The first incarnation of Fortune’s under 40 list ran from 1999-2003 and ranked the new titans of the dot-com boom purely based on their wealth.
Post-2008 financial crash, the list has been reinvented to take the pulse of figures’ wider achievements, power, and influence on the global stage.
Brian Armstrong, 34, the CEO of major U.S. crypto exchange and wallet service Coinbase, has made the list for the second time, ranked 20th.
Russian developer Pavel Durov, 33, has been ranked 25th, appearing on the list for the first time.
Fortune’s crypto industry representatives have thus more than doubled their presence over the last year.
Communism doesn’t work. We’ve tried it, it failed. People need incentive to work and to take risk. If an entrepreneur for example sees an inefficiency somewhere, yet he has little. .
This is frankly huge news. Coinbase is one of the world’s biggest and most notorious cryptocurrency exchanges.
Today, we have seen news that states (from Facebook directly) the company have lifted their blanket ban on cryptocurrency advertising.
Allegations of criminal activity continue at Skycoin as executives freeze funds to contain fallout from a theft by the coin’s own marketing team. 18 BTC, Skycoins Stolen In ‘Burglarization’ Skycoin, which describes itself as “the most advanced blockchain platform in the world,” saw massive sell-offs this month after it emerged insider trading had taken place around the time Binance announced it would list the coin in May.
All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.
Sworn in for her second term today, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce tells Cointelegraph about the commission’s work on crypto and new tech in investing.