What's (and Who's) Behind All These Crypto Hacks?
What happened with the OpenSea $1.7 million phishing hack? And did Laura Shin unmask the perpetrator who siphoned 3.6 million Ether (with a current value north of $11 billion) from the Ethereum networ...
25 Helmi 202244min
Is This How the Centralization Age Ends?
Centralization has defined technology, finance, and government for decades. Bill Barhydt, co-founder and CEO of Abra, considers the 1969 moon landing the peak of centralization: people working togethe...
24 Helmi 202213min
"Our Vision Is To Build a Global Crypto Bank"
We’re still in the Netscape phase of crypto, according to Marshall Hayner, founder and CEO of Metal Payments, and the future is bright. Hayner sees regulation and user interface as the two pivotal fac...
23 Helmi 20229min
Bitcoin, the State, and "The Sovereign Individual"
From the revolutionary potential of the microprocessor to the prediction of “anonymous digital cyber cash,” James Dale Davidson’s 1997 book “The Sovereign Individual” is full of future-looking scenari...
22 Helmi 202213min
Dolce & Gabbana Show NFTs Are a Fashion for the Long Term
That Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana personally designed a set that ended up selling for $6 million strongly suggests NFTs are more than just a novelty. We’re talking real money – and real assets. ...
20 Helmi 202212min
Alkemi's Bridge Links the Old School to the New
Alkemi Network touts itself as “an institutional-grade liquidity network facilitating professional DeFi for financial institutions and individuals to earn yields on their Ethereum-based digital assets...
19 Helmi 202214min
Is Now the Time for Mass Adoption of Crypto?
Does the sheer number (and entertainment value) of crypto commercials during the Super Bowl broadcast mean widespread adoption is on the horizon? Or is this just a replay of the Web 1.0/Pets.com fiasc...
18 Helmi 202241min
Is Kadena the Next Generation of Proof-of-Work?
Kadena’s combination of “revolutionary, braided multi-chain architecture” and powerful, readable smart-contract language for writing applications directly on the blockchain make it the only sharded an...
17 Helmi 202211min
