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: “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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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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Book Review: Cryptoassets
[Disclaimer: The views expressed below are solely my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my clients. I
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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[Note: I originally wrote the bulk of this article as an unpublished memo about 18 months ago.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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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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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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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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The evolving distributed ledger tech landscape
Yesterday I gave an abbreviated presentation based on R3CEV research first publicly shown at the GaiaX – Blockchain University event
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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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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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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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Bitcoin’s PR challenges
What kind of feedback has my book received over the past week? Here are a few threads on reddit: Has
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Future Opportunites and Economic Challenges for Cryptoledgers
On March 27, 2014 I gave a presentation at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto. I covered a
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What is a Merkle tree?
James D’Angelo has an excellent series of tutorials on the inner workings of blockchains and cryptoledgers. One of my favorites
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What about English in China?
A director of studies (DoS) for a foreign education company in China contacted me today and we discussed the conundrum
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Futureproofing your English with Technology: Getting the most return-on-investment in an automated world
A week ago I gave a guest lecture at a local college discussing three high growth areas in China: artificial
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The world’s second language: English
Over the past few days I’ve had talks with a couple of business people regarding EFL opportunities in China. While