I’ve been lurking around what’s possible when you want to publish content across a peer-to-peer network, and not on a central server or one owned by a hosting company. And I’ve been watching the new wave of “domain/name” registrations on the blockchain, as an alternative ...

It’s no secret I’m a fan of creative usages of crypto-tokens, and the resulting mini-economies they create. As a refresher, please refer to 2 seminal blog posts I wrote 4 years ago: The Theory of a Blockchain Circular Economy and the Future of Work and The Relationship Betwe...

There is no shortage of experimentation in trying to apply blockchain technology to organizational dynamics [this is different than governing technical blockchain protocols, reference: Let’s Be Clear About What is DAOable and What is Not. Decentralized autonomy in organizations (DAO...

In the past few weeks, there has been a flurry of news at the intersection of blockchain and the coronavirus. As someone who watches the industry news diligently (via OnCoins), I curated a related collection of such new, and they range into four buckets of activity: Scams and frau...

Given the global quarantining in place (some pegged it at 3 billion people doing it), the world is not just on pause, it is also on reflection and introspection. As many of us move away from normal routines to the abnormal ritual of staying at home, and radically changing our interact...

If you know me well, you know that I’ve had an obsession with content aggregation and curation. It’s been a passion of mine for as long as I remember, which led to one of my previous startups, Eqentia (founded in 2008) as a content aggregation/curation/publishing platform. Fas...

I wrote a blog post on CoinDesk a couple of days ago, Defining Cryptocurrency Is the Best Way to Kill it. It’s a plea and a case for allowing cryptocurrency to become as pervasive as today’s money in all of its applications variety, plus much more. It’s also about the realiz...

Friday the 13th of March 2020 will be remembered as the morning-after.  The morning-after North America came to grips with the fact that the Coronavirus is among us. The morning-after US and Canadian stock markets tanked like they haven’t before, in decades.  The morning-...

I wrote today an opinion piece on CoinDesk, with a provocative title, “Cut the Consensus: You Can’t Run a Business Like a Blockchain“. Its original draft title was Beware the Pitfalls of Decentralized Decision-Making. It’s a 1,400 word essay arguing the important distincti...

Last September 2019, I tweeted a prematurely positive position on the overall cryptocurrency sector, with an end-of-year target of $750 Billion for the overall sector. End of year predictions:ETH @ $1,000BTC @ $25,000ETC @ $50ATOM @ $20BNB @ $50DOT @ $250EOS @ $7KIN @ $.0001ST...

A couple of days ago, Plaid, a fast growing FinTech company that lets users connect their bank accounts to a variety of financial services, announced that it was being acquired by Visa for $5.3B. The first thought that came to my mind is that I wished Plaid would have rather be...

There’s a common expression in the marketing jargon – “owning your own narrative”. Owning your narrative means that you make sure what is told about you matches the way you’d like it to be told, i.e. without distortions, mis-interpretations, half-truths or false perce...

As part of the CoinDesk Year End Series, I wrote an article that puts a reality check on where we are pertaining to blockchain regulation in the United States. While We Wait for Laws, We Need Better Interpretations of Existing Regulation Here are the key points of the articl...

I’ve been saying for a while now that most users will not easily move to decentralized systems, protocols or applications unless something bad or painful happens to them, What Incentives Will Push Users to Move to Decentralized Applications? Well, something bad just happened ...

Ethereum has attracted the world’s largest decentralized applications ecosystem behind it, with an estimated number of participating developers in the range of 250,000-350,000. This growth has been nothing but spectacular from a global and diversified reach perspective, only five ye...

The valuation of cryptocurrencies and tokens has been an ever challenging topic in the blockchain space. Numerous methods and formulas have been proposed. However, in my opinion, nothing has yet emerged as being generally accepted or a de-facto standard, in the same way the widely acc...

I often see entrepreneur pitches that want to attack a big problem from the get-go. Whether it’s via a pitch deck or a white paper (if coming from the blockchain industry side), the main intention is to disrupt an entire industry or supply chain, and take over something that is “n...

One dilemma that startups and early stage companies/projects face is whether to hire a PR agency or to conduct media relations in-house.  The starting point assumption is that PR agencies are the conduits to getting stories published about what you are doing, because they already ...

I hear a lot of talk from blockchain companies and projects saying that they want to replace intermediaries.  However, the dream of the blockchain is not just disintermediation. It is about creating new models and value chains where old intermediaries don’t even play in.  Wh...

Continued global regulatory uncertainty and inconsistency are the biggest factors that are causing scams, thefts and lawsuits in the cryptocurrency sector. The longer regulatory authorities drag their feet for crafting thoughtful, comprehensive and balanced regulation related t...