As the Etch team looks forward to 2019 — here’s a look back at some of the highlights of 2018. The long awaited token issuance! The year began with the successful disbursal of the Etch Supply Token. All thanks to James and his amazing hat! …

“Did you hear that? This *Ethereum* will give us programmable money…. think of all the cool things we can do with that!” But the guy sitting next to me at the London Bitcoin Expo back in January 2015 was only interested in the free Dogecoins that this crazy guy was…

Donut? You wanna pay people in Donuts?? Yes, and no. At ////Etch we are building an employee bonus platform that we see as a small step, but critical for companies to experiment with paying staff in crypto without jumping straight to payroll. If we can show them in the real…

The Pier Protocol ////Pier is an open initiative to tackle one of the most significant and essential need of the cryptocurrency world — a decentralised stable token. Brought to the world through a collaboration between the Etch Foundation and AvalanChain, ////Pier aims to be a fully decentralised project administered by…

The №1 risk for Etch to fail is that as the CEO I will make bad choices in hiring the right people. “Why №1?” Well, the technology is there. We are simply bringing it out of the crypto world and into the real world. Customers? …

Dear Ethel: I have recently started a new job. I get paid at the end of the month. Is there a reason why my employer is paying me monthly and not weekly, or even daily? Dear John: Every time a company pays its staff, they have to work out the…

“I can pay your invoice direct to your bank account…” I said…. “No thanks.” What do you mean, no thanks? “I want a bloody check — I can cash that f****r in tomorrow.” So cash really is king. But at a cost. This labourer was willing to reduce his wages…

My worst moment on a building site was the day I was lowered down on a rope to unblock a manhole. I will never forget the putrid smell of months of backlog of human waste that rushed out. Oh, the irony of wearing wellingtons that day. Since then I’ve become…

(The Etch token presale will go live on the 28th of June at 18:00 GMT — Ethereum block 3947629 — go to https://etch.work ) Colin Jackson, the great Welsh hurdle Olympic champion had ten hurdles to jump. We have five. …