Mar 9, 2020RIP Moon TimesThe Coronavirus Will Be the Defining Event of Our Generation Note: I drafted this on Friday. It’s getting less contrarian by the minute. You can sign up for my daily insights via Messari’s research newsletter, which gets sent daily to 20,000+ crypto professionals. When it comes to the coronavirus, things…Coronavirus20 min readCoronavirus20 min read
Mar 14, 2019Messari Community Update | Building an S&P for CryptoTLDR: We’re revving up our community efforts once again. New tools, new perks, new members, same mission and long-term vision. We’ll continue to share data freely, and sell premium tools that help professionals better digest that data. I wanted to give our broader community an update on what we’ve been working…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Published inMessari Crypto·Jan 14, 201996 Theses for Crypto in 2019Often imitated. Never replicated. I call your predictions post, and raise you. (This post was originally sent to Messari’s Unqualified Opinions subscribers. Sign up here for our daily crypto market insights.) There have been a few good predictions pieces so far this year. This one is my encore from last…Blockchain24 min readBlockchain24 min read
Oct 23, 2018Writer’s Block — The Trickiness of Going All In on Investigative JournalismTL;DR: There’s a natural and healthy tension between journalists and their subjects. Information that’s in the public interest should be uncovered and distributed widely. But effective journalistic tactics are changing. Biting tone and opinionated commentary cuts through more quickly. Nuance is overrated in click-driven cultures, and underrated in subscriber-driven cultures…Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Aug 27, 2018New Messari Hires + Community Update #3No one from Messari is offline at Burning Man this week. Not sure if that is a bullish or bearish indicator, but our team and community have continued to grow in quantity and quality, and the dog days of summer haven’t slowed us down a bit. …Entrepreneurship4 min readEntrepreneurship4 min read
Aug 21, 2018Ten questions for tomorrow’s Brad Garlinghouse AMA (cc: @CoryTV)In case you missed it on Friday, I was critical of the positioning and promotion of an upcoming AMA session between Brad Garlinghouse and the XRP community. It felt like a hype video for a screwed up type of “not shareholders, but kinda shareholders” virtual meeting, and that rubbed me…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Aug 20, 2018Messari Community Update #2I’m routinely blown away by how awesome our analyst community is. The Discord chat is buzzing, the new analyst applications are rolling in, the CT “celebrities” are starting to join in, token projects are emailing us to participate in our disclosures library, and life is good. Be sure to check…Blockchain2 min readBlockchain2 min read
Aug 9, 2018Messari Community Update #1It’s hard to believe Messari launched its analyst community almost five months ago. What started as an off-the-cuff call to action in mid-January — my invitation for analysts to rally around a public crypto data commons — has morphed into a full-fledged 125-member analyst community that has produced 50+ token…Open Source3 min readOpen Source3 min read
Jul 24, 2018Messari’s New Site + OnChainFx Acquisition: Building An Open, Independent Crypto Data ServiceIt’s been just six months since I stumbled through my investor rolodex with a laptop, a couple of screenshots, and some half-baked grunts about building an “open data layer” for crypto. Since then, we’ve brought in over a dozen leading (and global) crypto funds as partners, recruited an exceptional team…Blockchain5 min readBlockchain5 min read
May 8, 2018Two Bits with Two-Bit: My Double Session with Laura ShinDaily Bit I’m excited to share two solid interviews that dropped yesterday on Laura Shin’s podcasts, Unconfirmed and Unchained. I usually hate listening to my own interviews (prefer the written word and the delete key that it comes with), but Laura is an excellent moderator, and a natural interviewer. First…Bitcoin6 min readBitcoin6 min read