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One of the benefits of decentralization is that you can build “censorship-resistant” applications. The best example of that is Bitcoin, a store and transfer of value system that governments can’t interfere with. Censorship resistant money, as it were. But if [...]  Read more

At our annual CEO Summit, which took place last week, we kick things off going around the room with each attendee (there are over seventy at this point) mentioning something they are struggling with right now. When it got to [...]  Read more

It is a bit strange that we set aside one day a year to honor Mom and motherhood because where I sit it is something we need to honor every hour of every day. Motherhood is one of the most [...]  Read more

One of the most important questions in crypto land right now is “whither Ethereum?” To get a sense of the answer to that question, it helps to listen to the important speeches Vitalik gives. This one, at Edcon in Toronto [...]  Read more

I’m running an advertisement here today. I’ve been Chairman of two public companies in my career and the leaders of those two companies sat down and talked yesterday. I enjoyed watching that very much and hope you do too. In [...]  Read more

When I was a kid, two of my favorite cartoons were from Hanna-Barbera ; The Flintsones and The Jetsons. I particularly loved The Jetsons. From Wikipedia : the Jetsons live in a comical version of the future, with elaborate robotic contraptions, [...]  Read more

About a month ago I put all of AVC traffic behind “https.” This is something you can do with one click of a button if you are behind Cloudflare , as AVC is. I should have done this a long [...]  Read more