2024-05-11
Wall Street lost a legend today. Rest in peace, Jim Simons. He was a true one-of-one character who built one of the most successful investment firms ever. Here's my favorite Jim Simons lecture. I still learn so much each time I listen. Source: Free Engineering Course on YT [video]
Wall Street Journal
Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86
Jim Simons just died. Simons was an award-winning mathematician … Thomas Sumner / Simons Foundation : Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons Jonathan Kandell / New York Ti...
2024-04-24
You either die a hero. Or live long enough to see yourself become a mining company. $SQ
CNBC
Block says it has finished developing its own 3nm bitcoin mining chip and is working through the design with a “leading global semiconductor foundry”
Jack Dorsey says that his payments company, Block (formerly Square), is expanding its bitcoin mining ambitions from designing chips …
2021-10-11
Digital Real-Time Payments 2020 Growth By Country: 1. Thailand: +104% 2. India: +68.8% 3. Nigeria: +66.8% 4. United States: +64% 5. Brazil: +58.4% In 2020, India did 25.5B digital transactions. The US did 1.2B. This space is HUGE. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
A look at Pix, a mobile payments system launched 11 months ago by Brazil's Central Bank and used at least once by half of Brazil's population
One year ago the Pix platform didn't exist. Now half the population uses it, showing just how quickly adoption of digital payments can spread. Tweets: @katywatson , @andrewrosati ...