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I’m sorry but that seems pretty absurd. You don’t need to be a certain type of bot to pull the meta information. From an analytics standpoint it would also be beneficial. I’ve always had issues tracking how many people have shared an SMS referral link.

Congrats on your accomplishments; ignore the haters on here.

Yes this is ironic.

But let's not judge the article and assertion based on our preconceived bias against Goldman Sachs. I think that their conclusion “We would argue that bitcoin, and other digital currencies, lie somewhere on the boundary between currency, commodity and financial asset” makes a lot of sense.

Really, Bitcoin does have more similarities to a commodity than a currency (especially a fiat currency). It's fungible, untraceable, and unregulated.

Yet another example of society acclimating to disruptive technology.

This is awesome. There are a lot of things I love about this country, but one thing we've done bad is create lawyers. Where I live (DC) 1 in 12 people are lawyers.

I wish every legal document carried a tl;dr.

Agreed on Neil Degrasse Tyson.

People need to understand that there are different types of powerpoint presentations. Here are some of the different types of Powerpoints I have experience with:

The Public Speaking: Should be a few words, a picture, a quote...basically what this presentation advocates for. Very minimalist. The focus should be on what the presenter is saying.

The Pitch Deck: In my opinion, a startup pitch deck should be very minimalist, but should be enough for someone to understand the pitch. Often investors ask me for pitch decks before a meeting. If there's only 3 words per slide, lots of valuable content might be missed. I still never have more than 3 bullet points per slide.

The Consulting Deck: When I worked for a big 3 management consulting firm, we used decks to present all of our information. It was much more technical and in depth, and it needed to stand alone in case a CEO wanted to read the study two years down the line. Many times it would have multiple graphs or infographics, and several bullet points. The top right would have a tracker saying which part of the presentation we were in, and the title would be a tagline which states the takeaway from the slide. This type of deck would never be presented to a large public audience, but rather around a table with a few stakeholders with in-depth subject matter knowledge.

Clearly there are different types of powerpoints for different situations. My best professors did notes by hand, rather than try to put everything on a powerpoint.

The most important rule that holds true to all Powerpoints, in my humble opinion, is one point/takeaway per slide.

Too many people use powerpoints as a crutch rather than a tool, and it gives the slideshow a bad name.

I've been looking for something like this. Powtoons is ok but sucks for someone who wants a little more out of their animation tool. Can't wait to try it out!

Every time I thought I spotted one, I was wrong.

But clearly depth perception and movement, not to mention infared, would help distinguish them.