I’ve been interested in NFTs for a while. They tend to get a lot of skepticism — why would anyone pay for digital ownership of an image? Buying art is one thing, and not everyone does that, but buying digital art that anyone can just download: that’s a hard sell…

Why Cash Back to Crypto makes the Venmo Credit Card worth getting — and how it could bring diversity to Cryptocurrency investing Disclaimer: The author of this blog post works for PayPal, the parent company of Venmo, but does not work directly on any Venmo products. This article DOES NOT…

My Background I started OMSCS in Spring 2019 and am wrapping up in about a week. My academic background was Economics from Cornell with minors in tech areas (Computer Science, Information Science); I started while in another (FT) grad program, I got my first job about halfway through the program so dropped…

I’ve created a Blockchain course covering crucial technical topics, including and beyond those mentioned in this article, which is available here and entirely free to take. https://chain.courses/ This article aims to provide an introduction and survey into the research-based, technical foundations of Blockchain in under 10 minutes, by providing a…

Most of us have been through this experience: finding an apartment or job where the first thing asked of us it to provide our social security number (SSN) and a copy of our passport. In some cases, we may submit them through a secure and professional looking website. Other times…

Over the past 5 years I have run ~20 events for organizations including Microsoft Philanthropies and The Tezos Foundation, during which I have been able to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on costs and to regularly increase the NPS of events. …

I’ve created a Blockchain course covering crucial technical topics, including and beyond those mentioned in this article, which is available here and entirely free to take. https://chain.courses/ Introduction: This is converted from a paper written for the University of Washington’s Global Innovation Exchange. As such, the article covers certain introductory…