My latest on Forbes.com is here! Chain forks and rehypothecated bitcoins don’t mix well and could cause the financial system to experience losses if it has any uncovered exposure to bitcoins amid a hard fork. The simple reason they don’t mix well is that the two systems are fundamentally not compatible. But there’s also a simple […]

The “R” and “C” words, rehypothecation and commingling, are as antithetical to how Bitcoin works as they are integral to how Wall Street works. But they’re coming to bitcoin, thanks to Wall Street’s entry into the market via ICE, parent of the New York Stock Exchange.

Last of the 3-part series on Forbes.com is available here! The race to fix Wall St now includes ICE, parent of NYSE, which is embracing cryptocurrencies. This renders many of Wall St’s enterprise blockchain projects obsolete as ICE moves to natively-digital blockchain assets, a big positive.

ICE has announced it is building Bakkt–a new cryptocurrency platform and ecosystem. This is positive for cryptocurrencies in many ways, but it’s also negative.

Here’s my latest post on Forbes.com — the second of a 3-part series on the building rivalry between crypto capital markets and Wall Street. Liquidity arising from the good type of financialization is a big positive for cryptocurrencies, owing to exponential network effects, but liquidity arising from leverage-based financialization—which creates claims to cryptocurrencies out of thin […]

Here’s my latest post on Forbes.com — the first of a 3-part series on the building rivalry between crypto capital markets and Wall Street. The ICO market was 45% of the IPO market in Q2 2018, up from 40% in Q1 2018. Institutional investors are seeing opportunities in a market that is becoming institutionally-investable. Investment […]