The co-founder is making more time to pursue philanthropic efforts.
Bill Gates News
Bill Gates is an American businessman and founder of the Microsoft Corporation, who is currently active in such fields as investing, philanthropy, humanitarianism and others. Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 and turned it into the world’s largest PC software company. For a long time, Bill Gates was the wealthiest person in the world and is currently in Top-3, in terms of net worth. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the largest venture philanthropy organizations, focusing on grants in developing countries, global health and scholarships. Bill Gates quotes on various IT-related topics are very influential in the developer culture. Bill Gates’ cryptocurrency views are concentrated around the privacy features. The main point of the opinion of Bill Gates on Bitcoin is that the privacy features allow hidden money laundering, terrorism funding and drug dealing and is a major problem of it.
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by Helen Partz
The world’s top 10 billionaires lost a combined $37.7 billion due to the crash of the stock market on Monday.
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Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are as disruptive as they are polarizing. Here are the opinions of the world’s richest people on the technology.
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by Helen Partz
French billionaire Bernard Arnault has denied reports that he was involved in a Belgium-based cryptocurrency trading firm.
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by Helen Partz
CEO Brian Armstrong is the first crypto entrepreneur to join billionaire-backed charity program The Giving Pledge.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will partner with Coil and Ripple to implement Interledger and develop “pro-poor” payment systems on its mobile platform M...
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Four of the world’s richest and most influential individuals have some interesting takes on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
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by Helen Partz
Microsoft’s search engine Bing announced it will remove crypto ads from its network by July 2018 to protect customers from ‘bad actors’.
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Microsoft has launched a development automation tool for businesses looking to create blockchain-based apps.
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Bitcoin is something Bill Gates “would short if there was an easy way to do it,” he has told CNBC this week.
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Bill Gates claims cryptocurrencies are "super risky" due to their anonymous nature.
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