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After reading this article, you’ll be able to say you’ve debunked the myths surrounding crypto, and it’s not scary.

When we first started Luno, we wanted to build an intuitive app, that was both secure and robust. We needed to move quickly but didn’t want to compromise on user experience. Our architectural solution needed to include simple, widely accepted design principles and patterns. To “move fast and take action”...

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The existing financial system was built for a non-digital age, ignoring the needs of the modern individual and with many unnecessary inefficiencies and gatekeepers. The world now has access to new technologies like decentralised cryptocurrencies that are quickly making these old systems and ways of thinking redundant. Like communication evolving from landlines to mobile phones, or post to email, money is now finally catching up with other information evolutions.

Luno loves data. In fact, using data in our decision-making processes is one of our Moontality values. Most engineering projects must first be motivated using data and are not concluded until the project’s impact on the data is measured. Librarian facilitates Luno’s analysis of big data by bridging our data lake and our data warehouse.

At some point, around the year 2140, a miner somewhere in the world will mine the 21 millionth Bitcoin. Today we’re asking: what happens then?