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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

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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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Jun 28, 2022

Book excerpt: The Influencer’s Dilemma (and why Elon Musk is probably right about Twitter)

The following in an excerpt from my new book: Re-Architecting Trust, The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms. It provides context on the ongoing breakdown of traditional social medial. The prevalence of digital fakery is an underrated contributor to the breakdown of respect in…

Bitcoin

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Book excerpt: The Influencer’s Dilemma (and why Elon Musk is probably right about Twitter)
Book excerpt: The Influencer’s Dilemma (and why Elon Musk is probably right about Twitter)
Bitcoin

5 min read


May 26, 2022

The Case for a Decentralization Premium

Theodore Roosevelt once observed that nothing in the world is worth doing unless it means effort, difficulty and pain. True for building the Panama Canal, and true enough for building a Web3 protocol — but only if it’s actually decentralized. Crypto has been in turmoil lately. Here a prominent stablecoin…

Bitcoin

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The Case for a Decentralization Premium
The Case for a Decentralization Premium
Bitcoin

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Apr 21, 2022

How Decentralized is Your Stablecoin?

My thinking on stablecoins has evolved greatly since I started writing about them four years ago. …

Crypto

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How Decentralized is Your Stablecoin?
How Decentralized is Your Stablecoin?
Crypto

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Mar 15, 2022

It is Time to Own Bitcoin

I am not an investment professional, and have no opinion on what anyone should do with their money. I also find the speculative side of crypto to be its least interesting. …

Bitcoin

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It is Time to Own Bitcoin
It is Time to Own Bitcoin
Bitcoin

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Jul 12, 2021

The ESG Case for Crypto

First, let’s state the obvious: Bitcoin mining uses a lot of electricity, so it’s bad for the environment. Anyone who claims otherwise is either a salesperson or a fool. Arguing that mining is good for the environment because it encourages investment in renewables is like arguing that smoking saves lives…

Bitcoin

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The ESG Case for Crypto
The ESG Case for Crypto
Bitcoin

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May 21, 2021

Calling Out the Willfully Ignorant

Paul Krugman is the gift that keeps on giving. The popular and supposedly progressive columnist has a special talent for prophesizing things that are already demonstrably false. Back in 1998, he predicted that the internet would have no greater impact than fax machines, because “most people have nothing to say…

Cryptocurrency

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Calling Out the Willfully Ignorant
Calling Out the Willfully Ignorant
Cryptocurrency

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May 17, 2021

Bitcoin Used in a Crime, Yada Yada Yada, Bitcoin Bad

Here we go again. The Colonial Pipeline attack involved a ransom paid in crypto, so the usual suspects are on the attack. If you are an investor or business leader who has contemplated adopting bitcoin, you have already been bombarded with negative news headlines and internal emails telling you why…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin Used in a Crime, Yada Yada Yada, Bitcoin Bad
Bitcoin Used in a Crime, Yada Yada Yada, Bitcoin Bad
Bitcoin

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May 4, 2021

Ethereum Revisited

Like most things, the undulations of the crypto markets are cyclical and meme-based. But thanks to the blockchain’s elimination of many of the frictions of the traditional financial system, the cycles happen faster. Take the simple fact that crypto markets trade 24/7, while most traditional markets do not. In any…

Bitcoin

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Ethereum Revisited
Ethereum Revisited
Bitcoin

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