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
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DLT as FMI in Korea
Yesterday I gave a keynote talk at “The Future of Financial Payment Services Driven by Technology Innovation” organized and hosted
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Comments on the COIN ETF (SR-BatsBZX-2016-30)
Earlier today, with some help from the R3 research team (thanks for the grammar fixes!), I shipped a new paper
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Emochain and Statistchain
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Citations, presentations, and panels
Below are a number of events, presentations, panels, and interviews I have participated in over the past three months. Academic
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Non-technical Corda whitepaper released
Earlier today our architecture team released its first public whitepaper on Corda. The WSJ covered it here and here. Consequently
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Code is not law
This past Sunday I gave a new presentation at the Palo Alto Ethereum meetup — it was largely based on
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Ethereum Core and Ethereum Classic for Dummies
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Archy and Anarchic Chains
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Looking at public information for quarterly usage
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A Kimberley Process for Cryptocurrencies
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Missing out on the tech-market fit
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What’s the deal with DAOs?
[Disclaimer: I do not own any cryptocurrencies nor have I participated in any DAO crowdfunding.] This post will look at
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Book Review: The Business Blockchain
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Book review: Blockchain Revolution
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Self-doxxing, dynamic block making and re-decentralization of mining
There are currently two popular interrelated narratives on social media surrounding participation of the block making process on a public
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Reading the tea leaves
Three years since the current wave began and $1 billion later, cryptocurrency / public blockchain ecosystem is experiencing such a