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Mechanics of the token sale
Nick Grossman – May 31, 2017
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
The Token Summit Talk Between Me and William
Fred Wilson – May 31, 2017
William and I did the wrap-up at the end of Token Summit. Here is the video of it: And here is CNBC’s take on it . I’d love to know if you all think she captured my views accurately. I [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Entropy
Albert Wenger – May 31, 2017
Today in Uncertainty Wednesday I want to start on the idea that just the shape of the probability distribution alone contains some measure of uncertainty. Let’s think about the simplest case again with just two states A and B and [...] Read more
Open source leadership vs. corporate leadership
Nick Grossman – May 30, 2017
As cryptocurrencies and blockchains have continued to gain steam (and attract capital), a common question in the air is, what type of leader does it take to be successful in this space? Read more
A Man For All Markets
Fred Wilson – May 30, 2017
I have had this book, A Man For All Markets , on my kindle for the past year. I can’t recall who recommended it, possibly my friend Jeremy , but I can’t be sure. A couple weeks ago, I had [...] Read more
Basic Income: The Potential of Cryptocurrency
Albert Wenger – May 30, 2017
In my book World After Capital, I have a chapter on Universal Basic Income, which I see as essential to getting from the Industrial Age into the Knowledge Age. Basic income gives people economic freedom, which is essential if we [...] Read more
Regulating source code
Nick Grossman – May 29, 2017
As more areas of our economy become computerized and move online, more and more of what regulators need to understand will be in the source code. For example, take the VW emissions scandal : These days, cars are an order [...] Read more
Tokens
Fred Wilson – May 29, 2017
Our friends Balaji and Naval penned a really nice primer on crypto-tokens. AVC readers have been hearing me talk about this new form of business model and fund raising mechanism for a while now and so it won’t be new to [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: What Is Kin?
Fred Wilson – May 27, 2017
Our portfolio Kik announced last week that they plan to decentralize their messenger app and monetize via a cryptocurrency called Kin. Here’s a video they put together explaining how it will work and why it is important: Read more