Productizing bitcoin maximalism and the emergent of "digital assets not blockchain"
More crypto businesses are transitioning to or choosing to focus exclusively on bitcoin only from the beginning, in some ways representing a productization of bitcoin maximalism. In China, however, th...
17 Dec 201918min
Authoritarian Airdrops, Derivative Competitions, and Lightning at the Point of Sale
If 2019 saw bitcoin come together around the digital gold/digital SoV narrative, is 2020 poised for a resurgence of the idea of payments utility, thanks to Lightning powered applications? One beta tes...
16 Dec 201917min
The ECB Gets In On Stablecoins, 2017 Token Projects Resurface & Twitter Debates: Is Crypto For Criminals?
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s comments on stable coins flew around crypto Twitter yesterday, as she said projects in the space indicated clear demand (even while slighting bitcoi...
13 Dec 201920min
Regulatory smackdown, DeFi on Bitcoin, and Jack Dorsey’s protocol dreams
The last few days have seen significant regulatory action, from SEC charging Shopin’s CEO with fraud over a $42m ICO to a major coordinated federal action against a $722m crypto Ponzi scheme. Over in ...
12 Dec 201922min
Narrative Watch: The Tokenization Saga Continues
Three stories about tokenization today: ShapeShift launching FOX (an exchange token); BlockTV launching a token for media contributions; Satoshi's Treasure helping Tezos distribute tokens through game...
20 Nov 201926min
Multi-Collateral DAI goes live / Not so privacy coins / Crypto fundraising & M&A
After a huge amount of work, MakerDAO's multi-collateral DAI is live. Only one new token (Brave's BAT) is in the ecosystem, but it heralds the beginning of a new era. In the world of privacy coins, th...
19 Nov 201916min
Why did Satoshi choose Halloween to publish the bitcoin whitepaper?
11 years ago today, on Halloween 2008, Satoshi shared the bitcoin whitepaper for the first time. The question is: why choose that date? Satoshi was extremely intentional, so it seems unlikely to be ra...
31 Okt 201911min
Bitmain power struggle / Russian crypto intrigue / Don't call it a QE
Today was a quick news briefing: Bitmain power struggles as Jihan Wu pulls a coup to return China bans anti-blockchain sentiment Russian crypto intrigue that could confirm the US' worst fears Co...
31 Okt 201915min
