Last week I felt as if a time machine had taken me back to the late 90’s. That’s when I was involved with an internet start-up and got to watch endless dotcoms pop up like critters in an out-of-control game of whack-a-mole. With each IPO the hype...
Our kids used to have a sandbox in the backyard. One day two of my young daughters were in the sandbox, and they started to fight over a toy pail. Although there were plenty of other toys both in the sandbox and strewed throughout the yard, all...
Cryptocurrencies have been called the “Internet of Money,” but they are also the Internet’s money. Cryptocurrencies live and breath on the Internet; they cannot function without it. Now, being on the Internet means being on mobile devices and, in...
Even by cryptocurrency standards, “The DAO” received a lion’s share of hype upon its release. Publicized as a truly decentralized autonomous organization, The DAO promised to be the future of smart contracts. However, last week someone exploited...
Everyone in the crypto world has been talking about the “Civil War,” and not the one involving Captain America and Iron Man. No, the civil war they are referring to is the Bitcoin civil war, a rancorous year-long battle for control centered on...
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have from their inception faced a chicken-and-the-egg problem: merchants aren’t interested in accepting cryptocurrencies as a form of payment when only a few people own them, but only a few people will be...
The legend of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, has reached nearly mythical proportions. At a time when the world was reeling from financial crisis after financial crisis, this unknown, unassuming man introduced a radical idea: what if...
I was on the Daily Decrypt today talking about the cryptocurrency Dash’s innovative governance system. Check it out!
For as long as humans have interacted with each other, there have been governments. Whether it’s the local tribe that appoints leaders to interact with other tribes and make decisions for their community, or vast State-run societies such as the...
I’m excited to announce that I have created an online tool for keeping track of the value of multiple cryptocurrencies in one place: coinvalue.io The concept is simple: enter a list of addresses for any one of five cryptocurrencies –...
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