How Polychain is faring during the crypto winter, where we are in the tech cycle, whether he thinks Ethereum 2.0 will deliver and how he views the competition in the[…]
Category: 2019
Why HTC’s Exodus 1s Will Have a Full Bitcoin Node
Phil Chen, decentralized chief officer of HTC, discusses the upcoming model of the Exodus, why it will feature a full Bitcoin node, what’s in it for the user, whether or[…]
Binance Hack: Should the Threat of Reorgs Be Used to Deter Hackers?
Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital discusses how hackers likely obtained $40 million worth of Bitcoin in a hack on Binance, how the leading crypto exchange could have incentivized miners to[…]
What Happened to Bitfinex/Tether’s $850 Million
Robert-Jan Den Haan, a contributor to the Block who has been researching the Bitfinex/Tether situation for over a year, talks about how Bitfinex found itself without access to $850 million[…]
Could Social Media Discontent Help the Decentralized Web?
At the Subzero conference in Berlin, Ashley Tyson, the cofounder of the Web 3 Foundation, talks about how it plans to support the Polkadot protocol, plus bring together protocols to[…]
Blockstack’s Reg A+ Filing and the Future of Token Offerings
Zachary Fallon, a former SEC staffer and author of the Reg A JOBS Act crowdfunding rules and a principal at Blakemore Fallon, discusses Blockstack’s filing for a token offering under[…]
Coinbase Custody: Keep Your Crypto Safe and Use It Too
Sam McIngvale, head of product for Coinbase Custody, describes its new staking service. He explains how Coinbase Custody plans to allow its customers to participate in crypto networks while keeping[…]
How Useful Is the SEC’s Guidance on ICOs?
Marco Santori, the president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, discusses this week’s big regulatory news — the SEC’s guidance on initial coin offerings and its first no-action letter. We[…]
Why Has MakerDAO’s Dai Struggled to Keep Its Dollar Peg?
Ryan Todd and Matteo Leibowitz, research analysts at The Block, discuss why Dai has fallen below $1 in price, how the community has attempted to keep it pegged to $1[…]
Why Ethereum 2.0 Could Fail and How It Could Be Fixed
Delphi Digital recently released a report on Ethereum’s short- and long-term prospects. It showed why there’s been such high selling pressure on Ethereum, plus dived deeply into the economics of[…]