I have lots of questions about Bitcoin. I also have a lot of strongly held beliefs about it. These opposing cognitive forces cause my view of Bitcoin to evolve as those smarter than I help inform my thinking. Bitcoin will never be “money” as economists define it,...
I’m sitting at the new cafe “Ginjan” on 125th Street and Park Ave in the historic Mount Morris Bank Building. On the wall it says: “Born of Africa, Made in New York.” This francophone hangout is a new favorite Harlem café. So I’ve written this book. (Expected release...
Tendermint is a low-level blockchain protocol made up of two pieces: a blockchain consensus engine and a general application interface. The core of the network facilitates a peer-to-peer network and offers a proof-of-stake consensus. Tendermint is designed to...
Many people view Bitcoin as an anonymous way to make transactions. However, Bitcoin is actually one of the least private types of cryptocurrency. Several other cryptocurrencies are specifically designed to be private and anonymous. Privacy and anonymity are not...
PolkaDot is new, generalizable second layer blockchain framework that hopes to allow current blockchains to communicate with each other. This multi-chain framework platform is made to ease scalability, interoperability, fungibility, and privacy of widely different...