A historical collection of our writing.
Today I am celebrating my 53rd birthday. I am fortunate to be doing so with friends and family and, knock on wood, in good health. This makes it all the more important to me to continue helping to fight the climate crisis . Susan and I have kicked off several projects to that end. One […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI just bought some US Dollars today. I do that many days. But the dollars I bought today are crypto assets, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. These US Dollar assets are called USDC and they are issued by an industry consortium called Centre , led by Circle and our portfolio company Coinbase. I expect many […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Last week, the Blockstack team formally rolled out their proposal for a new mining mechanism for the Stacks blockchain called Proof of Transfer (PoX) . In addition to the blog post, you can read the full PoX white paper and the Stacks Improvement Proposal (SIP-007 ) that details the idea. PoX is a […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Dani GrantWhen you really think about it, isn’t crypto kind of an amazing platform to build social products on? Crypto is public, global and gamified by default, and commerce, identity and ownership are all built in from the get go. (How fun is that!) So we wonder, just like how the cloud enabled new types of […] Read more
Fred WilsonAbout ten years ago, I started asking why were weren’t teaching computer science to every student in the NYC public school system. That led to a journey that started with some computer science high schools and eventually got to a ten year program to get computer science teachers in every school […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
We have recently gotten excited about several new emerging social networks and platforms. While the competition for prolonged attention only gets fiercer and the network effects in the dominant players remain strong, there is also fresh consumer appetite for creative new products. Partly, this may […] Read more
