Here is a text of my speech to honors students at the University of Wyoming’s College of…

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Teddy Roosevelt

The blockchain community is hard at work, doing work that’s worth doing. I’m elated to join it full-time!

No, You Don’t Own Your Securities

That’s right. You think you own securities in your brokerage account, but you don’t.

A company you’ve probably never heard of, called Cede & Co., is the official owner of >99% of the securities outstanding in the U.S. What’s in your brokerage account is probably an…

Republished with permission from the June 2016 edition of the Lara-Murphy Report, a subscription newsletter available here.

2016 seems to be the year of “enterprise blockchain.” Last year, it was financial institutions that awakened to the potential of blockchain technology to cut costs and reduce…