Death, Bitcoin and Taxes: Three Certainties in Life
This is a follow up to my thoughtpiece on Bitcoin utility: Beyond the HODL: Unlocking Bitcoin’s Utility The title may be clickbait – tax isn’t a sexy topic – but nearly every BitcoinFi company building for institutions that I have spoken to sees it as a major barrier to entry. Tax obligations for Bitcoin and…
Beyond the HODL: Unlocking Bitcoin’s Utility
I want to talk about something potentially controversial – but timely – after spending a few days immersed in conversations at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas. We’re all Bitcoiners. I don’t need to convince you of bitcoin’s soundness or the uniqueness of the Bitcoin network. But I do want to explore how we can do…
Should Bitwise launch a managed NFT fund?
A thought piece reflecting on a side degen project I ran in 2023 and a potential opportunity for a leading crypto fund manager. Just for fun. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. NFTs [Non-Fungible Tokens] have served as a gateway into crypto for millions. Unlike many digital assets, NFTs don’t require deep technical…
The Future
In earlier posts, I shared my career arc, motivations and the systemic issues plaguing our global financial system. 👋 I quit a cushy ‘TradFi’ career to go back to school and bone up on nascent technologies (big data, ML, AI), aiming to leverage them in a more socially impactful career. That path is still evolving,…
What Is Wrong
In my last post, I touched on the inequities I’ve witnessed in life, and I’d like to explore this further and explain why it motivates me. 🌎 Globally, 1.4B people, including 6M Americans, lack access to a bank account. This exclusion means no access to savings, credit, or other financial tools many of us take…
ETHDenver 2024 – A Retrospective
I spent the past week at ETHDenver, “a community owned innovation festival” aka the largest Ethereum-led crypto meetup in the world. Summarising my findings in a few bulletpoints is a challenge, but I will try my best – hit me up if you want to chat in more detail. 💪 Energy was high! From the…
North American Platform Companies – A Playbook for Data Sharing and Growth
The following text is part of a summer 2022 research piece that has been reproduced with kind permission of co-author Porter Orr. How do Platform Companies think about Data Sharing and how does this inform their Organic vs. Partnership Growth Strategy? Abstract While this analysis mainly focused on US companies – such as Amazon, Shopify,…
Entering the Rabbit Hole
I am increasingly asked by crypto newbies how to learn more about blockchain technology, so I have compiled a list of resources for newcomers (although we are all still learning). Below are my initial recommendations – I will add more resources as I discover/remember them. > Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf. OK, not exactly easy…
Multi-Jurisdiction Financial Services – A New Global Perspective
This articles highlights the key research I conducted and contributed to a broader working paper during my tenure at MIT’s Media Lab in 2017. The full paper can be accessed here and examines the current alternative technological methodologies employed by credit providers (lenders) and intelligence providers (analysts), the limitations of their business models and challenges…
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