The highlight of my six years in crypto is still my first ETHDenver in 2020. ETH was down more than 90% from its Jan. 2018 peak, but 2,000 of the smartest people I had ever met gathered in Denver to change the world. …

I saw the crypto light on June 29th, 2017, and become of the belief that for the first time in history we had a toolset to solve for the community instead of the man in the middle. And I thought that wa going to be the biggest thing to happen…

My Facebook story starts in 2004. I was running Bolt, the largest social network in the world in the time between Friendster and MySpace. That’s when I called Mark and offered to buy Facebook (a month after he launched). In late 2009, I got an opportunity to buy Facebook shares…

It’s been seven months since we announced the launch of the CryptoOracle Collective on July 4th with the mission of building a world-class decentralized web3 advisory service. It’s been three month since our last update. Here’s a quick primer and update on the Collective and our considerable progress: #1 — The Major Problems We Set Out To Solve We recognize…

I recently finished my 2nd Davos. My first Davos, last May, was super interesting. I was invited to bring CryptoMondays to Davos. We had a packed house for a fireside chat with Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple. …

On Dec. 26, I published “10 Highlights From Messari’s Prodigious ‘Crypto Theses for 2023,’” because, as I wrote, the 157-page report is simply “the industry’s most impressive overview of the crypto ecosystem, and a must-read for any crypto enthusiast.” That said, I have glaring differences with some of the…

Clocking in at 157 pages (a slight decrease from 2022’s masterpiece), Messari’s annual “Crypto Theses 2023” remains (IMHO) the industry’s most impressive overview of the crypto ecosystem, and thus a must-read for any crypto enthusiast. While author Ryan Selkis, co-founder and CEO of Messari, was supported by the ~200 person…

We started CryptoMondays NYC on January 8, 2018, with a simple mission: We just want to spend our Monday nights hanging with others as passionate about Crypto as we are. It’s just a a place to go on Mondays and be with like minded people. …

I met SBF at a the Asia Blockchain Summit in Taipei, Taiwan, crypto conference in Taiwan in 2019. I came away impressed, and continued an intermittent dialogue over the years. I was surprised that he was a scammer, but I’ve long recognized that lightly regulated centralized things are ripe territories…