Yes, it’s driven by greed — but the mania for cryptocurrency could wind up building something much more important than wealth.
It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers, organizations — could access equally. Among other things, this allowed…
In 2014, we wrote that “Bitcoin is more than money, and more than a protocol. It’s a model and platform for true crowdfunding — open, distributed, and liquid all the way.” That new model is here, and…
The most impactful technologies are polarizing and make people uncomfortable. The boom in blockchain-based tokens in the past year has certainly made a lot of people uncomfortable. On one side, you…
Of course folks will see ICOs as the end of the hated VC era of startup funding. And there is some truth to that...
Not just a bubble… blockchain and cryptocurrencies are tools to promote trust, freedom, justice and wealth without relying on or being vulnerable to a central authority. This will reshuffle markets.
Most of us have probably heard of Bitcoin and Ethereum — but did you know there were 15 new cryptocurrencies launched this past month alone? How then do we know which protocols to invest in...
...as the set of cryptocurrencies — and networks and “tokens” enabled by the underlying blockchain — grow (Ethereum being one of the fastest-growing ones), where do we go from here?
The internet, believe it or not, was just the beginning. Yes, it spawned an incredible number of uses (some unexpected), from marketplaces and commerce to publishing and social networks… but that’s all been built with old models of funding and coordination.
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Funny (and quick) overview of the interesting history of Japan.