Pantera Capital
Pantera Capital is an investment firm that invests in companies, tokens and projects in blockchain tech, digital currency, and crypto assets. Pantera was founded in 2013 as the first U.S. Bitcoin investment firm.
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Reviews by Pantera Capital people
Cryptocurrency reviews from the executives, employees and alumni of Pantera Capital.
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Dan Morehead on Zcash Founder and CEO of Pantera Capital
Zcash is Bitcoin plus three enhancements:
Selective transparency
GPU mining to prevent centralization
Potentially more effective governance. . . Zcash is the super-set of Bitcoin.
Full review2016-10-28
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Countless people must migrate to support family. The cost to remit? An entire month's pay.
Bitcoin—as a global, free, instantaneous payment rail—will help many expatriate families retain hard-earned income.
Essentially free and instantaneous to Skype anywhere on Earth—but sending $300 internationally takes days and costs a meaningful chunk.
Full review2015-03-04
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Joey Krug on Dai Co-Chief Investment Officer at Pantera Capital
Dai  [is]  an asset-backed, hard currency and the first decentralized stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain. Effectively, the stablecoin is backed by over-collateralizing the system with other crypto-assets. Despite blathering by bloggers, Dai remains valued at one US dollar, thereby retaining its peg.
Full review2019-01-08
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In general, I think cash and payments are one of the last areas blockchain will affect. . . . While Bitcoin may win digital gold, I don’t think it’ll succeed as money: it’s too volatile, isn’t designed to be money, and has no dynamic monetary policy (which is part of why gold was abandoned as a form of payment in society).
Full review2019-01-08
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A permissionless dapp/protocol like 0x or Augur could barely run on EOS, and would probably eventually get censored by the block producers at some point. EOS has played with the slider between centralization / decentralization and scalability. *That is not innovation!* Innovating is when you do something new and do something that makes things better *without* having to face some severe tradeoff.
Full review2018-12-18
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Tether is the ultimate fiat currency. (“Latin for "let it be done" the word fiat is a binding edict issued by a person in command.”) Tethers are created out of thin air simply because the owners of Bitfinex/Tether say so. If it was backed by anything they would allow an audit.
Full review2019-04-26