The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #106: A Kodak Moment 📸 , Telegram Jumps On The ICO Bandwagon 🤑, How To Assess A Token 🧐

Kodak is today announcing a partnership with Wenn Digital to create a “photo-centric cryptocurrency” that will “empower photographers and agencies to take..

Encrypted messaging startup Telegram plans to launch its own blockchain platform and native cryptocurrency, powering payments on its chat app and beyond…

A lot of new money is piling into cryptocurrencies right now. For the most part, the new money is investing in memes. Memes are most commonly thought of in the context of snarky-captioned images that…

Cardano is using peer reviewed technology, a new PoS protocol, and a unique layering system to enable a 3rd generation blockchain platform. Can it compete with NEO and Ethereum?

It has recently come to my attention that there is a great deal of confusion revolving around the Lightning Network within the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash communities, and to an extent, the greater…

So far, three cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum—have hit a market cap of $100B. Notably, they all did so within three months of each other. These cryptocurrencies first hit market caps…

Our goal in this post is to: 1. Explain how blockchain development differs from existing development paradigms. 2. Provide context for the opportunities and challenges in this space. 3. Point you to resources that will give you the foundation to start developing in this new paradigm.

I got into trading crypto around May 2017 after about a year of regular investing in a range of peer2peer (P2P) systems, commodities and stocks. My strategy was simple — every month I would invest 20…

The revolution will be ushered in by young guys who are also cryptocurrency millionaires. Oh wait, they may be broke already.

Ripple filed a counterclaim that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise.

It’s impossible to discuss new developments in money without thinking for a moment about what money is. The best place to start thinking about that is with money itself. Consider the UK’s most common paper money, the English five or ten or twenty quid note.

The following is a quick exposition of an idea I had for improving the ICO model by merging in some of the benefits of DAOs, but doing so in a way that minimizes complexity and risk.
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The idea is as follows. A DAI…

Background This is a follow-up from an earlier post, “Stablecoins are doomed to fail,” from December 10th. I’ll keep this one short. Long have I been a critic of the “stablecoin” concept - the quasi-magical idea that a cryptocurrency can tell the market what its price should be, rather than the other way around, which…

One of the hardest things in managing a venture capital portfolio is managing your big winners. A big winner can dwarf the rest of the entire portfolio and you end up sitting on enormous paper profits that you can’t get liquid on. I realize that this seems like a great problem to have, and it is, but it is still a challenging situation.