Borrower expectations for digital engagement have risen dramatically over the past 3 years and even before the onset of covid, expectations were being driven by the rapid digitisation of the experiences in other industries. Remember ordering a meal from a waitron? Or buying a movie ticket? The majority of these interactions have now gone online …
I found and interesting graphic the other day that summarised all of the most current crypto issuance models in 2022. Some had had their day, others are most certainly yet to gain traction. Fascinating none the less. Initial Coin Offering ICOs are cryptocurrency’s version of an IPO, but without the ownership stake. By reading the …
Cyber Doggos: an AI art NFT creation. I am a learn by doing person and this week has been about learning how to create NFT’s – I have worked with some smart contracts before but this in the space of DeFi applications like staking, lotteries and ICO development. The story here is that I have …
My coding journey started in earnest during the start of 2018 when I was asked to solve a mapping problem. After some experimentation I found google earth and with that the ability to load a .kml file into Google Earth that would allow a user to points of interest added to that map, it was …
Getting Instagram profile details using Python Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook. In this article, we will learn how can we get Instagram profile details using web scraping. Python provides powerful tools for web scraping, we will be using BeautifulSoup here. Modules required and Installation: Requests :Requests allows you …
A Developer’s Guide To Running A Bitcoin Full Node And Local Block Explorer The goal of this guide is set up a Bitcoin Node that is useful for tinkering with as a developer. If you complete this guide successfully, you’ll have a node that is in sync with the network, contains the full history of …
https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin/documents/stone-ridge-2020-shareholder-letter Dear Fellow Shareholder, Shortly before the genius David Foster Wallace died, he delivered a college commencement speech that opens with a beautiful critique of our “default setting.” “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, …
I made an Instagram Bot With Python and InstaPy What do SocialCaptain, Kicksta, Instavast, and many other companies have in common? They all help you reach a greater audience, gain more followers, and get more likes on Instagram while you hardly lift a finger. They do it all through automation, and I have built something similar. I have learnt how …
This is not my paper, the full paper can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article/32/5/1854/5427780 Technology-based (“FinTech”) lenders increased their market share of U.S. mortgage lending from 2 percent to 8 percent from 2010 to 2016. Using market-wide, loan-level data on U.S. mortgage applications and originations, we show that FinTech lenders process mortgage applications about 20 percent …
April 11, 2019 | 4 min read Original link and Credit -> https://mojomortgages.com/learn/article/the-wetherspoons-effect Houses within walking distance of a Wetherspoons sell for 27% less than the local average, we’ve discovered.We’ve all heard of the Waitrose Effect, which sees property near one of the up-market stores boosted by as much as £36,000 – with this in …
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