Apple is a designer and manufacturer of electronic devices and related software and services. Apple Card, created by Apple, is the only card issued by Goldman Sachs.

Honestly, communicating with Mr. Dhanani (Apple Senior Machine Learning Engineer:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdhanani/) has been enjoyable. He is very open and honest, specific to his role with MIA Coin and NYCCoin (email thread below). Mr. Dhanani seems bright and one can only wish him the very best. 

That being said, what role (if any) does the Apple Card have to do with interlocking directorates and the future of blockchain software technology? 

Apple was the #1 Harvard Management Company holding as of September 30, 2021: https://whalewisdom.com/filer/harvard-management-co-inc#tabholdings_tab_link

Harvard Management Company also holds large positions in Facebook (Meta) and Affirm, sharing common Board Directors at Kiva.org: https://www.kiva.org/about/leadership

Since 2014, John D. Muller, Associate General Counsel, Facebook has served on Kiva.org's Board of Directors. John Muller is Head of Legal for Novi Financial, Inc., a subsidiary of Facebook. Novi is building mobile wallet and exchange services for the new Libra blockchain, with an emphasis on making it faster, cheaper, and easier for people to move money safely around the world. Previously, Muller was General Counsel (2000-2013) and Vice President of Payments Policy (2013-2017) for PayPal. He helped PayPal through its regulatory licensing, acquisition by eBay, launch of merchant services and international expansion. 

PayPal, Facebook and Kiva.org interlocking directorates lead to the Apple Card and Goldman Sachs' Board of Directors  ... Specifically to Audit Chair, Mr. Oppenheimer, formerly Apple's CFO:  https://www.goldmansachs.com/about-us/people-and-leadership/leadership/board-of-directors/peter-oppenheimer.html

What would Steve Jobs say about protecting blockchain software technology from manipulation? Probably something memorable. 

New York holds such an awesome future. The horizon is bright. 

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Gunnar Larson - xNY.io | Bank.org
MSc - Digital Currency 
MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)

G@xNY.io
+1-646-454-9107
New York, New York 10001 

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io>
Date: Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Mining.NYC
To: Jamil Dhanani <jamil.dhanani@gmail.com>, <jdhanani@apple.com>


Jamil:
  1. Serotonin.co seems to be running PR for Mining.NYC. Ms. Cassatt is the former CMO of Consensys. Jamil, can you please go back to your team and check to see if there is a relationship with Consensys? 
  2. Who is the custodial wallet? We were told a firm out of Nebraska? Can you get back to us on this? As you can imagine, it is very important and should be common knowledge. 
  3. With the Stacks.co and OKCoin.com's relationship with China and/or Hong Kong, how are you and Mining.NYC approaching China's new cross- border Data Security rules?  Is CityCoins planning to send MIA and NYCCoing data back to Beijing as the rules suggest?

Sending you the very best regards. 

Thank you, 

Gunnar
--
Gunnar Larson - xNY.io | Bank.org
MSc - Digital Currency 
MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)

G@xNY.io
+1-646-454-9107
New York, New York 10001 

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:16 PM Jamil Dhanani <jamil.dhanani@gmail.com> wrote:
1) There’s no relationship to Consensys
2) I believe the keys are held in a custodial wallet where multiple people manage the keys, until the city accepts the wallet.
3) Yes, I was working from the hotel at the time and used that as the registration address

Let me know if you have any other questions, but some of these can only be answered by the CityCoins team. They’re also active on the discord at chat.citycoins.co

— Jamil

On Nov 17, 2021, at 9:52 AM, Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:

Hey Jamil:

Just seeing if you could get back to me on this. 

Thank you,

Gunnar 

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 10:28 PM Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:
Do you use any https://consensys.net/ products or solutions for MIA, NYCCoin? 

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 4:46 PM Jamil Dhanani <jamil.dhanani@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the kind words, appreciate it :)

And also, the government of New York hasn’t claimed the City Wallet for NYCCoin like Miami has. I’m not sure anyone received the reward for Miami as Patrick’s been in communication with the government directly, to my understanding.

Best,
— Jamil

On Nov 14, 2021, at 9:00 AM, Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:

Jamil:

With JoinFreehold.com, who received the the reward for NYCCoin? 

Thank you,

Gunnar

Get mayors to adopt their CityCoin
Reward:
$25,000 per city
Expiration:
End of year
Supporting a city should be as simple as buying and holding its associated CityCoin. Get cities to #pickupthebag.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 1:06 AM Jamil Dhanani <jamil.dhanani@gmail.com> wrote:
Patrick Stanley founded CityCoins and is the current community lead, his Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/PatrickWStanley

As to the funding, I don’t know; I’m actually fairly new to the Stacks community and wasn’t around when the funding was raised and during the initial ICO; what do you mean by CN? China? I haven’t seen too many people from China involved in the CityCoins project; most people I know that are involved are US-based.

— Jamil

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 13, 2021, at 9:53 PM, Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:


Jamil:

Good to know. Thanks for your quick response. 

Do you know who is behind CityCoins.co? The domain is registered out of Iceland :) 

STX has a lot of funding from CN. For crypto, how does that affect CityCoins.co, if at all?

Thank you,

Gunnar 

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 12:47 AM Jamil Dhanani <jamil.dhanani@gmail.com> wrote:
That’s an old domain I used to own, I don’t own it anymore, I need to change the registrar info for the new domains I own. I’m not affiliated with the current owners/site of caelus.ca

NewYorkCoin is not affiliated with NYCCoin; NYCCoin is part of the CityCoins project (https://www.citycoins.co/). I’m not affiliated with CityCoins directly but do work on tools around it.

Best,
— Jamil

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 13, 2021, at 9:44 PM, Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:


Jamil:

Great work.

What is your affiliation (if any) with caelus.ca? 

What do you think of NewYorkCoin: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/newyorkcoin/

NYCCoin is not affiliated with NewYorkCoin (ticker: NYC)? 

Looking forward to learning more.

Thank you,

Gunnar


On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 12:35 AM Jamil Dhanani <jamil.dhanani@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Gunnar,

That’s right; I run the sites to visualize the mining statistics for NYCCoin (mining.nyc) and MiamiCoin (miamining.com). If you have any questions about them please let me know! 

Best,
— Jamil

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 13, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:


Mr. Dhanani: 

Are you the admin contact for Mining.NYC? 

Sending you the very best regards. 

Thank you, 

Gunnar 
--
Gunnar Larson - xNY.io | Bank.org
MSc - Digital Currency 
MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)

+1-646-454-9107
New York, New York 10001