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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Economics
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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[Note: I originally wrote the bulk of this article as an unpublished memo about 18 months ago.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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Six bedtime stories from 2017
[Note: I neither own nor have any trading position on any cryptocurrency. I was not compensated by any party to
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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 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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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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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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AFA Presentation: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and the Future of Financial Services
The slideshow below was first presented at an AFA panel on January 4, 2016 in San Francisco. Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and
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A proxy for users
[Note: opinions expressed below are solely my own and do not represent the views of my employer or any company
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More events and articles
The past couple of months I’ve attended a number of events and written a few external articles. Below is a
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Anchor’s aweigh
One comment I have noticed continually re-appear on social media over the last couple months is roughly the following: If
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Watermarked tokens and pseudonymity on public blockchains
As mentioned a couple weeks ago I have published a new research paper entitled: “Watermarked tokens and pseudonymity on public
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What challenges arise when trying to scale watermarked tokens on Bitcoin?
[Note: the following overview on scaling Bitcoin was originally included in a new paper but needed to be removed for
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A brief literature review
[Note: the following literature review was originally included in a new paper but needed to be removed for space and
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Creative angles of attacking proof-of-work blockchains
[Note: the following views were originally included in a new paper but needed to be removed for space and flow
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A few known Bitcoin mining farms
[Note: the following overview on known Bitcoin mining farms was originally included in a new paper but needed to be
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A dissection of two Bitfury papers
Bitfury, the Bitcoin mining company, recently published two papers: Public versus Private Blockchains Part 1, Permissioned Blockchains Public versus Private
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Integrating, Mining and Attacking: Analyzing the Colored Coin “Game”
[Note: Below is a guest post from Ernie Teo, a post-doctorate researcher at SKBI (where I am currently a visiting
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What are a few direct and indirect costs of the “block size debate”?
About six weeks ago I mentioned a dollar figure during a panel at the Consensus event in NYC: $6 million.
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Some housekeeping of events and interviews
It has been a little while since I posted the events, panels and presentations I have been involved with. Below
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Designing a Global Fabric for Finance (G3F)
Over the past two weeks there have been a number of news stories related to R3 — a fintech startup
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Cryptocurrency KYSF: Know Your Source of Funds part 2
A few days ago I was asked a number of questions from a reporter at CoinDesk regarding on-chain trade volume;
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What is permissioned-on-permissionless?
As of this writing, more than half of all VC funding to date has gone into building permissioned systems on
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Defining Smart Contracts and Potential Uses
A couple hours ago I gave the following presentation to Infosys / Finacle in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University
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Five Year Vision of Distributed Ledgers
Earlier today I gave the following presentation to Infosys / Finacle in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. All