Glacier Quarterly 3 - 2018
This issue of the Glacier Quarterly focuses on technology and its impact on our industry. We recently launched our first Artificial Intelligence fund – the Glacier AI Flexible Fund of Funds – which uses machine-learning technologies to address investors’ main concern, that of capital loss.
This issue of the Glacier Quarterly focuses on technology and its impact on our industry. We recently launched our first Artificial Intelligence fund – the Glacier AI Flexible Fund of Funds – which uses machine-learning technologies to address investors’ main concern, that of capital loss.
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BLOCKCHAIN<br />
BLOCKCHAIN<br />
is here to stay<br />
Blockchain – probably one of the<br />
most hyped and least understood<br />
words of the past decade. The claims<br />
of blockchain technology are<br />
staggering and resistance to its<br />
implementation in many quarters is<br />
almost militant. In this article we’ll<br />
peel back the hype, have a look at<br />
the origins of blockchain and explore<br />
some of the real places it’s being<br />
used in the world.<br />
During the 2008 Global Financial<br />
Crisis a short white paper was<br />
published entitled Bitcoin: A Peerto-Peer<br />
Electronic Cash System.<br />
(https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf). The<br />
white paper went largely unnoticed,<br />
even in the crypto world where it<br />
was initially distributed. The name of<br />
the author was Satoshi Nakamoto,<br />
almost certainly a pseudonym. No<br />
one has ever met the real Satoshi<br />
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