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…

I went down the crypto rabbit hole in 2013 and 2014 so deep that the Wall Street Journal wrote a story on bitcoin calling me “Wall Street’s Bitcoin expert.” But while I looked at the crypto light, I did not see it. Many people still struggle to see it, which…

I spend 60% of my time traveling, generally to wherever the center of the crypto universe is. In my last post, “5 Thoughts From A Crypto Nomad Following Mainnet, NEARCON & Zencon0”, I highlighted that the mood at Mainnet in NYC was subdued. Well, suffice it to say, that the…

One of the hardest things about spending 50%+ of your time on crypto road trips, is taking the time to reflect on what you’ve seen, and lessons learned. So on my flight to Singapore (for Token2049) here are my five most cogent thoughts following my latest crypto trek to Tel…

McKinsey recently published a comprehensive 77 page report titled “Value Creation In the Metaverse — The Real Business of The Virtual World.” Seven McKinsey partners were credited as the writers of the report, which included interviews with 13 senior “metaverse experts”, input from the 60 members of McKinsey Technology Council…