Is crypto an investable asset class?
The US Department of Justice moving $2 billion of bitcoin to an exchange is a reminder that 1) transacting on a blockchain is transparent and 2) we used to think that transacting on a blockchain was not transparent.
When Richard Dawkins sought a term for his concept of a "unit of cultural transmission" he settled on “meme” — a mashup of “gene” (for an ability to propagate itself) and "mimeme" (Greek for "something imitated").
When Ireland’s banking system repeatedly closed for months on end in the 1960s and ‘70s, people responded to the ensuing shortages of money by creating their own — writing out IOUs on whatever piece of paper was to hand.
The former FTX CEO was sentenced to 25 years in jail today — and his last words before the court probably did nothing to reduce his jail time.
Is 25 years enough for Sam Bankman-Fried?
The prosecutors of the Southern District of New York must love Twitter.
My all-time favorite movie is The Third Man, a prescient Cold War drama filmed in 1949, when cinematography was art and movies were films.
The financial systems of history’s most consequential economic powers have always been preceded by some kind of economic activity
Dune’s Arrakis Freman and Shogun’s bustling markets of feudal Japan would have benefited from blockchain to solve their trading woes
This was the week that Jenson Huang was officially elevated to the pantheon of tech visionaries.
