Universal Biometric Identity
During the past week, I have traveled through airports using TSA Pre and Clear and plan to travel internationally soon using the Global Entry system. I have recently renewed my TSA Pre and Trusted Traveler accounts. I am also in [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: How About Howey?
This Unchained Podcast with Patrick Gibbs of the law firm Cooley and Ted Livingston founder of the Kin cryptocurrency project is a great discussion of the Howey Test that the SEC has put forward as the framework through which to [...] Read more
Unsafe Notes
I was reminded yesterday how much of a shit show raising seed capital via SAFE notes is. I can’t and won’t get into why I was reminded of that, but let’s just say nobody wants to go there. So I [...] Read more
Outschooling
A few months ago I posted some data on this blog that showed the growth of homeschooling in the US with almost 5% of K12 students being schooled at home. I wrote at the end of that post: This is [...] Read more
DefendCrypto.org
Over the last year, the SEC has been investigating a significant number of token offerings that took place in 2017. While some of those offerings were scams or worse, many of the ones that are being investigated by the SEC [...] Read more
Remembering
It is Memorial Day, the most solemn of our national holidays. Let’s all take a moment some time today to remember our fallen soldiers. Read more
Geofencing Crypto Assets Out Of The US Is Bad Policy
I wrote this tweetstorm on Friday when I read the blog post about Poloniex’s decision to geofence certain assets away from US customers , driven by the SEC’s recently published framework for digital assets . Geofencing Crypto Assets Out Of [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Olaf Carlson-Wee At Token Summit
In my new gig as interviewer, I sat down with Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain Capital and one of the top token fund managers, at Token Summit. Read more
Sick Day
I woke up sick this morning and could not fly to Toronto where I was planning to do a session at Collision with Matt Glotzbach , CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet . I sent some emails to let people [...] Read more