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21st Century War Propaganda: How Emerging Tech Can Help Temper the Digital War Machine

War propaganda is nothing new. At the height of the Roman empire, Julius Caesar provided readers back at home with detailed descriptions of the barbaric Germanic tribes they encountered as a way to bolster his own image. During WW2, the Read more…


FinCEN Weighs In

Greetings from the very beginning of NYC Blockchain Week. This is where it all started just two years ago, when ETH and BTC prices began their meteoric rise in 2017, soon to be followed by the ICO boom and bust. Read more…


Days of Reckoning

The past couple of weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the blockchain and crypto markets: Yesterday, the WSJ published an investigative report that looked at money laundering in the crypto world. Of over $88M of illicit funds it Read more…


Lightning Strikes the Sector

I took a hiatus from the newsletter last week, while meeting with entrepreneurs and speaking at SXSW in Austin. Similar to what I saw (at the very different gathering) at Davos in January, much of the conference chatter revolved around Read more…


Campus Crypto Fever

This past Friday I spoke at Penn’s inaugural Blockchain Conference. It was a special speaking engagement for me, as I am a Penn grad and my interest in economics and business started and flourished there. Over the past five years speaking on Read more…


Regulatory Support: “My Niece is a Hodler”

Last Tuesday February the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing with SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo to discuss potential cryptocurrency regulation. As the chart below displays, the cryptocurrency market was in the middle of its second Read more…


The Year Ahead in Crypto

Bitcoin and Ether, both fairly quiet in the last 2 weeks of the year, experienced price increases in the first week of 2018. With several smaller tokens experiencing triple digit gains, many traders likely took profits from those price increases Read more…


My Talk at MIT: Beyond Finance, Considering Business and Social Impact of Blockchains

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a conference entitled “Business of Blockchains” that the MIT Technology Review and MIT Media Lab organized in Cambridge. One of the reasons I started investing in the blockchain space 4 years ago Read more…