Been away from Steem for a while. What are some of the most interesting new projects built on Steem? D.tube looks interesting. I've always been a fan of Steem but it does seem quite difficult to separate

Network effects are one of the most powerful phenomenons in business. A network effect occurs when a new user of a service increases the utility of the service for existing users. Robert Metcalfe first

ABSTRACT An obscure BATS rule change approved by the SEC at 3am on 3.7.17 paved the way for the COIN ETF's approval, and the investing public took little notice. A copy of the release can be found here....

A glimpse into governance structures the world has never seen before Blockchains are generally hard to relate to for non-engineers. But governance is something that a larger group of people can relate

In 2015, well-known value investor Bill Miller made an investment case for BTC in his essay “The Value Investor’s Case for …Bitcoin?” Value investors are generally known to analyze assets based on cash

You’ve likely heard of Bitcoin. You’ve probably also heard of Ethereum, which took inspiration from Bitcoin and made significant protocol changes such as a more flexible programming language and faster

I’ve been waiting for a Bitcoin app to show my non-techie friends for 4+ years. It’s finally here: 21. The vast majority of people in the world would like to more efficiently manage and monetize their

Prior to Bitcoin, every tech innovation in history has put money in the pockets of an exclusive few. During the Internet boom of the late ‘90s, VCs, founders and early employees got rich from the massive

San Francisco-based Blockstream is arguably the most important and misunderstood company in the Bitcoin world. As an engineer-driven organization, Blockstream has not communicated much externally up to

This week, Medium announced it is giving up on its ads driven biz model. What does the path forward look like for consumer web business models? The Internet’s original sin is advertising. Ads became the

An index that tracks the price of leading blockchain assets What is a blockchain asset? A blockchain asset is a digital asset, represented cryptographically on a distributed ledger, which plays an essential

The privacy-focused digital currency Monero was up 2760% in 2016. Is it for real or a flash in the pan? 2016 was a good year for Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two digital currencies with the most traction

2016 is over and there are still no mainstream use cases for Bitcoin or any other blockchain. Given how much media hype there has been since the fall of 2013 when the U.S. Congress and the Chairmain of

A media brand that provides the most important information on blockchains Today, we’re officially launching a new media brand called The Control to fill a gap in the blockchain ecosystem that we’ve been

The proliferation of memes is one of the best consequences of the Internet. Broadly speaking a meme is an idea, typically represented as an image or video, that a group of people gets behind. The term

Democracy has been the gold standard in modern politics since the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, and it’s not likely to go away anytime soon. But recent events in Europe (Brexit)

The days of one being born into the circumstances of a specific location are numbered. In medieval times, one’s location of birth dictated social class, education, occupation and everything else about

If we want to bring cryptotokens to more people in the world, there needs to be reliable, unbiased sources of information. We're currently lacking that right now and it's becoming increasingly apparent

Cryptoeconomics is so fascinating to study because it’s a combination of technology, economics and psychology. Satoshi got all three of these right when he created Bitcoin, and when you look at new

Digital currencies and politics don't go together, but we all have someone in our lives that's extreme about their politics (for me it's my father). Background Call A Deplorable (and Call An Elitist) make