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Making Panama Bitcoin-Compatible Is A Significant Undertaking

YoungUpstarts

With the formal adoption of Bitcoin in El Salvador serving as a model, Panama is considering a quick follow-up in what might be the start of a worldwide trend. The post Making Panama Bitcoin-Compatible Is A Significant Undertaking appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

You can attend Stanford from Nigeria or Oxford from El Salvador. And there’s another reason, also technology-driven, why boundaryless teams are possible now — the democratization of education for software engineers. Almost every university that matters now allows exclusively online education.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – August 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

RENEWABLE ENERGY ALLIANCE BETWEEN COMPANIES FROM ISRAEL AND EL SALVADOR. Israel’s SDE Wave Power Plants and El Salvador’s El Esplendor Development Corp recently announced an alliance to execute Wave Power Technology in El Salvador and California.

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

View from Seed

One in five prime working age American men has not worked in the last twelve months, and our labor force participation rate is down to 62.9%, the same levels as El Salvador the Dominican Republic. Our life expectancy has declined for three straight years.

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Programmable Currency is coming

Start Up Blog

Any government in the world that moves to a non-sovereign currency (Like El Salvador has making Bitcoin its national currency), will lose control of its economy. The loss of control of any of these elements can lead to destabilisation of a Government. China is clearly intent on having a firm grip on all three.

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New Story and 3D Printed Homes

Feld Thoughts

In the past four years, New Story has funded over 2,200 homes, building 17 communities for over 11,000 people across Mexico, Haiti, El Salvador, and Bolivia. They were young and inexperienced but had a strong conviction to do things differently as a nonprofit which appealed to me.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

VC Cafe

based in Lima, Peru, owns power stations producing 3,000 megawatts in seven countries: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Panama, El Salvador, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. Located north of Santiago, the power station mainly functions as a reserve energy source for local mines. Israel Corp. Power subsidiary Inkia Energy Ltd.,