Crypto is a new computing paradigm, poised to create more disruption and wealth creation in the next 20 years, than the internet has in the last 20. The question I face as a VC is who is going to capture that massive wealth creation? The wealth creation can either go largely to the five incumbents […]
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If You Like Decentralization, You Should Love Hard Forks
If decentralization is to realize it’s potential, various problems need to be addressed. Scalability issues get the most attention and have the most people working to solve it. So my assumption is that scalability is getting solved. The bigger issues with decentralization are Token Economics and Governance & Consensus. While people are working on those problems, it’s […]
The Crypto Bloodbath isn’t a Bloodbath, it’s a …….
This is the 60th crypto related post I’ve written since I saw the crypto light on June 29th, 2017. My most read piece remains “7 Thoughts On Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & Decentralization After Three Months Down The Rabbit Hole”.The 5th thought in the piece, which tried to give context to the remarkable run-up in crypto prices […]
This NYC Startup Introduces People to Bitcoin in The Most Practical and Noninvasive Way
There’s a growing trend towards online shopping, but not everybody is invested in Bitcoin or comfortable with cryptocurrency. That is why Coinback was created to familiarize people with Bitcoin while shopping online. The company has developed the only browser extension that enables users to earn up to 15% back in cryptocurrency on their purchases. In […]
Blockchain without the BS
We at Social Starts and Joyance Partners see distributed trust networks (aka blockchain) as one of the most powerful technological ideas in decades. It’s an idea on a par with TCP/IP, the backbone of today’s internet, in the long-term impact it can have. Tech innovation from innumerable directions points toward blockchain-like requirements as an essential. […]
The Top 10 Reasons People Can’t See The Crypto Light
On June 29th, 2017, I saw the Crypto light. It was a religious experience. It felt like I could see the future, a future in which Crypto was the biggest thing to happen in the history of humanity. I had the luxury of stopping everything else I was doing, and focusing 100% of my time […]
Mt. Gox Moves 8200 Bitcoins From its Cold Wallet: A Possible over-the-counter Trade
Mt. Gox happened to be once the biggest Bitcoin Exchange across the globe as of 2014. It is believed that back them, Mt. Gox used to handle more than 70% of all Bitcoin transactions. However, the platform faced bankruptcy after it lost about 7% of its BTCs valued at $474 Million. After facing this bankruptcy, […]
What to Look for When Investing in Blockchain Space
Fordham University recently hosted the “Blockchain Disruptor Conference”, a conference dedicated to an entire weekend of all things blockchain and cryptocurrency related. The conference did a wonderful job at selecting speakers – all of whom are principals in their fields – who thoroughly explained the intricacies of blockchain. The founder of Bitbuddy, an online platform […]
Learning Machine Raises $3M To Help Institutions Authenticate Documents
The personal identity market is estimated to be worth around $9.6B and with the invention of blockchain, the personal identity market may experience unprecedented growth. Leading the charge is Learning Machine. The startup helps large corporations and institutions verify their own records keeping them tamper proof, recipient owned, and independently verifiable. With success in governmental, […]
Why Crypto’s A Growing Threat To FAMGA (a.k.a. Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon)
The largest U.S. companies by market cap are all tech. That wasn’t always the case: In April last year, I published “The Profound Implications of Five Increasingly Dominant Tech Companies”, which outlined the increasing share of market cap that FAMGA was accounting for of the 100 largest NASDAQ companies by market cap. That trend not […]
How Startups Can Take Advantage of Blockchain to Boost their Business
One of the most interesting phenomena currently booming in this day and age is known as the cryptocurrency. With no financial institution or bank running how it works, it’s completely decentralized as a form of currency and so is easy to use everywhere. However, this does come with its own set of issues, particularly hacking. […]