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

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

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)

While the irrational ICO activity that we’ve seen lately could do some short-term damage, in the long-run the cryptotoken model can be a massive positive for the world by enabling entrepreneurs to build

Ken Bone became a worldwide phenomenon last night during the Presidential debate when he asked the candidates a question about energy policy. 10 years ago, Ken would have asked the question and his life

I'm a user and fan of both Medium and Steemit. For the past few months, I've been picking and choosing when to post on Steemit and when to post on Medium. This week, I cross-posted on Steemit and Medium

Without spending much time on ICONOMI or the founding team, my high-level take is that their approach to launching an ICO is concerning. There are two major red flags for the project: 1.) They released

The most exciting thing to me about Steem is the developer ecosystem that's emerging around the protocol. The network ownership effect associated with crypto token-based protocols can be extremely strong

Given the technical and decentralized nature of crypto token-based protocols, it's sometimes thought that individuals don't matter in this space. I believe the opposite: individuals will be the most important

With football season rapidly approaching, I'm organizing a fantasy football league with 12-16 fellow Steemers. Anyone interested? Comment below

What is Steem, Alex?