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Don't take this as a source of truth, it's just my gut feeling, but: Germany is lacking behind in tech, and the country is putting lots of bets to their car in
by pimeys 9y ago
Don't take this as a source of truth, it's just my gut feeling, but:
Germany is lacking behind in tech, and the country is putting lots of bets to their car industry, the Volkswagen scandal not helping there. Now there is this new thing called cryptocurrency and one of them comes from Berlin. I don't know is it just me, but it's not that hard to start speculating why these big German companies want to announce themselves to be working with a Germany-based cryptocurrency.
- sova 9y agoEh, maybe, but I think IOTA has more to prove and more to gain by showing that they are associating with well established giants rather than the other way around. Besides, Switzerland is the place for Crypto now.
- pimeys 9y agoAgain just speculation, but could it be that these announcements are boosted by the IOTA folks? That the giants are not that much into the tech, IOTA just using the attention to boost their value? These guys are rich and I really doubt they'll do anything more than spend quality time in their Florida penthouse.
- Tomte 9y agoGermany is trailing in shiny stupid tech like the ICO-of-the-day, but it is still on the forefront of boring tech like automation, machinery, industrial robotics and much more. Guess why China is buying so many "Mittelstand" companies in these fields? Cars aren't everything.