Blockchain

Gene and Doug discuss Crypto.com’s $15M hack, Apple’s long-term take rate and recent tech price increases. Takeaways: Even though Crypto.com got hacked, there’s still a lot of value in a centralized exchange. Apple’s App Store is in the news again.…

Takeaways: Another rough day in the market. Second time in a week that we’ve seen a two standard deviation move in the NASDAQ. Fear is controlling the market, and will continue until… who knows. Epic needling Apple with its Fortnite…

Gene and Doug discuss Jack Dorsey’s recent Web 3.0 comments and conclude that they win the 2021 “Most Entertaining in Crypto” award.

Gene and Doug discuss recent Web 3.0 comments from Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey and conclude that it’s foundational to the Metaverse.

Last year, we predicted a few items for this year’s gift guide: AirTags | $29 | Apple’s network-driven approach to tracking your stuff. AirPods Studio [AirPods Max] | $549 | The ultimate AirPods listening experience. Tickets to Broadway | $29+…

This piece was originally published on Doug’s Substack, Uncomfortable Profit. Any idea that touches gender or race is uncomfortable. It’s easy to devolve into political and ideological beliefs when you talk about the most powerful components of personal identity. But…

This piece was originally posted on Doug’s blog, Uncomfortable Profit.  Imagine a world where you bought a new $200 pair of Genesis Jordan 1s. Nike validates your ownership of those Jordans on the blockchain. When the next pair of Jordans…

Security tokens will enhance the liquidity of private security offerings, provided there is sufficient on-going information about those companies available to investors, but this liquidity will also have another effect: real-time mark to market. In today’s private securities markets, mark…

Security tokens provide many benefits to underlying assets, the most important of which is liquidity. However, liquidity doesn’t just happen because you build the technology to tokenize assets and the exchanges to trade them. There are other important parts to…

As part of our work on security tokens, we did an analysis to see how major companies are investing in the general blockchain space. The analysis consisted of a search on LinkedIn for how many individuals had listed “Blockchain” or “Cryptocurrency”…

This is the first in a multi-part series analyzing the potential of security tokens in the world of crypto assets.  2017 was the year of crypto. Bitcoin became a household phenomenon and increased ~13x in value, Ethereum spurred interest in…