Tag: crypto

• What comes after open source?

  February 11, 2019

  This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and posits how crypto networks can catalyze a… more ›

• Why the Ethereum Classic hack is a bad omen for the blockchain

  January 9, 2019

  On Saturday, the Coinbase security team noticed something troubling. Someone had made a deep reorganization in the distributed ledger for Ethereum Classic, a smaller spinoff from the Ethereum coin. The… more ›

• Crypto Theses for 2019

  January 7, 2019

  As another year wraps up, I started writing an email to close friends and investors on the “state of crypto” and my forecasts. As it got longer, it turned into… more ›

• The Big Blockchain Lie

  November 24, 2018

  The Big Blockchain Lie Now that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last year’s absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/blockchain-big-lie-by-nouriel-roubini-2018-10 more ›

• Engaging In Cryptonetworks – AVC

  November 2, 2018

  Engaging In Cryptonetworks – AVC Ever since the first cryptonetwork, Bitcoin, was created, investors have had the opportunity to earn returns by engaging in the network. In Bitcoin’s case, that… more ›

• An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

  July 22, 2018

  An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code https://youtu.be/jIKNCD3wDgI more ›

• Introducing a16z crypto

  June 26, 2018

  Introducing a16z crypto » Historically, new models of computing have tended to emerge every 10-15 years: mainframes in the 60s, PCs in the late 70s, the internet in the early… more ›

• From barter to blockchain: A history of money

  May 29, 2018

  From barter to blockchain: A history of money » The Big Bang brought the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago. Life first appeared on our planet 3.8 billion years… more ›

• From barter to blockchain: A history of money

  May 29, 2018

  From barter to blockchain: A history of money » The Big Bang brought the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago. Life first appeared on our planet 3.8 billion years… more ›

• Data mining, on the scale now practiced by Google…

  December 31, 2013

  “Data mining, on the scale now practiced by Google and the NSA, is the realization of what Alan Turing was getting at, in 1939, when he wondered “how far it… more ›