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Reading Between the Lines of Brian Armstrong’s Mission Memo
8.10.2020
Brian Armstrong's apolitical stance speaks to an unhealthy Silicon Valley culture where debate is shut down and substantive conversations happen underground
Ethereum Is the Frontier of Financial Innovation
8.10.2020
Innovation occurs when the costs of iteration and experimentation reduce
Coinbase’s ‘Mission’ Violates the Spirit of Bitcoin
7.10.2020
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wants it both ways: to be apolitical about uncomfortable disruptions and political about Bitcoin's mission to disrupt the world
Bitcoin Correlations Depend on What Phase It Is In
7.10.2020
Bitcoin's correlations with gold and the stock market appears contradictory on the surface. There are deeper machinations at work
How the Decentralized Web Transfers Wealth From Corporations to People
6.10.2020
Companies today control our domain names, the content we host and our access to the internet. By 2030, that will change
After BitMEX: Regulation Must Change for the Digital Age
6.10.2020
Recent regulatory enforcement against BitMEX shows how out of step the world's financial regulators are with digital innovation
CEXs Vs. DEXs: The Future Battle Lines
4.10.2020
The future will see DEXs challenge centralized exchanges by finally separating custody and exchange, says the co-founder of IDEX
The Digital Archipelago: How to Build an Internet Where Communities Thrive
3.10.2020
Technology exists to serve people. Today, the situation is nearly reversed. Each of us is just propping up an engagement graph somewhere
The Hard Forks That Didn’t Dilute Bitcoin
1.10.2020
Why Bitcoin continues to trounce BCH, BSV and other wannabe challenger projects
Why Hardnosed Bitcoiners Should Learn to Love DeFi
1.10.2020
Stacking sats and decentralized finance are more similar economic modes than most realize
‘Great Artists Steal’ – What Enterprise Blockchain Can Learn From the Past
30.9.2020
Enterprise blockchain doesn't need to reinvent the wheel: Communications standards in use for decades are built for machine-to-machine commerce
Better Broadband Will Pave the Way for a ‘Brand New World’
29.9.2020
Self-help guru James Altucher sees a world where we can jump between virtual realities. Will it be a better world? Time will tell
Crypto Co-ops and Game Theory: Why the Internet Must Learn to Collaborate to Survive
29.9.2020
As the internet shifts to the open, decentralized standards of Web 3.0, can we find a balance between competition and cooperation?
How the Crypto Industry Seesaws Between Assets and Infrastructure
29.9.2020
Bitcoin invented a new asset as well as new infrastructure. Often, we confuse the two roles it plays
Coinbase Has Drawn a Line in the Sand for Its Activist Employees
29.9.2020
Is Brian Armstrong right to eschew corporate activism for a focus on the "mission"?
The Standard About to Revolutionize Payments
28.9.2020
Changing the standard way financial institutions communicate changes everything
Crypto Is Too Dependent on Dollars
28.9.2020
With most stablecoins pegged to dollars, the crypto industry is wedded to a single currency with uncertain prospects. Time to diversify
The Biggest Story in Crypto: The Stablecoin Surge and Power Politics
27.9.2020
Nic Carter appears on our new Opinionated podcast to discuss the $20 billion stablecoin phenomenon and its implications for the global financial system
How We Short Capitalism – And Finance the Revolution
25.9.2020
In the post-capitalist future, human beings will collaborate, communicate and create using the radically decentralized tools
A New Era of Media Begins With Tokenization
24.9.2020
Substack alone won't save publishing: The future of online content is where "money legos," communities and media meet