Ripple IPO Goes To Harvard: Business School Study Dives Into Valuation

Ripple has bought back shares from its Series C funding round, which raised the company’s valuation to $15 billion, according to CEO Brad Garlinghouse. He added that despite the lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the status of XRP cryptocurrency, Ripple had the best year on record. Ripple’s $15 Billion Valuation and ‘Best Year on Record’ Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced via Twitter Wednesday that Ripple has bought back its Series C shares at a $15 billion valuation. The CEO described that....

A student at Harvard was caught using the University's massive computing power to mine Dogecoin. Supercomputers are pretty amazing. They're mostly used for research since they specialise in processing, analysing, and doing computations on ridiculous amounts of data at high speeds. Supercomputer simulations have been used to understand earthquakes, model pandemics, predict the weather, and more. Harvard University has its own supercomputing cluster called Odyssey, which boasts a 14,000 core Intel Xeon architecture with over 10 TB of RAM. But unlike most researchers, one student at Harvard....

Imperial College Business School in London has teamed with Citigroup Inc. to explore digital currencies, following similar partnerships between other schools and MasterCard and Santander, according to BusinessBecause, a news site for business schools. Imperial College is among those teaching MBAs about cryptocurrency and has also announced the opening of a center for global finance and technology. Interest is running high among MBA students at many schools. Harvard, Stanford and MIT Sloan have seen bitcoin MBA clubs emerge. New York University’s Stern School and Duke University’s Fuqua....

One thing that has emerged that could influence the XRP price has been the possibility of Ripple carrying out an Initial Public Offering (IPO). This would mean that shares of the crypto firm would become publicly tradable like that of Coinbase’s COIN stock. However, even more prominent among investors is the possibility of how high the price of the shares could trade. Financial Expert’s Ripple Video Resurfaces The rumors had first begun with some members of the XRP community talking about a possible IPO. Like rumors are wont to do, it quickly took on a life of its own and grew from there.....

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business is consistently seen as one of the best business programs in the U.S., and is the oldest collegiate school of business on the globe. In a new ‘Blockchain and Digital Asset Project’ report, titled “DeFi Beyond the Hype”, Wharton School contributors detail the ins and outs of […]