On April 18, the CryptoOracle Collective hosted a webinar, “Is Crypto Hong Kong Ready To Rock Again?,” about the comeback of the crypto ecosystem in Hong Kong. We had two great guests, Casey Lau (Co-Founder of Web Summit and a 20 year HK resident), and Ethan Pierse (Director of the…

I used to believe in American exceptionalism until 2015. Now I believe we’re a banana republic, like everyone else. And that makes a lot more sense. Rather than being exceptional, we were simply on an exceptional run as the dominant economic power. But, per the Ray Dalio graph below, that…

Click here to see the replay on Youtube or watch it below: By early 2021, per CNBC, miners based in China accounted for 65%-75% of the world’s bitcoin mining. Then, in late September 2021, the People’s Bank of China banned all crypto transactions. The PBOC cited the role of…

A few years ago, after watching the the incredible documentary “Circus of Books”: I realized that laws don’t really exist. All there is are people in power, and what they decide to do with it. You can shoot somebody in cold blood and be found guilty of murder by…

I recently had the immense pleasure of attending (and MC’ing) Paris Blockchain Week (“PBW”), a spectacular event that starts with a hackathon, a startup competition, and a Web3 Expo. And finishes with a massive two day conference. Here’s a short highlight reel of the event: I published “My Paris…

IMHO, Paris Blockchain Week (“PBW”) is one of the three great crypto conferences in the world (along with ETH Denver and Token 2049 in Singapore). Here are my 2023 highlights: #1 It Started With CryptoMondays Paris, Which Was The Genesis of Paris Blockchain Week Paris was the 5th city to launch a CryptoMondays Meetup in May 2018. It was awesome from from the start…

To so many people deeply enmeshed in the world of tech, regardless of where in the world they live, the collapse of SVB is like a death in the family. Like the death of your 40 year old uncle, cut down in his prime. He had just run a marathon…

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…