I see a lot of discussion about the ‘NFT bubble’ on Twitter, in the news, amongst the art community. They’re right that there is a huge hype surrounding them &I don’t expect many pieces to hold the value they are sold for, but the conversation almost inevitably ends in a dismissal of the premise of NFTs altogether. This misses the point. To dismiss the premise of NFTs because of the current execution seems incredibly shortsighted to me. Yes, IP and copyright issues need to be sorted. Yes, the...

I see a lot of discussion about the ‘NFT bubble’ on Twitter, in the news, amongst the art community. They’re right that there is a huge hype surrounding them &I don’t expect many pieces to hold the value they are sold for, but the conversation almost inevitably ends in a dismissal of the premise of NFTs altogether. This misses the point. To dismiss the premise of NFTs because of the current execution seems incredibly shortsighted to me. Yes, IP and copyright issues need to be sorted. Yes, the...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.This is something I have been thinking about, rather naively, since I started becoming interested in the space in 2015/16. My light-touch thinking back then was… ‘it will just get integrated into the current system if it goes mainstream I guess’. I missed some of the fundamental and philosophical issues back then. Our podcast with Ajit Tripathi of ...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.This is something I have been thinking about, rather naively, since I started becoming interested in the space in 2015/16. My light-touch thinking back then was… ‘it will just get integrated into the current system if it goes mainstream I guess’. I missed some of the fundamental and philosophical issues back then. Our podcast with Ajit Tripathi of ...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.We had the brilliant and prescient Alex Amsel (aka Sillytuna) on the New Finance Pod this week. Check it out here if you haven’t already! It was a varied discussion around NFTs, crypto & blockchain gaming, multi-chain future and interoperability, user experiences, and a lot more. One area (of many) that caught my attention was our discussion around...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.We had the brilliant and prescient Alex Amsel (aka Sillytuna) on the New Finance Pod this week. Check it out here if you haven’t already! It was a varied discussion around NFTs, crypto & blockchain gaming, multi-chain future and interoperability, user experiences, and a lot more. One area (of many) that caught my attention was our discussion around...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.No, I am afraid not. They do some interesting things though. This week's episode of The New Finance Pod features **Ioana Surpateanu **of DIA Data. One of the leading oracle providers in the space. So just what is an oracle? An oracle is a way for smart-contracts and protocols in the blockchain space to take information that is off-chain and in...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.No, I am afraid not. They do some interesting things though. This week's episode of The New Finance Pod features **Ioana Surpateanu **of DIA Data. One of the leading oracle providers in the space. So just what is an oracle? An oracle is a way for smart-contracts and protocols in the blockchain space to take information that is off-chain and in...

A great coach is worth their weight in gold & more‘You are terrible at this, why are you bothering?’ ‘I guess you might have a chance in hell, if everything went your way’ ‘You’re just not as good as the other player/team/opposition’ ‘Why bother, you will lose anyway’I was listening to a podcast with Bob Rotella, he is a sports psychologist. He was discussing the mental game in relation to golf but all of what he said applies elsewhere. Pay attention to your self-chat and ask yourself ‘would ...

A great coach is worth their weight in gold & more‘You are terrible at this, why are you bothering?’ ‘I guess you might have a chance in hell, if everything went your way’ ‘You’re just not as good as the other player/team/opposition’ ‘Why bother, you will lose anyway’I was listening to a podcast with Bob Rotella, he is a sports psychologist. He was discussing the mental game in relation to golf but all of what he said applies elsewhere. Pay attention to your self-chat and ask yourself ‘would ...

I was listening to Tim Ferriss’ interview with Balajis the other day and he is discussing the idea that code is law. Balajis proposes that courts can become better via smart-contracts. Balajis shared some thoughts below:So in a sense it’s a violation of equal protection, every time somebody with the same facts walks into a Wyoming court and gets different justice, for example, than a Milwaukee court or a Minnesota court, whatever. Every time that happens on something that’s supposed to be uni...

I was listening to Tim Ferriss’ interview with Balajis the other day and he is discussing the idea that code is law. Balajis proposes that courts can become better via smart-contracts. Balajis shared some thoughts below:So in a sense it’s a violation of equal protection, every time somebody with the same facts walks into a Wyoming court and gets different justice, for example, than a Milwaukee court or a Minnesota court, whatever. Every time that happens on something that’s supposed to be uni...

This is sparked by a conversation I had earlier. What are we most of us afraid of? Looking stupid. This is especially true when writing something and looking to publish it, to put it out there in front of public eyes. At least I was. In reality, unless you are a public figure already, no one cares what you have to say…yet. This relationship with an ‘audience’ only gets built through consistent touch-points and output. We all hold back in search of perfection, that no one could critique our ar...

This is sparked by a conversation I had earlier. What are we most of us afraid of? Looking stupid. This is especially true when writing something and looking to publish it, to put it out there in front of public eyes. At least I was. In reality, unless you are a public figure already, no one cares what you have to say…yet. This relationship with an ‘audience’ only gets built through consistent touch-points and output. We all hold back in search of perfection, that no one could critique our ar...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.In our first podcast our guest Alex Dunsdon mentioned ‘social tokens’ as an area he was interested in & excited about. So, what the hell are they, and why are they interesting? The idea of social tokens in crypto isn’t something new, but it has been gaining more attention as new creators are coming into the space and experimenting with what is poss...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.In our first podcast our guest Alex Dunsdon mentioned ‘social tokens’ as an area he was interested in & excited about. So, what the hell are they, and why are they interesting? The idea of social tokens in crypto isn’t something new, but it has been gaining more attention as new creators are coming into the space and experimenting with what is poss...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg28917Satoshi Nakamoto was open to the idea of other coins.Hal Finney: Satoshi, are you endorsing the idea that additional block chains would each create their own flavor of coins, which would trade with bitcoins on exchanges? These chain-specific coins would be used to reward miners on those chains, and to purchase some kinds of rights or privileges within the domain of that chain? Satoshi: Right, the exchange rate between domains and b...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg28917Satoshi Nakamoto was open to the idea of other coins.Hal Finney: Satoshi, are you endorsing the idea that additional block chains would each create their own flavor of coins, which would trade with bitcoins on exchanges? These chain-specific coins would be used to reward miners on those chains, and to purchase some kinds of rights or privileges within the domain of that chain? Satoshi: Right, the exchange rate between domains and b...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.This week's podcast** **featured the brilliant Will Robinson PHD from Defi Alliance. Defi Alliance is one of the most well-known and respected accelerators in the crypto ecosystem. They run two programmes: one for DeFi and one for Gaming. So it was no surprise when Will dropped some alpha on the podcast about what he finds exciting going forwa...

*NB None of the views expressed here are representative of New Finance Ventures or Mike Kelly. No mention of any app or protocol is an endorsement.This week's podcast** **featured the brilliant Will Robinson PHD from Defi Alliance. Defi Alliance is one of the most well-known and respected accelerators in the crypto ecosystem. They run two programmes: one for DeFi and one for Gaming. So it was no surprise when Will dropped some alpha on the podcast about what he finds exciting going forwa...

Is this the age of the generalist? I wonder if we have become collectively smarter but individually ‘dumber’? Dumber here actually means we don’t need to specialize as much, we can become generalists. You don’t need deep knowledge of one subject. I was talking to the legend Tyler Ward about this a while ago on Twitter, I said I would write something then forgot. What I mean is the internet has given us the ability to go wider, to have surface-level knowledge on more topics. It has also allowe...

Is this the age of the generalist? I wonder if we have become collectively smarter but individually ‘dumber’? Dumber here actually means we don’t need to specialize as much, we can become generalists. You don’t need deep knowledge of one subject. I was talking to the legend Tyler Ward about this a while ago on Twitter, I said I would write something then forgot. What I mean is the internet has given us the ability to go wider, to have surface-level knowledge on more topics. It has also allowe...

Happy New Year from New Finance VC. Before we kick off Season 1: Part 2 of the New Finance Podcast I wanted to do a quick recap of the brilliant first 3 guests we’ve had on, some of the takeaways we’ve had & what to look forward to with our final 3 guests of the season! If you haven’t listened to any of the first 3 episodes yet, just click on the titles below and we’ve got every platform you could possibly need as an option! Ep 1- Alex Dunsdon Alex is one of the deepest thinkers we know and v...

Happy New Year from New Finance VC. Before we kick off Season 1: Part 2 of the New Finance Podcast I wanted to do a quick recap of the brilliant first 3 guests we’ve had on, some of the takeaways we’ve had & what to look forward to with our final 3 guests of the season! If you haven’t listened to any of the first 3 episodes yet, just click on the titles below and we’ve got every platform you could possibly need as an option! Ep 1- Alex Dunsdon Alex is one of the deepest thinkers we know and v...