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Richard Burton in Balance

Jun 20, 2017

Why we switched from Slack to Twist

Slack is great — but Twist is a better fit for us.

A few weeks ago, my friend Sam Beckett told me he was joining the team at Doist to work on Twist. After reading the marketing site, I wanted to check it out…

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Richard Burton in Balance

Mar 7, 2019

Aliens 👽, Jedi 🧙‍♂️ & Cults 🔮

A mental model for potential

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Richard Burton in Balance

Mar 11, 2019

Why Open Source Finance Will Win

Some call it #defi, some call it #dopefi, I have no idea why.

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Richard Burton in Balance

Jul 27, 2018

Hashflow & Cashflow

The business models emerging on the interchain

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Richard Burton in Balance

Aug 5, 2017

My Hopes and Fears for Filecoin

Thinking through whether or not to invest.

I first heard about Filecoin in 2015. My friend, Siraj Raval, was writing a book about decentralised applications and he told me about the project. I skimmed the website and…

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Richard Burton in Balance

May 9, 2018

Open Source Banking

Forking over the closed financial system one protocol at a time

Richard Burton in Balance

Mar 25, 2018

WalletConnect: A simple way for web-based dapps to talk to mobile wallets

An open, interoperable…

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Richard Burton in Balance

Jun 16, 2017

Launching Balance Open

Building a wallet for all the world’s currencies together

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Richard Burton in Balance

Jun 20, 2017

The People and their Protocols

(This was written in a fit of inspiration after I met the IPFS team in the Caribbean. I don’t want to edit it as it captures where my head was at a couple of months ago.)

Three years ago I was drowning in credit card debt and living in a hacker house…

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Richard Burton in Balance

Jun 7, 2017

What is the Interchain?

(Many people smarter than I have thoughts on this. I am trying to answer this for myself. Here are some quick…

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