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Using scant evidence of women's participation in the digital currency industry to foreshadow Bitcoin's demise is not only erroneous, but also impertinent. Though the number of women in Bitcoin may be small, the collective impact of their achievements is unmistakably great.
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In the same way that Napster and peer-to-peer file sharing changed the face of the recording industry, blockchain technology will force banks to reconsider their traditional roles.
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Masters Exits JPM; Citi's Mexican Unit Fraud Problems Spark Crime Inquiry
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Digital Asset Holdings, the
The firm announced Thursday it had acquired Bits of Proof and agreed to acquire Hyperledger. Terms were not disclosed for either transaction.
"We integrate financial infrastructure with a variety of innovative new technologies inspired by the blockchain," Masters said in a statement. "Different ledger technologies serve different purposes and all of those we integrate with are additive." [Ed. note: Masters will be one of the speakers at our
Hyperledger CEO Dan O'Prey will become chief marketing officer at Digital Asset once they merge. CTO Daniel Feichtinger will join the senior engineering team. Based in San Francisco, Hyperledger has developed a
Bits of Proof founder and CEO Támas Blummer will become Digital Asset's chief ledger architect. The Hungarian software company built an enterprise-level server to integrate blockchain technology into financial applications.
Masters joined Digital Asset in March. The investment banking veteran, who pioneered credit derivatives in the 1990s and headed JPMorgan's global commodities unit from 2007 to 2014, is one of the most prominent women in finance. She left the megabank in April of last year.
