Many people may dismiss NFTs as entirely speculative. However, I believe that at the core of even the most seemingly irrational bubbles lies a deep disruptive potential. This is a statement I believe to be especially true in the blockchain space. Flash back to 2017. At the heart of the…

While he hasn’t risen to quite the dizzying heights of Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey is still the entrepreneur behind two household brands. In 2006, he was part of the team that created Twitter; just three years later, he co-founded Square. …

“It’s too early for blockchains.” If I had to sum up the most common mistaken view towards distributed ledger tech in 2020, that would unequivocally be the sentence I’d choose. This criticism emerged sometime in 2019 to replace the false belief that all blockchain applications are ICOs (initial coin offerings)…

Everything I’ve wanted to write but haven’t (yet) — Essay — Everything I’ve Wanted to Write 4900, 7500, 8200 — these were the readership numbers for some of Topl’s blog posts in 2017. Back when Topl was barely more than an idea, we blogged a lot. My team and I used the blogging process to introduce and refine some of the novel ideas that were driving…

While the exact date marking the end of one year and the beginning of another varies across culture and across history (March 1st marked the beginning of the year for the early Roman Republic), I have to imagine that this time has always marked a period of self-reflection and evaluation…

I’m not new to the blockchain space. I’ve held cryptocurrencies since 2013, been an occasional miner since 2014 when you could earn XRP by contributing to Berkeley’s grid computing project, and an entrepreneur working with blockchain technology since 2015. During these last 5 years, I’ve watch the space grow and…

Why we abandoned Slack, and why you probably should too If you’ve ever been interested in a blockchain project and joined their Slack group to learn more, I’m willing to guess that you eventually started receiving unsolicited direct messages. These messages likely began coming a few weeks before an anticipated presale or ICO and included an ethereum address to send…

Last November, the Colombian Congress ratified their nation’s treaty with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). …

Having been interested and involved in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space for nearly 4 years, I’ve come to realize that two questions tend to dominate many conversations regarding this technology: What do you think the price of (bitcoin, ether, etc.) is going to be? When will we start to see…