The Weekend Read: Mar 22
Greetings from Palo Alto, where I am attending the Blockchain Global Impact Conference. And escaping the never-ending winter of 2015. Can we have class outside today Professor? Identity Management As...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: Mar 27
Bitcoin Blockchain [note: not to scale] 1. Bitcoin Bull Corner As price continues to chop sideways in the broad $200-300 area, a few more positive news stories hit the wires. Noble Markets announced a...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: April 4
“The Bitcoin fascinates me!” -Carl Mark Force IV It was just your normal bipolar week in the virtual currency world, as comically corrupt DEA agents and sketchy CEOs vied for the headlines against yet...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: April 10
Ledgers meet Damien Hirst There is so much to get to in this week’s edition that news of a presidential candidate accepting bitcoin and the release of CoinDesk’s Q1 update to their mega-deck The State...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: April 25
I am back after a brief brisket-induced coma (courtesy of Franklin’s BBQ of Austin) to resume weekly read duties. Many thanks to Jo for her contributions last week. What Franklin’s considers a side...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: May 10
Your author (next to R3’s Tim Swanson) contemplating on his next meal in Singapore I hope you enjoy this slightly delayed and massively jetlagged edition of the weekly read. I have just returned from a...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: May 16
Everyone knows that the true color of the blockchain is puce (h/t @sytaylor) 1. Bitcoin vs. Blockchain: don’t call it a comeback? There was a ton of e-ink spilled this week in discussing the Nasdaq...
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What is a wedding really: just another entry on the blockchain — Prof Jeff Jarvis (@ProfJeffJarvis) May 22, 2015 Many thanks to Chris Skinner and the team at Breaking Banks podcast for inviting me to...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: May 29
1. Necker Island Report R3 Advisor Dr. Patrick Deegan sent me the following field report from his hardship posting on Branson Beach (for a fuller rundown you can read Marc van der Chijs’ postings here...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: June 4
Go on now Bitcoin, git! 1. Needing a token to operate a distributed ledger is a red herring by Tim Swanson One question that comes up in almost every conversation we have with financial markets folks...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: June 20
Happy Fathers Day! 1. Santander Innoventures Fintech 2.0 Paper: Rebooting Financial Services Very well done high level summary of the opportunities in re-engineering financial services, with an...
View ArticleThe July 4th Weekend Read
As us Seppos get ready for America’s birthday, the bitcoin crowd continues its Grexit ambulance chasing… 1. Blockchain on Wall St FT article: Banks and exchanges turn to blockchain (with the oddly...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: July 10
Cognitive Dissonance on bitcoin.org 1. Blockchain on Wall Street (cont.) BNP’s Quintessence magazine has a very nice overview of the potential for blockchains. I was nodding my head vigorously at the...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: July 17
1. Blockchain Explainer (for financial markets) by the FT Philip Stafford does an excellent job, both in print and video, in explaining why banks have “a keen interest in applying the blockchain…to...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: July 24
Count me among the ‘many': Many will find this crazy, but I think bitcoin could surpass the dollar as reserve currency within 10-15 years. — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) July 24, 2015 1. Gimme a...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: August 15
[Ed. Note: I will be on hiatus for the last two weekends of summer. We will resume our (ir)regularly scheduled programming on Sep 4th] 1. Are we about to enter a Bitcoin Winter? Or is it Springtime for...
View ArticleSimple Rules and SPX
I came across this article from Bloomberg earlier this week, which featured the research of Mebane Faber into how simple market timing rules could provide lower risk exposure and better returns for SPX...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: Back to School Edition
Summer is (un-officially) over and the Bitcoin livin’ aint easy 1. Bitcoin Nerd Fight Update Since our last posting, lots of e-ink has been spilled and reddit sock puppets besmirched over the Great...
View ArticleThe Weekend Read: Sep 13
Even The Donald has an opinion on the block size debate 1. Permissioned validators and permissionless innovation IB Times featured an interview with Smart Contract godfather (and oft-cited Satoshi...
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