Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital wrote this long essay outlining his views on the scaling trade-offs for trustless computing. I learned a lot from it, and I’m sure I ended up missing even more. I find that I need to […]
Remember TwoBitIdiot, who wrote 95 crypto theses? Well I’m glad I started following him, as he’s back with another gem of a post. Here he analyzes a type of token that he thinks won’t trend towards zero value: the skin-in-the-game token. | learn […]
Rockstar attorney and blockchain enthusiast Christian Auty lays out his top four use-cases for everyone’s favorite highly-hyped technology. His writing always gets bonus points for style. |learn more
Alex Evans from Lowe’s Ventures proposes a new approach that builds on the existing state-of-the-art token valuation methods by arriving at Velocity independent of the other variables (P, Q, M). This is technical, and great. |learn more
This doesn’t belong in the blockchain section, but for Kodak’s recent endeavor into crypto-land. The author is anonymous, which makes this an even more fun read for some reason. | learn more
It seems there’s a proliferation of crypto-focused hedge funds these days. Dave Balter (first time I’ve encountered his writing) makes some predictions for these funds in 2018. | learn more
A joint report by Fabric Ventures & TokenData (both groups are new to me). The report is quite interesting, summing up where the industry stands as we start 2018. | learn more
Stablecoins are tokens with values that do not fluctuate wildly, unlike most cryptos today (ahem, bitcoin). Multicoin capital overviews the landscape of stablecoins and the different approaches to creating them. They’re on a roll of putting out some great writing! | learn […]
How does one tell if a token is junk or not? Here’s a proposal for a self-regulating body, itself on the blockchain. | learn more
Remember that VC that signed a deal in Virtual Reality (above)? They also have been one of the earliest crypto investors in the space. | learn more