Voyager Digital Partners with CoinLedger to Streamline and Simplify Crypto Tax Reporting

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Leading Crypto and Tax Platforms Integrate to Give Users Ability to Track Cost Basis and Report Taxes

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced it is partnering with CoinLedger (a rebranding of CryptoTrader.Tax) to facilitate capital gains, losses, and income tax reporting for users.

“We are excited to join forces with the CoinLedger team and be at the forefront of the evolving crypto landscape by bringing a more simplified cryptocurrency tax reporting experience to all Voyager customers. This is one of several initiatives we are rolling out as we continue to stay focused on adding value to the Voyager user ecosystem,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager.

The interoperable nature of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, with transfers into and out of platforms such as Voyager, can create tax challenges for users, especially when it comes to tracking cost basis—which is necessary for capital gains tax reporting. CoinLedger, a leading tax-reporting platform for cryptocurrency, DeFi, and NFT users, addresses this by integrating directly with leading exchanges, wallets, and blockchains to allow any cryptocurrency user to track their digital-asset transaction history across the crypto-economy.

Voyager customers will be able to use the CoinLedger platform as early as the upcoming 2021 tax year to import their cryptocurrency transactions and get capital gains, losses, and income reports. These reports can be imported into tax filing software such as TurboTax or sent off to tax professionals to facilitate easier tax filing.

“Voyager is forward-thinking when it comes to user experience,” said David Kemmerer, CEO and co-founder of CoinLedger. “Early on, the Voyager team realized that relying solely on blanket Form 1099 information reporting may not be sufficient to help customers report and file their crypto taxes. We’re excited to bring CoinLedger’s tax reporting solutions to the Voyager ecosystem and further enhance the user experience of the platform by making tracking and filing taxes easier for its customers.”

About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

About CoinLedger

CoinLedger (a rebranding of CryptoTrader.Tax) enables seamless portfolio tracking and tax reporting for participants of the digital asset economy. Founded in 2017, CoinLedger was built to reduce the friction of participating in the cryptocurrency ecosystem by making tax reporting as simple as possible. By directly integrating with major exchanges, wallets, blockchains, and NFT platforms, CoinLedger provides a unified dashboard for users to track and monitor their cryptocurrency activity. Whether you’re trading cryptocurrencies, buying and selling NFTs, or staking on DeFi protocols, CoinLedger makes tracking your portfolio and reporting your taxes more straightforward than ever. For more information, visit https://cryptotrader.tax/world-meet-coinledger.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

CoinLedger

Amy Camp
CoinLedger Communications
202-270-1783  
Amy@CoinLedger.io

 

Voyager Digital Partners with CoinLedger to Streamline and Simplify Crypto Tax Reporting

Research, News, and Market Data on Voyager Digital

 

Leading Crypto and Tax Platforms Integrate to Give Users Ability to Track Cost Basis and Report Taxes

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced it is partnering with CoinLedger (a rebranding of CryptoTrader.Tax) to facilitate capital gains, losses, and income tax reporting for users.

“We are excited to join forces with the CoinLedger team and be at the forefront of the evolving crypto landscape by bringing a more simplified cryptocurrency tax reporting experience to all Voyager customers. This is one of several initiatives we are rolling out as we continue to stay focused on adding value to the Voyager user ecosystem,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager.

The interoperable nature of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, with transfers into and out of platforms such as Voyager, can create tax challenges for users, especially when it comes to tracking cost basis—which is necessary for capital gains tax reporting. CoinLedger, a leading tax-reporting platform for cryptocurrency, DeFi, and NFT users, addresses this by integrating directly with leading exchanges, wallets, and blockchains to allow any cryptocurrency user to track their digital-asset transaction history across the crypto-economy.

Voyager customers will be able to use the CoinLedger platform as early as the upcoming 2021 tax year to import their cryptocurrency transactions and get capital gains, losses, and income reports. These reports can be imported into tax filing software such as TurboTax or sent off to tax professionals to facilitate easier tax filing.

“Voyager is forward-thinking when it comes to user experience,” said David Kemmerer, CEO and co-founder of CoinLedger. “Early on, the Voyager team realized that relying solely on blanket Form 1099 information reporting may not be sufficient to help customers report and file their crypto taxes. We’re excited to bring CoinLedger’s tax reporting solutions to the Voyager ecosystem and further enhance the user experience of the platform by making tracking and filing taxes easier for its customers.”

About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

About CoinLedger

CoinLedger (a rebranding of CryptoTrader.Tax) enables seamless portfolio tracking and tax reporting for participants of the digital asset economy. Founded in 2017, CoinLedger was built to reduce the friction of participating in the cryptocurrency ecosystem by making tax reporting as simple as possible. By directly integrating with major exchanges, wallets, blockchains, and NFT platforms, CoinLedger provides a unified dashboard for users to track and monitor their cryptocurrency activity. Whether you’re trading cryptocurrencies, buying and selling NFTs, or staking on DeFi protocols, CoinLedger makes tracking your portfolio and reporting your taxes more straightforward than ever. For more information, visit https://cryptotrader.tax/world-meet-coinledger.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

CoinLedger

Amy Camp
CoinLedger Communications
202-270-1783  
Amy@CoinLedger.io

 

Voyager Digital Reminds Shareholders of Upcoming Annual General Meeting and Provides Instructions on How to Vote in Advance of the Meeting

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Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX: VYGVF) (FRA: UCD2) will host its 2021 Annual General and Special Meeting of the Shareholders (the “Meeting”) on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
 
The Board of Directors of Voyager unanimously recommends Shareholders vote FOR all the proposed resolutions
 
MEETING MATTERS

• To elect the five directors for the coming year.
• To appoint Marcum LLP as Auditor of the Company for the coming year.
• To ratify, affirm and approve the Long Term Incentive Plan until the next general meeting of the Company.
• To adopt a special resolution to approve the proposed amendment of the articles of the Company, to (i) create and set the terms of a new class of shares of the Company, being the variable voting shares; (ii) amend the terms of the common shares of the Company, and (iii) certain housekeeping and administrative changes.
• To approve the shareholder rights plan.

MEETING MATERIALS
Shareholders are encouraged to read the Management Proxy Circular, which can be found on www.sedar.com, or on Voyager’s website at https://www.investvoyager.com/investorrelations/overview.
 
 
YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF SHARES YOU OWN
 
 
HOW TO VOTE
Due to the essence of time, shareholders are encouraged to vote online or by telephone. The voting deadline is 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on Friday, December 10th for receiving proxies by mail, online, telephone, and in person. Only Registered Shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders will be able to vote at the meeting.

 

  
SHAREHOLDER QUESTIONS
Shareholders who have any questions regarding the matters of the meeting, or require assistance with voting their shares, should contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group, the proxy solicitation agent, by telephone at +1 877-452-7184 (North America – toll free) or +1 416-304-0211 (outside North America), or by email at assistance@laurelhill.com.  
 
About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 60 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

 

Voyager Digital Reminds Shareholders of Upcoming Annual General Meeting and Provides Instructions on How to Vote in Advance of the Meeting

Research, News, and Market Data on Voyager Digital

 

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX: VYGVF) (FRA: UCD2) will host its 2021 Annual General and Special Meeting of the Shareholders (the “Meeting”) on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
 
The Board of Directors of Voyager unanimously recommends Shareholders vote FOR all the proposed resolutions
 
MEETING MATTERS

• To elect the five directors for the coming year.
• To appoint Marcum LLP as Auditor of the Company for the coming year.
• To ratify, affirm and approve the Long Term Incentive Plan until the next general meeting of the Company.
• To adopt a special resolution to approve the proposed amendment of the articles of the Company, to (i) create and set the terms of a new class of shares of the Company, being the variable voting shares; (ii) amend the terms of the common shares of the Company, and (iii) certain housekeeping and administrative changes.
• To approve the shareholder rights plan.

MEETING MATERIALS
Shareholders are encouraged to read the Management Proxy Circular, which can be found on www.sedar.com, or on Voyager’s website at https://www.investvoyager.com/investorrelations/overview.
 
 
YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF SHARES YOU OWN
 
 
HOW TO VOTE
Due to the essence of time, shareholders are encouraged to vote online or by telephone. The voting deadline is 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on Friday, December 10th for receiving proxies by mail, online, telephone, and in person. Only Registered Shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders will be able to vote at the meeting.

 

  
SHAREHOLDER QUESTIONS
Shareholders who have any questions regarding the matters of the meeting, or require assistance with voting their shares, should contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group, the proxy solicitation agent, by telephone at +1 877-452-7184 (North America – toll free) or +1 416-304-0211 (outside North America), or by email at assistance@laurelhill.com.  
 
About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 60 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

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The US Census Led to the First Data Processing Company Exactly 125 Years Ago – This Began America’s Computing Industry

 

This census has always been charged with political significance and continues to be. That’s clear from the controversies in the run-up to the 2020 census.

But it’s less widely known how important the census has been in developing the U.S. computer industry, a story that I tell in my book, “Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History.” That history includes the founding of the first automated data processing company, the Tabulating Machine Company, 125 years ago on December 3, 1896.

 

Population Growth

The only use of the census clearly specified in the Constitution is to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. More populous states get more seats.

A minimalist interpretation of the census mission would require reporting only the overall population of each state. But the census has never confined itself to this.

A complicating factor emerged right at the beginning, with the Constitution’s distinction between “free persons” and “three-fifths of all other persons.” This was the Founding Fathers’ infamous mealy-mouthed compromise between those states with a large number of enslaved persons and those states where relatively few lived.

The first census, in 1790, also made nonconstitutionally mandated distinctions by age and sex. In subsequent decades, many other personal attributes were probed as well: occupational status, marital status, educational status, place of birth and so on.

As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last, not merely to collect the data but also to compile it into usable form. The processing of the 1880 census was not completed until 1888.

It had become a mind-numbingly boring, error-prone, clerical exercise of a magnitude rarely seen.

Since the population was evidently continuing to grow at a rapid pace, those with sufficient imagination could foresee that processing the 1890 census would be gruesome indeed without some change in procedure.

 

A New Invention

John Shaw Billings, a physician assigned to assist the Census Office with compiling health statistics, had closely observed the immense tabulation efforts required to deal with the raw data of 1880. He expressed his concerns to a young mechanical engineer assisting with the census, Herman Hollerith, a recent graduate of the Columbia School of Mines.

On Sept. 23, 1884, the U.S. Patent Office recorded a submission from the 24-year-old Hollerith, titled “Art of Compiling Statistics.”

 

 

By progressively improving the ideas of this initial submission, Hollerith would decisively win an 1889 competition to improve the processing of the 1890 census.

The technological solutions devised by Hollerith involved a suite of mechanical and electrical devices. The first crucial innovation was to translate data on handwritten census tally sheets to patterns of holes punched in cards. As Hollerith phrased it, in the 1889 revision of his patent application,

“A hole is thus punched corresponding to person, then a hole according as person is a male or female, another recording whether native or foreign born, another either white or colored, &c.”

This process required developing special machinery to ensure that holes could be punched with accuracy and efficiency.

Hollerith then devised a machine to “read” the card, by probing the card with pins, so that only where there was a hole would the pin pass through the card to make an electrical connection, resulting in advance of the appropriate counter.

For example, if a card for a white male farmer passed through the machine, a counter for each of these categories would be increased by one. The card was made sturdy enough to allow passage through the card reading machine multiple times, for counting different categories or checking results.

The count proceeded so rapidly that the state-by-state numbers needed for congressional apportionment were certified before the end of November 1890.

 

This ‘mechanical punch card sorter’ was used for the 1950 census. U.S. Census Bureau

 

Rise of the Punched Card

After his census success, Hollerith went into business selling this technology. The company he founded, the Tabulating Machine Company, would, after he retired, become International Business Machines – IBM. IBM led the way in perfecting card technology for recording and tabulating large sets of data for a variety of purposes.

By the 1930s, many businesses were using cards for record-keeping procedures, such as payroll and inventory. Some data-intensive scientists, especially astronomers, were also finding the cards convenient. IBM had by then standardized an 80-column card and had developed keypunch machines that would change little for decades.

Card processing became one leg of the mighty computer industry that blossomed after World War II, and IBM for a time would be the third-largest corporation in the world. Card processing served as a scaffolding for vastly more rapid and space-efficient purely electronic computers that now dominate, with little evidence remaining of the old regime.

 

A blue IBM punch card. Gwern/Wikimedia Commons

 

Those who have grown up knowing computers only as easily portable devices, to be communicated with by the touch of a finger or even by voice, may be unfamiliar with the room-size computers of the 1950s and ’60s, where the primary means of loading data and instructions was by creating a deck of cards at a keypunch machine, and then feeding that deck into a card reader. This persisted as the default procedure for many computers well into the 1980s.

As computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper recalled about her early career, “Back in those days, everybody was using punched cards, and they thought they’d use punched cards forever.”

Hopper had been an important member of the team that created the first commercially viable general-purpose computer, the Universal Automatic Computer, or UNIVAC, one of the card-reading behemoths. Appropriately enough, the first UNIVAC delivered, in 1951, was to the U.S. Census Bureau, still hungry to improve its data processing capabilities.

No, computer users would not use punched cards forever, but they used them through the Apollo Moon-landing program and the height of the Cold War. Hollerith would likely have recognized the direct descendants of his 1890s census machinery almost 100 years later.

 

This article was republished with permission from The Conversation, a news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.  It was written by and represents the thoughts ofDavid Lindsay Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George’s Community College.

 

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The US Census Led to the First Data Processing Company Exactly 125 Years Ago – This Began America’s Computing Industry

 

This census has always been charged with political significance and continues to be. That’s clear from the controversies in the run-up to the 2020 census.

But it’s less widely known how important the census has been in developing the U.S. computer industry, a story that I tell in my book, “Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History.” That history includes the founding of the first automated data processing company, the Tabulating Machine Company, 125 years ago on December 3, 1896.

 

Population Growth

The only use of the census clearly specified in the Constitution is to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. More populous states get more seats.

A minimalist interpretation of the census mission would require reporting only the overall population of each state. But the census has never confined itself to this.

A complicating factor emerged right at the beginning, with the Constitution’s distinction between “free persons” and “three-fifths of all other persons.” This was the Founding Fathers’ infamous mealy-mouthed compromise between those states with a large number of enslaved persons and those states where relatively few lived.

The first census, in 1790, also made nonconstitutionally mandated distinctions by age and sex. In subsequent decades, many other personal attributes were probed as well: occupational status, marital status, educational status, place of birth and so on.

As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last, not merely to collect the data but also to compile it into usable form. The processing of the 1880 census was not completed until 1888.

It had become a mind-numbingly boring, error-prone, clerical exercise of a magnitude rarely seen.

Since the population was evidently continuing to grow at a rapid pace, those with sufficient imagination could foresee that processing the 1890 census would be gruesome indeed without some change in procedure.

 

A New Invention

John Shaw Billings, a physician assigned to assist the Census Office with compiling health statistics, had closely observed the immense tabulation efforts required to deal with the raw data of 1880. He expressed his concerns to a young mechanical engineer assisting with the census, Herman Hollerith, a recent graduate of the Columbia School of Mines.

On Sept. 23, 1884, the U.S. Patent Office recorded a submission from the 24-year-old Hollerith, titled “Art of Compiling Statistics.”

 

 

By progressively improving the ideas of this initial submission, Hollerith would decisively win an 1889 competition to improve the processing of the 1890 census.

The technological solutions devised by Hollerith involved a suite of mechanical and electrical devices. The first crucial innovation was to translate data on handwritten census tally sheets to patterns of holes punched in cards. As Hollerith phrased it, in the 1889 revision of his patent application,

“A hole is thus punched corresponding to person, then a hole according as person is a male or female, another recording whether native or foreign born, another either white or colored, &c.”

This process required developing special machinery to ensure that holes could be punched with accuracy and efficiency.

Hollerith then devised a machine to “read” the card, by probing the card with pins, so that only where there was a hole would the pin pass through the card to make an electrical connection, resulting in advance of the appropriate counter.

For example, if a card for a white male farmer passed through the machine, a counter for each of these categories would be increased by one. The card was made sturdy enough to allow passage through the card reading machine multiple times, for counting different categories or checking results.

The count proceeded so rapidly that the state-by-state numbers needed for congressional apportionment were certified before the end of November 1890.

 

This ‘mechanical punch card sorter’ was used for the 1950 census. U.S. Census Bureau

 

Rise of the Punched Card

After his census success, Hollerith went into business selling this technology. The company he founded, the Tabulating Machine Company, would, after he retired, become International Business Machines – IBM. IBM led the way in perfecting card technology for recording and tabulating large sets of data for a variety of purposes.

By the 1930s, many businesses were using cards for record-keeping procedures, such as payroll and inventory. Some data-intensive scientists, especially astronomers, were also finding the cards convenient. IBM had by then standardized an 80-column card and had developed keypunch machines that would change little for decades.

Card processing became one leg of the mighty computer industry that blossomed after World War II, and IBM for a time would be the third-largest corporation in the world. Card processing served as a scaffolding for vastly more rapid and space-efficient purely electronic computers that now dominate, with little evidence remaining of the old regime.

 

A blue IBM punch card. Gwern/Wikimedia Commons

 

Those who have grown up knowing computers only as easily portable devices, to be communicated with by the touch of a finger or even by voice, may be unfamiliar with the room-size computers of the 1950s and ’60s, where the primary means of loading data and instructions was by creating a deck of cards at a keypunch machine, and then feeding that deck into a card reader. This persisted as the default procedure for many computers well into the 1980s.

As computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper recalled about her early career, “Back in those days, everybody was using punched cards, and they thought they’d use punched cards forever.”

Hopper had been an important member of the team that created the first commercially viable general-purpose computer, the Universal Automatic Computer, or UNIVAC, one of the card-reading behemoths. Appropriately enough, the first UNIVAC delivered, in 1951, was to the U.S. Census Bureau, still hungry to improve its data processing capabilities.

No, computer users would not use punched cards forever, but they used them through the Apollo Moon-landing program and the height of the Cold War. Hollerith would likely have recognized the direct descendants of his 1890s census machinery almost 100 years later.

 

This article was republished with permission from The Conversation, a news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.  It was written by and represents the thoughts ofDavid Lindsay Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George’s Community College.

 

Suggested Reading:

” Edge Computing Importance in AI Applications ”

Capitalizing on the New Space Race

Who Gets to Participate in Private Offerings?

Nationwide Ban on Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

 

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Voyager Digital Appoints Head of Corporate Development

 

Technology Finance Leader Marshall Jensen to Focus on Acquisition Opportunities and Strategic Initiatives

 

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced the appointment of Marshall Jensen as the Company’s Head of Corporate Development.
 
Marshall has held senior roles in technology investment banking, principal investment, and in the crypto industry. He has substantive knowledge of the digital asset and crypto ecosystem, notably having served as Executive Vice President, Finance, of Digital Asset Custody Company, a crypto custodian which was acquired by BAKKT in 2019.  Previously, he successfully served in leadership roles at Dianomic Systems, Fort Mason Capital, UBS, and Adams Harkness (now Canaccord Genuity). In addition to his diversified finance and technology experience, Marshall was a transactional attorney with Shearman & Sterling.
 
“Voyager has already completed four acquisitions that we have integrated into our ecosystem and has made numerous minority investments in crypto-related partners. Adding a seasoned finance and technology professional with Marshall’s extensive background to lead our corporate development helps accelerate Voyager’s growth as we expand our product offering and geographic reach,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager.
 
“I am excited to join Voyager and its innovative and outstanding executive team, as it has quickly risen to become an established leader in the cryptocurrency ecosystem,” said Marshall Jensen. “With Voyager’s strong financial position, we will be active and opportunistic in adding to an already powerful platform.”
 
About Voyager Digital Ltd.
Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.
 
The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.
 
SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts
 
Voyager Digital, Ltd.
Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

 

Voyager Digital Appoints Head of Corporate Development

 

Technology Finance Leader Marshall Jensen to Focus on Acquisition Opportunities and Strategic Initiatives

 

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced the appointment of Marshall Jensen as the Company’s Head of Corporate Development.
 
Marshall has held senior roles in technology investment banking, principal investment, and in the crypto industry. He has substantive knowledge of the digital asset and crypto ecosystem, notably having served as Executive Vice President, Finance, of Digital Asset Custody Company, a crypto custodian which was acquired by BAKKT in 2019.  Previously, he successfully served in leadership roles at Dianomic Systems, Fort Mason Capital, UBS, and Adams Harkness (now Canaccord Genuity). In addition to his diversified finance and technology experience, Marshall was a transactional attorney with Shearman & Sterling.
 
“Voyager has already completed four acquisitions that we have integrated into our ecosystem and has made numerous minority investments in crypto-related partners. Adding a seasoned finance and technology professional with Marshall’s extensive background to lead our corporate development helps accelerate Voyager’s growth as we expand our product offering and geographic reach,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager.
 
“I am excited to join Voyager and its innovative and outstanding executive team, as it has quickly risen to become an established leader in the cryptocurrency ecosystem,” said Marshall Jensen. “With Voyager’s strong financial position, we will be active and opportunistic in adding to an already powerful platform.”
 
About Voyager Digital Ltd.
Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.
 
The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.
 
SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts
 
Voyager Digital, Ltd.
Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

 

Voyager Digital Announces Participation in December Investor Events

 

NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX: VYGVF) (FRA: UCD2) today announced the Company’s participation in the following investor events in December 2021:

               December 2nd – D.A. Davidson Virtual FinTech Conference

               December 2nd – OTC Small Cap Growth Virtual Conference

               December 7th – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Innovation in Finance Conference

               December 8th – B Riley Securities’ Crypto Conference

For more information about investor events that Voyager will be participating in, please visit www.investvoyager.com/investorrelations/events.

About Voyager Digital Ltd.
Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG;OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 60 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.
Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

SOURCE Voyager Digital (Canada) Ltd.

 

Esports Entertainment Group’s ggCircuit Launches New Product: OMEGA

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Hoboken, New Jersey–(Newsfile Corp. – November 30, 2021) – Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMBL) (NASDAQ: GMBLW) (or the “Company”) and their ggCircuit brand today announced OMEGA, a new revolutionary product offering for B2B customers.

OMEGA (“Online Multiplayer Esports Gaming Attraction”) is the Company’s latest turnkey solution that enables businesses such as movie theaters, malls and family entertainment centers to add esports and other gaming options as an additional revenue stream. OMEGA uses an arcade model system to deliver a guided user experience, allowing users to seamlessly pay on-screen through a QR code or through the business’ existing POS system.

“OMEGA is a unique ground-breaking opportunity to attract gamers with a very compact and convenient setup that resembles an esports arena,” says Magnus Leppäniemi, President of Esports at Esports Entertainment Group. “We recently showcased OMEGA’s capabilities at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Conference and the East Coast Gaming Congress in New Jersey and received positive feedback from a wide variety of operators. We were extremely pleased by the reception for OMEGA and our team is excited to officially debut the solution today.”

Gamers will travel on a journey to save mankind from a futuristic control system. Grouped in teams across six or 12 stations, players will be tasked with missions and quests to compete in games such as Valorant and League of Legends. Participants will be rewarded with credits based on their performance that can be used to redeem digital prizes.

“OMEGA is simple and does not require previous esports experience or knowledge to operate. It is a great fit for a variety of businesses,” says Zack Johnson, General Manager of ggCircuit. “The user journey is something new and distinctive that will give gamers an immersive experience, linking a storyline within their favorite games like Fortnite and Apex Legends.”

About Esports Entertainment Group

Esports Entertainment Group is a full stack esports and online gambling company fueled by the growth of video-gaming and the ascendance of esports with new generations. Our mission is to help connect the world at large with the future of sports entertainment in unique and enriching ways that bring fans and gamers together. Esports Entertainment Group and its affiliates are well-poised to help fans and players to stay connected and involved with their favorite esports. From traditional sports partnerships with professional NFL/NHL/NBA/FIFA teams, community-focused tournaments in a wide range of esports, and boots-on-the-ground LAN cafes, EEG has influence over the full-spectrum of esports and gaming at all levels. The Company maintains offices in New Jersey, the UK and Malta. For more information visit www.esportsentertainmentgroup.com.

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Contact:

Media Inquiries
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Investor Relations Inquiries
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JCIR
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gmbl@jcir.com

 

Voyager Digital Announces Participation in December Investor Events

 

NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX: VYGVF) (FRA: UCD2) today announced the Company’s participation in the following investor events in December 2021:

               December 2nd – D.A. Davidson Virtual FinTech Conference

               December 2nd – OTC Small Cap Growth Virtual Conference

               December 7th – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Innovation in Finance Conference

               December 8th – B Riley Securities’ Crypto Conference

For more information about investor events that Voyager will be participating in, please visit www.investvoyager.com/investorrelations/events.

About Voyager Digital Ltd.
Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG;OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 60 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.
Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

SOURCE Voyager Digital (Canada) Ltd.

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Are Our Phones Really Designed to Slow Down Over Time? Experts Look at the Evidence

 

It’s usually around this time of year you hear people complain about their phones slowing down. Apple and Google release new versions of their operating systems (OS) and suddenly there’s a slew of people claiming their old devices have started to lag – conveniently just before Christmas.

But do manufacturers really slow down our phones on purpose to nudge us towards shiny new ones, as has been claimed?

 

This article was republished with permission from The Conversation, a news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.  It was written by and represents the research-based opinions of Michael Cowling, Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia and Amy Johnson, Lecturer, CQUniversity Australia

 

The answer to this, as usual, is complicated. Let’s take a look at the evidence.

 

The ol’ Operating
System Shuffle

Every year, usually around May and June, tech companies announce their new OS updates. The main news surrounding the releases is often new system features such as Facetime enhancements, improvements to voice assistants, or a fancier system design.

But did you know these features are optimised for the new hardware traditionally released during the summer, and the chips that come with it?

As such, system updates have to be programmed to work towards two goals. The first is to support the new hardware and chip, which deliver the newest features.

The second is to continue to work with existing hardware that won’t support the new features. And this means coding the OS so it’s not reliant on the new features having to work.

This challenge exists for desktop OSs as well, as evidenced by the recent removal of old systems from the Windows 11 compatibility list. Microsoft decided coding around new features was an insurmountable challenge in some instances.

Hardships
with Hardware

So your old smartphone won’t support new features – fair enough. But why does it feel like the new OS update is making existing features slower? To understand this, you need to first understand some of the mechanics of chip design.

Apple used to use other manufacturers’ chips for its devices, but for the past few years has made its own custom silicon. This is referred to as a “system on a chip (SoC), as the entire system exists on a single chip designed and manufactured by Apple.

But even if manufacturers design their own chips, it can be hard to predict what consumers will want in the future, and thus which upgrades will come with future iterations of a device.

Manufacturers have to write OS updates to suit the latest hardware, so consumers who purchase it can take advantage of the latest features. In doing so, they must work around the fact that older hardware doesn’t have the same capacity.

These workarounds mean older devices will run more slowly with the new OS installed, even for tasks the system had done for years. The latest OS is not written to make your old device slower, but because it’s written for the latest device, it can’t help but run more slowly on old hardware.

Examples of this abound in the industry, with many articles written about a newly released OS version running slow on older devices until the manufacturer optimizes it (if they ever do).

You might be wondering: if a new OS will slow down old phones, why install the update at all?

Well, it’s because people don’t like being told to stick with old features. Apple recently allowed users of its latest devices to keep the old system, but this is unusual. There is usually a push for users to install new OS versions.

 

It’s All
Business

The truth is device manufacturers are in the business to make money. And this means being able to sell new devices.

While there is often an implied expectation from consumers that manufacturers will commit to maintaining old products, at the same time they need to write updates that will work for their latest hardware.

Meanwhile, tech companies aren’t doing enough to educate users on how to adjust their settings to get the best out of their phones, or how to manage software bloat which might contribute to a phone slowing down.

Compounding this are other factors such as network connection issues, like when the 3G mobile network was stopped.

Burden of Proof

There’s something else to consider, too. If an OS update was designed to intentionally slow down a phone over time, this would be very difficult to prove.

The system codes are “closed source”, so experts can’t look into them. The best we can do is run timers on different processes and see if they are slowing down over time.

But even if they are, is it because of a system update that can’t be supported by old hardware, or is it malicious conduct from the manufacturer? Could the code be written to force the device to sleep for half a second, every ten seconds, with a sleep command?

It’s hard to say for sure, although our personal opinion is this is highly unlikely.

Apple has had multiple lawsuits filed against it in the past, for which it has paid hundreds of millions in settlements. The company has admitted to slowing down some older phone models, but claimed this was done to reduce stress on the battery and prevent accidental shutdowns as the battery aged.

Choose
Not to Play

Ultimately, the issue comes down to how device manufacturers sell their products.

The best option for their bottom line is to deliver OS updates and features that work with the latest hardware, even if this leaves old devices behind. The evidence suggests manufacturers are not intentionally slowing phones down, but are prioritizing the latest release so you’ll buy it.

In the meantime, if your slow device is getting you down, the best option is to resist the urge to upgrade. You might get prompts directing you to install the latest OS version (and the frequency of these will depend on the company) but you can ignore them.

There may be auto-updates which you can’t avoid, but in most cases these are for security purposes and don’t include major changes or new features. It’s only once these security updates stop coming that you should upgrade.

Until then, a phone running on its original OS should, in theory, run well for a long time.

 

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TAAL Distributed Information Technologies (TAALF)
CEO Transition: What Does It Mean?

Taal Distributed Information Technologies Inc delivers value-added blockchain services, providing professional-grade, highly scalable blockchain infrastructure and transactional platforms to support businesses building solutions and applications upon the Bitcoin SV platform, and developing, operating, and managing distributed computing systems for enterprise users.

Joe Gomes, Senior Research Analyst, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Joshua Zoepfel, Research Associate, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Refer to the full report for the price target, fundamental analysis, and rating.

CEO Transition. Late last week, TAAL announced current CEO Stefan Matthews will step down from this role effective January 1, 2022. Succeeding Mr. Matthews as CEO will be Richard Baker. Mr. Baker currently acts as Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the Technology Committee.


Who Is Richard Baker? Mr. Baker joined TAAL’s Board in December 2020. Mr. Baker is a technology entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in corporate enterprise and working with startups in the technology, financial services, digital media, and telecommunications industry sectors. Mr. Baker was the former Chief Executive Officer of GeoSpock, a Data Analytics software company. Formerly …

This Company Sponsored Research is provided by Noble Capital Markets, Inc., a FINRA and S.E.C. registered broker-dealer (B/D).

*Analyst certification and important disclosures included in the full report. NOTE: investment decisions should not be based upon the content of this research summary.  Proper due diligence is required before making any investment decision.