Crypto

Open Gardens

The Internet is filled with Walled Gardens — closed ecosystems controlled by centralized…

The Playbook for Crypto Community Building

Crypto Community Building Playbook

🤔 Why is AntPool burning BCH?

A quick analysis of the situation

📚 Blockchain Governance

A reading list

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I spend a lot of time thinking about governance. It is a topic that is misunderstood by both investors and makers in the space, and for those who understand it, there are still the questions…

📌 Egalitarian Air Drops

Crypto has a wealth centralization problem. According to Jackson Palmer’s Are We Decentralized Yet?, 19% of Bitcoin’s supply and 35% of Ethereum’s supply is held by each coin’s respective top 100 accounts. Worse yet, 97% of Ripple’s supply is held by its top 100 accounts.

📌 Re: “DPoS is too centralized”

It’s all about trade-offs

It’s pretty common these days to hear the critique that Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) protocols are too centralized with respect to block creation. In today’s post I’d like to push back on that a bit —…

📌 ForkDelta

A closer look at the EtherDelta spinoff

📈 What’s going on with EOS?

Looking at the potential price catalysts

EOS, the coin that is consistently drawing the most buzz in crypto circles, went on an absolute tear yesterday. As of this morning it was up over 32% (it’s done a ridiculous $2.725bn in…