on the blockchain

Low FICO users driving crypto growth

I don’t know that there’s much of a conclusion to draw from this. I did crosscheck with the general distribution of credit scores, and this skews to lower than the overall average. “53% of Coinbase users have a FICO score […]

on the blockchain

Coinbase filed S-1 to go public

Noteworthy because of their status as a top crypto company. I’ll be interested to see how closely the market value of Coinbase will fluctuate with the market value of Bitcoin. | learn more

on the blockchain

Crypto-native insurance

This is a great primer on the state of the crypto insurance market, including the problems that need to be solve to really unlock its potential. Written by Fred Ehrsam, who “personally secured the first ever crypto insurance (I believe) […]

tech, startups, internet

Balaji Srinivasan on The Portal podcast

Balaji is a blockchain guy, having most recently worked as CTO of Coinbase. He also was very early (January) with coronavirus analysis. This covers a lot of ground including how public health plays the role of a utility that we’ve […]

on the blockchain

Binance is blitzscaling

“Binance is executing more aggressively than any other business in the blockchain industry. As a proof point, in Q3 alone, Binance launched 12 major products/initiatives in quick succession, outpacing the development of all of the other “Real 10” exchanges (Coinbase, […]

on the blockchain

Grayscale to move billions to Coinbase for custody

“Grayscale, which claims to be the world’s largest bitcoin and digital currency asset manager, is today announcing Coinbase Custody will serve as custodian of the underlying assets for its products, and is expected to transfer nearly $3 billion of assets […]

better doing

How people at Coinbase make decisions

Founder Brian Armstrong shares the framework they use for making decisions. I like it! This is an organization that grew in a few years to ~$1.5B in revenue and 13MM customers. | learn more