Tim Swanson is the founder and director of research at Post Oak Labs and Head of Partnerships and Market Intelligence at Clearmatics.
He was previously a visiting research fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences as well as at Sim Kee Boon Institute at Singapore Management University. He worked in East Asia for more than six years and is currently based in the US. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University.
His 2015 paper: “Consensus-as-a-service: a brief report on the emergence of permissioned, distributed ledger systems” popularized the term “permissioned” blockchain (or ledger), a topic which remains a mainstay at fintech conferences globally.
He is the author of three books:
- Great Wall of Numbers: Business Opportunities and Challenges in China
- Great Chain of Numbers: A Guide to Smart Contracts, Smart Property and Trustless Asset Management
- The Anatomy of a Money-like Informational Commodity: A Study of Bitcoin
He was an advisor to Blockseer (acquired by DMG), and to Hyperledger (acquired by Digital Asset). He does not own any cryptocurrencies in any of the companies or projects he has written about, nor has he received financial compensation for including companies or projects within his articles. He was previously the Director of Market Research at R3.
His research papers have been cited in a variety of media and has appeared on more than one hundred industry panels and events over the past eight years. He is also frequently quoted in media including: Wired, MIT Technology Review, Reuters, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New Republic, American Banker, and International Business Times.
He can be reached at: tim at postoaklabs dot com
Presentations, panels, and events:
- Panel: Future of Blockchain & Crypto hosted at Sheppard Mullin & Richter by FinTech Silicon Valley in San Francisco on December 11, 2018 (video) (interview)
- Interview: After the blockchain bubble – The future of blockchain & bitcoin from Sirius XM on December 17, 2018
- Interview: “Regtech and Blockchain Technology” at U.C. Berkeley meetup, on December 18, 2018 (video)
- Interview: The Un-Truth Machine: Tim Swanson on Bitcoin and Those Controlling the Narrative from CoinSpice on March 6, 2019
- Panel: JetBlue Blockchain in Travel Summit on March 20, 2019 in New York City
- Panel: The First New York Fed Research Conference on FinTech on March 22, 2019 in New York City
- Interview: Episode 90. The ‘real’ bitcoin market from 11:FS on March 28, 2019
- Panel: Where is Blockchain Industry Heading? at Deconomy on April 4, 2019 in Seoul, South Korea
- Presentation: Distributed Financial Market Infrastructure hosted by the Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup on April 9, 2019
- Panel: “Global Capital Flows into the DeFi Ecosystem” in Seminar on Sustainable De-Fi hosted by IIEL on February 17, 2021. See also memo: “Global Fintech Investments” in IIEL Issue Brief Series
- Presentation: Global Fintech Investments + Regtech at Boston University Questrom School of Business on April 22, 2020
- Presentation: “Good and Bad Use Cases for Blockchain” for the Blockchain Live Event Series at MIT Horizon on May 27, 2020
- Discussion: “Cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offerings” for the Duke Law FinTech Discussion Series on June 4, 2020
- Interview: “Cryptocurrency 2020 Year in Review” from The FinReg Podcast on January 11, 2021
- Debate: Is Bitcoin in a Bubble? The ‘Coin Toss’ Debate from CoinDesk TV on February 24, 2021
- Presentation and panel: “DLT 101” at Silicon Valley Japan Platform in Palo Alto on May 2, 2018
- Presentation: “A quick explanation for why there is even an “enterprise” group of vendors” at BlockTrain Global Blockchain Technology Expo in Santa Clara on May 6, 2018
- Presentation: “Blockchain 2040” and ‘enterprise chains’ at Multi-Disciplinary Hands-On Blockchain Workshop Geared for Women in New York City on May 17, 2018
- Presentation: “Color around dead token litigation” at Anderson Kill’s 1st Annual Blockchain and Virtual Currency Conference in New York City on May 23, 2018
- Panel: “Smart Contracts” at Harvard in Tech in New York City on May 23, 2018 (photo)
- Panel: “Enterprise blockchain for financial services” at Haas School of Business in Berkeley on June 21, 2018
- Panel: “Examining Use Cases of Distributed Ledger Technology” at Distributed conference in San Francisco on July 19, 2018
- Presentation and panel: “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency” at UBS Future of Money Events (Digital Hub) in Hong Kong on July 27 and July 30, 2018
- Panel: “Blockchain in Practice” at 2nd Annual Fintech Week: Silicon Valley 2018 in San Francisco on August 14, 2018
- Panel: “B2B Blockchain: Security and Governance Concern” at Genesis Blockchain Summit in UCLA on October 25, 2018
- Panel: “Evolving Crypto Use Cases” at DC Fintech Week at Georgetown University on November 5, 2018
- Op-ed: “Why Bitcoin Needs Fiat (And This Won’t Change in 2018)” for CoinDesk on January 3, 2018 (note: the original title was “Miners will still be dependent on the traditional financial system for rationing resources”)
- Panel: “Cryptocurrencies: A Turbulent World” at UBS Greater China Conference 2018 on January 8, 2018 in Shanghai
- Presentation: “Regulatory risks around ICOs” at Coinheads meetup in Los Altos on February 8, 2018
- Panel: “An In-depth look at Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies” in Scottsdale at NMS Winter Forum 2018 on February 13, 2018
- Op-ed: “Non-compliance is the “innovation.” Herd the cattle back into the barn.” Published in conjunction with Orange Silicon Valley ICO regulatory event in San Francisco on February 21, 2018 (archives)
- Presentation: “Blockchain 101” at FinTech School training workshop in San Francisco on February 22, 2018
- Panel: “Cryptocurrency Investing” at Fintech Silicon Valley meetup in Palo Alto on February 22, 2018.
- Presentation: “The Foundations of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency” at the AI, Blockchain, Crypto meetup in Pasadena on March 1, 2018
- Panel: “Consortiums, Token Offerings and the Prospects for Blockchain Commercialization” at Bank Innovation 2018 annual event in San Francisco on March 8, 2018
- Panel: “Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology” at CEGANA meetup in Santa Clara on March 15, 2018
- Conference call: “UBS Expert Call on Blockchain Adoption” with Alex Kramm and the investment bank’s equity analysts on March 22, 2018
- Presentation: “Overview of GDPR and its impact on blockchains” at China-America Blockchain Summit Conference in Beijing on April 1, 2018 (write-up)
- Panel: “State of Blockchain” at Deconomy event in Seoul on April 3, 2018
- Presentation: “Opportunities and Challenges for financial services in the cloud” at Deconomy event in Seoul on April 4, 2018
- Panel: “Regulating Cryptocurrencies” at Deconomy event in Seoul on April 4, 2018
- Presentation: “A 10-minute history of cryptocurrencies” at the Blockfin (LendIt) event in San Francisco on April 9, 2018
- Presentation: “Are there “Guardrails” for launching ICOs?” at the Draper University Executive Blockchain Program in San Mateo on April 11, 2018
- Presentation: “Enterprise DLT: A Brief Overview” at at the Draper University Executive Blockchain Program in San Mateo on April 12, 2018
- Panel: “Blockchain Trends – 2018 & Beyond” at the 3rd annual Blockchain Conference: Silicon Valley 2018 in San Mateo on April 17, 2018
- Presentation: “Overview of blockchain-related consortia” at Coinheads meetup in Saratoga on April 20, 2018
- Presentation and panel: “Blockchain 2040” at UC Berkeley Blockchain Course Guest Panel Series in Berkeley on April 23, 2018
- Panel: “Future of decentralization: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Tokens, ICO” hosted by Fenwick & West in Palo Alto on September 6, 2017 (video) (photos)
- Presentation: “DLT 101” hosted by VSee in Fremont on September 22, 2017 (photos) (photos)
- Panel: Bitcoin meetup – The China Update Panel hosted by World Crypto Network in San Francisco on September 26, 2017 (video)
- Panel: Virtual Roundtable: Blockchain Technology in Finance (audio) by IEEE Computer Society on September 28, 2017
- Panel: Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT): Emerging Trends and Real-world Cases (webinar) from BrightTALK on October 12, 2017
- Presentation: “Code is not law” hosted by Blockchain at Berkeley on November 13, 2017 (video)
- OneConnection Fintech discussion on May 18, 2017 in San Francisco at Pivotal
- Panel: Bitcoin and Blockchain and Global Startups
- R3 Regulator and Central Bank Conference event on May 24, 2017 in New York (photo)
- Presentation: DLT 101
- Fintech Silicon Valley “Internet of Money” on May 31, 2017 in San Francisco
- Panel: Digital payments: Bitcoin, micro-transaction payments & app tokens
- (Full Video) (Interview)
- Red Flag FinTech Roundtable Discussion on June 1, 2017 in San Francisco
- Roundtable discussion with Senator Tom Carper
- Orange Silicon Valley Fab Force Corporate Summit on June 6, 2017 in San Francisco (photos)
- Presentation and roundtable: Overview of DLT marketplace
- NABA: The “Internet Plus” Investment and Trade Promotion Conference on June 7, 2017 in Santa Clara
- Presentation: Overview of R3
- Allianz Austria program on June 8, 2017 at Stanford
- Presentation: Distributed Ledger Technology 101
- INSEEC Fintech (Dutch) workshop on June 14, 2017 in San Francisco
- Presentation: Fintech and analytics, a general overview
- Business Reactor Financial Technology Bank Workshop on June 28, 2017 in Santa Clara
- Presentation: Overview of analytics and the importance of dispute resolution
- Corda: Journey of a Distributed Ledger meetup on June 29, 2017 in San Francisco (photos)
- Situational Finance Technology Congress on July 7, 2017 in Beijing (photos)
- Presentation: DLT as Financial Market Infrastructure
- Tokyo (第2回) Corda Meetup on July 12, 2017 in Tokyo (photos)
- Presentation: Evolution of DLT and code is not law
- R3 members meetup on July 13, 2017 in Seoul (photos)
- Presentation: Evolution of DLT and code is not law
- M2Banking & Fintech Latam on July 20, 2017 in San Francisco (photos)
- Panel: Bitcoin & blockchain and DFC and how it will manifest in Latin America
- SVIA Symetra innovation program on July 20, 2017 in Menlo Park
- Presentation: DLT and the insurance industry
- R3 Research Webinar on July 26, 2017
- Paper discussion: Implementing Derivatives Clearing on Distributed Ledger Technology Platforms
- RobotX Fintech Night on July 27, 2017 in Santa Clara
- Panel: What is the new frontier for Fintech (photos)
- Fintech Week on August 2, 2017 in San Mateo
- Panel: Blockchain 2020 expert predictions for the near-term future (photos)
- Presentation: “The primary driver of blockchain / DLT solutions for financial services” on January 17, 2017 at CapGemini AIE with HSBC in San Francisco
- WSGR Fintech Conference: Current Issues Facing Fintech Companies and Investors on February 9, 2017 in San Mateo.
- Panel: Cross-border Fintech Issues
- Digital Transformation in FinTech from Orange Silicon Valley on February 16, 2017 in San Francisco.
- Panel: Blockchain for Banking (pictures and summary)
- Virtual question and answer session with the “Innovation and Cryptoventures” course at Duke University on February 21, 2017
- Bank Innovation 2017: Making Fintech Go on March 6, 2017 in San Jose.
- Panel: The Battle of the Blockchain Consortiums
- Presentation: “Code is not law” at the NYU course “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies” on March 23, 2017 in NYC.
- Presentation: “DLT as FMI” on April 27, 2017 at CapGemini AIE with Grant Thornton in San Francisco (photo)
- OPEN Silicon Valley: Forum 2017 on April 29, 2017 in Santa Clara
- EmTech panel discussion on blockchain in Hong Kong on June 8, 2016
- 6th Annual SKBI Conference: “Fintech and Financial Inclusion” in Singapore
- Permissioned Blockchains for Institutions and Regulators on August 17, 2016
- Developments in Blockchain Technology on August 18, 2016
- R3 North America Members Conference: “Market Landscape” in New York City on May 24, 2016
- EmTech FinTech: Blockchain, Smart Contracts and the Future of Money in Hong Kong on June 8, 2016
- Coverage: The Tech Portal
- Tsinghua University, Fintech Lab in Beijing on June 17, 2016
- Nikkei FinTech Conference 2016 in Tokyo on June 24, 2016
- Coverage: ZDNet — The Bridge — GoodWay
- Ethereum Meetup in Palo Alto on August 7, 2016 (video) (slides)
- Microsoft Blockchain Day off-site event: “Enterprise engagements and platform discussion” in Woodinville, WA on August 8, 2016
- The American Finance Association: January 4, 2016
- AFA Panel – Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and the Future of Financial Services
- BNY Mellon Blockchain Day on January 28, 2016 in Jersey City (recap)
- FIA/SIFMA Asset Management Derivatives Forum on February 5, 2016 in Laguna Beach
- Panel: “Disruptive Technology”
- Fuqua School of Business, Finance 898: Innovation and Cryptoventures on February 26, 2016
- Guest workshop: Discussing the distributed ledger landscape
- Wharton/SIFMA Securities Industry Institute (SII) in Philadelphia on March 10, 2016
- Flex Core course: “Block Chain Technology – The Hype, The Potential and The Fundamentals“
- Alliance Bernstein Financial Summit held in Boston, March 9, 2016
- Panel: “The Bitcoin vs. Permissioned Blockchain Debate”
- Korean Financial News in Seoul on April 6, 2016
- Presentation: “What will finance look like with a blockchain?”
- Coverage: Discussing my keynote presentation ([블록체인 포럼Ⅰ] “블록체인 디지털 금융혁명이 시작된다”) — One on One interview ([블록체인 포럼Ⅱ] 세계 금융시장은 왜 R3에 주목하는가). Note: both of these are with 대한금융신문 (Korean Banker News)
- Blockchain’s Impact on Financial Services in San Francisco on April 12, 2016 at the LendIt USA conference
- Smart Cloud Show 2016 from Chosun Ilbo on September 21, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea.
- Keynote: “Blockchain and Financial Big Bang”
- Coverage: Naver
- Global Blockchain Summit event held by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs on September 23, 2016 in Shanghai, China
- Presentation: “Opportunities and Challenges for Financial Services in the Cloud: Trade-offs in digitizing and automating finance” (R3 Blurb)
- Fujitsu Laboratories of America Technology Symposium annual event on October 11, 2016 in Santa Clara, California
- Panel: “The Blockchain Future – Challenges and Opportunities Ahead”
- Fórum Blockchain event jointly held by Itaú and Bradesco on October 13, 2016 in São Paulo, Brazil
- Presentation: “Smart Contracts: cryptographically secured, automated business logic”
- MIT Fintech Course: Future Commerce on October 18, 2016 (virtual)
- Discussion: “Distributed Ledger Technology Landscape and Regulations”
- GAIM OPS West Coast annual event held on October 25, 2016 in Rancho Mirage, California
- Panel: “Blockchain: What Exactly is it disrupting? Will it Negate Counterparty Risk?” (Photo)
- CIO Study Trip hosted by the Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange Lab on behalf of the IT Management Association on October 26, 2016 in San Francisco
- Presentation: “Distributed Ledger Technology” and “Legal and Regulatory Challenges”
- Day long discussions on November 9, 2016 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
- Presentation: “Code is not law” (Photos)
- Guest lecture at the Boston Economic Club on November 16, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Presentation: “DLT as Financial Market Infrastructure” (Photo)
- Global Trade Review: West Coast Trade & Working Capital Conference on November 17, 2016 in San Jose, California
- Panel: “Fintech investment and evolution of the trade finance sector” (Photo)
- The Future of Financial Payment Services Driven by Technology Innovation on November 22, 2016 from Korea Finance Telecommunications & Clearings Institute 30th Anniversary Seminar in Seoul, South Korea
- Inside Fintech on December 8-9, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea
- Ethereum and Bitcoin joint meetup on December 12, 2016 in Hong Kong
- Presentation: “On Consortiums: R3’s Tim Swanson in Conversation”
- 13th annual China International Finance Forum on December 15, 2016 in Shanghai, China
- Panel: “The Blockchain Tech and Financial Technology Development Trend” (Photo)
- Coverage: R3回应高盛退出:有时候不得不做出艰难的决定,未来将有更多的资本管理参与 from GongXiangCJ
- GaiaX / Blockchain University event: December 18, 2015
- Keynote Presentation on the Distributed Ledger Landscape
- Nikkei write-up: ブロックチェーン、2016年は真価が問われる年に
- Sydney Blockchain Workshops: December 10, 2015
- Panel: Today and tomorrow’s applications of blockchain technologies, or how will the blockchain impact our daily lives?
- Panel: Current Applications of Blockchain Technologies in the Financial Sector
- Derivatives World London: December 8, 2015
- Panel: Blockchain in financial markets: game changer or overhype?
- Future of Money & Technology Summit: December 2, 2015
- Panel: Identity Verification for Blockchain Technology
- SKBI Smart Nation, Silicon Valley Technology and Connectivity Inclusion: November 17, 2015
- Panel: Smart City – Cybersecurity and data privacy considerations
- BNY Mellon “Corporate Trust Executive Forum” event in Yountville, California, November 5, 2015
- Blockchain University “Blockchain Hackathon” at MicrosoftReactor in San Francisco, November 1, 2015 (Judge)
- Risk Magazine conference Risk USA – October 21, 2015
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- Panel: “Blockchain on Wall Street – risks and opportunities”
- Coverage: Waters Technology
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- State Street Innovation Symposium – October 15, 2015
- Panel: “Blockchain and the Distributed Ledger Landscape”
- State Street Innovation Symposium – October 15, 2015
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- Informational session for Axel Springer – October 1, 2015
- Executive roundtable covering “Identity Management and Digital Currency”
- Informational session for Axel Springer – October 1, 2015
- CoinDesk conference “Consensus” – September 10, 2015
- Panel (writeup): “Trust, Permissions, Openness: The Future of Innovation on the Blockchain”
- American Banker conference “Digital Currencies + the Blockchain” – July 28, 2015
- Panel (writeup): “Can the Blockchain Really be Separated from Bitcoin”
- Blockchain University (in Bangalore and Mysore India) – July 20 through July 23, 2015
- Presentations: Landscape; Vision; Smart Contracts
- BNY Mellon Silicon Valley Innovation Center – July 9, 2015
- BNY Mellon dinner – July 8, 2015
- Fintech discussion: “Learning from the past to build an improved future of fintech“
- Blockchain University (at PwC San Francisco) – June 27, 2015
- Orange Telecom conference “Putting the Blockchain to Work” – June 10, 2015 (recap)
- Panel: “New & Innovative Uses of the Blockchain”
- Breaking Banks: “Bitcoin: Hope or Hype?” – May 23, 2015
- Blockchain University demo day panel (judge) – May 18, 2015
- R3CEV roundtable (NYC) – May 13, 2015
- Panel: Discussion of Consensus-as-a-service (pdf)
- DBS / Startup Bootcamp hackathon (Singapore) – May 8, 2015
- Sim Kee Boon Institute conference “Digital banking, financial inclusion and impact investing” (Singapore) – May 6, 2015
- Panel: “Exploring the technology in FinTech for Digital Banking”
- Sim Kee Boon Institute roundtable (Singapore) – May 5, 2015
- Presentation: “The Future of Fintech: Crystal balls and tasseography“
- Interview and question/answer session with Seedcoin – April 24, 2015
- Research session with financial institutions related to distributed ledger technology and startup landscape
- Interview and question/answer session with Gravity-Europe – April 17, 2015
- Gravity-Europe-led research session on distributed ledger technology
- Stanford Blockchain Workshop (writeup) – March 23, 2015
- Panel: “Technical Aspects of Blockchain-based applications”
- Panel: “Exploring alternative currencies”
- Stanford Blockchain Workshop – March 21, 2015
- Working Group: “Distributed Oversight: Custodians and Intermediaries“
- Interview and question/answer session with the Institute for the Future – March 13, 2015
- IFTF research focusing on usages of the technology and emerging challenges
- Guest presentation (slides) with Tim on “Understanding value transfers to and from China” based on research for Melotic, for SKBI in Singapore and for a panel at “Blockchain Global Impact” conference
- Guest presentation (slides) with Tim on “Is the adoption of blockchains and consensus ledgers a foregone conclusion?” for Sim Kee Boon Institute lecture.
- Guest presentation (webcast) with Tim at O’Reilly Media regarding “Moving Beyond Bitcoin (BINO) Beta”
- Guest presentation (slides) with Tim at R3 Cryptocurrency Roundtable regarding “Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Squeezing utility from a proof-of-work experiment” on December 11, 2014
- Guest presentation (intro, webcast) with Tim at O’Reilly Media regarding the “Continued Existence of Altcoins, Appcoins and Commodity coins”
- Panel: “Cryptocurrency: Financial Market, Innovation and Analytics” in Singapore for SKBI event on November 4, 2014
- Guest presentation (slides) with Tim at SKBI / Singapore Management University regarding “Moving Beyond BINO Beta: Transitioning mindshare from the Bitcoin-for-everything monopoly to a competitive consensus-as-a-service marketplace”
- Guest presentation (video) (slides) with Tim at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale regarding the “Continued Existence of Altcoins, Appcoins and Commodity coins”
- Guest presentation (video) (slides) with Tim at Stanford regarding sidechains, “Blockchain 2.0” and information security. Based on a research paper (pdf)
- Guest presentation (video) (slides) with Tim at the Institute for the Future regarding financial incentives for running a mining pool and the public good’s issues surrounding the Bitcoin network, protocol and ecosystem. Based on a research paper (pdf)
- Guest presentation (video) (slides) with Tim at Hacker Dojo regarding smart contracts, smart property and trustless asset management
- Guest presentation (video) (slides) with Tim at Shanghai University of Sport regarding futureproofing your educational skills and knowledge [Chinese write-up at SUS]
- Panel (video) with Tim, Atif Nazir (co-founder of Block.io), Matthieu Riou (co-founder of BlockCypher) and Greg Slepak (co-founder of okTurtles Foundation) at Blockchain University
- Panel (video) with Tim, Jackson Palmer (creator of Dogecoin) and Tina Hui (creator of Follow The Coin) covering cryptocurrency adoption, self-regulation, tipping, transparency, affinity fraud and other topics.
- Panel (video) with Tim, Adam Krellenstein (Counterparty), Oleg Andreev (CoreBitcoin), Pamela Morgan (Empowered Law), Stefan Thomas (Codius, Ripple Labs), Stephan Tual (Ethereum), Yurii Rashkovskii (Trustatom) and moderated by Roman Snitko with Straight. Topics revolved around the development of smart contracts.
- Panel (video) with Tim moderating first anniversary of Dogecoin with panelists: Marshall Hayner (Block.io) and David Dvorak (DogeTipbot)
- Panel (video) with Tim moderating debut of Blockchain University with panelists: Tom Ding from Koinify, Ryan Charles from Reddit, Ryan Smith from Chain and Atif Nazir from Block.io.
- Guest interview (video) with Tim, co-hosted by Paul Buitink and Jop Hartog, at deBitcoin, based in the Netherlands and two other guests were Roeland Creve and Andreas Wauters, co-founders of Gent Bitcoincity
- Permissioned Ledgers And The Case For Blockchains Without Bitcoin from Epicenter Bitcoin episode #84
- Guest interview (audio)(video) with Epicenter Bitcoin episode #63
- Guest host (podcast): Let’s Talk Bitcoin episode #89 and episode #128 (2nd half)
- Guest interview (podcast): Let’s Talk Bitcoin episode #116 and episode #127
- Guest interview (podcast): Beyond Bitcoin episode #14 and episode #27
- Interview (video) with Tim and Matt Garner regarding social media and e-commerce in China.
- Interview (video) with Tim and Mark DeWeaver, co-founder of Quantrarian Capital Management regarding China, financial liberalization, cryptocurrencies and asset management
- Interview (video) with Tim and Donald McIntyre of Newfination about China, smart contracts and trustless asset management
Guest articles, op-eds, and external posts:
- Sufficiently Decentralized Howeycoins from Diar on July 1, 2018
- Evolving Language: Decentralized Financial Market Infrastructure from Diar on September 3, 2018
- Can Bitcoin Become a Dominant Currency? from The Wall Street Journal on October 21, 2018
- Systemically important cryptocurrency networks from Fintech Policy on November 5, 2018
- Settlement Risks Involving Public Blockchains at TabbFORUM
- Explore the Blockchain, Ignore the Bitcoin Maximalists from American Banker, November 3, 2015 (op-ed)
- Blockchain, Bitcoin and the rise of banks as shared ledger providers from International Business Times, November 11, 2015
- Smart Property, Colored Coins and Mastercoin at CoinDesk
- What Block Chain Analysis Tells Us About Bitcoin at CoinDesk
- What Dogecoin Must Do to Survive at CoinDesk (pdf)
- Coins.ph CEO Talks Opportunity for Bitcoin in the Philippines at CoinDesk (original)
- Too Many Bitcoins: Making Sense of Exaggerated Inventory Claims at CoinDesk
- Blockchain 2.0 – Let a Thousand Chains Blossom at Let’s Talk Bitcoin
- A Marginal Economy versus a Growth Economy at Let’s Talk Bitcoin (pdf) (podcast)
- Can Bitcoin change from a bubble economy into a growth economy? at Let’s Talk Bitcoin (pdf)
- How to succeed in Bitcoin’s command economy at Let’s Talk Bitcoin (pdf)
- Reasons for why centralization has occurred and potential solutions at Let’s Talk Bitcoin (pdf) (podcast)
- What we have today is not Bitcoin but BINO at Let’s Talk Bitcoin (pdf)
- How many bitcoins does it cost to maintain the Bitcoin network? at Let’s Talk Bitcoin (pdf)
- Why Are Altcoins Still Being Created? at Melotic
- A Tale of Three Coins at Melotic
- The Scrypt Alliance at Melotic
- The Collective Action Problem of Mining Fees at Melotic
- Why Market Prices Do Not Double With a Block Reward Halving at Melotic
- Measuring Interest and Not User Adoption at Melotic
- The Composition of Metacoins on the Bitcoin Network at Melotic
- 18 Months of Token Presales: A Review at Melotic
- MaidSafe Makes Data Safe at Bitcoin Magazine
- Bitcoins: Made in China at Bitcoin Magazine (pdf)
- In Theory, It’s Pretty Easy For A Bitcoin Exchange To Fake Its Huge Trading Volumes at Business Insider (original)
- The 10 Most Promising Startups Building Stuff With Blockchain Technology at Business Insider
- Bitcoin Is Facing A Potentially Fatal Paradox at Business Insider (pdf) (original)
- The Bitcoin Universe Now Resembles A Medieval Agrarian Economy at Business Insider (pdf) (original)
- Here’s Why Bitcoin Prices Don’t Move On News That Big Companies Like Dell Have Begun Accepting It at Business Insider (based on Chapter 4)
- Bifubao unveils first production-scale Proof of Reserves at Cryptocoins News
- Mitigating the Legal Risks of Issuing Securities on a Cryptoledger at CoinTelegraph
- Tim Swanson on Crypto 2.0 in China, ‘Bad Apples’ and the Future of Bitcoin at CoinTelegraph
- The Rise and Rise of Lipservice: Viral Western Union Ad Debunked at CoinTelegraph
Interviews, quotes, and citations:
- Stablecoins are crypto sector’s next big bet from Financial Times on November 15, 2018
- Former Goldman partner struggles to build crypto bank in bear market from Financial Times on November 22, 2018
- Geron’s Take: Crypto Hijacking Exposes Vulnerability of Digital Coins from The Wall Street Journal on January 8, 2019.
- JPM Coin’s focus on B2B breaks the bitcoin mold from Payments Source on February 14, 2019
- Coinbase Risks Losing Users After Buying a Firm With Spyware Ties from Bloomberg on March 4, 2019
- Cryptocurrency Diehards Turn to Interest Bearing Accounts from Bloomberg on March 20, 2019
- ‘DeFi’ movement promises high interest but high risk from Financial Times on December 29, 2019
- Boom or bust? Welcome to the freewheeling world of crypto lending from Reuters on August 22, 2020
- Is PayPal’s crypto move a game-changer for bitcoin? Probably not, say experts from Reuters on October 22, 2020
- Bitcoin Resurgence Leaves Institutional Acceptance Unanswered from Bloomberg on October 24, 2020
- Another bitcoin bubble? This time it’s different, backers hope from Reuters on November 18, 2020
- Bitcoin on the balance sheet: Once hostile to the digital asset, Wall Street is warming up from The Logic on February 25, 2021
- Climate concerns to crime: Bitcoin’s dark side draws scrutiny from Al Jazeera on March 17, 2021
- Bitcoin cash is expanding into the void from Financial Times on May 15, 2018
- Swanson’s Take on Wild Cowboys, Lizardcoin, and Lambos from Life in the Fast Chain on May 23, 2018
- Biggest Challenges in Blockchain Projects – Managing Successful Blockchain Projects, Part 2 from EBCS on June 4, 2018
- Ether Escapes But SEC Looks to Herd ICOs Under Regulated Oversight from Diar on June 18, 2018
- Ep. 12: Bitmain — the Most Valuable Crypto Company in the World? from SupChina on July 3, 2018
- Fujitsu’s new blockchain offering: really cheap or really expensive? from Financial Times on July 16, 2018
- Crypto & government: from anarchy to amity in the USA from Financial Times on July 23, 2018
- Regulatory status of the cryptocurrency industry from Deconomy on August 24, 2018
- What are the obstacles to blockchain adoption? from OpenLedger on August 31, 2018
- How to put bitcoin into perspective from The Economist on September 1, 2018
- The promise of the blockchain technology from The Economist on September 1, 2018
- Episode 66: Bitcoin Moons in Argentina from Blockchain Insider on September 20, 2018
- Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol from Financial Times on October 3, 2018
- Primer on Blockchain from US AID on April 27, 2018
- 21e800: Bitcoin, Satoshi and the Mystery Twitter Is Obsessing Over from CoinDesk on June 21, 2018
- Coinbase Cryptocurrency Exchange Hires New Chief Compliance Officer from ETH News on July 31, 2018
- South Korea clampdown on bitcoin gathers pace from Financial Times on January 9, 2017
- Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality from Reuters on March 27, 2018
- Episode 41 interview with 11:FS Blockchain Insider on April 12, 2018
- A Tangled Web: Will Coinbase Ventures Lead to Conflicts of Interest? from Coindesk on April 14, 2018
- Onus on Blockchain or Regulators? from Diar on April 16, 2018
- Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Virtual Currency Plans from The New York Times on April 17, 2018
- FUD, inglorious FUD from Financial Times on April 24, 2018
- 「みずほは突然、実験完了を告げてきた」、R3の開発 者が語るCordaの成熟 from Nikkei published on August 23, 2017
- Tim Swanson examines Chinese ICOs and other blockchain-related iniquities from International Business Times UK on September 21, 2017
- Blockchains: How They Work and Why They’ll Change the World from IEEE Spectrum on September 28, 2017
- The Ether Review Final Episode (audio) from Ether Review on October 31, 2017 (and syndicated via Third Web)
- Coinbase IRS Battle: Legal Experts Weigh In from International Bussiness Times on December 1, 2017
- There’s an $814 Million Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange from Bloomberg on December 5, 2017
- Bitcoin’s Wildest Rise Yet: 40% in 40 Hours from The Wall Street Journal on December 7, 2017
- Interview With Tim Swanson // Code Is Not Law (video) from Follow the Coin published on December 12, 2017
- Busting the Great Wall of Hype (audio and video) from Epicenter published on December 13, 2017
- Also covered by Bitcoin Magazine on December 22, 2017
- Bitcoin fever exposes crypto-market frailties from Reuters on December 14, 2017
- Japan and South Korea at heart of cryptocurrency fever from Financial Times on December 22, 2017
- Jamie Dimon from Coindesk on December 28, 2017
- Ep. 26. Holiday Interview Special – Tim Swanson (audio) from Blockchain Insider published on December 28, 2017
- North America Blockchain Association video interview on June 24, 2017 in Santa Clara, California
- Future Tech Podcast: “A New Level of Financial Transparency” on July 6, 2017 (also syndicated at Bitcoin.com)
- The rise of the banking blockchain consortium from International Business Times on September 23, 2016
- 8 R3 Banks Test Intel Blockchain Platform from CoinDesk on September 26, 2016
- R3’s Tim Swanson: Out of 250 start-ups, only a handful look legitimate from International Business Times on October 5, 2016
- Blockchain seeks to squeeze out the lawyers from Engineering and Technology on October 11, 2016
- What the Blockchain Industry is Saying About Circle’s Bitcoin Shift on December 7, 2016 from CoinDesk
- 5 Things the Bitcoin and Blockchain Industry Needs to Stop Saying in 2017 on December 16, 2016 from CoinDesk
- Blockchains in National Defense: Trusthworthy Systems in a Trustless World by Neil Barnas
- Payment and exchange transactions in shared ledgers by Gideon Greenspan
- Are Transaction Costs Drivers of Financial Institutions? Contracts Made in Heaven, Hell, and the Cloud in Between in Banking Beyond Banks and Money
- Blockchain Technology: Principles and Applications by Marc Pilkington
- 專訪R3聯盟高層:分散式分類帳和區塊鏈有何不同?from IT Home on April 27, 2016
- “중앙은행 발행 디지털화폐 조만간 세상에 선보일것” from Dong-A Ilbo on December 13, 2016
- China turns to blockchain to make markets clearer and cleaner from Reuters on January 26, 2017
- “Silicon Valley Tried to Upend Banks. Now It Works With Them.” from The New York Times on February 22, 2017
- R3: ‘Literally Nothing Has Changed’ from Bank Innovation on March 1, 2017
- ” 【铅笔独家专访R3】让人不禁驻足的R3最近又在做什么!” from ChainB on April 7, 2017.
- Smart Contracts: A Tool for Bank Lawyers, Not a Replacement from American Banker on May 19, 2016
- R3 Publishes Vitalik Buterin Report on Ethereum for Banks from CoinDesk on June 1, 2016
- Blockchain technology can help banks beat money-laundering from South China Morning Post on June 8, 2016
- The “Autonomous Corporation” Called the DAO Is Not a Good Way to Spend $130 Million from Technology Review on May 17, 2016
- Bitcoin Price Climbs Over 50% in First Half of 2016 from CoinDesk on July 11, 2016
- Bitcoin Developers Warn Ethereum Fork Sets Unsettling Precedent from CoinDesk on July 22, 2016
- 铅笔与R3的面对面:希望同中国社区建立合作携手共进 from ChainB on June 28, 2016
- A Jumbo Jet is not a Helicopter from Big Fintech Media on August 1, 2016
- Blockchain: wisdom of crowds begins in blind competition from Global Capital
- Can an Arcane Crypto Ledger Replace Uber, Spotify and AirBnB? from Backchannel
- Bankers Weigh Blockchain Challenges at BNY Mellon Event from CoinDesk
- From Toxic Assets to Digital Currency: Barry Silbert’s Bold Bet from American Banker (p. 5)
- Have We Reached Peak Blockchain Hype? from CoinDesk
- Industry Speaks Out As CoinDesk’s Text Size Turmoil Continues from CoinDesk
- Bitcoin Mining Decentralization via Cost Analysis by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel and Can Kisagun
- “Smart Contracts” report from CoinDesk (p.5 and p.11)
- The Hutchins Center Explains: How blockchain could change the financial system (part 1) from The Brookings Institution
- Bank consortium R3CEV successfully tests Bitcoin tech in traditional bank transactions from The Stack
- CoinDesk’s Most Influential People in Bitcoin and Blockchain 2015 (co-honorable mention)
- Thought Bitcoin Was Dead? 2016 Is the Year It Goes Big from Wired
- Does the Blockchain fit well into the American legal system? from Marginal Revolution, December 31, 2015
- 14 Bitcoin Blogs You Must Read To Achieve Bitcoin Enlightenment from CoinGecko, January 18, 2015
- The Ultimate List of Bitcoin and Blockchain White Papers from William Mougayar, December 16, 2014
- Kenya’s Digital Payments Service Is Lapping Bitcoin Many Times Over from Business Insider, June 10, 2014
- R3’s Tim Swanson examines ‘watermarked tokens’ on the Bitcoin blockchain from International Business Times, November 18, 2015
- Blockchain for banks still at the ‘gluten’ stage from Financial Times, December 9, 2015
- R3 CEV says global bank blockchain should be operating within a year from Sydney Morning Herald, December 7, 2015
- Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al from International Business Times
- Blockchain Initiative 22-Strong As Banking World Shows Intent from Payments Compliance
- The Law of Bitcoin (outside jacket)
- A Very Public Conflict Over Private Blockchains from Payments Source
- Dark Web Markets ‘Processed More Bitcoin than BitPay in 2014’ from CoinDesk
- Banks Can Cherry-Pick the Best Bits from Bitcoin from American BankerA Startup’s Radical Bet on Bitcoin Mining Hinges on Paradigm Shift — Horizons from The Wall Street Journal
- After the Bitcoin Gold Rush at The New Republic
- Is Bitcoin Stalling? at Technology Review
- Democratising finance: vision for bitcoin is beginning to fade from Financial Times
- Industry: BitLicense Revision Leaves Room for Continued Debate from CoinDesk
- All the rage a year ago, bitcoin sputters as adoption stalls from Reuters
- Bitcoin’s wasted power – and how it could be used to heat homes from Financial Times
- BoE on the non-cost advantage of digital currencies from Financial Times
- BitCon by Jeffrey Robinson
- New Digital Currency Aims to Unite Every Money System on Earth from Wired
- Bitcoin Predictions for 2014: How the Pundits Fared from CoinDesk
- Developers Meet for Crash Course in Crypto at Blockchain University Launch from CoinDesk
- Crypto 2.0 Roundup: Ethereum’s ÐΞVCON, Vizor’s Virtual Reality and a Blockchain University from CoinDesk
- Questions Linger as Daily Bitcoin Transactions Pass 100,000 Milestone from CoinDesk
- Analysis: Around 70% of Bitcoins Unspent for Six Months or More from CoinDesk
- Singapore Event Puts Bitcoin on Mainstream Finance Agenda from CoinDesk
- Markets Weekly: Bitcoin Rises Amid Dark Markets Crackdown from CoinDesk
- Crypto 2.0 Roundup: The Overstock Effect, Counterparty Debates and a Crypto iTunes from CoinDesk
- China’s Market Dominance Poses Questions About Global Bitcoin Trading Flows from CoinDesk
- Downward Pressures Persist as Bitcoin’s Price Declines to Near $400 from CoinDesk
- Why Bitcoin’s Gambling Boom is Only Just Getting Started from CoinDesk
- Private China Meeting Unites Bitcoin Mining Industry Leaders from CoinDesk
- Singapore Crypto Conference Brings Together Academia, Businesses and Regulators from CoinTelegraph
- The Blockchain as a Settlement Rail for Payments from CoinTelegraph
- Bitcoin Review 2014 Part I: Price and Commercial Activity from CoinTelegraph
- Blockchains Without Coins Stir Tensions in Bitcoin Community from The Wall Street Journal
- Primedice Shifts Focus Following US and Australia Ban from CoinDesk
- Bitcoin Outlook Remains Hazy After 2014 Meltdown from NerdWallet
- How blockchain technology could decentralize not just currency, but everything from VentureBeat
Older working papers:
- Watermarked tokens and pseudonymity on public blockchains (pdf)
- Slicing data: what comprises blockchain transactions? (pdf)
- Bitcoin Hurdles: the Public Goods Costs of Securing a Decentralized Seigniorage Network which Incentivizes Alternatives and Centralization (pdf)
- Learning from Bitcoin’s past to improve its future (pdf)
- Bitcoins: Made in China (pdf)
Academic citations and acknowledgements:
- Acknowledged: Blockchain Technology in Finance from IEEE on September 22, 2017
- Cited: $180 billion Bitcoin rival’s meteoric rise from New Zealand Herald on January 5, 2018 (note: the paper they cite actually doesn’t say that about Ripple)
- Cited: There is no consensus in the cryptocurrency community when it comes to journalistic standards from The Next Web on April 27, 2018
- Cited: IOTA Supporters: Tweeting a News Link Is “Spreading FUD” from Bitcoin.com on May 1, 2018
- Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations by Henning Diedrich on September 8, 2016
- P. Treleaven, R. Gendal Brown and D. Yang, “Blockchain Technology in Finance,” in Computer, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 14-17, 2017. doi:10.1109/MC.2017.3571047
- Bitcoin, blockchain and ICOs: Confused? We explain from Journalist’s Resource on September 28, 2017
- Ritholtz’s Reads: Patent Wars, Coral Reefs and Reid Hoffman from Bloomberg View on October 7, 2017
- How to Master the Relevancy of Permissioned vs. Permissionless Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology? from Fujitsu on November 13, 2017
- Enterprise Blockchain is in a “Trough of Disillusionment” from Bitcoin Magazine on December 22, 2017
- Blockchain, Bitcoin and VAT in the GCC: the Missing Trader Example (Part 2) from Bloomberg BNA on February 2, 2017
- Great Chain of Numbers was cited in (Glaser and Bezeenberger 2015) and (Clack et al. 2016)
- Consensus-as-a-service was cited over a dozen times including (Zyskind et al. 2015) and (Clack et al. 2016)
- Learning from Bitcoin’s past to improve its future was cited in (Reed 2014) and (Valstad and Vagstad 2014)
- The Anatomy of a Money-like Informational Commodity was cited in (Bergstra 2014)
- Watermarked Tokens and Pseudonymity on Public Blockchains was cited in (Mainelli and Milne 2016)
- Corporate Governance and Blockchains by David Yermack
- Beyond Bitcoin: Issues in Regulation Blockchain Transactions by Trevor I. Kiviat
- Blockchain: A Fundamental Shift for Financial Services Institutions by Capgemini (p. 9)
- Virtual Currencies and Beyond: Initial Considerations from the IMF (p. 20)
- Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain by the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (p. 36)
- Boom & Bust: A Look at Economic Bubbles by Fredrick Kennard and Addison Hanne, p. 179
- Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service from The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) on May 23, 2106
- Bitcoin Will Burn the Planet Down. The Question: How Fast? from Wired on November 5, 2018
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