Originally posted on my personal blog Bitcoin is one of the 21st century’s most remarkable innovations. The ability to send and receive value over the Internet without relying on a centralized intermediary signifies a paradigm shift in the evolution of money. Bitcoin’s disruptive influence has extended far beyond money and…

Originally posted on my personal blog When I first discovered Bitcoin in 2011, I believed it would be widely recognized as an important and valuable technology within a few years. Now, nearly nine years later, it’s almost painful to look back and realize how naive I was. I’d like to…

Originally posted on my personal blog This Year’s Favorites Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, by Carlota Perez Dark Age (The Red Rising Series, Book 5), by Pierce Brown Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it, by Martin Ford Tiamat’s Wrath (The Expanse Series, Book 8), by James S. A. Corey Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek, by Bruce Caldwell

Bitcoin eliminates the role of a single central authority in the creation and use of money, but its fate will be largely be affected by the actions of centralized corporate third parties. I’ve reviewed how some of the world’s largest companies integrating blockchains into their operations and thinking about the…

How cryptocurrency-powered markets could disrupt betting, finance, forecasting, scientific research, and governance — Introduction In early 2016, I speculated that decentralized prediction markets could give us the power to easily “Google” the probability of any imaginable event occurring.¹ Now that the first market has been running for seven months, it’s time to re-evaluate the potential of what was at the time a theoretical and…

The current massive downturn in cryptocurrency markets feels strikingly different than previous ones. Amidst the all too familiar proclamations of Bitcoin’s death and assertions that cryptocurrency is a scam, I’m starting to see clear signs of meaningful adoption beyond speculation. These are some of the forces that I believe will…

An increasingly large number of influencers are arguing that games will help facilitate mass adoption of blockchains, and that blockchains will significantly disrupt the gaming industry. The highest number of games are currently being built on Ethereum’s blockchain, so I decided to take a look at some of the most…

Lessons Learned From My Seven-Year Journey Down the Cryptocurrency Rabbit Hole — Hodl is an intentional misspelling of the word “hold,” which is used among cryptocurrency enthusiasts when encouraging traders to resist the urge to sell one’s holdings in response to market fluctuations. — Know Your Meme I started buying Bitcoin around $7/BTC and Ether around $1/ETH. …

Within 10 years, cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based technologies will be used by billions of people and largely integrated into the global economy. If I’m wrong, then a disturbingly high number of successful people working at important organizations are wasting time and money integrating useless technology into their systems. Nasdaq Nasdaq is open to becoming cryptocurrency exchange, CEO says Once the space matures, Nasdaq is open to becoming a platform for trading cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, according to…www.cnbc.com