Crypto Champions Take 2020 By Storm: The Complete List By IBT Contributor Crypto Champions Take 2020 By Storm: The Complete List Photo: Pexels
If Bitcoin surpassing its all-time high while in the teeth of a global pandemic hadn’t made it clear, 2020 has been a banner year for cryptocurrency. Factor in PayPal’s entry to the industry, Nasdaq-listed MicroStrategy’s $425 million bitcoin purchase, the explosive growth of decentralized finance (defi), and an assortment of valuable new protocols and products, and it’s clear crypto’s in rude health.
Each of the following entities has played its part in making the first year of this new decade a triumphant one, offering cause for optimism with 2021 on the horizon. It might be a little early, but let’s raise a Christmas toast to them.
SAN FRANCISCO â One by one, they left. Some quit. Others were fired. All were Black.
The 15 people worked at Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency startup, where they represented roughly three-quarters of the Black employees at the 600-person company. Before leaving in late 2018 and early 2019, at least 11 of them informed the human resources department or their managers about what they said was racist or discriminatory treatment, five people with knowledge of the situation said.
One of the employees was Alysa Butler, 25, who worked in recruiting. During her time at Coinbase, she said, she told her manager several times about how he and others excluded her from meetings and conversations, making her feel invisible. âMost people of color working in tech know that thereâs a diversity problem,â said Butler, who resigned in April 2019. âBut Iâve never experienced anything like Coinbase.â
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By Heather Somerville The venture-capital offices around Silicon Valley remain largely empty, but their coffers will soon be brimming after what has shaped up to be a surprisingly resilient year for technology startups. The initial public offerings this week of DoorDash Inc. and Airbnb Inc. cap a string of listings that have helped make this the most lucrative year on record for IPOs in terms of money raised. More than $157 billion has been raised as of Thursday, according to data provider Dealogic over a third of that in the past 11 weeks and the number of listings is the largest since the final hurrah of the dot-com boom in 2000.