Over the years, economists and philosophers have defined a range of choices that humans may experience in their day to day existence, including Morton’s Fork, Burdian’s Ass and Hobson’s Choice. My partner at Multicoin Capital, Kyle Samani recently wrote about the Scalability Trilemma that exists in the blockchain world too. …

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was…

2017 was, without a doubt, the year that crypto trading and investing came out of the shadows and into the mainstream consciousness of everyone in the technology world, and beyond. When my company, Civic, conducted a token sale back in June of this year, we had as many as 50,000…

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin & Ethereum have ushered in a new era for the world, with Bitcoin hitting highs of nearly $6,000 yesterday. Most of us in the industry have been caught off-guard by how (and why) the market capitalization of crypto currencies & assets has exceeded $150bn so quickly…

Since the Civic Token Sale in June, I’ve been inundated with questions from friends, VC’s, fellow entrepreneurs and just about anyone else out there who wants to do a Token Sale. My previous blog post on “Tokens are eating the World” surpassed all the views, likes and shares of every…

The title of this post pays homage to Marc Andreessen’s epic post in 2012, “Why Software is Eating the World.” Marc made some very interesting observations in that seminal post where he succinctly forecasts much of what has transpired over the past half-decade. Software has been the leading driver of…

My previous post about Vanity Headlines not being the goal for Civic’s upcoming Token Sale at 6am PDT on Wednesday 21 June was well received from the community as the right way to conduct a crowd sale of tokens. We are breaking new ground here and there are no best…

Today, at Civic, we’re releasing our much anticipated whitepaper, on our Token Sale page. We’ve done things a bit differently, but for very good reasons which I outline later in this post. We’ve decided to create a model for doing a token sale that is fair & innovative, and we…

When we introduced Civic last year, we were very careful to not overplay our hand. We wanted to start by building trust and creating an Identity Protection Network where consumers could signup for free identity theft protection services and, in the process, allow us to verify and authenticate who they…