Six bedtime stories from 2017
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2017
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External facing appearances for the final months of the year
The past several months have been pretty productive especially in terms of education. For instance, my “Eight Things” article had
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How the CME (un)intentionally weighed in on chain splits
For background, this post assumes you have read some (or ideally all) of the previous posts: Comments on the COIN
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Bitcoin Is Now Just A Ticker Symbol and Stopped Being Permissionless Years Ago
What is FMI? More on that later. But first, let’s talk about Bitcoin. If you aren’t familiar with the Bitcoin
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A note from Bob on the transparency of Tether
[Note: below is a note from a friend, Bob, who is a former attorney turned tech entrepreneur who closely follows
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Who are the administrators of blockchains?
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Eight Things Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts Probably Won’t Tell You
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Which regulators have publicly commented on Initial Coin Offerings?
Below are some of the stated positions of several different regulators around the world regarding ICOs. In chronological order: Brazil’s
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Panels, quotes, cites for the 2nd quarter of 2017
Below are a variety of events I participated in the last several months. Events, panels, and presentations: OneConnection Fintech discussion
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A few other perspectives on cryptocurrencies and ICOs
I received a lot of questions regarding my last post. Over the past month I have read a number of
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A high level overview of ICOs
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How cryptocurrencies enable ransomware and how regtech can help counter it
Imagine for a moment that Alice, a hacker, was looking at various means for receiving payment for an illicit activity
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How newer regtech could be used to help audit cryptocurrency organizations
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Activities for the first few months of 2017
There are a number of internal papers we published over the past several months that the R3 research team and
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Intranets and the Internet
It is early into 2017 and at fintech events we can still hear a variety of analogies used to describe
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A brief history of R3 – the Distributed Ledger Group
What’s in a name? I was at an event last week and someone pulled me aside asked: why do you
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Layer 2 and settlement
Nary a week goes by without having to hear a startup claim their service will have the ability to “settle”
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Chainwashing
I was recently talking with a friend who spent the past decade in an operations role at a large enterprise
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Citations, interviews, and events for the final third of 2016
I ended up traveling a lot more than I expected last year, including 9 times just to East Asia. The