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Oscar Williams-Grut

@oscarwgrut
16 posts
2022-03-09
Of course - the perfect story https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Two Austrian entrepreneurs acquire the assets of LimeWire, the music sharing service shuttered in 2010, and plan to relaunch it as a music-focused NFT service

A pair of serial entrepreneurs in Austria has bought the rights to defunct music platform LimeWire with plans to revamp its image …

2021-09-10
SCOOP: Now Monzo is wading into the buy now, pay later market. Sources tell me an official announcement is expected as soon as next week. It will make it one of the first regulated banks to launch #BNPL Details 👇https://www.standard.co.uk/ ... #fintech #payments #tech
2021-09-10 View on X
London Evening Standard

Sources: UK digital bank Monzo plans to launch buy now, pay later tools as soon as next week, one of the first regulated banks to do so

Oscar Williams-Grut / London Evening Standard :

2021-08-13
The Messi deal is likely to provide huge validation to the fan token idea. PSG's token soared over 130% in just five days amid speculation over Messi's arrival, to an all-time high of over $60 on Tuesday.
2021-08-13 View on X
Reuters

Lionel Messi's new contract with Paris St Germain includes a “large number” of crypto $PSG Fan Tokens from Socios.com, which let holders vote on minor decisions

and gets some PSG tokens as part of the deal. Read more here: https://coinmarketcap.com/... #CoinMarketCap #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Dogecoin #Altcoin #DeFi @reut...

PSG has paid Messi partly in @socios tokens linked to the club. Atletico Madrid, Roma, West Ham, & Barca have all launched their own Socios tokens. Arsenal launch theirs later today. Fan tokens let people vote on small club decisions, like what music to play after a goal.
2021-08-13 View on X
Reuters

Lionel Messi's new contract with Paris St Germain includes a “large number” of crypto $PSG Fan Tokens from Socios.com, which let holders vote on minor decisions

and gets some PSG tokens as part of the deal. Read more here: https://coinmarketcap.com/... #CoinMarketCap #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Dogecoin #Altcoin #DeFi @reut...

2021-08-12
The Messi deal is likely to provide huge validation to the fan token idea. PSG's token soared over 130% in just five days amid speculation over Messi's arrival, to an all-time high of over $60 on Tuesday.
2021-08-12 View on X
Reuters

Lionel Messi's new contract with Paris St Germain includes a “large number” of crypto $PSG Fan Tokens from Socios.com, which let holders vote on minor decisions

Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi's transfer to French club Paris St Germain included a payment in cryptocurrency fan tokens …

Around $2m has been returned so far, including one transaction with the embedded message: “READY TO RETURN THE FUND!”
2021-08-12 View on X
The Block

Group behind Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol used for DeFi applications, says a hacker has stolen $611M; one researcher blames the attack on a crypto flaw

Quick Take  — Cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for $611 million.  — The team behind the protocol …

PSG has paid Messi partly in @socios tokens linked to the club. Atletico Madrid, Roma, West Ham, & Barca have all launched their own Socios tokens. Arsenal launch theirs later today. Fan tokens let people vote on small club decisions, like what music to play after a goal.
2021-08-12 View on X
Reuters

Lionel Messi's new contract with Paris St Germain includes a “large number” of crypto $PSG Fan Tokens from Socios.com, which let holders vote on minor decisions

Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi's transfer to French club Paris St Germain included a payment in cryptocurrency fan tokens …

Around $2m has been returned so far, including one transaction with the embedded message: “READY TO RETURN THE FUND!”
2021-08-12 View on X
The Block

The attacker who stole $611M from Poly Network has now returned over $342M in USDC, BTCB, SHIBA, and others, after saying they were “ready to surrender”

Quick Take  — Poly Network attacker has started returning the funds that were stolen in the largest DeFi hack to date.

2021-08-11
Around $2m has been returned so far, including one transaction with the embedded message: “READY TO RETURN THE FUND!”
2021-08-11 View on X
The Block

The attacker who stole $611M from Poly Network has now returned over $256M in USDC, BTCB, SHIBA, and others, after saying they were “ready to surrender”

Quick Take  — Poly Network attacker has started returning the funds that were stolen in the largest DeFi hack to date.

Around $2m has been returned so far, including one transaction with the embedded message: “READY TO RETURN THE FUND!”
2021-08-11 View on X
The Block

Group behind Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol used for DeFi applications, says a hacker has stolen $611M; one researcher blames the attack on a crypto flaw

Quick Take  — Cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for $611 million.  — The team behind the protocol …

2021-03-31
Retail investors left holding the bag on Deliveroo — the company sold a fair chunk to amateur investors via PrimaryBid
2021-03-31 View on X
TechCrunch

Deliveroo drops by as much as 30% on its LSE debut, after pricing shares at £3.90, valuing it at around £5.6B; poor debut likely due to labor practice issues

Update: It seems that the market is volatile indeed.  After pricing its shares at the lower end of the range …

The Deliveroo slump is insane — 30% on debut. This is a huge blow for London's ambitions as a tech friendly listing venue. Who would chose this over NY now?
2021-03-31 View on X
TechCrunch

Deliveroo drops by as much as 30% on its LSE debut, after pricing shares at £3.90, valuing it at around £5.6B; poor debut likely due to labor practice issues

Update: It seems that the market is volatile indeed.  After pricing its shares at the lower end of the range …

2021-01-21
Wow - seismic move. Sorry to hear Tom's been struggling with the pressure of the pandemic - very brave to speak out like this and very helpful to do so. I'm sure there'll be many others out there in similar positions https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-21 View on X
TechCrunch

Tom Blomfield, founder and president of UK digital bank Monzo, is leaving the company at the end of Jan., says he's been unhappy since it scaled beyond startup

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :

2020-08-17
NEW: Revolut's 2019 accounts are out, showing losses tripling to £100m even as new business and revenue grows https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ ... via @YahooFinanceUK
2020-08-17 View on X
Yahoo Finance

Filing: Revolut lost £106.5M in 2019, up from £32.8M in 2018, while revenue grew 180% YoY to £162.7M and the number of customers grew from 3.5M to 10M

Oscar Williams-Grut / Yahoo Finance : Tweets: @oscarwgrut Tweets: Oscar Williams-Grut / @oscarwgrut : NEW: Revolut's 2019 accounts are out, showing losses tripling to £100m even a...

2020-06-20
Wirecard is basically a corporate version of “Yeah I have a girlfriend — you don't know her, she goes to a different school” https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-06-20 View on X
Financial Times

Wirecard's CEO Markus Braun resigns over the missing €1.9B in cash; James Freis, chief compliance officer who joined company on Thursday, named as interim CEO

Want this in your inbox each morning? Tweets: HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig : Braun is reportedly stepping down to more time with his collection of Fabergé eggs on his superyacht....

2019-08-23
Had anecdotally heard this from people close to the project too — Libra's initial backers are balking at the backlash and thinking of ways to get out https://www.ft.com/...
2019-08-23 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: at least three of Facebook's Libra backers are discussing how to distance themselves from the project amid increasing regulatory scrutiny

Intensifying regulatory scrutiny of Facebook's Libra digital currency has spooked some of the project's early backers, with at least three privately discussing …