For the last 15 or so years, I’ve been blogging occasionally on this website. Unfortunately, towards the end of last year, I lost control of my...
One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes. Bitcoin at first was “weird internet...
Last week I wrote about the inherent tension between data portability and privacy, and suggested that one solution would be an exportable...
Earlier this week, I spoke at a Justice Department / Stanford conference about antitrust issues in the tech sector. Our panel included Patricia...
Last week, the Blockstack team formally rolled out their proposal for a new mining mechanism for the Stacks blockchain called Proof of Transfer (PoX)...
A few weeks ago at the CoinAlts conference in Chicago, I did a fireside chat with Sam McIngvale, CEO of Coinbase Custody. CoinAlts is a...
Picking back up the series on what decentralization is good for (part 1, part 2), today I want to focus on one of the most exciting aspects of...
Continuing on the theme of what decentralization is good for, this week I would like to focus on one of the most powerful drivers in the near-term:...
Recently, Simon Morris, a long-time BitTorrent exec, wrote a provocative series of posts on the nature of decentralization, in the wake of BitTorrent...
Our good friend Chris Burniske was on Squawk Box this morning. I got up and watched it. You can see the video here. Of course there is interest in...
With real-time, interconnected, self-executing systems, sometimes when things wrong, they go really wrong. I wrote about this general idea...
A central concept on the internet is Layering. Each of the protocols in the internet stack talks to the layer directly above and below it —...
One of my favorite things about the cryptocurrency / blockchain space is that our conception of “what it all means” is still very much in...
In June, the SEC gave some of its most concrete guidance to date that cryptoassets can start out as centralized projects, possibly initially sold...
One of my former colleagues, Rob Marianski, and I used to have a running joke — we would be building and debugging something, and he’d...
As readers of this blog can tell, I’ve been spending a lot of my time recently focused on cryptonetworks and blockchains, and in particular...
On Tuesday we announced our investment in Cryptokitties, and, as you might expect, received a combination of enthusiasm and skepticism in response. ...
“Cryptonetworks” can help us build a more competitive, innovative, secure and decentralized Internet. “Tokens” (also...
One thing that’s interesting about yesterday’s Basic Attention Token sale is how quickly it went – $36M transacted in 30...
In case you missed it, today Brave raised $36M for the Basic Attention Token. They had allocated 30 days for the token sale, but sold out of 1B BAT...