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I was reading an article about Axie Infinity (the blockchain game taking crypto and the Philippines by storm) in The Verge this week, and the founder s…
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My brother got married this weekend, so my Friday and Saturday nights were spent drinking and dancing instead of writing. I’m not complaining. But it m…
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When I left EY in April, I had a sense of closure. My career in crypto started in 2013 and I had spent the last eight years working to legitimize crypt…
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Risk. How likely is something to happen? That word - risk - and that question - how likely is something to happen? - are responsible for more money cha…
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One of the greatest M&A stories of all time happened in 1988. RJR Nabisco, the resulting company after the merger of Nabisco brands and R.J. Reynolds T…
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In April, my friend Patrick and I were having a conversation about Decentraland - a virtual world launched in 2019 that exists in part on the Ethereum …
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Lately, more and more of my friends are joining DAOs. Some are passive members, others are active contributors. I assume a lot of this is due to DAOs b…
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Mergers and Acquisitions was my favorite class in law school. For whatever reason, business and corporate law made sense to me. Evidence and Constituti…
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I read a great quote recently from jazz legend Miles Davis… “It took me years to learn to play like myself.” What Davis meant was he spent years emulat…
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When I decided to start a newsletter earlier this year, I was nervous. I admitted in my first issue that the two things holding me back from doing it e…
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Standards dictate a huge portion of human interaction. When you’re in a certain country, you speak a certain language. When you drive a car, you stop o…
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If you’ve ever posted a photo on Instagram or uploaded a video on Youtube, you are a participant in the creator economy. Large platforms like Youtube, …
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