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Sometimes timing is everything and our launch of the first public Dogecoin proxy in Canada as CSE:SPIR and the US as OTC:SPLCF couldn't have been any better. The strategy is 2 fold: 1) Create and develop more utility for the Dogecoin ecosystem thus accelerating adoption and the institutionalization for global markets 2) Introduce an on-chain tokenized asset management platform that can take in crypto or fiat in exchange for LP exposure to traditional asset management funds and annual yield or distribution. As an example: Dogecoin can now allocate to real estate on-chain making 8-12% / yr and receive distributions in any currency or coin they deem. This is a business that is merging traditional asset management with digital asset management which is one of the largest trends underway globally, and we have a 16-24 month regulatory moat before we see any public listed full prospectus cleared competition. Bitcoin reaches its peak price in every cycle ~500 days post-halving like clockwork, which puts us in Sept 2026. I suspect the rest of the ecosystem will follow as always, especially Dogecoin.

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I had the pleasure of moderating the panel on stablecoins yesterday during the Canadian Blockchain Consortium Montreal Summit. Some of the key insights were: ➡️ Stablecoins are an integral part of modern financial and payment infrastructure. ➡️ Stablecoins serve as a core catalyst for innovation at the intersection of finance and technology. ➡️ The digital asset industry is just one of many industries driving adoption. ➡️ USD-denominated stablecoins effectively strengthen the USD as the global reserve currency as adoption accelerates. ➡️ Non-USD denominated stablecoins, such as CAD and EUR, are nascent but support cross-border and enterprise use cases. ➡️ 🇨🇦 CAD-denominated stablecoins are essential to ensure innovation and value remain in Canada. ⚠️ The shape of future regulation poses a significant risk or will be the catalyst to technological innovation in Canada and how Canadian businesses compete globally. Thank you to our amazing panelists: - Alex McDougall from Stablecorp Inc. - Eric Richmond from Shakepay - Fred Pye from 3iQ Corp - Michael Petch from Argo Digital Gold

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🍕 Today we celebrate one of the most iconic moments in Bitcoin history: Bitcoin Pizza Day! 🍕 On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first real-world transaction using Bitcoin, buying two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. This transaction marked a pivotal moment in the cryptocurrency world, showcasing Bitcoin's potential as a medium of exchange. From those humble beginnings, Bitcoin has grown into a global phenomenon, transforming finance and technology. Let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come and look forward to the innovative future ahead. #BitcoinPizzaDay #Cryptocurrency #Blockchain #Innovation #web3mtl

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"Crypto is here to stay" "The ginie is not going back to the bottle" you name it! phrases i keep hearing about crypto from conversations around legislative bodies. this is definitely a good sign 🤞 Nowadays it is not weather or not crypto is legitimate or not, but it is about how exactly goverments are goong to walk towards embracing the crypro industry by giving it more attention and changing regulations around it. for us, precisely, as a web3 startup talking to Canadian business incubators, it sometimes has been challenging to introduce our startup, as we werent sure the other party had a good view on crypro as a permanent industry. sometimes, in websites we apply, in the dropdown for "choose your industry" doesn't involve crypro as a seperate industry, so often we can check SaSS or Fintech. We'd like to see more acceptance around crypto specifically in the Canadian start up community.

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I'm excited to announce EthPay, our project for the 2024 ETHToronto & ETHWomen Hackathon. EthPay addresses the challenges of international money transfers, particularly when traveling abroad. We all know the struggle of being in a foreign country with only your native currency, facing the hassle of finding a currency exchange, or the burden of paying outrageous fees to convert your money to the local currency. EthPay simplifies this process by leveraging cryptocurrency as an intermediary. Our application seamlessly converts your currency into a cryptocurrency (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.) within our platform, and then converts that cryptocurrency into the native currency of the payment receiver. This process not only makes international payments more convenient but also significantly reduces the fees involved. A special thanks to our incredible team @ InnoBridge Technology, Allan Ruka, Shenglei Xu, Larry Chen, David Jiang, William Yang Our video demo: https://lnkd.in/gybxA4mf Website where our APIs are hosted: https://lnkd.in/gHVjBTqZ deployed on Render Frontend repository: https://lnkd.in/gcUfwwmY Backend repository: https://lnkd.in/gMxWuPPe

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Take Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick makes it painfully clear that Take Two is working with Zynga to bring GTA Online to mobile. Not GTA6 exactly but GTAOnline multiplayer. --- VideoGameChronicle: "Take-Two still wants to bring its biggest IP to mobile “WE HAVE TO TRY AND WE WILL TRY,” SAYS CEO STRAUSS ZELNICK" Two years since it completed its takeover of Zynga, Take-Two is still trying to figure out a way to bring its biggest franchises to mobile. “Perhaps most importantly we have the ability together, from both a development and a publishing point of view, to optimise the creation of new titles based on Take-Two’s core intellectual property,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said when the deal was announced. “We believe we have the best collection of console and PC intellectual property in the interactive entertainment business and it’s basically nearly entirely un-exploited from mobile and free-to-play around the world.” At a TD Cowen conference this week, Zelnick was asked whether Take-Two had made any progress towards fulfilling this ambition, or even whether the goal was still part of the company’s multi-year pipeline plan. “You’re kind to ask it that way,” he said. “What you’re really saying is, ‘you haven’t done that, what happened?’ And the answer is, and I said it at the time, I said, ‘listen, that is one opportunity to create revenue synergies, but arguably it’s not the best one because even mobile titles based on traditional core established IP can fail, and the biggest titles in mobile are of course native.’ “Now, what people are really saying, they didn’t say it this way, is, ‘why don’t you just do what Call of Duty Mobile did?’ But the answer is, Call of Duty is a superset, never mind a subset, a superset of one. Basically everything else has paled by comparison in our space.” Call of Duty Mobile was released in November 2019 and had been downloaded over 650 million times as May 2022, according to Activision Blizzard. “That said, I would love to be able to announce a successful mobile title based on legacy Take-Two IP, and I’m pretty sure we’ll be able to do it, but you’re right that it has been backburnered a bit in service of a bunch of other opportunities. Mobile accounted for over half of Take-Two’s full-year revenue and net bookings during the 12 months ended in March 2024. But Zelnick reiterated at this week’s TD Cowen conference that he still wants to make a hit mobile game based on one of the company’s own properties. “Would I like to do exactly what you said? Absolutely. Have we done it yet? We have not done it yet. Is it in our multi-year pipeline? It is in our pipeline, but that doesn’t mean it will succeed, it could fail, in which case it would be irrelevant. No, worse than irrelevant, it would actually cost us money because failures cost us money.” “But we have to try and we will try,” he added. VideoGameChronicle: https://lnkd.in/gC8Pm9jJ #gameindustry #gamepublishing #taketwo #zynga #gta #gtaonline #gta6 #mobile

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Great to see more open source models being created, particularly from Europe, as I believe the training data sets and intents of the model creators are going to have massive impact on society long term. For now, having tried the quick demo you access from Lior’s post, the model hallucinate at extremely high rates about what it hears. However that might be a quick fix - let’s wait for the code release and more extensive testing :)

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Little Canadian smallcap chugging away at $1m Trudeaus per day now The world's first public proxy to Elon Musk's favorite and heavily owned coin, #dogecoin Why is a public proxy viable? 99% of people are not going to open a crypto wallet (19 keywords, cold storage drives, safety deposit boxes, hacking losses) the conditioned barrier to entry is too high. So a public equity buys it as a high % of proceeds raised and holds it for the upside. 90% of intuitions still can't buy Dogecoin. 100% of Institutions CAN buy a public equity that buys Dogecoin - problem solved. Retail can buy the public proxy to put in their RRSP, TFSA or 401-k I'm going to unpack the full Dogcoin proxy pitch here next week. Thanks to all for your support on $SPIR.cn $SBLCF Have a great weekend.

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Nvidia the most valuable company in the world. A market cap of 3.11 Trillion USD. But what about the PE ratio? Price to earnings, ie revenue... NVDA is a revenue machine, and they currently have a monopoly. Looking at the PE ratio you can get a much better picture of the company over time, how overpriced/underpriced it is. See the bottom chart, blue bar. - The current PE ratio is around 73x - The 10 year PE ratio was lower at around 49x - The 5 year PE high was around 146x in Q2 2023 The 5 year PE high happened right before the companies stock priced doubled in a quarter, ie CHATGPT. The market priced in some expected value from future datacenter GPU sales. This paid off. The stock price was around $28 USD in April 2023, with the 146x PE. The stock price now is around $120 USD with the 73x PE. Which is close to the 5 year PE average. NVDA is a revenue machine, AMD is not even in the race. Future predictions are impossible. What is always true is reversion to the mean. Questions I think about: - So are the datacenter sales going to slow down? - What is market saturation for GPUs? - Will AI inference and training get more efficient, needing less GPUs? - By what degree is AI overhyped, dictating future datacenter demand growth. - How will the consumer market increase? - Will governments GPUs demand change? Nationalistic sentiments around AI. - What IP moats has NVDA created? GPUs are not something you need to buy every year. The other factor is electricity use running a 48gb consumer GPU is expensive this naturally limits the consumer demand to 'professional' use. Not quite a Benjamin Graham style 'value investor', the price is directly proportional to AI hype. Short or Long.

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It’s great to see The Globe and Mail publishing such a forward thinking piece on the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain in 🇨🇦. It's time to pay attention Canada - "Blockchain technology will not get uninvented, and Canadians have so much to gain. It’s time to remove unnecessary restrictions and barriers so we don’t risk becoming even more of a digital backwater." This post by Professor Andreas Park highlights how crypto is not just a speculative fad, but a real transition towards the integration of blockchain & our financial system. Whether Canada is ready or not, the world is charging ahead with meaningful developments to ensure faster, cheaper and more secure payments. The snowball is accelerating and if Canada wants to regain its blockchain leadership, it needs to act now. A fantastic piece - give it a read! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dBCm5Npt

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What is #blockchain? | Blockchain is a #secure #database shared across a #network of participants, where up-to-date #information is available to all participants at the same time. > By Marie-Claude Nadeau, Michael Chui, and Brant Carson at McKinsey & Company

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Dear Friends, Join me for Learning Bitcoin, a Bitcoin education event on September 28, 2024 at the Crystal Garden in Victoria BC. Together, let’s discover the potential of Bitcoin and pave the way to a brighter financial future. In the bustling rhythm of everyday life, where every dollar counts, I know the struggle of living paycheck to paycheck all too well. It's a common narrative - bills to pay, rising costs, and aspirations for a brighter financial future just out of grasp. Yet, amidst the challenges, I hold a belief that there must be a way to break free from this cycle. “You should study Bitcoin.” A very close friend said this to me a few years ago. I did not realize it at the time, how powerful such a simple statement could be and where it would take me. Bitcoin is not a passing trend or another buzzword. It’s a symbol of financial empowerment, a potential avenue to secure a better tomorrow for yourself and your loved ones. However, diving into the world of Bitcoin isn’t without its hurdles. The terminology can be overwhelming, the risks intimidating, and the fear of missteps looms large. This is why I decided to host Learning Bitcoin. Poised to equip individuals with the tools and confidence needed, Learning Bitcoin is more than just a learning opportunity; it’s a gateway to financial freedom. But what truly distinguishes Learning Bitcoin is its inclusive ethos. Regardless of one's background or familiarity with Bitcoin, all are embraced and encouraged to embark on this journey of discovery and empowerment. It's not merely about understanding how to buy and sell Bitcoin; it's about grasping the potential impact that it could have on your life and financial future. The time is now.

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The Bank of Montreal (one of Canada's largest banks, with nearly $1tn in assets) recently disclosed that it is holding 4 of the spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in the US in January - link in the comments. Nothing particularly remarkable about that - ongoing 13F filings with the SEC highlight a growing wave of institutional crypto adoption. (The "smart money" is finally wising-up). What's interesting is the large number of BOM's customers that are pretty outraged by the double-standards exhibited by the bank - these customers have previously been de-banked by BOM for attempting to send their own money to crypto exchanges! It will be interesting to see what happens in the UK in H2 2024 after our own spot Bitcoin and Ether ETPs launch on the London Stock Exchange. Pretty much all of the major UK retail banks limit transfers to crypto exchanges and have closed customer accounts for the same reasons as BOM (and still do). (For your protection, of course! 😉 ) We'll be watching Natwest, LBG, HSBC, Barclays etc. 👀

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🔥 Announcing: Kobalt Labs X Treasury Prime 🔥 Kobalt Labs is an official partner to Treasury Prime, and we have a special offering available to all banks in TP's network via their Partner Marketplace! (link in the comments) "Banks in Treasury Prime’s network now have the option to leverage Kobalt Labs to better manage their third party diligence with AI, including the ability to streamline legal, compliance and infosec diligence in one platform." If you're a fintech or financial institution in Treasury Prime's network and you aren't yet working with us, we are ready for you. If you're not in the network and are curious about streamlining third party diligence and onboarding, DM or email us at [email protected] and your team can try the tool out for free. 🚀 Excited for what the future holds, shoutout to our friends Chris Dean and Kyle Costello!

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Bitcoin, what gives? While it consumes 6.5% of our total electrical output, what does it contribute to our GDP? Besides Tesla and Ransom, what can you buy with Bitcoins? Whom wants to avoid authorities while moving large sums of money? Time to ban mining in Canada? #bitcoin https://lnkd.in/eSMM94Fs

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Session #2 of the Creative Destruction Lab - Montreal just wrappped up, and this time, my go-to stream is Web3 💰🔐💻 Although I’m a Venture Manager for the AI stream, I feel more crypto-enthusiastic than ever. This isn’t just because AI and Web3 are disrupters, but because when paired, they can be truly transformers. Once hailed for decentralization and user ownership, Web3 is evolving into a space where AI-to-AI interactions dominate. As AI agents evolve from tools to autonomous decision-makers, their integration with blockchain is reshaping Web3 into the “Agentic Web.” 🤖⛓️. In this new paradigm 🌐🌀, AI bots operate independently with their own wallets, and trade assets and crypto autonomously. Agents like Terminal of Truths, which got a $50K grant from a16z’s Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz) have transformed joke tokens into a billion-dollar phenomena. 👉 This defines a new tech frontier, driven by machine-lead interactions and the seamless convergence of AI and blockchain. Imagine a world where such agents drive entire economies. What industries will thrive in this AI-to-AI economy? Will AI and cryptos seamlessly integrate to make a super economic disrupter? 🤔 The future is hard to predict🔮, but the potential is massive 🚀 A big thank you 🙏 and kudos 🙌 to all the stakeholders and CDL team Amadea Camozzi Kamal Bhandal Valentina Tacchi Ibiza Vazquez Fariha Imran Vittorina S. Ken Seidenstein Karine Syrine NAHI, M.Sc, MBA Méryl Schneller Julien Billot Katy Yam Brian King Avni Shah Denis Grégoire.

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