Tag: crypto

• Listen to Brian Armstrong – The Future of Crypto – [Invest Like the Best, EP.186] now.

  August 16, 2020

  “The topic of ourconversation is the future of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance. We discuss the major events of the past decade and what might happen in the 2020s. Perhaps most… more ›

• Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test

  July 21, 2020

  In early 2018, millions of digital clocks across Europe began falling behind time. Few took notice at first as slight disruptions in the power supply caused bedside alarms and oven… more ›

• Fat Protocols

  January 9, 2020

  Here’s one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc. https://www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/ more ›

• Adversarial Interoperability

  January 1, 2020

  “Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to… more ›

• How blockchain helped a gaming platform become a game changer

  December 30, 2019

  EY and Microsoft Xbox implemented a transparent blockchain network so creators could focus on developing the future of gaming. Our blockchain solution gives Microsoft Xbox an infrastructure that helps them… more ›

• Wolfram Blockchain Labs

  December 15, 2019

  Wolfram Blockchain Labs Realizing the Potential of Blockchain & Smart Contracts through Knowledge-Based Computation Sign up for updates Contact us https://www.wolframblockchainlabs.com/ more ›

• China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother

  October 20, 2019

  Facebook’s Libra project led Beijing to accelerate its efforts. The government could soon know a lot more about how people are spending. BEIJING — When Facebook announced plans this year… more ›

• The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance

  August 28, 2019

  Following the bank bailout and the Global Financial Crisis, anger towards the financial system reached new heights. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745333502/the-heretics-guide-to-global-finance more ›

• The Invention of Money

  August 4, 2019

  When the Venetian merchant Marco Polo got to China, in the latter part of the thirteenth century, he saw many wonders—gunpowder and coal and eyeglasses and porcelain. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money more ›

• Bitcoin and the money myth

  July 29, 2019

  In recent weeks, Facebook has created a new digital currency and the price of Bitcoin has fluctuated wildly. Has money itself always been an illusion? https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/07/bitcoin-and-money-myth more ›