A historical collection of our writing.
I was at an event last night, where the moderator, Preeti Varathan from QZ observed that there seemed to be a lot of cynicism in the blockchain / crypto space — in other words, that the whole thing was essentially premised on a distrust of existing systems (fiat currencies, large internet […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
There is no shortage of writing and punditry about the power of compound interest . As usual Naval has a pithy tweet about it: Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest. — Naval (@naval) May 31, 2018 I have been […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
One of my former colleagues, Rob Marianski , and I used to have a running joke — we would be building and debugging something, and he’d finally say, “Oh, so you just want me to set just_work = true”. That was over 10 years ago, but it still gets me every time for some reason. […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Ryan Caldbeck is on fire on Twitter right now. Ryan is the CEO of our portfolio company CircleUp , and he just joined Twitter for the first time earlier this year and is, I may say, feeling very comfortable in the medium. Over the weekend he put up a great diagram-oriented tweetstorm with a bunch […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
I have been down in DC the last two weeks, among other things, talking to lawmakers and regulators about cryptonetworks and cryptocurrencies . As part of that, I’ve been spending a lot of time with attorneys — specifically securities attorneys — getting into depth on issues like the definition of […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
As readers of this blog can tell, I’ve been spending a lot of my time recently focused on cryptonetworks and blockchains, and in particular, working through the complex legal and regulatory issues involved. Explaining what cryptocurrencies, cryptonetworks and blockchains are is hard to do. As Naval […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
