zagotta, US CEO and Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp. Bobby came to Bitstamp from Kraken, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for strategy, biz dev, marketing, M&A, research and analytics, and global growth initiatives. Before that, he was a Senior Managing Director and member of the Executive Team for CME Group, a global publicly traded financial exchange. As CEO of America’s and Global Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp, Bobby is responsible for strategy and growing the presence and business globally, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations in the Americas. Bobby and I have been trying to get a show going for a hot minute. We finally got it going, and I’m super excited. Bobby, welcome to the show my friend. 

Bobby Zagotta  Thank you, Matt. And glad we finally were able to make this work. 

Matt Zahab  We did. You and I were playing quite the game of tag. That was me who dropped the ball more than you. I had some unfortunate bounces that came my way, and here we are, pumped to have you on. You have a beautiful background. I feel like we got to start with that. Whereabouts are you right now? 

Bobby Zagotta  Thank you. Yeah, we’re in Michigan. We have a summer house here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and it’s a beautiful spot, and we absolutely love it here. And it’s a good place to work. It’s a good place to relax as well. 

Matt Zahab  Probably nice and tranquil, no distractions, besides maybe fishing, boating, all that kind of fun nature stuff. 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, it’s a little different than Chicago. 

Matt Zahab  You can say that. I love that. Now you have a very interesting pass, and we could start at a multitude of places. The one place I’d love to start is the CME Group. I did not know what the CME group was until I started trading. When I just got out of high school and got into university, I, like many people, was a little would be an understatement, rather bored at uni, and I wanted to make some money, so I got into trading, and my mind was blown about the CME group in Canada. We’re literally never taught about that at all. And it’s such a big exchange. I don’t know why we’re taught about that. We hear about the Nasdaq, we hear about the NYSE, and of course, we hear about the TSX and the CSE with the Canadian Stock Exchange, which is the Penny Stock Exchange of Canada, but we never hear about CME. And I’ve been fortunate to have a couple of people on the Pod who’ve worked at the CME before. It is a world class institution, absolutely massive, and you got to grow that as well. I’d love if we could start by you telling us some awesome stories about your time at CME.

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, happy to. And like you, I feel so fortunate that I was able to end up as part of that company. It wasn’t by design, necessarily. I started my career as an engineer. I ended up getting into strategy consulting and risk management, and I did a stint as a co-founder and CEO of a startup that we grew and sold. And coming out of that experience, I ended up advising companies on M&A strategy and integration type processes and CME was a client of mine. And to your point, it was really my first deep dive into capital markets and really the extraordinary transformation of that industry. So the CME Group was founded in the 1800s. I can’t remember the exact year, but it’s 165 or 170 years old. It was the Chicago Butter and Egg Exchange to start with, and it was a very necessary capability for our agriculturally based society, particularly in the Midwest, to manage their economics. And the CME has been just an incredibly innovative leader in that space for many years. And it grew up as a mutual company, but ultimately IPOed and became a public for profit company. And it’s just really done an amazing job. So I learned a ton there. I did have the opportunity to join their executive team and lead a couple of different divisions for the company and hopefully help contribute to their continued growth. 

Matt Zahab  And one thing you said that sort of blew my mind, it started off as the Butter and Egg Exchange. Is that legit? 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, it’s absolutely true. And there were a few of these that started in approximately the same time. So the Chicago Board of Trade was another one that started in a similar time frame. They were ultimately acquired by CME Group. That’s one of the deals I helped with before I joined, and same thing in, New York you know, the NYMEX. The New York Mercantile Exchange has a similar history. What happened was farmers back in the day, you know show victims to extreme supply and demand. So they would work all summer, harvest all of their corn or wheat or pork bellies or what have you, and then they’d all bring them to market at the same time, and the price would plummet. They used futures contracts to be able to manage their price risk, and that in itself was an amazing innovation. But then over the next hundred years, and the CME led the charge here, I believe, really diversified that concept of futures contracts into trading and speculation and hedging across a whole range of assets, including oil and gas and financial instruments, etcetera. So, yeah, it’s a great story. It’s a fascinating company and a great learning experience for me. 

Matt Zahab  That’s wild. What a story. Next part that we have to dive into because you’re one of the few people who actually has his or her finger on the pulse here and that is sort of regulation and American adoption of crypto and we’ll segue also into the banking crisis. This has been absolute bananas. Obviously we had the collapse of Silvergate Signature Bank. It’s not looking good. We’re recording early August. This is going to air mid August. But the US debt also just got downgraded or US bonds excuse me, also just got downgraded as well. Things are looking rather bleak. Things are looking rather no bueno. What is going on right now in regards to the banking crisis? And then we’ll segue into regulation and American adoption of crypto. 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, I really can’t think of anything going on in either of those spaces. I’m kidding. Obviously it’s been an absolutely tumultuous year. And we’ll start with the banking situation. Silicon Valley Bank was the first that was affected by the macroeconomic environment. I don’t believe they had any material crypto holdings or anything like that, but they, I think, were the first to be really caught flat footed by the rapidly rising interest rates versus how they were managing their debt portfolio. And then that put a lot of regional banks on notice and a couple of those. So Silvergate and Signature who also played an important role in the crypto ecosystem. So not only were these guys useful banking partners for a lot of players in crypto, but they had these real time settlement networks that really reduced frictions for people participating with exchanges and with other kind of players in the ecosystem. It was very, what I would say, current in terms of how financial transactions should work real time, fast and low cost. However, as you know, Silvergate voluntarily wound itself down. Signature was forced into a wind down situation, as I understand it, by their regulator in New York and also federally. From my standpoint, I would love to have more information about the nuts and bolts of why wind down was the right answer for both those institutions, because I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it seems like it wasn’t an obvious or the only path, let’s say. 

Matt Zahab  Yeah, no, that’s very true. Another issue is the debt ceiling. This is pretty bananas. Everyone is hoping that President Biden and Congress will come to an agreement, whether it’s short term solution or long term fix. This is a very touchy subject and it would be a huge loss if I didn’t ask you. So I must ask Bobby, what is your two cent on the current debt ceiling issue? And do we have any solution that could potentially come into play over the next couple of months or years? 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, I wish I knew the answer to that question. But my perspective on it is it’s really crucial, obviously, that we can bridge the Yawning cavern between the two political parties operating in the US. And start to compromise, start to work together so that we don’t get ourselves into a situation where we’re on a slippery slope in terms of the role that we play in the global economy. So today, as you know, the United States has a very enviable position in the global financial services marketplace and the global economy. And that’s not a sovereign right that we have that’s just because of how the economies have played out. But if the fundamentals of that equation change, such as the credit worthiness of the country, such as even the role that the country plays in the emerging crypto ecosystem, these things are going to determine the role of the US. In the evolving economies, that we shouldn’t take it for granted. So I feel like a lot of the people on Capitol Hill are taking it for granted. But I think if we don’t make some important and very decisive moves now, that’s in jeopardy. 

Matt Zahab  And speaking of important and decisive moves, the US. Is also and again, I speak as a Canadian here, but we usually follow in your guys’ footsteps when it comes to a lot of regulatory climates. We, as in North Americans are dropping the ball when it comes to crypto regulation. There’s still nothing really solidified. And this can be a huge ball drop as we’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds of really solid companies and people move to spots that are more open, like Singapore or the UAE. What’s going on on the regulatory talk right now? Is there any news? Is there anything to look forward to? Is there anything to be happy about currently with the US regulatory crypto talk? 

Bobby Zagotta  Well, there’s a couple of things I would point to globally and I’ll start with the US, so obviously the judgment in the Ripple case I can’t overstate the importance of that ruling to what I would call bringing some balance to the landscape, to the legal landscape, and to the conversation, frankly. Now that could be appealed. There was a recent ruling from a different circuit court that had a different take on the securities question, so it’s certainly not a done deal. But what I felt like is the SEC’s perspective was kind of unchecked from a legal perspective and from a marketplace perspective. And that Ripple ruling checked them, right? It didn’t say they’re wrong or didn’t prove they’re wrong, let’s say. But it definitely brought them back to the right playing field to have a productive conversation. So that’s a bright spot from a US regulatory perspective. Another one is some legislative action. So there’s two bills that have come out of committee, been approved by committee, the Agricultural Committee and the Financial Services Committee. And that of course, doesn’t mean it’s just going to be a law tomorrow, but that’s a huge step that we have not realized as of yet to actually put some laws or a framework in place that the regulators can then enact. That’s how it’s supposed to work. And when we don’t have that legislative foundation in place, the regulators can kind of act on their own. That’s what we’re seeing, I think, with the SEC, and I’m sure there’s multiple opinions about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it, but from my perspective, it’s not the most productive path. So I’ll pause there. I’ve got some other international bright spots to share if you want. 

Matt Zahab  Bobby, the floor is yours. Keep going. 

Bobby Zagotta  So the other thing I would point to is Europe, and you may not know this. Bitstamp was founded in Europe, and Europe is our primary base of business, about 65% of the business. We have a whole range of regulatory licenses there, and we do a tremendous amount of business with institutions and on the retail side. 

Matt Zahab  Bobby, your European business is larger than your USA business. 

Bobby Zagotta  It’s true. 

Matt Zahab  Wow. 

Bobby Zagotta  It’s true. I mean, I can give you kind of 60 seconds on background. So Bitstamp was founded in 2011. We’re the longest running crypto exchange today. And I was founded in Europe, and our global business is based in the UK. But we have legal entities in other jurisdictions in Europe as well, we have a very strong and growing US business. We have a little bit earlier stage Asia Pacific business, but Europe is kind of Bitstamp’s home court, if you will. And in Europe, Bitstamp is a household name. I would say in North America, we’re still kind of building it. But one of the reasons I’m happy about that footprint for Bitstamp is because the EU has adopted this MiCA regulatory framework. And from my standpoint, this is a really good, common sense regulatory framework that is specific to crypto and digital assets. It’s not trying to retrofit traditional assets or securities law or something else into the crypto space. It’s a legitimate specific and well defined framework. It’s passportable across the EU. When it comes into effect. I think mid next year. And so what’s happening is we’re getting a lot of more inbound interest from corporations in Europe than even in the US. And obviously it’s still a healthy marketplace there. That’s because corporations in Europe, whether they’re hedge funds or banks or other types of players, now have more confidence to participate. And we think that’s great, and we hope that the United States and other jurisdictions take a hint from that. 

Matt Zahab  Very interesting. I would have not known that. I mean, from the narrative standpoint, it seems like Europe is so far behind, and it seems like Europe also has very stringent rules. Maybe I’m just completely off the pulse here, or why is that narrative true? Or perhaps it isn’t true, but why would I and some of my peers perhaps would believe that narrative, I guess, is the better question. 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, I think that in many areas of law or society, there’s that perception about the EU being a very tough bureaucracy, let’s say, and difficult to create unified perspectives. And I’m certainly no expert on any of that. But from a crypto perspective, they have, in my opinion, just taking a strong step ahead of the US. And they’ve created clarity, or a level of clarity that will enable crypto players and other players, whether they’re just individuals or companies, to participate. And in the US. It’s still too high a degree of uncertainty. Bitstamp has always positioned itself as a compliance forward organization. We were the first crypto company to ever get a license in 2016. And we think we’ve got the most extensive regulatory footprint in the business. And that’s not because we love working with regulators as much as we just know it’s necessary for broad adoption. We know that common sense regulatory frameworks are necessary to give people confidence. I just hope the US can get there in a reasonable amount of time, otherwise the innovation is going to move to Europe or move somewhere. 

Matt Zahab  Very true. Folks we’re going to take a quick break and give a huge shout out to our sponsor of the show. And when we get back, we are going to talk about some of the bit stamp growth that we’ve seen US corporate customers up 14%, quarter over quarter, retail verifications up 12% and a bunch of other really good things moving and grooving over at Bitstamp. But until then, huge shout out to our sponsor, the show PrimeXBT. If you are a trader and you’re looking for reliable and professional market data and performance, do go check out PrimeXBT as they offer a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders. It doesn’t matter if you’re a rookie or a vet, you can easily design and customize your layouts and widgets to best fit your trading style. PrimeXBT is also running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the Cryptonews Pod. Use the promo code CRYPTONEWS50 that’s CRYPTONEWS50 all one word to receive 50% of your deposit credited to your trading account. Again that is CRYPTONEWS50 all one word to receive 50% of your deposit credited to your trading account. Now back to the show with Bobby. Bobby, you guys have grown in a pretty bananas bear market. I absolutely love to see this. I love when when people who continue to grind see good results, especially in the bear market. It seems like everyone got the pardon my French, shit kicked out of them over the last 18 months, give or take. And you guys continue to grow. How are you guys doing this? I’m looking at the stats in front of me. General markets. You guys are moving and grooving. US. Specific markets. You guys are moving and grooving. What are you and the team doing to make sure that Bitstamp continues to grow in such a shitty time? 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, there’s a few things I would point to. The first one know, as I alluded to earlier, our very strong regulatory compliance and overall governance kind of reputation and footprint. So coming out of FTX and some of the SEC activities and even the banking crisis, to me, that has ushered in a flight to quality. So people being more choosy about who they partner with and why. And we’re a beneficiary of that. So our global market share has tripled, really, since the FTX prices last November or the FTX debacle. And Bitstamp is viewed as very well managed, I think. So I’ll give you one example. Bitstamp, just to give you a sense of who we are. Bitstamp made the decision this was before my time, but made the decision in 2016 to become a globally financial audited entity. And they didn’t just hire a regional accounting firm. They hired a Big Four accounting firm in 2016 to do a global financial audit. And we’ve done it every year since then. So we’re the only crypto company on the planet that can say we’ve got seven years of big four global financial audits. Now you got to think about what 2016 was like. Nobody was thinking that way in 2016. It was quite the opposite. It was more like, let’s burn the traditional financial services space to the ground. But Bitstamp has always been, let’s do it right kind of company. And because we get audited in a very rigorous way every year, we have burned in the process of doing things right. It’s what we do. So because of that, we never got much credit for it until FTX. Now everyone’s like, oh, actually, maybe this is the right model, and maybe I should care about who I partner with. Not who names the stadiums, but actually who’s got the credentials and the governance in place. So that’s a big part of the story. The other part of the story is I mentioned we’re the longest running exchange. So we’ve been through a few of these market cycles, and we have the playbook, if you will, and the playbook is essentially, obviously we manage our costs very tightly in a bear market, but we invest in the product, right? So we use this time to perfect the experience for users, both institutions and individual retail investors. And that’s where we’ve been able to maintain our onboarding we’ve improved our onboarding processes. We’ve improved every aspect of the user experience, and we just make it easier for people to participate with us. And that really helps our numbers a lot. 

Matt Zahab So refreshing to hear you’re lying about we don’t have our name on stadiums. That’s too freaking good. Oh, man, that’s too good. It’s still weird to think that the Miami Arena is FTX and Staples Center is now Crypto.com. It’s still a little weird. I don’t know. 

Bobby Zagotta  It is Super Bowl ads and things like this. I have my own kind of internal index. If there’s like a tech company in any industry, that’s one of their kind of early stage investments, I think, all right, their days are numbered. That’s my own bias, right? I could be wrong about that, but. My bias is, like, if you’re still an early stage company, you got to be focused on the product should take every dollar or not every dollar, but these are big price tag marketing investments that, in my opinion, should be plowed into the product. 

Matt Zahab  No, it’s very true as well. You guys also just partnered with BitGo. That seems like you two are a match made in heaven. I mean, two of the oldest and most reputable and trusted and audited firms in the space partnering together, that just seems like a match made in heaven. And that was announced, I believe, last week or the week before. Congrats on that. It seems pretty straightforward, but what does that partnership do for both you guys?

Bobby Zagotta  Actually, we’re a longtime partner with BitGo. They’ve been our primary custodial services provider for many years. I’m not even sure how many. But to your point, the reason that partnership came into being and is so powerful today is because they approach the marketplace like we do. They’re licensed. They’re a trust company in state of new york. They have license in other states as well. And so it enables us to deliver more confidence to the marketplace, because, first of all, there’s a little bit of separation between church and state. The exchange and the custody are separate. Generally, that’s viewed as a best practice from an overall safety and security perspective. And then secondly, they’re a licensed entity, we’re a licensed entity, and it all kind of works. Now, what we announced, and the reason that we’re really wanting to to be vocal about this right now, is they are also creating an off exchange settlement network, the Go Network. And we’re an early participant in that network, and we’re anxious for more institutions to adopt it. What that enables people to do is be extremely when I say people primarily institutions, they can realize some really great capital efficiencies by participating in trading but not having to move money off and on the exchange. So, yeah, really powerful new opportunity. There’s some other networks out there as well, which we’re looking at, but BitGo is primary for us. 

Matt Zahab  I’d love to take a quick step away from Bitstamp and just focus on Bobby for a second. While doing research for the show, I learned that you are a triathlon. And I have one buddy who just did a triathlon. Shout out my buddy Andres. He’s a sick puppy. You must be a sick puppy. That’s a compliment, by the way. Anyone who does a triathlon, I’m always like, whoa. I used to be a runner. I can run, I can throw in a pair of shoes and still put up a good 5K, 10K time. I feel like most people can bike, but doing all three, the swimming, I’m a decent athlete, and when I get in the water, that’s a whole new different beast. What went through your head the first time when you’re like, you know what, screw it. I’m going to do a triathlon. And walk me through some of the training you have to do because that can’t be fun. That’s nightmare fuel for me.Bobby, I don’t know how you do that. 

Bobby Zagotta  Well, gosh, I love to talk about this topic, and I was a runner for a long time before I ended up in the Triathlon space. But I’ll give you the straight dope here. How I ended up here was a very good friend of mine’s wife got sick and he wanted to raise money to help find a cure for her for her sickness. And he asked me to do a triathlon with him. And I couldn’t say no, of course. And I was highly motivated to help any way that I could. But I will be honest with you, I said, yes, absolutely, I will do that sign up. But in my mind I was like, holy shit. What am I going to do? I can’t swim a mile, I’ve done a dozen or so Olympic distance triathlons and I’ve done a half Iron Man distance as well. And I’ve learned a couple of things. Firstly, running is obviously a great form of exercise and mental health and has all these benefits. But what I’ve learned, as I’ve become more of a triathlon focused endurance athlete, is it’s a fairly narrow exercise compared to, like, swimming. Swimming uses so many muscles. It’s a completely different kind of workout and I really love that now. So I started hating swimming, but now swimming is my favorite and then cycling, too. Different kind of workout. That creates different kind of, what we call vo, two drain on your body. I love that it’s varied and I love that it’s always a test, it’s always a test of you. And the last thing I would say about it is, to your point about the beat down side of it, the training takes a lot of time, it just takes a lot of investment, but it’s easier to do it. Half the reason I do it is because when I have a race on the calendar, I got to do it. I do not want to drown. So it’s really motivating to get out there and work out. So, yeah, I highly encourage you to try it, Matt. Put it on the count. 

Matt Zahab My knees, I’ve torn my pretty much A to Zcls. I do not have knees, so. It’s a little difficult for me. The swimming part is actually the easiest on the knees, but yeah, anytime I run more than ten clicks, the next day my knees are the size of softballs. But another question in regards to being an endurance athlete how many sort of aha moments or how many incredible business ideas or just states of mental clarity have you achieved while being on one of these runs or bikes? Personally, I can’t see myself thinking of anything good while I’m swimming 2 miles. I think like you, I’d just be focusing on not drowning or getting eaten by a shark. But I know when I’ve gone on longer runs or walks before, I’ve had some of my most clear mental states, mental thoughts and have thought of some really good things. Have you had the same thing as me or thousands of other people? 

Bobby Zagotta  Absolutely. It’s maybe the best part of it because I think it’s so therapeutic. I think it teaches your body and your muscle memory and your head resilience because if you’re running or swimming or whatever you’re doing, it’s hard and you have to push yourself through those moments when you want to stop or you’re doubting yourself. And once you do, I feel like your mind opens to new possibilities and they come ideas or thoughts sometimes for me, it’s just a recognition of something that’s actually okay, something I was concerned about that’s actually okay, it’s going to be okay, or what have you. And swimming is very, then it’s all technique. It’s all technique so you have something to think about all the time. But then there’s that other part of your brain that starts to operate. It’s a great observation. I really love that side of it. 

Matt Zahab  I’ve never gotten into flow state while swimming before. I don’t think I ever will and I’m a swimmer. My grandparents had a pool growing up and I spent a lot of time there, so I’m a good swimmer. But, yeah, I definitely don’t have a good enough stroke. Yeah, I’m usually focusing on breathing. You got to come out here. I know you got the perfect one. I’d love to jump into the hot take factory Bobby segment on the show where we let a couple of hot takes fly. It doesn’t have to be crypto related. Can be health, wealth, happiness, something super spicy like politics, AI, space. But is there anything that’s really getting you going at the current moment? 

Bobby Zagotta  Well, this is going to sound absolutely overused at this moment, right? But this AI thing is just continuing to fascinate me and I’ve just scratched the surface. I’ve just been playing around with it a little bit, reading about it, and it’s just quite amazing what’s possible here. I think we think about the Hollywood side of it and robots and the Matrix and whatnot, but it’s the mundane things that I think are so easily transformed in a very value added way. Obviously, this whole topic has a lot of risk attached to it and it needs to be managed in a smart way. But I’ll give you an example. We at this sample, we have a learn center. So, again, as I mentioned, trying to make it very easy for individuals to be educated so that they can participate with confidence if they choose to. And so we have a learn center. We have several hundred of articles up there that tell you anything from what does MultiChain mean to who is CZ to a whole wealth of information. And we generate we grind out all of that content. It’s a lot of work and AI or ChatGPT is one example that doesn’t replace us in terms of creating it, but it gives us a significant leg up. We haven’t done this yet, but we’re experimenting with it. Because if we can get an 80% solution for a piece of content and then bring our expertise to bear on that, first of all, make sure it’s correct, but also to bring it home for the reader. That’s an incredible efficiency and that’s mundane. That’s not like, take over the world or be autonomous. I’m quite fascinated with that and just can’t underestimate the potential impact on day to day lives. 

Matt Zahab  It’s so cool. I have a friend of mine who I set up. I’m again spending all my free time AI related as well. I have a friend of mine who I just set up no Free Ads. So I’m not going to give the name of the software because I would like to partner with them and sell for them, sell their product because it’s so good. But I’m sure you sent your thousands of Cold emails back in the day. I’m sure you still send Cold emails. There is a couple of different pieces of AI software that find your end clients and do the hardest part of a Cold email, which is make it non generic. So it would scrape everything Bobby Zagotta related on the internet and it would go pick a beautiful subject line and go, hey, Bobby, this is, you know, Matt’s water company. We think you should drink more water because and then it would go, because you’re the CEO of Bitstamp, which obviously everyone can find, but you’re also an ultramarathon runner and have ran these marathons and have participated in these triathlons. It auto fills all the data on the person, too. I was blown away. I actually got one, and when I got it, I contacted the company and I was like, how the hell did you guys do this CEO took me through a demo. Again, no free ads. Can’t give him a shout out, but absolute craziness. One other topic, probably the most trendy topic right now is this. And this is way above my pay grade. I’m not a science guy. But this new semiconductor, I’m sure you’ve seen this ZP 99, or whatever it’s called. Have you seen this craziness going on with that? 

Bobby Zagotta  I have. The numbers are just staggering. 

Matt Zahab  It’s looking legit, too, by the way. Again, we’re still very early, but it’s looking like for the listeners at home, this is the equivalent of almost like discovering fire. Like it’s that crazy. 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah. I can’t even pretend to understand all the ramifications and implications of it. But just looking at the sheer scale of what is possible on a chip is absolutely game changing. But I got a couple of others. Do you want two more? 

Matt Zahab  Yeah, please. 

Bobby Zagotta  So I don’t know where I got this idea, but I read it somewhere and I’ve started doing it and it’s been so awesome. Which is I take one meeting a day on a walk, right? So as many of us are, my schedule is pretty full and I’m going from meeting to meeting. Most of them are remote. So I take one on my phone, put in my AirPods, go for a walk for 30 minutes or 45 minutes. I’m not trying to work out per se, but putting your body in motion brings about some of what we were talking about. Kind of clears your head. The person you’re talking to also, they’re like, wow, I want to do that. I think it’s just very healthy. It feels healthy and it leads to better conversations, I think. So super in at that right now. 

Matt Zahab  I do that every morning. Eight to Nine, I go for a walk downtown Toronto at the harbor front. And it’s a great way to start the day. We’re in kilometers, not miles, but again, my hour meeting is usually between 5 and 6 km. What’s that? 3, 4 miles kind of thing? I look at my watch and I’m like, oh, I just burned 200 calories, got 5000 steps in and walked 5 km. It’s the absolute best. You and I are in the same yacht with that one. What’s number three? 

Bobby Zagotta  Oh, the next one is I’m in nature at the moment, and there’s something incredibly centering about it. And I live in the city, I live in Chicago, and I love it there. But there’s something very center about staring at water, breathing different air, walking through a forest. It used to be like recreation, but now for me, it’s like critical, necessary for kind of mind and body health. That’s my other hot take. 

Matt Zahab  It’s prescribed. The doc prescribes that Bobby must spend X amount of time at the lake house per year. I love that. I am jealous of your background I must say. I’m very grateful for my beautiful view of Toronto right now. Rogers center CN tower, Lake Ontario. But I would do bad things to be where you are, my friend. But Bobby, this has been an absolute treat. Thank you so much for coming on. Had a blast, learned a ton. Can’t wait for round two. Before we let you go, can you please let our listeners know where they can find you and Bitstamp online and on socials? 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, that’s basically it @BobbyZagotta @Bitstamp we’re on Twitter and LinkedIn a lot and all the other usual suspects. Or I should say X. 

Matt Zahab  Yes, I guess we’ll conclude with that. Do you believe in Musky’s vision? You think he’s going to turn this into not only the global town square, but a global payment network or whatever the heck he has planned? 

Bobby Zagotta  All I can say about that is I wouldn’t count him out. 

Matt Zahab  Yeah, don’t bet against that, man. 

Bobby Zagotta  Yeah, I wouldn’t count him out. The vision seems not intuitive for me, but I’m not an expert on the Twitter business. But like I said, I wouldn’t count him out. He seems to find a ways to innovate in meaningful ways. 

Matt Zahab  Yeah, he’s the man. I’m a betting man, and that is one man that I would never bet against. Elon, we’d still love to have you on the show if you’re listening, by the way, I’m positive that you’d make a great guest and I’d dig up some good dirt on you. But Bobby really appreciate your time. This was an absolute treat. Learned a ton and can’t wait for round two. Thanks for coming on. 

Bobby Zagotta  Oh, thank you, Matt. It’s been a blast. 

Matt Zahab  Folks what an episode with Bobby Zagotta US CEO and Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp, told some great stories, dropped tons of knowledge bombs and had some good hot takes as well. We’d love to see that. As always, I will include everything Bobby and Bitstamp related in the show notes. If you guys enjoyed this one, I hope you did, please do subscribe. To the team love you guys. Thank you so much for everything. Justas, my amazing sound editor, appreciate you as always, you are the man. And to the listeners, love you guys. Keep on growing those bags and keep on staying healthy, wealthy and happy. Bye for now, and we’ll talk soon. 

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11 Best Freelance Blockchain Developers [Hire in 48 Hours] for Beginners

Numerous misunderstand blockchains—even those with a strong understanding of technological concepts. Did you see this? promises it to aid you stay clear of the possible challenges of the digital money. But there is actually an unavoidable caution: it will take opportunity, effort, and patience to obtain Bitcoin's target. Even at that factor, you'll be using Bitcoin to purchase groceries. And this is not just about a brand-new block time unit. What you're going to need to have is some history, and some take in, to get started. For this main reason, entering into or transitioning into blockchain development might seem challenging. But this is not a brand-new complication along with blockchain apps, or brand-new modern technologies. In concept, you should select a certain innovation and then develop a unit for including it in to your function. But it's essential to define the guidelines of how a lot you should incorporate your body right into the blockchain. Blockchain The 1st trait we should understand about the blockchain is that it is an available and secure body of cryptographic files. But blockchain technology is less mysterious than its reputation recommends. It are going to take spot in various parts of the world, relying on the technology in concern. For example, there's Bitcoin. You may be aware that this year, Ethereum was just recently gone beyond by Ripple as the world's leading cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency is an open source token produced in partnership by the University of Chicago's Department of Digital Sciences and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. But Ethereum is not the initial innovation.

The short article under demystifies blockchain modern technology and progression for all levels of know-how. Purchases in blockchain modern technology are consistently modifying, but there are actually surely chances for innovation and remodeling in the blockchain modern technology stack, and numerous of them require a well-developed, well-funded (and effectively took care of) organization. The capacity to handle and handle various layers of a job is a vital one and will certainly become increasingly scarce within the next many years. Reviewed on to learn more concerning occupation roads, project requirements, and FAQs. When Do Drop Internships Set you back More Than A Autumn Job? There are some job perks that fall extra rapidly between summer months breathers and full-time work, such as bonus offer wages, higher pay-performance, and versatility over extended placements. However, job take in may be exceptionally nerve-racking, and some job-related analysis recommends that finding brand-new, flexible placements can confirm hard. A blockchain is a style of database made use of to save and coordinate information. Such devices are commonly developed to allow individuals to access their profiles through attaching to decentralized swaps utilizing centralized means. Many blockchain innovation is created straight through the folks who function for it, but there are actually more than one-third of the blockchain's growth procedure in its growth procedure. It isn't merely circulated ledger innovations; there are functions making use of it to process the data that blockchain's circulated journal innovation helps with; and there are actually lots of more functions. Typical databases set up info into lines and pillars that help make up tables. In this task we will certainly utilize a relational database called AIS to get details in AIS data banks. AIS We will certainly cultivate our 1st relational database to support our database through creating our data banks as a single factor of information. We'll make use of an AIS SQLite database where you utilize SQLite to connect along with desks in purchase to get and save the information. There are actually a few disadvantages that the majority of data sources be without. This makes the details easy for pcs to identify. The computer system can easily after that search the database to find what individuals were performing at a certain time. For example, a pc could search the past five minutes to view who was at the upcoming restaurant. The computer then looks at the record and opportunity that people were living at that club. Along with this technique, info concerning a offered individual can easilynot be kept and would certainly never be available to any sort of various other individual, no matter how hard of an act it may be. With blockchains, however, details is electronically formatted and gathered into bunches or blocks . The blockchains then can easily be set up anywhere. A identical idea has been proposed to permit for decentralization of companies such as data transactions. The decentralization standard is used on an continuous manner to supply a a lot more safe, scalable journal. This can be used to hold and obtain huge volumes of data like individual medical documents, banking profiles, and monetary reports – as they are required through today's financial services services.

Powell Says Fed’s Battle With Inflation Will Deliver ‘Some Ache,’ After Insisting Final 12 months Elevated Inflation Is ‘More likely to Show Momentary’

On Friday, Jerome Powell spoke at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium and the Federal Reserve chair explained that the U.S. central bank is focused on fighting the country’s red-hot inflation. Powell stressed at the event that strict monetary policy is necessary, and his commentary hinted that the Fed won’t hit the brakes on monetary tightening until inflation is tamed.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Says US Central Bank’s Inflation Policy Could Bring ‘Some Pain to Households and Businesses’

Jerome Powell had a lot to say on Friday while the Fed’s chief spoke for ten minutes at this year’s Jackson Hole Economic Symposium hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The event dubbed “Reassessing Constraints on the Economy and Policy” featured a number of the world’s central bank officials and policymakers. Powell discussed inflation in the U.S. and he noted that doing away with the country’s price volatility will take “some time.” Powell further warned that the Fed’s battle with inflation will bring “some pain to households and businesses.” Despite the pain, Powell insisted that it was the “unfortunate costs of reducing inflation.” The 16th chair of the Federal Reserve added: But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain. The statements did not sit well with Wall Street investors and the Dow Jones dropped 3% on Friday, recording the worst day the Dow has seen since May. Tech stocks stemming from the Nasdaq composite finished down 4% at the closing bell. Cryptocurrency markets shed 6.1% in 24 hours, and gold and silver also took percentage losses during Friday’s trading sessions as well. During the speech, Powell opined that higher interest rates will slow growth and that “softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation.” Powell continued: At some point, as the stance of monetary policy tightens further, it likely will become appropriate to slow the pace of increases. Essentially, Powell promises “forceful and rapid steps to moderate demand” in order to to “keep inflation expectations anchored.” The trend, he said, will continue, and the Fed will keep tackling inflation until the U.S. central bank is “confident the job is done.” Powell detailed that price stability is “the bedrock” of the U.S. economy, and he emphasized that the Fed’s “responsibility to deliver price stability is unconditional.”

Credibility Lost? Powell’s Jackson Hole 2022 Statements Are a Whole Lot Different Than Comments Made in 2021

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business deputy dean and former Fed governor Randall Kroszner told CNN that he believes the Fed is still credible, despite the criticisms against the U.S. central bank ballooning the balance sheet and saying inflation would be “transitory.” “Fortunately, the Fed has not lost credibility, and that’s something I think they will continue to rely on,” Kroszner told CNN on Friday. @federalreserve has zero credibility…. And I’m certain Jerome Powell won’t address the fact that the balance sheet wind down isn’t going as planned. — MortgageCFO (@MortgageCFO) August 25, 2022 Powell’s recent statements are a whole lot different than the comments he made last year at the 2021 Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. “Inflation at these levels is, of course, a cause for concern,” Powell said last year. “But that concern is tempered by a number of factors that suggest that these elevated readings are likely to prove temporary.” At last year’s Jackson Hole gathering, the Fed chair doubled down on his belief that the rising U.S. inflation would not last long, and that the central bank would be able to keep the 2% target inflation rate locked tight. The speech recorded last year in Kansas City has been used on multiple occasions to highlight the Fed’s lack of credibility. “Longer-term inflation expectations have moved much less than actual inflation or near-term expectations, suggesting that households, businesses, and market participants also believe that current high inflation readings are likely to prove transitory and that, in any case, the Fed will keep inflation close to our 2 percent objective over time,” the Fed’s head banker Powell added at the 2021 Jackson Hole gathering. What do you think of Jerome Powell’s hawkish statements about reducing inflation and how the Fed’s battle may bring “some pain to households and businesses?” Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. Read the full article

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There are too many mass shootings for the U.S. media to cover (Washington Post) News companies are facing an agonizing challenge in a year that has already seen, by one count, more than 320 mass shootings across the United States: deciding which atrocities warrant on-the-ground coverage and which don’t. “There have been too many nights like this. Too many nights when I’ve stood at crime scenes like this,” NBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt told viewers Tuesday from Highland Park, Ill. He flew there a day after an attack at a Fourth of July parade killed seven and wounded dozens. But Holt was providing on-the-ground coverage of only the deadliest of 14 mass shootings that took place over the holiday weekend, according to a tally by the Gun Violence Archive. At least 62 people were shot and 10 killed in Chicago alone. Many journalists have a triage process: prioritizing shootings based partly on death tolls, partly on a subjective sense of horror and shock.

Cryptomining Capacity in U.S. Rivals Energy Use of Houston, Findings Show (NYT) Seven of the largest Bitcoin mining companies in the United States are set up to use nearly as much electricity as the homes in Houston, according to data disclosed Friday as part of an investigation by congressional Democrats who say miners should be required to report their energy use. The United States has seen an influx of cryptocurrency miners, who use powerful, energy-intensive computers to create and track the virtual currencies, after China cracked down on the practice last year. Research has shown that a surge in cryptomining is also significantly raising energy costs for local residents and small businesses, and has added to the strain on the power grid in states like Texas, the letter noted. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have grown exponentially since they were introduced more than a decade ago, and in recent years, so have concerns over cryptomining, the process of creating a virtual coin. That process, a complex guessing game using powerful and power-hungry computers, is highly energy intensive. Worldwide, Bitcoin mining uses more electricity than many countries.

The housing shortfall and homelessness (NYT) America’s homelessness problem has the makings of an acute crisis. Shelters across the U.S. are reporting a surge in people looking for help, with wait lists doubling or tripling in recent months. The number of homeless people outside of shelters is also probably rising, experts say. Some of them live in encampments, which have popped up in parks and other public spaces in major cities from Washington, D.C., to Seattle since the pandemic began. And inflation is compounding the problem: Rent has increased at its fastest rate since 1986, putting houses and apartments out of reach for more Americans. The crisis means more people do not know where they will sleep tonight. Living in the streets, people are exposed to more crime, violence and bad weather, including extreme heat. They can lose their job in the chaos of homelessness, and they often struggle to find another one without access to the internet or a mailing address. “There’s a certain posture that you take when you are homeless,” Ivan Perez, who lived in a tent in Los Angeles, told The Times. “You lose your dignity.” Seven million extremely low-income renters cannot get affordable homes, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

A divisive bestseller: copies of Chile’s new constitution hit the streets (Reuters) In cities around Chile, bookstores and street vendors are touting a new, purple book that promises—or, depending on the reader’s view, threatens—to reshape society in the Andean nation. The book outlays the country’s proposed new constitution. Its 388 articles touching on social rights, gender, politics and the environment aim to close the door on the current text, drawn up in 1980 under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Chileans will vote to approve or reject the new constitution on Sept. 4. While they overwhelmingly backed the plan to write a new one in a referendum two years ago, opinion polls suggest the final draft may be rejected. Support has dropped on fears that some of the proposals from the assembly in charge of formulating the text are too radical. In capital Santiago, long lines have been forming outside bookstores and street stalls of people looking to pick up the recently-finalized text—a bright purple paperback decorated with a Chilean flag. Street vendors said they were selling dozens of copies a day.

Argentina’s import limits bring fears of looming shortages (AP) Raul Amil has been in the auto parts business in Argentina for more than 25 years. He has lived through numerous economic crises in a country infamous for its seemingly constant crashes. But he says that what Argentina is living through now is unprecedented. Amil is hardly alone. Business leaders across Argentina are scrambling, trying to deal with a fresh rash of import restrictions at a time when the government is trying to hold onto precious few hard currency reserves. The government is making it difficult to buy products from abroad and complicating life for companies trying to keep supplies stocked, which some warn could lead to shortages. Import restrictions are nothing new in Argentina, which has long suffered from a chronic shortage of hard currency. That has only worsened in recent months as pressure on the local peso currency rises amid high inflation and soaring energy import costs. Yet the government of President Alberto Fernández has tightened the screws on imports even further recently as it struggles to meet Central Bank reserve requirements that are part of a recent deal with the International Monetary Fund to restructure $44 billion in debt.

National emergency in U.K. as historic heat wave sweeps over Europe (Washington Post) Records are crashing in Europe as a bout of exceptional heat and humidity brings dangerous conditions, prompting weather alerts far and wide across Britain, France, Spain and Portugal. Temperatures have surged above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) over the Iberian Peninsula, and the United Kingdom is forecast to see its hottest temperature ever recorded early next week. Red “extreme” heat warnings have been hoisted in parts of the U.K. for the first time on record. Britain’s Met Office is describing the situation as a “national emergency,” warning that the heat will have “widespread impacts on people and infrastructure.” The red warning covers much of central, northern, eastern and southeastern England, including London, both Monday and Tuesday. After temperatures surged as high as 113 degrees (45 Celsius) Thursday, five of Portugal’s 18 districts are under red warnings Friday, with projected highs over 110 degrees in some areas. The majority of Spain and southern France are blanketed by warnings as well, with Météo-France writing that the heat will “threaten” everyone—“even [people] in good health.”

Russian strikes on Dnipro and Mykolaiv continue a campaign against civilian centers. (NYT) Russian forces fired several rockets at one of the most populous cities in Ukraine on Friday evening and killed at least three people in Dnipro, according to officials, as Russia continued a campaign of attacks against large population centers. The sound of explosions reverberated through Dnipro, in central Ukraine, at about 9 p.m., just as the sun was setting and residents were gathering for dinner and drinks ahead of the evening curfew. Black smoke quickly enveloped large swaths of the city, and rescue workers raced to put out myriad fires sparked by the attack. And on Friday morning, at least 10 Russian missiles slammed into the strategically important southern city of Mykolaiv, hitting two universities, a hotel and a mall. The strike took place at 7:50 a.m., said one Ukrainian, adding that the Russians knew “full well that there were already many people on the streets at that time.” Russian forces have repeatedly targeted large Ukrainian cities in recent days, killing dozens of civilians. A day earlier, in the city of Vinnytsia, a rocket attack on the city center killed at least 23 people and wounded dozens more, in one of the bloodiest single attacks on civilians since the start of the war. One of those killed was a 4-year-old girl with Down syndrome, a case that rapidly became a cause célèbre within Ukraine and beyond.

Gaza rockets, Israeli air strikes accompany Biden’s Middle East visit (Reuters) Israeli fighter jets struck Gaza following rocket launches from the Palestinian territory on Saturday, hours after U.S. President Joe Biden flew from Israel to Saudi Arabia on a Middle East trip aimed at deepening Israel’s integration into the region. The Israeli military said it hit two facilities belonging to Hamas, the Islamist militant group that governs the blockaded strip. One of the targets was an underground rocket-manufacturing plant, the military said. Hamas has condemned Biden’s visit, and group spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum said the Israeli bombing “reflected U.S. support and encouragement the Zionist entity had received to pursue its aggression and crimes”.

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The AI will interview you now

Face recognition technology and AI is being used in job interviews in the UK “to identify the best candidates”, says the Telegraph. Unilever and other use HireVue’s AI to 

“analyse the language, tone and facial expressions of candidates when they are asked a set of identical job questions which they film on their mobile phone or laptop. The algorithms select the best applicants by assessing their performances in the videos against about 25,000 pieces of facial and linguistic information compiled from previous interviews of those who have gone on to prove to be good at the job.”

It’s not doing face recognition, it’s doing behaviour recognition. Something like: “These facial and speech behaviours are correlated with the interviewee being a good employee - thumbs up, +4 career points”.

It’s natural that this feels a bit wrong because humans are unique and special, right? In truth though, they are bound by fairly predictable behaviours, and really it’s not that hard to have a computer watch the face of a human and make judgements. It’s science you can trust, and in fact it weeds out bias because the machine doesn’t care, unlike a human interviewer who’ll bring loads of messy biases. So it’s a good thing, it’s progress.

Oh sorry wait, it’s a science you can trust as long as the data the machine learning model was trained on was large and unbiased. And as long as none of the interviewees look different to the ones in the training data. And as long as the machine learning doesn’t inadvertently amplify any systemic biases in the hiring organisation’s practices (or Hirevue itself’s). And as long as interviewees can meaningfully give consent to be catalogued by a machine. And as long as no discrimination law is being broken by having the computer say no. And as long as some job applicants aren’t freaked out by being video-interviewed by a Voight-Kampff machine.

Here the newsletterbot is guilty of bias: it believes humans to be sufficiently complex that it will be hard to effectively “machine learn” the problem that is organisations, their people, their culture, their politics, the webs of motivations and incentives, their jobs and the humans that might potentially fit well.

Still, HireVue says they’re serious about ethical and accurate machine learning, so fingers crossed 😬. An interesting read on video interviews. YouTube is full of videos about how to do well in a HireVue video interview, here’s one. Watching them, you’re struck by the asymmetry: the machine and later an employer watching your interview video, but you seeing nothing except the questions and the webcam’s black eye. So interviewing would be perhaps be a bit fairer if the employer also had 30 seconds to consider and 3 minutes to answer on camera the interviewee’s questions.

Unrelated, but relevant because it’s about bias and how it and power are inadvertently expressed in technology: “Google contractors allegedly offered darker-skinned homeless people $5 dollar gift cards to scan their faces for facial recognition software”.

Uber work

Uber’s temp agency platform, Uber Work has launched in Chicago. The company says: “We believe that finding work shouldn’t have to be a job in itself. For positions as diverse as being a prep cook, warehouse worker, a commercial cleaner or event staff, Uber Works aims to make it easier to find and claim a shift.”

Here’s a fictional look at temp workers in 2023, and hopefully Uber Works doesn’t nudge work in that direction. Something that empowers shift workers is a better model: “crowdsourcing information about what it’s really like to work somewhere, turning it into recommendations about employers that could be better for you” (from plucky UK startup Poplar).

Elsewhere, a successful taxi co-op: “A worker owned taxi coop in Southend has grown from 6 to 70 drivers. They repaid all their investors and returned £3000 to their members last year. The same year Uber left the area after failing to compete with them.”

Amazon rumours

Amazon to sell its Go technology to airports, cinemas, sports venues? Interesting if true - eventually there would be a tension between the platform and the grocery businesses (see also: Ocado in 2017ish).

Amazon is said to be hiring property experts in UK.

Similar rumour: but in Los Angeles. A dozen leases have been signed in Los Angeles, reports the Wall St journal. 7 burning questions about Amazon's new grocery chain.

Facebook leak: trust deficit internally?

A Facebooker leaked audio of an all-team Zuckermeet. The media reported it as FB boss Zuckerberg saying he’d fight (too) hard against politicians etc, but the transcript suggests that his comments were actually fairly standard stuff. This story is more notable for the fact that an employee recorded and leaked the meeting - growing cultural/trust deficit internally, perhaps?

Cryptocurrency news

Paypal has pulled out of the Facebook-led Libra cryptocurrency consortium, saying that it’s not you Libra it’s me. Rumours: Mastercard and Visa aren’t so sure either.

Police auctioned off £240,000 of cryptocurrency confiscated from a hacker - if it had been a confiscated 3 Series with a spoiler kit and spinner rims you’d have expected to be able to snag a good deal, but money’s money so maybe there wasn’t a discount in this case.

“The pain in my jaw from holding just one cryptocurrency had reduced me to an all-liquid diet. I was not cut out to be a trader.” - a good piece on the subsistence lives of small-scale cryptocurrency traders (also a decent backgrounder on cryptocurrencies).

Other news

How grocery pickup is evolving - supermarkets trying to make click-n-collect faster.

Supreme Court hands victory to blind man who sued Domino's over website accessibility - see previous story on this.

Climate Action Tech: “empower technology professionals to play our part - to meet, discuss, learn and take climate action” - needed because the tech industry uses a lot of energy.

No good urban ebike deed goes unpunished. “Horrible. One good deed rewarded with a scary blend of the so-called sharing economy, the commercialisation of communal spaces, and authoritarian surveillance capitalism, all sugared with the unbearable style of wackaging. May every dockless bike and scooter scheme go bust as soon as possible.”

Workshop tactics for agile teams - looks good.

Job ad for Ocado developers is neatly placed in the website’s code.

Previous newsletters:

Most opened newsletter in the last month: competing with Amazon Go. Most clicked story: Why don’t we just call agile what it is: feminist.

News 1 year ago: curated convenience and paying with your data.

News 2 years ago: eGovernment (single digital market) and first mile logistics (Amazon keeping inventory in retailer warehousing).

Co-op Digital news and events

What the data and feedback show about 3 digital services in our Food stores.

Public events:

Manchester WordPress User Group - Wed 16 Oct 6.30pm at Federation House.

Tech for Good Live vs the climate crisis - Thu 17 Oct 6.30pm at Federation House.

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Practitioners Forum: vital lessons for key co-operators - Thu 7 Nov at the Studio, Manchester.

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Mind the Product - MTP Engage - Fri 7 Feb 2020 - you can get early bird tickets now.

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Crypto TREND - Second Edition

Within the very first edition of CRYPTO TREND we launched Crypto Currency (CC) and also answered a few questions about this brand new market space. There's a great deal of NEWS in this particular market daily. Allow me to share several highlights that give us a look of just how different and thrilling this particular market space is:

World's biggest futures exchange to make a futures contract for Bitcoin

Terry Duffy, president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) stated "I think sometime in the next week in December you will see our [bitcoin futures] agreement out for listing. Today you can't short bitcoin, so there is only one way it is able to go. You either purchase it or promote it to someone else. So you produce a duplex printing market, I believe it is generally more efficient."

CME intends to release Bitcoin futures by the tail end of the season pending regulatory review. If successful, this will give investors a viable approach to go "long" or "short" on Bitcoin. Some sellers of Exchange Traded Funds have also submitted for bitcoin ETF's that particular track bitcoin futures.

These advancements have the possibility to enable individuals to purchase the crypto currency room without having CC's outright, or employing a CC exchange. Bitcoin futures can make the electronic asset even more useful by allowing intermediaries and users to hedge their foreign exchange risks. Which can raise the cryptocurrency's adoption by merchants that wish to recognize bitcoin payments but are leery of its volatile worth. Institutional investors can also be used to trading controlled futures, that are not plagued by money laundering worries.

CME's move additionally suggests that bitcoin has gotten way too huge to dismiss, because the exchange seemed to eliminate crypto futures in the latest past. Bitcoin is most anyone is speaking about at brokerages and trading firms, which have endured amid soaring but uncommonly placid market segments. In case futures at an exchange had taken off, it will be extremely difficult for every other exchange, like CME, to get up, because scale and liquidity is essential in derivatives markets.

"You cannot overlook the point that this's starting to be increasingly more of a story which will not go away," believed Duffy in an interview with CNBC. You will find "mainstream companies" which want permission to access bitcoin and there is "huge pent up demand" from customers, he stated. Duffy likewise thinks getting institutional traders into the marketplace might generate bitcoin much less volatile.

Japanese village wear crypto currency to increase capital for municipal revitalization

The Japanese village of Nishiawakura is looking into the thought of holding a preliminary Coin Offering (ICO) to increase capital for municipal revitalization. This's a really novel approach, and also they may request national government assistance or even seek personal investment. Many ICO's have had severe issues, and lots of investors are sceptical that every new token have value, particularly if the ICO seems to be a another scam or joke. Bitcoin definitely was no joke.

Original COIN OFFERING - (ICO)

We didn't note ICO in the very first edition of Crypto Trend, so we need to talk about it right now. Unlike an Initial Public Offering (IPO), wherein a business has a real service or product on the market and needs you to purchase shares in the company of theirs, an ICO could be held by anybody that would like to begin a brand new Blockchain project with the aim of producing an innovative token on the chain of theirs. ICO's are several and unregulated have been complete shams. A genuine ICO can however raise a great deal of dollars to fund a brand new Blockchain job and community. It's common for an ICO to make a high token price tag close to the beginning and then sink to reality shortly after. Since an ICO is pretty simple to keep in case you understand the science and also have a couple of dollars, there are already numerous, and also these days we've aproximatelly 800 tokens in play. These tokens have a name, they're almost all crypto currency, and aside from the really popular tokens, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, they're dubbed alt-coins. At this particular moment Crypto Trend doesn't suggest taking part in an ICO, since the chances are incredibly high.

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Sunday, January 02, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: THE EQUALIZER (Global) 8:00pm NEXT LEVEL CHEF (CTV) 8:00pm NCIS: LOS ANGELES (Global) 9:00pm GUY'S CHANCE OF A LIFETIME  (Food Network Canada) 9:00pm HOME TOWN (HGTV Canada) 9:00pm SWAT (Global) 10:00pm WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (PBS Feed) THIS CAME OUT OF ME (Premiering on January 03 on Discovery Canada at 8:00pm) DIRTY JOBS (Premiering on January 03 on Discovery Canada at 9:00pm) ALEX VS AMERICA (Premiering on January 09 on Food Network Canada at 10:00pm) DEADLY EX NEXT DOOR (TBD - Lifetime Canada) DEADLY GARAGE SALE (TBD - Lifetime Canada) EXPEDITION DEEP OCEAN (TBD - Science) RELENTLESS (TBD - Investigation Discovery) MOUNTAIN MONSTERS (TBD)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME/CRAVE/NETFLIX CANADA/CBC GEM:

CRAVE TV BUCKLEY’S CHANCE JFL GALA 2021: RITA BAGA AND JEAN-THOMAS JOBIN PART 1

NETFLIX CANADA AMERICAN SNIPER THE CAMPAIGN CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE EXIT WOUNDS GANGSTER SQUAD THE GREAT GATSBY (2013) RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE (Season 13) RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: UNTUCKED! (Season 13)

NFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN5) 1:00pm: Giants vs. Bears (TSN/TSN5) 4:00pm: Broncos vs. Chargers (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 8:15pm: Vikings vs. Packers

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 1:00pm: Bruins vs. Red Wings (SN1) 3:00pm: Ducks vs. Avalanche (TSN3) 4:00pm: Jets vs. Knights (SN) 7:00pm: Flames vs. Chicago

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN4) 3:30pm: Knicks vs. Raptors (SN Now) 6:00pm: Magic vs. Celtics (SN1) 7:00pm: Mavericks vs. Thunder (SN/SN Now) 9:30pm: Timberwolves vs. Lakers

A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION (W Network) 6:00pm:  A morning show producer reluctantly becomes the subject of her own program's on-air experiment about her New Year's resolution to agree to every social invitation for a month.

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (CBC) 7:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): James Herriot interviews for a new job with Yorkshire veterinarian Siegfried Farnon, and his first day is one full of surprises.

DEAD MAN'S SWITCH: A CRYPTO MYSTERY (CBC) 8:00pm:  A thirty-year-old CEO responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency and cash dies suddenly in India and $215M disappears, kicking off a major scandal and fueling speculation that his exit was only one of many scams.

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE (Makeful) 8:00pm: The four remaining sewers go back in time to the 1940s; attempting to revive both the glamorous and thrifty styles of the decade, they tackle the decade's most elegant and innovative garments.

SNOWMANCE (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm: A true romantic finally gets her chance at the love she's always dreamed of when a little Christmas magic brings her snowman to life.

OUTBACK OPAL HUNTERS (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm: Justin recruits fiancée Becky to save him from financial ruin; the Fire Crew face deadly reptiles; the Cooke brothers go 21 meters under.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND: DRILLING DOWN (History Canada) 10:00pm:  Matty Blake shares the challenges of documenting a 226-year-old treasure mystery, talking to members of the film crew to get an insider's take on how some of the most memorable and iconic moments in "The Curse of Oak Island" were captured.

Top cities in America for Blockchain Professionals

Bitcoin is increasing in popularity. However, despite the fact that individual Bitcoins are worth substantially less than they were two years ago when we first started looking into the cryptocurrency business, the amount of jobs accessible and the general public's knowledge is growing.

Cryptocurrencies function on the blockchain, which is a decentralised system that relies on crowdsourcing communities to build a public database of transactions. Bitcoin's skyrocketing value may be attributed in part to the interest shown by tech giants in cryptocurrencies. As a consequence of Facebook's debut of Libra and Google's thinking of joining the banking industry, people are being reminded of the original cryptocurrency.

As well as the potential for profiting from cryptocurrency speculation, there is also a developing industry and a variety of positions available inside firms that specialise in bitcoin, all of which offer competitive Blockchain Developer Salary.

San Francisco

San Francisco just edged out New York for the top place on the list, which was released on Tuesday. Despite having much fewer job openings than New York City, the city led almost every other category, including the top blockchain companies, blockchain startups, and crypto/blockchain investment funds, among others. It also had a thriving employment market in the general sense.

San Francisco is home to prominent cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, cryptocurrency and payment systems Ripple and Tezos, as well as several very established crypto hedge funds, according to the report.

New York City

Despite finishing in second place, New York is much ahead of Chicago in terms of overall ranking. Despite the fact that New York has more than twice the number of blockchain job openings as any other city, it is only second to San Francisco in terms of the number of blockchain firms and funds in the city.

In addition to a large number of cryptocurrency hedge funds and venture capital firms, as well as banks like JP Morgan, which are beginning to deploy blockchain-based payment systems. Chainalysis, a Bitcoin fraud and money laundering detection programme, is based in New York, as is a large number of cryptocurrency hedge funds and venture capital firms, as well as banks like JP Morgan.

Chicago

When it came to the third spot, Chicago and Los Angeles were neck and neck, but Chicago triumphed owing to the significant concentration of blockchain enterprises in the city. The report noted that, despite the fact that major commodities and stock exchanges are located in Chicago, the city is now seeking clarity from the SEC and other authorities on the feasibility of exchange-traded funds and products connected to bitcoin. Chicago, on the other hand, is expected to attract a greater number of crypto trading funds in the future.

Los Angeles (California)

Although there aren't many established blockchain businesses in Los Angeles, there are a slew of new ones springing up all over the place. A considerable number of prestigious universities with excellent computer science and technology departments, according to the findings of the study, are located inside the city limits.

Boston

Because of its proximity to prestigious universities such as Harvard and MIT, Boston, like Los Angeles, has a large and highly sought-after talent pool that will continue to attract entrepreneurs to the city. It has long been known as a hotspot for technology businesses and venture capital in the United States, according to the study.

Bringing everything to a close

Bitcoin has made significant inroads since the first block was generated in 2009. The rapid acceptance of virtual currencies shows that they are here to stay. While it is obvious that major financial centers throughout the world have adopted bitcoin, it is remarkable that smaller communities have done so as well. If you have ever caught yourself wondering how to learn blockchain, consider enrolling in a blockchain certification course now. 

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