Sitemap - 2019 - Stuffed Blocks

Acquisition vs defense mindset

The virtual worlds future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

How to get into VC

Do what you can

Is trading good or bad

Retro on booking back to back meetings at Devcon

Vignettes from China: trying to buy stuff

Book time with me at devcon this week

Joining Multicoin Capital

Easy games and hard games

Availability bias

Louis Vuitton skins

Cost to attack versus cost to defend

Doomsday prep

Unexpected death of my computer

Asking questions on the internet

Love and hate of San Francisco

The trust spectrum

Five talks from the a16z crypto summit

WoW Classic is a first-party fork

Use of digital assets in Venezuela, Palestine, and natively

The International Dota 2 Tournament

Advanced search for file collaboration

Trading signals are not valuations

Will fake videos become indistinguishable from real ones?

People want to follow people, not content

The implicit assumption of valuation

Demand for safe havens

Do increases in consumer choice come from decreases in consumer choice elsewhere?

Niche markets most likely driver of DEX adoption

Horizontal and vertical expansion for crypto projects

Thiel on productivity stagnation, skeptical of runaway automation

Elo rating systems and how to manipulate them

Bullshit versus lies

Thinking the thoughts of others

How to write and publish consistently

Vitalik's warlock probably deserved it

Speculation as the killer app

Valuation Wednesday: what is valuation? What is price?

How to grow a Ponzi

Mailbag Monday: career advice for a high school grad

All news is good news for bitcoin because it is both viral and unstoppable

Revisiting cryptoasset valuation

How do I short X? And should I bother?

For digital goods, focus less on supply and more on demand

Changes to the blog

Pricing vs valuing cryptoassets (plus EdgeWare ROI model)

Erik Torenberg thinks we should build career moats

Libra versus the state and lessons from the Algorand auction

Jill Carlson thinks we should take more walks

Who has power over Facebook's GlobalCoin?

Everybody is getting tragically sim swapped and you will too

How to get and avoid getting sued by the SEC (Kik, Voice, LEO)

To avoid bias, hold no coins

Ed Moncada, CEO of Blockfolio, on following your gut and not giving up

IEOs are fine but the tokens might not be

Satoshi's vision for bitcoin as told by its predecessors

Ingredients for a good crypto game (Cheeze Wizards)

Kyle Samani, GP at Multicoin Capital, on raising and operating a fund, reading and writing habits, and Google Glass

Nathaniel Whittemore, creator of Long Reads Sunday, on how to meet the most interesting people of your generation

Are bitcoin reorgs bad? (plus on-chain cashflow)

Why I write this blog

Soona Amhaz, founder of Token Daily, on media as leverage, how to generate serendepity, and super chickens (?)

Understanding Chamath Palihapitiya's optimism about cryptocurrrencies (plus Tether stuff)

Peter McCormack, host of the What Bitcoin Did Podcast, on growing a podcast, the value of branding, and managing controversy

Binance Chain does not want to be seen as competition

Improving strengths over weaknesses

Do we want some censorship in our systems? (On BSV and crypto-anarchy)

Bootstrapping a crypto network

The happy path for token projects (is hard)

Proof that cryptocurrencies are a virus

There are only three certainties in crypto

Build vs buy for crypto projects

When mutability helps fledgling crypto networks (plus Vitalik at RadXChange)

Funding development for open source crypto projects, Jack edition

Are smart contracts a "dumb idea" for cryptoanarchy?

Ripple funding games is good for crypto (plus should have shorted Grin)

Three "privacy moments" in the United States and the Unstoppable Panopticon

On the margin, Coinbase's Neutrino acquisition is pro privacy but your coins aren't fungible either way

Who cares if Coinbase lists XRP? (plus Facebook Coin)

First direct, then emergent

Come for the direct properties, stay for the emergent ones (MakerDAO)

JPM Coin and Bitcoin can coexist (but probably not Ripple)

Who has power?

Who is wrapped BTC good for? (plus what good is Apple's censorship?)

Opportunities for blockchains across the games value chain

Should everybody just work on Bitcoin?

When is faking it until you make it wrong?

How to short Grin?

Lessons from the clean energy bubble

Augur disputes all the way down (plus Veil, ETC)

Do open in-game economies make games less fun?