Book review: The Age of Cryptocurrency
On my trip to Singapore two weeks ago I read through a new book The Age of Cryptocurrency, written by […]
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What’s happening in the Singapore fintech arena?
About a week ago I attended two back-to-back events: the Sim Kee Boon Institute’s conference and the DBS blockchain hackathon.
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Cryptocurrency KYSF: Know Your Source of Funds
Last week a reporter from CoinDesk asked me a few questions related to the chart (below) discussed in the flow
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The Future of Fintech: Crystal balls and tasseography
Yesterday I gave a new presentation at a roundtable talk at the Sim Kee Boon Institute at Singapore Management University.
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What has been the reaction to permissioned distributed ledgers?
About 3 weeks ago I published the “Consensus as a service” report. What has the fallout been over it? A
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The flow of funds on the Bitcoin network in 2015
Over the past several months, there has been a number of useful, simplified flow charts that show the general demand
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A gift card economy: breaking down BitPay’s numbers
Two days ago BitPay, the largest payment processor in the cryptocurrency space, published a new infographic filled with a number
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Consensus-as-a-service: a brief report on the emergence of permissioned, distributed ledger systems
I have spent the past month compiling research that took place between August and the present day. This was much
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Interview with deBitcoin
Earlier today I was interviewed by Paul Buitink and Jop Hartog, co-hosts of a weekly show at deBitcoin, based in
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Panel from Blockchain University Demo Day
A couple weeks ago I moderated a panel at Blockchain University, wrapping up the inaugural cohort. Panelists included Atif Nazir
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Distributed Oversight: Custodians and Intermediaries
[Note: This past weekend I took part of a working group at Stanford University as part of the “Blockchain Global
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Understanding value transfers to and from China
A couple days ago, on Monday, I was on a panel hosted at Stanford University as part of the “Blockchain
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Questions for knowledge markets
I am often asked to provide content to community-driven question-and-answer sites like Quora, Stack Exchange and now Zapchain. Here are
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What is the “real” price of bitcoin?
Even before Bitcoin was part of the zeitgeist for the digerati, people have been guessing what the price of a bitcoin
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Eric Tymoigne: “The fair price of bitcoins as measured by the discounted value of future cash flows is zero.”
Earlier today The Wall Street Journal posted two responses to the question: “Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future?”
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A brief history of Bitcoin “wallet” growth
There has been a lot of investment and press coverage of the overall Bitcoin ecosystem. So what kind of growth
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While we wait for another Bitcoin black swan event
I was interviewed and quoted a few times in the past couple weeks: Is Bitcoin Stalling? at Technology Review: The
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Can Bitcoin’s internal economy securely grow relative to its outputs?
How do economies grow? At the end of the day, that is ultimately the question that the Bitcoin community is
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Is the adoption of blockchains and consensus ledgers a foregone conclusion?
Earlier this evening I gave a new presentation to the Sim Kee Boon Institute (SKBI) for Financial Economics at Singapore
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The myth of a cheaper Bitcoin network: a note about transaction processing, currency conversion and Bitcoinland
Recently the Museum of American Finance hosted an event covering Bitcoin. One of the panelists allegedly said: “we don’t think
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What about the new BitLicense revision?
A new revision (pdf) of the New York BitLicense was released this week. Yesterday CoinDesk reached out to several people
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What is the blockchain hard fork “missile crisis?”
Over the past couple of months there has been a number of discussions revolving around increasing the Bitcoin block size
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Videos from Cryptoeconomicon event
A few of the videos from the Cryptoeconomicon event are now online (repo). If you are interested, below are two
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Interview with Epicenter Bitcoin
About two weeks ago I was interviewed over at Epicenter Bitcoin. We covered a number of topics, some of which
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Cryptoeconomics for beginners and experts alike
This past week Koinify and the Cryptocurrency Research Group (CCRG), a new academic organization, held a 3-day event — the