One of the many hats I wear is serving as a board member of the Boston Blockchain Association. This is an industry group that is dedicated to creating a healthy blockchain ecosystem — first in Boston, then the world. It’s hard to do blockchain in a vacuum. Even though it’s […]
Big news on the blockchain front: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has made a proposal that would allow blockchain projects to once again thrive. Hester Peirce, the most forward-thinking SEC official on blockchain, put forth a proposal outlining a three-year “safe harbor” for new blockchain projects that would give […]
The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece this week that was huge. We’re about to make it yuge. Entitled We Sent a Man to the Moon. We Can Send the Dollar to Cyberspace, the piece was written by two leaders of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Christopher Giancarlo and […]
“PROCEED AS IF SUCCESS IS INEVITABLE.” This quote is attributed to Anonymous, who penned a great many famous sayings. That dude was a genius. I often use this quote when talking about blockchain industry. “Inevitable” is one of my favorite words, because it really does seem to me that in […]
A colleague from the insurance industry once told me about a conference that changed her life. Only it wasn’t a conference; it was an UNCONFERENCE. What is an Unconference? “Imagine all these executives from the insurance industry,” she said, and I tried to picture the wild parties that must ensue. […]
Let me tell you a story about Wally Whale. Wally bought 125 bitcoin back in the day, when the price was just $125. Those 125 bitcoin are now worth $1 million and Wally can’t handle the stress. He’s tired of HODLing a million dollars of bitcoin, which might be worth […]
No thanks to broad inaction on climate change we’re now just 100 seconds from midnight. For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical barometer maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which currently boasts 13 Nobel laureates on its prestigious board, and it’s meant to […]
By now it seems safe to conclude that Facebook’s project Libra is pretty much dead in the water, but the splashes they made have not just lingered, they have crescendoed into a full blown title wave. Over the weekend China will open up the Year of the Rat, an animal […]
What a time in history! Whether it is the United States House talking about Satoshi Nakamoto or seeing the President tweeting about cryptocurrency, it feels like blockchain has finally gone mainstream. If we were surfers, it’s like we’ve all been on our surfboards for the past few years, just waiting […]
Shortly after I published my book BLOCKCHAIN FOR EVERYONE, I received a sales call from a financial advisor. Instead of listening to his pitch, however, I decided to tell about the multitude of investment opportunities in the blockchain space. Here’s what happened! When Old Finance Calls “New Finance” “Hello John. […]
