Originally published in Forbes CryptoAsset & Blockchain Advisor, August 2020
For as much excitement as cryptocurrencies have generated over the years, their use as money has been limited for one simple reason: volatility. Any form of money is expected to meet three basic criteria: it must be a unit of…
In May 2020, Deloitte mapped out 4 potential scenarios for the global travel and hospitality industry to get to the “next normal.” Each scenario evaluated known unknowns such as disease severity, government collaboration, healthcare response, economic consequences, and social cohesion.
Its conclusion arrived at several overarching themes, which would need…
Originally published in Forbes CryptoAsset & Blockchain Advisor, May 2020
Today bitcoin futures are available for retail and institutional traders, but U.S. investors have limited options for investing directly in Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Let’s look back at the history of ETFs to see how Bitcoin ETFs could enable U.S…
Originally published in Forbes CryptoAsset & Blockchain Advisor, April 2020
In September 2015, bitcoin became the world’s first digitally native commodity when it was officially designated as a tradeable commodity by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In the U.S., there’s still not an easy way to invest in bitcoin…
In traditional spot and derivatives markets, recent trends in user experience such as zero fee trades, robo advisors, and high yield brokerage accounts are becoming commonplace. …
“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” — Santosh Kalwar
Today managing Intellectual Property (IP) rights is a slow and burdensome process that puts the responsibility of registration, settlement and reconciliation on the IP owner first and foremost. For content creators, this creates an obstacle to enforcing their rights over content monetization. …
Centralized services like Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo keep all your eggs in one basket. This means that bad actors only need to attack one weak link to compromise all your data. And there are many ways to do it, including DDoS, Man-in-the-Middle, and credential stealing to name a few. Decentralized…
In the early days of crypto, privacy was a critical focus in blockchain development but difficult for the average user to achieve. From 2011–2014, creating multi-signature transactions was considered a cutting-edge technique that provided advanced users more privacy and security than executing standard peer-to-peer transactions alone. Now multisig is standard…
GDPR and self-sovereign identity share a lot in common. GDPR regulates “the right to be forgotten” and self-sovereign identity enables it for the decentralized web. So, when and how will these two privacy functions intersect?
Self-sovereign and decentralized identity (DID) solutions like Blockstack, Sovrin or Ethereum’s uPort represent innovative opportunities…
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