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Its coinbase time

Keith Teare
14 min readApr 17, 2021

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Coinbase listed in New York and is now worth over $60 billion. The listing symbolizes the coming of age of Bitcoin and the Blockchain.

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Let’s start at the end — Tweet of the Week. Dr. Alex Gouaillard, known to friends and business partners as Dr. Alex, was tragically killed last week due to a motor vehicle accident in Thailand. He had just been visiting the family of his daughter while dropping her at her School. Dr. Alex was the founder of Cosmo Software, the parent company of Millicast. At the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), he was known as a thought leader in the evolution of WebRTC and, in particular, the ability to stream real-time video free of the latency that the old standards exhibit.

Only today, Google released Chrome 90 with a new video codec — AV1. It contains work done by Dr. Alex’s Cosmo Software colleague Sergio Garcia Murillo.

The team at Cosmo and Millicast is devastated, but at the same time, has a very strong commitment to using their ability to continue the work Dr…

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Keith Teare
Keith Teare

Written by Keith Teare

Founder at SignalRank Corporation (https://signalrank.ai). Publisher of That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com), Founding TechCrunch investor

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