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A few weeks ago my partner Nick and Sam McIngvale, who runs our portfolio company Coinbase’s custody business, did a talk at the CoinAlts conference. In it they talk about the evolving role of custody in the crypto markets, and [...]  Read more

A few weeks ago at the CoinAlts conference in Chicago, I did a fireside chat with Sam McIngvale , CEO of Coinbase Custody .  CoinAlts is a conference focused mostly on the institutional infrastructure around crypto assets — legal, accounting, [...]  Read more

Here we are again in 2019 debating speech online and specifically the case of Facebook. Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown trying to invoke the civil rights movement and to draw a sharp distinction to China . Warren quickly fires back on [...]  Read more

I remember back in the early 2000s, the direct marketing industry and the tech sector worked with Congress to craft sensible regulations for email marketing. The result was called CAN-SPAM and it was passed into law in 2003. The law [...]  Read more

Normally when we travel, The Gotham Gal posts about the things we do. She is a way better travel blogger than I am. But today we did something that I want to talk a bit about. We visited the Auschwitz [...]  Read more

It is fascinating to see at the moment how much China is flexing its power. And maybe as importantly how little the world is pushing back. Certainly on the commercial side we are finding that companies such as Apple which [...]  Read more

I am sitting in the airport lounge in Geneva waiting to board an airplane. I am here because yesterday was the inaugural Libra Association member council meeting. The Libra Association is a Swiss organization which will operate the Libra blockchain [...]  Read more

Last Monday in my series about the climate crisis , I posted about the potential of reversing the carbon cycle : grow plants to remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it back into the ground. Here now are some [...]  Read more