Blockchain’s flavors of Finality.

How would you feel if you sold your car & an hour later lost the money from the sale? You search for days, file reports & beg your friends for help; but alas nothing. As you spiral into financial hard times & begin to regret your actions you find out that the person who bought your car has your m...

#blockchain#architecture#consensus

Actors in the Bitcoin Network

Bitcoin is two things. An open, public, permissionless network for the transfer of value & a natively digital asset for storage of value (BTC). Meaning that anyone, at any time, can participate and nobody can stop them from doing so. This then begs the question; who are the participants on the ...

#bitcoin#architecture

Metadata in the age of Cryptocurrency

Data in the digital age has been heralded as digital oil. With more data being produced daily than has been collectively produced over the last 20 years (compounded by the technological advancements in computation and global connectivity) data has become an intrinsically valuable, easily accessib...

#data#crypto#cryptocurrency#privacy#economics

Orderbook Logic

Trading demands having an edge. With so much information available now, crafting a strategy becomes overwhelming quickly. Thousands of signals to interpret as indicators of the market, thousands of different indicators each presenting data in their own unique ways. One of the most widespread, pos...

#orderbooks#trading#investing

Modeling Money Through the Lens of History & Where Crypto Fits

To be aware is to be alive. We use money every day but rarely do we stop to deeply internalize what it is, let alone how it works. Money is an abstract concept, but at its core, it is a vehicle that captures & facilitates the transference of value. In order for something to be classified as a “mo...

#crypto#cryptocurrency#economics#stablecoins