One key lesson from COVID19 is that we need a lot more decentralization. This is especially true when the center is as inept at managing the crisis a...

One key lesson from COVID19 is that we need a lot more decentralization. This is especially true when the center is as inept at managing the crisis a...

There is a healthy debate going on now about the role of Twitter, Facebook, and others (Google, Apple, …) with regard to moderating speech on their p...

There is a healthy debate going on now about the role of Twitter, Facebook, and others (Google, Apple, …) with regard to moderating speech on their p...

One of the apps on your phone is unlike all the others: the web browser. There are many reasons it is different but here is the most fundamental one ...

One of the apps on your phone is unlike all the others: the web browser. There are many reasons it is different but here is the most fundamental one ...

Today we announced that we have joined the Libra Association, the governance for a global stable coin. Nick has written a post on the USV blog explai...

Today we announced that we have joined the Libra Association, the governance for a global stable coin. Nick has written a post on the USV blog explai...

There is an interesting objection to crypto that goes something like: crypto is all a rip-off because nobody actually needs decentralization which ma...

There is an interesting objection to crypto that goes something like: crypto is all a rip-off because nobody actually needs decentralization which ma...

The power of the web has been that it has given us permissionless publishing. Want to publish your opinion? You no longer need to submit a letter to ...

The power of the web has been that it has given us permissionless publishing. Want to publish your opinion? You no longer need to submit a letter to ...

“Two out of three ain’t bad” is the title of a Meat Loaf song but is also the idea behind triangles: situations in which you can achieve only two of ...

“Two out of three ain’t bad” is the title of a Meat Loaf song but is also the idea behind triangles: situations in which you can achieve only two of ...

Facebook is in the unique position today to face both the problems of centralization and decentralization. On its centralized core platform it is con...

Facebook is in the unique position today to face both the problems of centralization and decentralization. On its centralized core platform it is con...

There is a confusion about Bitcoin that trips up a lots of people when they first learn about it: the blockchain is organizationally decentralized bu...

There is a confusion about Bitcoin that trips up a lots of people when they first learn about it: the blockchain is organizationally decentralized bu...

I became interested in Bitcoin reasonably early and was fortunate to invest in some early mining (although as with all good investments in retrospect...

I became interested in Bitcoin reasonably early and was fortunate to invest in some early mining (although as with all good investments in retrospect...