War propaganda is nothing new. At the height of the Roman empire, Julius Caesar provided readers back at home with detailed descriptions of the barbaric Germanic tribes they encountered as a way to bolster his own image. During WW2, the iconic “Rosie the Riveter” poster was used in the United States to incentivize women to join the workforce to help deal with labor shortages.   Two weeks ago, Hamas attacked Israel via a slew of rockets sent from the Gaza strip, and Israel declared war in response. Since then, a deluge of distressing images have been proliferating online. Disinformation an ..read more

“War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty” —Clausewitz The unspeakable violence and aggression that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine and its people is the first all out “hot war” invasion in Europe since WWII. Fallout is being felt across the global economy, roiling markets and causing many investors to seek relative shelter amidst the volatility. As with any global crisis, it is also a moment of uncertainty and unease for many market participants. There are three key themes crypto i ..read more

Today is Labor Day in the United States, a day when we are supposed to reflect on everyday people who work hard to make sure our economy works. The past two years have upended the 20th century industrial model of working – with COVID, many workers had to work from home. Another group of workers, who we called “essential workers”, which included delivery workers, grocery workers, healthcare workers and first responders continued their physical work. Underlying some of these bifurcations was an even larger movement at play, one that only started to gain momentum in early 2021, one year after COV ..read more

There were days this past year that felt like decades, and days that flew by. I can’t quite remember another year of my life that was filled with so much grief and sadness but also hope. Hope for a future that will be better than the past, where my life’s work of creating equitable opportunities for all may actually materialize. Both the grief and hope come from the same place – a system that finally broke after years of heavy weight born by the masses. I am a venture capitalist and believe in new ventures and capitalism. I do believe both, enabled by technology and human talent, can lead to a ..read more

Three years ago (almost to the day), I wrote about Bitcoin reaching $10,000: Bitcoin is at $10K — and that’s just the beginning of how it will revolutionize money. We know how that story ended. CNBC put together a clip of my comments on the currency, stating I was the VC who “called Bitcoin’s correction”: What’s different this time around now that Bitcoin has reached and passed the $20K milestone? In the 2017 article, I wrote “True alpha returns have been difficult to achieve in the globally low interest-rate environment…” Fast forward to 2020 and truer words have never been spoken. A global ..read more

As investors try to navigate the COVID-19 world, they’re taking a hard look at their portfolios and solving for the new normal. In the midst of highly volatile traditional financial markets, savvy investors are searching for new avenues for not only higher returns, but the best risk-adjusted ones as well. I’ve been investing in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors since 2013. I’ve often faced questions from institutional investors who considered Bitcoin a passing fad and too volatile for any serious consideration. Those in countries that have previously experienced massive inflation (Zimb ..read more

“Edge computing” has been heralded as a way to increase access to real-time information and to analyze that information more efficiently. But in this moment of public health crisis, we should recognize a potentially significant opportunity that these technologies offer beyond efficiency: the ability of edge computing to weather massive disruption. To see why, it’s worth remembering what edge computing involves. These technologies move computer workloads to “the edge” of networks, shifting the collection, processing, and storage of data from central locations (like servers or the cloud) to indi ..read more

India’s Supreme Court today announced a historic ruling: they overturned The Reserve Bank of India’s 2018 circular that effectively banned cryptocurrency trading, making it illegal for crypto exchanges to link to bank accounts. The Court has now ruled that circular as “unconstitutional”. This has re-opened up the world’s largest democracy, steeped in thousands-year old entrepreneurial culture, to the crypto sector. Just hours before the ruling, I flew back from a week in India meeting with entrepreneurs in the sector – it was apparent over the last week that innovators continued to innovate ..read more

Over two years ago, in the early days of the ICO boom of 2017, we launched the Blockchain Weekly. When we started the newsletter, there was a plethora of misinformation in the space and we wanted to create a trusted source to sift through it and provide commentary when needed. Since then, many more publications are covering the sector. Articles and sources have proliferated while the frenzy has died down – leading to better coverage. Taking this into account, I have decided to discontinue publishing the “weekly” newsletter (which as I’m sure you have noticed, has become more infrequent as time ..read more

While company after company pulled out of Facebook’s Libra project, the US Congress grilled Mark Zuckerberg, the SEC halted Telegram’s token offering, and several US legislators called for a digital dollar, China had a few words for the world… In the first of a flurry of announcements over the past week, China’s President Xi Jinping made his first public statement on blockchain tech, calling for the country to “seize the opportunity”. A few days later, China’s National People’s Congress passed a cryptography law to regulate the sector. Bitcoin’s price shot up from $7K to nearly $10K, and China ..read more