I was reading the Electric Capital developer report and it said “Ethereum is core technology.” Then you have this opinion. https://twitter.com/kingfud/status/1615791688622174208 I guess we’ll see. Give it a decade.

I was reading the Electric Capital developer report and it said “Ethereum is core technology.” Then you have this opinion. https://twitter.com/kingfud/status/1615791688622174208 I guess we’ll see. Give it a decade.

There’s an article in today’s WSJ, “Little-Known Surveillance Program Captures Money Transfers Between U.S. and More Than 20 Countries.” Predictably, a “one-time” order to try and monitor payments made to Mexican drug cartels has expanded and become institutionalized. I’m sure that the vast majority of government agencies and people who work there believe that what they are doing is right and in the interests of the safety and security of the United States. However, this type of institutional...

There’s an article in today’s WSJ, “Little-Known Surveillance Program Captures Money Transfers Between U.S. and More Than 20 Countries.” Predictably, a “one-time” order to try and monitor payments made to Mexican drug cartels has expanded and become institutionalized. I’m sure that the vast majority of government agencies and people who work there believe that what they are doing is right and in the interests of the safety and security of the United States. However, this type of institutional...

What would I want an aspiring web3 marketer to know and understand in order to be successful in this industry.Web3 is going to win. You need to actually believe this.Web3 is all about finance. You need to understand how capital flows through a network, whether a Layer1 or a dapp.In Web2, it was all about…”let’s get as much data about every person as we can.” In Web3, it’s about…”we’ll never have any data about people, so we need to understand the behavior of addresses, not users.”If you thoug...

What would I want an aspiring web3 marketer to know and understand in order to be successful in this industry.Web3 is going to win. You need to actually believe this.Web3 is all about finance. You need to understand how capital flows through a network, whether a Layer1 or a dapp.In Web2, it was all about…”let’s get as much data about every person as we can.” In Web3, it’s about…”we’ll never have any data about people, so we need to understand the behavior of addresses, not users.”If you thoug...

I’m giving a presentation to an audience of aspiring Web3 marketers next month and I’m brainstorming on what to say. I certainly want to share why I think Web3 will “win.” I also want to highlight what skills are transferable from Web 2 to Web 3. But I want to highlight what is different and I want to stress how Web3 is, at its core, about finance, so understanding capital flows and how economies works is, I believe an important strategic capability. There are others, like understanding crypt...

I’m giving a presentation to an audience of aspiring Web3 marketers next month and I’m brainstorming on what to say. I certainly want to share why I think Web3 will “win.” I also want to highlight what skills are transferable from Web 2 to Web 3. But I want to highlight what is different and I want to stress how Web3 is, at its core, about finance, so understanding capital flows and how economies works is, I believe an important strategic capability. There are others, like understanding crypt...

I don’t know when it was that US investors got excited about and became aware of the opportunity to invest in “emerging markets.” My gut says it was the ‘80s, but I don’t know for sure. What happened, was that some countries were opening themselves up to foreign investment and creating more opportunities for capital to get deployed. So, you saw people rush to invest in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and other places like Vietnam and Thailand. Sometimes these investment...

I don’t know when it was that US investors got excited about and became aware of the opportunity to invest in “emerging markets.” My gut says it was the ‘80s, but I don’t know for sure. What happened, was that some countries were opening themselves up to foreign investment and creating more opportunities for capital to get deployed. So, you saw people rush to invest in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and other places like Vietnam and Thailand. Sometimes these investment...

It’s the beginning of the year and that means that 2022 tax information is starting to roll in. It’s an ugly, inefficient, paper-based process. It’s a time-suck. And it’s a boon for CPAs. None of this needs to happen. When financial transactions happen on a ledger, enforced by smart contracts, assembling tax information is going to be a hell of a lot easier than it is today. Every January, I am further reminded of why this transformation is necessary.

It’s the beginning of the year and that means that 2022 tax information is starting to roll in. It’s an ugly, inefficient, paper-based process. It’s a time-suck. And it’s a boon for CPAs. None of this needs to happen. When financial transactions happen on a ledger, enforced by smart contracts, assembling tax information is going to be a hell of a lot easier than it is today. Every January, I am further reminded of why this transformation is necessary.

In 10 or 20 years, crypto will be a critical part of financial infrastructure for the world. It will be bigger than we can imagine and probably invisible to most people’s lives. When that happens and people look at the success of Bitcoin and others, they will only see the win. They won’t remember the slog, the hard part of the journey, the “hard thing about hard things.” That’s human nature. But those of us who went through the muck…we’ll remember.

In 10 or 20 years, crypto will be a critical part of financial infrastructure for the world. It will be bigger than we can imagine and probably invisible to most people’s lives. When that happens and people look at the success of Bitcoin and others, they will only see the win. They won’t remember the slog, the hard part of the journey, the “hard thing about hard things.” That’s human nature. But those of us who went through the muck…we’ll remember.

It’s ugly in crypto land right now. As my cousin, who isn’t full-time in crypto, but is fairly knowledgeable said, “there’s no direction now. Something has to change.” We’ve seen the first-generation of smart contract platforms (Ethereum) and we’ve seen the second-generation of smart contract platforms (Avalanche, Solana, Polkadot, Near). Neither of them have gotten beyond the proof-of-concept stage really. They aren’t production ready, either from a scalability, security, or usability perspe...

It’s ugly in crypto land right now. As my cousin, who isn’t full-time in crypto, but is fairly knowledgeable said, “there’s no direction now. Something has to change.” We’ve seen the first-generation of smart contract platforms (Ethereum) and we’ve seen the second-generation of smart contract platforms (Avalanche, Solana, Polkadot, Near). Neither of them have gotten beyond the proof-of-concept stage really. They aren’t production ready, either from a scalability, security, or usability perspe...

The Carl Jung quote popped up as part of my daily meditation today.Like many people, I look at the things in my life which aren’t going as I had hoped and I wished they were different…and better. It would be nice, wouldn’t it, if everything were smooth all the time. It feels like a nice world where we would have no worries. But not only does that world not exist, it can’t exist. I think learning to truly accept that and embrace it as well is the key to enjoying life.

The Carl Jung quote popped up as part of my daily meditation today.Like many people, I look at the things in my life which aren’t going as I had hoped and I wished they were different…and better. It would be nice, wouldn’t it, if everything were smooth all the time. It feels like a nice world where we would have no worries. But not only does that world not exist, it can’t exist. I think learning to truly accept that and embrace it as well is the key to enjoying life.

That’s what I tell people about my commitment to crypto. I’m one or the other. We just won’t know for about a decade. But I believe in the cause, so for me, it’s worth the sacrifice.

That’s what I tell people about my commitment to crypto. I’m one or the other. We just won’t know for about a decade. But I believe in the cause, so for me, it’s worth the sacrifice.

I will admit to feeling pretty pumped that I got a letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal.In my corner of the world, that’s a big deal and, yes, a bit of an ego boost. But, what I realized in the subsequent conversations on Twitter is that I no longer care about “convincing” people of the value of crypto. I’ve had those conversations for a long enough time and I don’t want to do it anymore. But, what I do want to do is SHOW people the value of crypto. That’s where I am spen...

I will admit to feeling pretty pumped that I got a letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal.In my corner of the world, that’s a big deal and, yes, a bit of an ego boost. But, what I realized in the subsequent conversations on Twitter is that I no longer care about “convincing” people of the value of crypto. I’ve had those conversations for a long enough time and I don’t want to do it anymore. But, what I do want to do is SHOW people the value of crypto. That’s where I am spen...

One area where I am working on self-improvement is in providing clarity of mission and clarity of role to the members of the team. If I’m being honest, it’s not something that comes naturally to me. Usually, the vision is very clear, as are some of the steps to achieving it. But, I don’t always enjoy getting into the fine details. I know, it’s a weakness and, since my word of the decade is “patience,” it’s something on which I am focused. I am realizing that the most important things in life ...

One area where I am working on self-improvement is in providing clarity of mission and clarity of role to the members of the team. If I’m being honest, it’s not something that comes naturally to me. Usually, the vision is very clear, as are some of the steps to achieving it. But, I don’t always enjoy getting into the fine details. I know, it’s a weakness and, since my word of the decade is “patience,” it’s something on which I am focused. I am realizing that the most important things in life ...