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Bankers ditch fat salaries to chase digital currency riches

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Lulu Yilun Chen and Camila Russo
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Richard Liu gave up a seven-figure salary this month to get into one of the hottest financial instruments around right now: initial coin offerings. The former China Renaissance deal maker has since backed a clutch of cryptocoin sales that have raised millions -- sometimes in seconds -- often without a single product.

From Hong Kong and Beijing to London, accomplished financiers are abandoning lucrative careers to plunge into the murky world of ICOs, a way to amass quick money by selling digital tokens to investors sans banks or regulators. Cut out of the action, a growing cohort of banking professionals are instead applying their talents toward buying or hawking cryptocurrency.

They are going in with eyes wide open. For Liu, who put together some of China's biggest tech deals in his old job, the chance to shape the nascent arena outweighs the dangers of a market crash or crackdown. Loosely akin to IPOs, ICOs have raised millions from investors hoping to get in early on the next bitcoin or ether, and their unchecked growth over the past year is such that they have drawn comparisons to the first ill-fated dot-com boom. Yet with stratospheric bonuses largely a thing of the past, the allure of an incandescent new arena far from financial red-tape has proven irresistible to some. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-25/bankers-ditch-fat-sal...



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NuLegacy Discovers New Gold Zone


Company Announcement
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

RENO, Nevada -- NuLegacy Gold Corp. reports that it has discovered a material new gold zone in a "wildcat" step-out hole 375 meters (1,200 feet) west of the north zone of the Iceberg gold deposit:

http://nulegacygold.com/i/pdf/GT072117.pdf

Drill hole IN17-03 encountered 125 meters (405 feet) of strongly brecciated jasperoid hosted in the Devonian Horse Canyon formation (an important host for gold in Carlin-type deposits) starting at a depth of 435 feet and extending to 840 feet. Within this formation:

-- 85.4 meters (280 feet) returned assays of 0.64 grams/tonne of gold.

-- This included 50.5 meters (165 feet) of 1.00 grams/tonne gold.

-- This also included 13.7 meters (45 feet) of 2.27 grams/tonne gold.

"This new discovery is hosted in a long interval of the very favorable Horse Canyon formation located in a northwest striking cross-faulted structure, both of which are classic characteristics of the major gold deposits of the Cortez trend, such as the neighboring Goldrush, Cortez Hills, and Pipeline deposits,” said Derick Unger, chief geologist for NuLegacy Gold. ...

... For the remainder of the announcement:

http://nulegacygold.com/s/News.asp?ReportID=797737&_Type=News&_Title=NuL...



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