Crypto


"Bitcoin in 20 years" by Daniel Jeffries

November 03, 2017. Today I came across an amazing futuristic view of the bitcoin and blockchain future by Daniel Jeffries. He makes a set of predictions what we may see in the next 20 years in this field. For all my friends who don't have...
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Bitcoin 2019 Annual Review

January 2, 2020. I’ve always been fascinated with the raw numbers relating to the operational status and growth of Bitcoin, especially as we ride the rollercoaster of the adoption life cycle. It’s why I created Statoshi.info in 2014 to track bitcoin metrics...
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The inside story of Binance’s explosive rise to power

November 16, 2019. How Binance escaped China, rode the Bitcoin bull, made half a billion dollars in one year and plans to revolutionize money. NEW YORK—Not too long ago, I was shacked up in a cheap hostel, in Manhattan. The window was open to...
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Why Decentralization Matters

February 18, 2018. The first two eras of the internet : During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were built on open protocols that were controlled by the internet community. This meant that people or organizations could...
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The Trillion Dollar Lawsuit

November 7, 2019.  One year ago exactly, I wrote my first piece about a stablecoin called Tether. A year later, uh, wow: From legal action introduced last month: Leibowitz et al. versus iFinex et al., US District Court.-A complaint is not the same thing...
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A Cambrian Explosion of Crypto Proofs

January 08, 2020. This post is for folks with some background in cryptography. It surveys the expanding crypto-verse of proof systems and the role of symmetric STARKs within. Based on a talk delivered in San Francisco in November 2019. Written by ELI BEN-SASSON - Originally...
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Bitcoin becomes the Flag of Technology

January 03, 2020. Bitcoin represents the explicit encoding of previously implicit values of the tech community. It's not just software — it is a Schelling point and a symbol. As such, it will become widely recognized as the flag of technology over the course of the...
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