Writing

I am reminded time and time again that things that sound too good to be true almost always are. There really is no free lunch, in business or in life. Here are a few examples of things that seem so [...]  Read more

I read Cody Brown’s blog post about getting hacked on Thursday of last week. I feel very badly for Cody and plan to send him some BTC once I get access back to my account. His post helped me avoid [...]  Read more

I just got done coaching my son’s baseball practice. It had been amazing to watch this group of 7 and 8 year olds improve over the course of the season – learning the fundamentals and now starting to make some [...]  Read more

I realize this blog is dangerously close to becoming A Coin Fund instead of AVC, but what can I say? It’s what I am thinking about most of all right now. Here’s William’s interview with Ted Livingston, founder and CEO [...]  Read more

One thing that’s interesting about yesterday’s Basic Attention Token sale  is how quickly it went – $36M transacted in 30 sec. Lots of people were surely disappointed as they attempted to buy into the token sale only to have their orders [...]  Read more

The Brave browser team concluded an ICO for their Basic Attention Token  yesterday in about thirty seconds. This led to this tweet: The Basic Attention Token (BAT) ICO just raised 30 million dollars in 24 seconds. VC’s didn’t even have [...]  Read more

In case you missed it, today Brave raised $36M for the Basic Attention Token .  They had allocated 30 days for the token sale, but sold out of 1B BAT in 24 seconds. The Basic Attention Token (BAT) ICO just raised [...]  Read more