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Professor David Yermack Lectures on BitCoin – Compares it to ‘90s Grunge Rock Fad for “Techno Elites”

Logan Winston, Langone MBA Class of 2016

On March 25 over 110 students packed into KMC 2-60 to hear NYU’s resident BitCoin expert speak about the storied digital currency. The talk reviewed some of the five and half-year history and recent controversy surrounding BitCoin before exploring whether or not BitCoin and other digital currencies actually behave like currencies. Yermack’s answer: a resounding kind-of.

In terms of history, BitCoin was started by Satoshi Nakamoto, a mysterious unnamed individual or group responsible for writing the initial code for the first BitCoin. The currency is created by a distributed network of miners – like server farms – that are solving “hard math problems” and which in turn release new BitCoins into the world.…

Kickstarter Success Stories, Robots, and Sustainable Toys Impress at 112th Annual Toy Fair

Logan Winston, Langone MBA Class of 2016

Last week the Jacob K. Javits Center hosted the 112th annual American International Toy Fair, perhaps the largest toy and youth product marketplace in the Western Hemisphere.  A life-long kid with a long-standing interest in robotics and the educational technology industry, I decided to parachute in to learn about different ed tech companies, as well as to meet with entrepreneurs to hear about their journeys from concepts to revenue.

The show hosted the entire toy gamut, from you’ve-never-seen-so-many different styles of inter-locking bricks to action figures, stuffed ponies, reading toys, apps, robots, sustainably manufactured toys, and the list goes on.…

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