The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #111: Why Decentralisation Matters, A Crypto Fund Thesis Worth Reading, Telegram Is Swimming In Token Cash & Lots More

Centralized platforms have been dominant for so long that many people have forgotten there is a better way to build internet services.

This is Placeholder VC’s fund thesis that they recently published online (H/T Nic Hodges)

Linux has eaten the world. 96% of web servers and 79.3% of smartphones (the Android ones) run Linux. It’s used by Pixar and DreamWorks in the film industry. The governments of Brazil, Russia, India…

It looks like Telegram’s billion-dollar ICO has reached its first milestone after the chat app company raised an initial $850 million, according to a filing…

Information technology evolves in multi-decade cycles of expansion,
consolidation and decentralization. Periods of expansion follow the
introduction of a new open platform that reduces the production costs of
technology as it becomes a shared standard. As production costs fall, new
firms come to market leveraging the standard to compete with established
incumbents, pushing down prices and margins, and decentralizing existing
market powers

At the recent Upfront Summit my partner Stuart Lander had the opportunity to show some California Love and interview three of the wealthiest Bitcoin owners, each of whom were some of the earliest…

I predict that in 10 years blockchain technology will improve to a level that calling it “blockchain” will no longer be a useful term. Let’s think about this a moment. Why do we call it a blockchain? The three most interesting parts of the blockchain are…

Keeping track of your crypto-currency portfolio can be challenging. There is a few services out there, but nothing beats the flexibility of a spreadsheet. Google Sheets is a very convenient…

A good method for discovering startup ideas is to look into technological breakthroughs and think about what they unlock that wasn’t possible before. In this introductory post, we’ll look at Bitcoin and consider potential use cases that we can directly deduce from its properties.

There are three types of cryptoassets: stores of value, security tokens, and utility tokens. General-purpose stores of value should be valued using the equation of exchange because these currencies are independent monetary bases. Examples include Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Zcash, Dash, Monero, and Decred.

Distributed ledger startup Ripple has today announced new partnerships with five banking and money transfer institutions across four different countries. Going forward, the two banks - Itaú Unibanco from Brazil and IndusInd from India - along with money remittance companies InstaReM from Singapore, Beetech from Brazil and Zip Remit from Canada, will be adopting different Ripple platforms to facilitate real-time international payments, according to a press release.