With central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) having become a major talking point in financial circles across the globe, it seems like it will only be a matter of time until we could witness the launch of a new global digital currency that – unlike bitcoin – would launch with intergovernmental […]
My blockchain colleague Joseph told me about an Israeli entrepreneur who spent 2018 finding promising new companies doing an Initial Coin Offering, then buying up 51% of their tokens. The idea was to have majority ownership over these fledgling companies, so he could guide their future direction. Guess what he […]
We know that blockchain has finally hit the mainstream, because SANTA CLAUS is launching his own blockchain-based token. In this exclusive for Bitcoin Market Journal subscribers, you can hear St. Nick’s pitch for KRINGLECOIN, the first blockchain project from the North Pole. Our analysts were fortunate enough to get the […]
Do you remember the scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest buys the shrimp boat? At first, no shrimp. Forrest and Lieutenant Dan are pulling up nothing but trash from the bottom of the bayou. Then a terrible hurricane rocks the coast—and at the end of this ferocious storm, Forrest and […]
A year ago, do you remember how jazzed everyone was about blockchain? Blockchain was going to end world poverty! It was going to revolutionize investing! Blockchain would cure the common cold! It would get us to Mars! I still hold that kind of optimism. Problem is, the conversation this year […]
How much is a superpower worth? How much would you pay to be able to fly, or to become invisible? Let’s say $200 million. You could easily make that $200 million back with a superpower. Shrink to the size of an ant, cure cancer, boom. $200 million, easy. Now, how […]
Blockchains have network effects. The classic example of network effects is Facebook: every person who gets on Facebook makes the network a little more valuable for every other person on Facebook. As the number of users in a network grows, the more ridiculously valuable the network becomes. That’s why the […]
Back in the day, I worked at an ad agency. One of our clients was Vonage, a company based on a new technology called VOIP (a fun word to say). Vonage was growing like crazy. At its peak, Vonage was adding a million customers every quarter, then reinvesting that money […]
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Bitcoin Market Journal’s John Hargrave and Ryan Colby, founder of the upcoming cryptocurrency conference Token Fest. What was your blockchain origin story, Ryan? How did you get involved in this exciting space? In the early spring of 2017, I started acquiring Ether, […]
Investor confidence. That’s it. That’s the whole ball of wax. The average Initial Coin Offering raises about $11.5 million, according to our analysis of over 750 ICOs.[1] But where does that value come from? This is a question that fascinates and perplexes me. How do founding teams, often with no […]
