5
October
How Do You Know You Own Your Stocks? You Dont. So who has the ledger?
Blockchains and the counter-intuitive world of trusted third parties: How global ledgers for stocks and other securities work today.
Personal
4
October
VOC: The First Publicly Traded Security & The Rise of Global Markets
How the Dutch East India Company Changed Finance and Trade Forever
3
October
Securities Tokens Background & Differences from Cryptocurrency
Securities and Corporate Ownership in a Post-Crypto World
27
September
Securities Tokens Video Series
Securities tokens: the full 10 part video series
25
September
SPACESUIT X
If you are Going to the Moon, Bring your Spacesuit
I’ve made a simple tool called SPACESUIT X for analyzing the investment merits of coins, tokens, ICOs and similar projects.
21
April
Down with Bitcoin Core! (As a noun used to describe people)
As the never ending capacity debate continues, there are many ideas for how we can improve the dialogue. One simple suggestion is that we all stop referring to “core” as a group of people, especially a monolithic group who acts or thinks the same way. Instead of talking about a group, let’s hold individuals accountable for actions they are actually responsible for.
24
March
Civility (Even when it’s hard): Keeping Scientific Bitcoin Debates Scientific
Spoiler alert: Iron Man and Captain America still worked together as allies despite their Civil War.
20
March
Blocks Will Always Be Full
In the early days, we would gather in second rate hotel conference rooms sitting on the floor with boxed lunches talking about the wondrous possibility that tomorrow this technology would be real, that it would transform the world and be adopted by the mainstream public.
17
June
It’s Better to Lose Your Investment than Lose Your Blockchain
The vision of open, public and decentralized blockchains is that there is no central authority who has authority over your money or token. In reality, in these early days, the major blockchains are not as decentralized as we wish or think they are. A handful of key miners and other actors have significant influence.
12
June
The Day an Army of Rainbow Clad Gays Fought for Liberty
Many of us know Pride Day for little more than the outlandish parades and traffic jams. Some question why a day to celebrate sexual orientation is even needed. We can learn a lot from the origins of the celebration: a story which includes the mafia, crooked cops, a riot and a small army of gays fighting for liberty.
