Archive - Proof of Work

Hi from Boston, and welcome to a double-edition of PoW. I’ve been playing around with a lot of apps recently and I wanted to highlight a few of the…

Nov 18, 2019

Making Alice Grin Again, economics of coin launches

Jan 15, 2019

"The Street finds its own uses for things" —William Gibson Sometimes it takes a while, though. Most of the world still doesn’t own any crypto, or even…

May 17, 2019

Hi from a plane en-route to SFO! Why is JetBlue’s so so much faster than Uniteds? Is one ground-based and the other satellite? Friends of the newsletter…

Jan 29, 2019

I rarely go to crypto conferences because so many of them are useless “when mewn!” types of things, but there are a few really great ones I always try…

Jan 23, 2019

Don't call it a comeback!

Dec 11, 2018

Forks, upgrades, and incentives

Dec 18, 2018

Downturns, forks, and jetlag, oh my!

Nov 20, 2018

Hi from Shanghai! A lot has happened in China since I was last here. Hong Kong recently announced official policy around licensing custody solutions and…

Nov 13, 2018

Welcome to PoW #45, belated courtesy of the high-purity jetlag one can only score by taking an Asia to US flight that leaves in the morning. William…

Nov 8, 2018

Welcome to PoW44 and hi from Tokyo! A lot of exciting stuff happened last week—Coda was open sourced, Zcash Sapling went live, Dharma announced Lever, a…

Nov 1, 2018

A few housekeeping notes; We’re now running updates from Keep & Solana, two interesting new projects. As I’ve noted before, we run updates from a…

Jun 27, 2019

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