Disruptiv Newsletter: YouTube quizzes 💬 Lyft recycles 🔋 Amazon x Duke 🔌 Tesla FSD 🚘 Crypto 🎨 and more

Welcome to the Disruptiv newsletter! You're about to get this week's top tech and innovation insight that we saw this week. Enjoy! [disruptivflow-header] Good morning, FlowBankers Welcome to the Disruptiv newsletter! A weekly aggregate of relevant tech-focused quick takes. . Saturday 26th November, 2022 [Start trading](113/cXx8Z04/VWVPpq8LmmdqW6vpCtP3Gq8PDW3Bmyl94SRwktN7dHCtL2-MK5V1-WJV7CgTcvW5gV7Yc1GvjLMW4kxg-d8H666gW19-43H92GBP6VFdYsL4VQDpjW7JTScJ3qZbSyW5kNqMr6qBrcyW5xdmQw6-Lg67VzbcWz3VNRkLW1tcsvM2GQfsGW7t6GpN2fZqWcW3TL6DD90zcptW2MLbSb7jd8D9W2ZSKBG7PZ4kXW2jt3tx3SKJ2NW6T8S4Q3JxVP7W42MRrP3WTh0RW3hDWQq5lrSBFW1ZFybm6tNwX0VhJLJ53PlH9lW7Y_gRs3GPfvf32z31) FlowBank tech articles 📚 FTX — destroying trust in what is supposed to be trustless [shutterstock_2224048131](113/cXx8Z04/VWVPpq8LmmdqW6vpCtP3Gq8PDW3Bmyl94SRwktN7dHCtL2-MK5V1-WJV7CgVqgW2B-xkb2c4WgHW8r1QxF4YjhhCW7ZRNrg7zKCFlW8JxdwH1KJSlGW2C-ywC3nm5qdVlLmhQ1gBvfPW3LdWlk2ZyjJSW7WRQrX7NBds0W4dhbP645ByWBW3Krs8t771vSdVBPnyV5wPK7TMQKlBWgQ-cZW17ZVPB1gCYXNW2XBzZ76p-VxKW3FHT5L2M5Xn9W7VyXPq5sVN5xW200FQL95MKcJW6sNbtD85vlSTW3dz4SP4d0VmvW55ds0b29YhpJ320v1) FTX, the poster boy of the crypto world has almost overnight become the pariah, while almost single handedly setting the industry back years by destroying trust in what is trustless. It is worth highlighting a key point in the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper — “making payments over a communications channel without a trusted party”. There is nothing trustless in a centralised exchange, history seems to be repeating itself. [Read me](113/cXx8Z04/VWVPpq8LmmdqW6vpCtP3Gq8PDW3Bmyl94SRwktN7dHCtL2-MK5V1-WJV7Cg-JDN6Thb7NW5MzrW5h0M3f64H-BZW97N5yL29MYZ3W1flMw51f3NCtW3HTcNn2h4_SdW8QPcmB2cmZPRW1-cklQ7BPyqZW89Rzw83XTyMmW4DpDdF6mChNlW6cHrLQ7rVj4qN40XjB5vq5qcW1nn16V3rw22RW731B2F2tks8MW1wPrkK599SJBW27RGv37_4sf7VNJg-B1jXzD_W1RF0Fm6FRTR4W7FZT4B6sCNzDW3ljFb_3F2BFNVYtCL95ktZXT3fz11) Big Technology 🍎 - YouTube is testing a new feature that allows creators to add quizzes to their community posts, for channels that have at least 500 subscribers. c - Lyft is partnering with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company founded by ex-Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, to ensure the batteries from its fleets of shared electric bikes and scooters don’t end up in landfills. c - Amazon's AWS launches a second cloud region in India investing $4.4 billion by 2030. AWS is also helping Duke Energy forecast energy demand, and Duke is spending $75B on electric-grid updates. c - Tesla is extending its “full self-driving” (FSD) beta software “to anyone in North America who requests it from the car screen. The FSD rollout comes out at a sensitive time as Tesla is being investigated by the DOJ.c - Domino's Pizza, the world's largest pizza chain, signed a deal with General Motors to purchase EVs to help attract new drivers. The deal includes an initial order of 800 EVs and will start rolling out this month. VC + Startups 🎯 - Ukio, a Spanish short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at flexible workforce raises €27m in funding to further its growth in Europe. - Redbrick AI, an Indian healthtech startup, that uses a purpose-built application to assist medical imaging teams in annotating medical data raises $4.6m in a funding round led by Sequoia India. - Ramani, a Tanzanian startup focused on consumer-packaged goods supply chains raises $32m led by entrepreneur Jared Schreiber. - Occtoo, a Swedish-based SaaS startup that helps digital companies build more relevant experiences for customers with a low-code composable experience data platform raises €4.6m in funding. - Cobee, a Spanish startup focused on enhancing employee benefits raises €40m with the help of Octopus Ventures and Notion Capital. Crypto 👾 - Bitpanda, a trading platform obtained a crypto license from German financial regulator BaFin as crypto platforms want to prove they are legit. c - Japan’s central bank has started planning a central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiment with the country’s major financial players, according to a major newspaper report. Law and regulation 🕵️ - El Salvador is doubling down on its crypto bet. The first country to declare Bitcoin as legal tender is now working on a Digital Asset Issuance Law, which would facilitate operations with any crypto asset. c - EU regulators are being lobbied to address big tech cloud market abuse dominated in Europe. And, the European Commission has been investigating Microsoft for unfair practices after complaints were filed by smaller German and French rivals. Disruptiv Figure 📊 . A silver lining for uranium? Russia's invasion of Ukraine has increased demand for alternative energy sources, including nuclear. And this could be the source of a u-turn for many nations that had put a halt to developing nuclear infrastructure. Uranium producers could perhaps benefit from brighter growth perspectives. [uranium] Don't forget to... [Start trading](113/cXx8Z04/VWVPpq8LmmdqW6vpCtP3Gq8PDW3Bmyl94SRwktN7dHCtL2-MK5V1-WJV7CgMxXW5c17xt426WfdW3kyHmy7vX8j5W7rc_ZR3QDlvpW8-ZFPr6qGLvTW1HQb2w9c-PJdW1ggGxk999XB5N91qXbq8MR2-VBbjqg8v8P8BW3jzR5Y1q-z1pW6Bqb1K1vhMrtW8nrxrN4K3C2TW4R-3JV4W6G5yN8RTdbYzkRZ4MPZ7l_BRlttVjblt48KR8myW2nfZ105-9Ms-V16NKh91xbTjW8nzL3t22t8MCN2CXHVNtfJh4VFCtY67Qh7GF37r21) [logo_white] [Contact us](mailto:research@flowbank.com) Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Instagram FlowBank SA, Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 6, P.O. Box 1303, 1211 Geneva 26, Switzerland, +41 (0) 22 888 60 00 [Unsubscribe]( [Manage preferences](