Crypto’s future appears to be headed east
The twentieth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing analyzes the growing influence of freer markets on China, and how crypto’s future might very well be forming in East.
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Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, half a decade and 100,000 signatures later
The nineteenth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing reflects on the plight of Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road, and why it might be important to support one of crypto’s own.
Welcome to the distributed collaborative entity: Terra firma societies are possible with crypto, and it’s not a fantasy
The seventeenth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing looks at the prospects for freer enclaves, societies, build on the power of cryptocurrency and its underlying tech. It’s no longer a fantasy.
Trillions of Wall Street dollars begin to point at crypto: JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, ICE are getting serious
The sixteenth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing cobbles together the various entry points Wall Street has recently taken up to position themselves within the crypto ecosystem. There’s a pattern forming.
Unsexy truth: Crypto’s bear market, its extended winter, is a good lesson
The fifteenth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing muses about the important lessons to be taken from the 2017 run, and why the bear market we’re all suffering is a chance to orient ourselves back to basic truths about wealth creation, wealth building.
We’re from the International Monetary Fund, and we’re here to help
The fourteenth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing examines the International Monetary Fund’s continual warnings about the power of cryptocurrency.
Toward a new and better World Wide Web?
The thirteenth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing explains how the father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, believes he can create a new and better internet.
ShapeShift is still punk rock
The twelfth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing argues for loving ShapeShift, even though it is giving in just a little to government pressure.
All hell breaks loose: Bitcoin BCH vs. BTC debate
The tenth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing considers the recent debate between BCH evangelist Roger Ver, CEO of Bitcoin.com, and BTC developer Jimmy Song while aboard a European cruise, and if such is ultimately good for the ecosystem.
Crypto ETF stars might be aligning
The ninth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing discusses possible political moves and general trends that bode well for the spectre of a crypto ETF, a supposed Holy Grail of crypto mainstreaming enthusiasts.
Bitcoin is beautiful anarchy
The seventh installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing examines the intellectual genealogy of Bitcoin, anarchy. Far from crotch-grabbing hoodlums, crypto-anarchists made a quirky, crazy path to creating the best money humans have ever known.
Wall Street is coming for your crypto
The sixth installment in a weekly column, A Power of Facing examines the financialization of cryptocurrency and what that means with giants such as ICE and its Bakkt project entering the ecosystem.