One Small Step For The Rundown
I wanted to share this with you. Our modern media academy continues to get built. Pole Pole. Slowly, as we say in Swahili.
It’s been a good week for me and my crypto community. Bitcoin crossed 50,000 this week. The whales are buying. There’s a supply shock in the market because of the bitcoin spot ETF. Institutional buyers are picking up billions worth of BTC. Blackrock and Fidelity, for instance, both shattered three billion AUM in less than one month. All this, and we are still two months out from the bitcoin halving event. That will be a further supply shock.
Small Step for The Rundown
While it’s been a big breakthrough for Bitcoin, we’ve taken a small step over at The Rundown. I wanted to share this with you. Thomas, Zaqi and I have been hustling away. Our modern media academy continues to get built. Pole Pole. Slowly, as we say in Swahili.
We added a few video tips for you to watch on the go. We would love for you to sign up. More AI tools and tech tips for communications are to come. Here are some screen grabs so you get the vibes.
Hot Tips
We are working on a full-course experience and will share the prototype with you.
Wanja
Meanwhile, you can access Wanja now from our site. She’s your guide to understanding Africa. She has only a handful of data sets—health, climate, creative and cultural industries—and curated data sets and conversations around investing in Africa. Her retrieval needs to improve, we know. It means chunking and labelling our data differently. We will work on some fine-tuning as well. You have a limit of 10 questions for now. All feedback is welcome.
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