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18 hours ago

From CeSo to DeSo

Let’s talk about social media, the problems with centralized (Web2 or CeSo) variants, and the road to successful decentralized (Web3 or DeSo) solutions. Every few months, a blogger or media outlet does a deep dive on social media algorithms and concludes they tend toward dangerous extremes (the WSJ has a…

Blockchain

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From CeSo to DeSo
From CeSo to DeSo
Blockchain

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5 days ago

Thoughts on the Big Bad Binance Settlement

First, I think companies that don’t like certain laws should still comply with them while campaigning for change. That said, one interpretation of the government’s suit and the resulting mammoth settlement is that by refusing to implement compliance schemes like AML & CFT, Binance failed to stop money laundering and…

Cryptocurrency

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Thoughts on the Big Bad Binance Settlement
Thoughts on the Big Bad Binance Settlement
Cryptocurrency

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Nov 6

On the (Eventuall) Irrelevance of SBF

Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent conviction inspired many front page stories, most of which read like obituaries. Not just of his time as a free man but also the broader dreams of crypto. It all makes me laugh because none of this will matter in the long run. The afroed and acronymed…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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Nov 3

The Funny Thing About Tether

Stablecoins aren’t usually funny, but this tale might make you laugh out loud. Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine recently noted that he feels like Tether will someday be an incredibly interesting story, but he’s not sure what it is. Here’s one plotline: Tether is the most successful product and company in…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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Aug 8

PayPal Revisited

PayPal issuing its own stablecoin is big, marking a major milestone in the continuing evolution of crypto. It legitimizes the notion of payments moving on chain more than any blog or book (however well-written) ever could and is another step towards mass adoption. For years, skeptics of the very idea…

Cryptocurrency

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PayPal Revisited
PayPal Revisited
Cryptocurrency

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Jul 15

Implicit vs Explicit CBDCs

Central Bank Digital Currencies have receded from the headlines after their post-Libra peak, but research continues in the background in many jurisdictions, particularly Europe. The headline discussion often has a political bent to it, but this was always going to happen. …

Banking

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Implicit vs Explicit CBDCs
Implicit vs Explicit CBDCs
Banking

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Mar 11

On Bank Runs

The following is an excerpt from Re-Architecting Trust: The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms. One of the most important services that commercial banks provide is the practice of maturity transformation, otherwise known as borrowing short term and lending long term. Although we don’t…

Blockchian

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On Bank Runs
On Bank Runs
Blockchian

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Mar 7

America is Losing on Crypto

I spent the weekend at the ETH Denver crypto developer conference and left feeling rejuvenated. Thousands of energetic young people, fueled by the desire to build something new and better, converging in one place to learn, code, debate and innovate. Attendance was twice last year’s event, and there was little…

Bitcoin

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America is Losing on Crypto
America is Losing on Crypto
Bitcoin

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Nov 14, 2022

Thoughts on a crypto crisis

If you’ve never seen the movie “There Will Be Blood” starring Daniel Day Lewis, then now might be a good time. Based loosely on an Upton Sinclair novel that satirizes the early days of the oil industry, it portrays the life of an independent oil man who rises to great…

Cryptocurrency

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Thoughts on a crypto crisis
Thoughts on a crypto crisis
Cryptocurrency

10 min read


Sep 29, 2022

The Can Has Reached the End of the Road

Markets are like children. They can only learn the most important lessons the hard way, by making mistakes and suffering the consequences. One of my earliest memories is of a visit to a local park with my father and my sister. This park had a big fountain full of fish…

Investing

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Investing

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