Book Review: “Out of the Ether”
I recently finished reading the hardback version of “Out of the Ether” by Matt Leising. This marks the 12th blockchain […]
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Book Review: “Number Go Up”
I recently finished reading the Kindle version of Number Go Up by Zeke Faux. This marks my 11th book review
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Book Review: “Easy Money”
I recently finished reading the Kindle version of Easy Money by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman. Simultaneously, I also read
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Book Review: “Popping the Crypto Bubble”
Last year a friend sent me a copy of “Popping the Crypto Bubble.” I read the first few chapters before
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Presentation: 8 areas for PMF and IMF with blockchains*
This past week I gave a new presentation at the 2nd annual Soranomics event (last year I presented on a
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Mini book review: “The Billionaire’s Folly”
I’ve previously reviewed at least seven blockchain-specific books in the past number of years. No one has paid me to
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MEV and OFAC
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Book review: The Cryptopians
I have found a blockchain-related book that did not have me completely shaking my fist in the air. For background,
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Web3 needs critics and criticism
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Not all algorithmic stabilization mechanisms are the same
We (the ‘royal we’) have previously discussed various flavors of pegged coins, “stablecoins,” as well as CBDC proposals. This short,
40 cointroversies to look into over the summer
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Book review: The Truth Machine
A friend of mine sent me a copy of The Truth Machine which was published in February 2018. Its co-authors
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Events and activities through November
The past 6 months have seen an evolution of insanity to sanity. Just kidding! One observation I have seen is
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Interview with Ray Dillinger
[Note: the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper is this month. Below is a detailed interview with one of the
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How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero?
I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed
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The GRU
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain-related book reviews
Over the past few years I’ve had the chance to read through and dissect several cryptocurrency and blockchain-related books. Below
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Book Review: Cryptoassets
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Events and activities through April
The first several months of the year have been pretty packed with undeserved pomp and circumstance. In general the “cryptocurrency
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Blockchain 2040: the year we burn the last mound of coal
Yesterday I was part of a panel at UC Berkeley where we given a prompt: what will the world look
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Is the Pitato why we can’t have nice things?
[Note: I originally wrote the bulk of this article as an unpublished memo about 18 months ago. I have updated
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Clouds and Chains
This past week I gave a presentation at the Deconomy event in Seoul. Some of the slides are based on
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What were some of the cash flows into the coin market last year?
A few independent reports have trickled in regarding the amount of real money that came into the cryptocurrency market last
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Predictions for 2018
As mentioned in my previous post, below are five thoughts for what could take place in 2018, categorized by degree
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Six bedtime stories from 2017
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