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2026 79

  1. The GRANITE Act: Reasserting America’s Border and Congress’ Primacy Online, No More, No Less
  2. GRANITE Act Endorsement Tracker
  3. “We’re Not Yours Anymore,” a Music Video About Ofcom
  4. Online Safety Act a Failure, According to Ofcom
  5. Ofcom Concedes Defeat in the 4chan Case
  6. “My objective in fighting foreign censorship is to get Congress to pass a shield law that would allow a first-year associate to kick the shit out of a foreign sovereign censor in federal court.”
  7. Massie Cosponsors the GRANITE Act
  8. Why Democrats Should Back the GRANITE Act, in Two Tweets
  9. The GRANITE Act features in The Hill
  10. “Extinction-level event for the open Internet”
  11. On Endgame with Amanda Cassatt Talking About the 4chan Case and Foreign Censorship
  12. GRANITE Act Introduced in the United States Senate
  13. Testimony in support of the Wyoming GRANITE Act Foreign Censorship Shield Bill
  14. The Lesson of 4chan v. Ofcom Is Not “Engage With Ofcom”
  15. Statement of Byrne & Storm, P.C. on the Ruling in 4chan Community Support LLC and Lolcow LLC v. Ofcom
  16. Who Aligns the Aligners? Brief Legal Thoughts on the “AI Safety” Fights to Come
  17. On GB News Talking About Big Brother Watch’s New Free Speech Campaign
  18. Russia Censors Americans
  19. Rep. Warren Davidson Introduces the HOMEFRONT Act, HR 10309 (Davidson’s GRANITE) To Fight Foreign Censors
  20. New Hampshire GRANITE Act filed by Rep. Calvin Beaulier
  21. On the Law of Code Podcast Talking About The Rulli GRANITE Act
  22. The Rulli GRANITE Act Features on GB News
  23. America Strikes Back Against Foreign Censors With The Rulli GRANITE Act, HR 10174
  24. ALEC: “the GRANITE Act recognizes a growing challenge in the digital age: foreign governments can influence what Americans see and say online.”
  25. On the Brave Technologist Podcast with Luke Mulks
  26. GRANITE Act Defensive Provisions Adopted as National Model Policy by ALEC
  27. GRANITE Act Under Consideration as ALEC Model Bill
  28. On the Law of Code Podcast with Jacob Robinson
  29. A Tale of Two Bills: Comparing the Adam Smith Institute’s and the Prosperity Institute’s Free Speech Proposals
  30. How Should the US Respond to Foreign Regulation of Online Speech? (ITIF Panel)
  31. On the GB News Late Show Discussing the UK’s Proposed Social Media Ban
  32. On the Alex Armstrong Show Discussing the UK’s Proposed “Queue-Jumping Rule” for Social Media
  33. ITIF Writes About the GRANITE Act
  34. On GB News’ Late Show with Bev Turner Talking About the Australian Social Media Ban
  35. On Hamsters, Free Speech, and the United Kingdom
  36. It’s Time for a Federal GRANITE Act: How to Stop the UK’s Censorship Regime from Harming American Companies
  37. Tracker of Tech Industry, Think Tank, and Other Responses to Proposed Expansion of UK Censorship Laws
  38. The GRANITE Act Archive: A Reader’s Guide
  39. Event: ITIF Webinar on the GRANITE Act Architecture and Legislative Strategies for Foreign Censorship Defense, July 8th
  40. The JAWBONE Act: A “Sword” Like The GRANITE Act, Pointed At Our Own Government
  41. Report: The Case for Using Section 301 to Retaliate Against Discriminatory EU Policies
  42. Discussing the Rumored UK Social Media Ban on CapX
  43. “Social Media Is as Dangerous as Smoking” Is a Lie
  44. Under Secretary Rogers Hints (Again) At Imminent U.S. Federal GRANITE/Foreign Censorship Shield Bill
  45. Ofcom Snatches Defeat From the Jaws of Victory on the SaSu Case; Pivots After Big Tech
  46. Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls For Its Complete Repeal
  47. Thoughts on the £1,000,000 SaSu Fine
  48. Congress Must Introduce a Federal GRANITE Act
  49. Meta Challenges UK Ofcom’s Speech Taxes
  50. If the EU Built Claude
  51. The Censorship-Industrial Complex Is About to Get Defunded
  52. U.S. Internet Censorship Shield Law Tracker
  53. H.R.8595, State Department Appropriations Bill, Proposes to Prohibit U.S. Govt. Funding of Foreign Censorship
  54. On the Peter McCormack Show talking about defending U.S. free speech from the U.K.
  55. On the Free Speech Union’s Podcast with Lord Young talking about the Freedom of Speech Bill
  56. A Free Speech Bill for Britain
  57. Early feedback from lawyers on the Adam Smith Institute’s UK Free Speech Bill
  58. On the So to Speak podcast with Nico Perrino
  59. Coming Soon
  60. The Diet GRANITE Act
  61. BREAKING: Wyoming GRANITE Act PASSES in the Wyoming House of Representatives, 46-12
  62. Lessons in Overreach
  63. Testimony before the Wyoming House Judiciary Committee on the GRANITE Act
  64. BREAKING: West Virginia Introduces the West Virginia GRANITE Act
  65. The Ofcom Files, Part 6: They’re Back
  66. On the GB News Late Show talking about the GRANITE Act
  67. Wyoming GRANITE Act sails through introduction vote in Wyoming House of Representatives, 57-5
  68. Current working draft of the New Hampshire GRANITE Act
  69. BREAKING: Congress considering backing up GRANITE Act efforts in Wyoming and New Hampshire
  70. GB News With Bev Turner
  71. The Free Speech Fighters
  72. The Wyoming GRANITE Act, HB0070, has been formally introduced in the Wyoming legislature
  73. State Department confirms: federal censorship shield law incoming
  74. Spectator feature: Will Congress shield the US from foreign attacks on the First Amendment?
  75. Explaining the GRANITE Act on Harry Cole Saves the West
  76. Final Draft of the Wyoming GRANITE Act – 15 January 2026
  77. Talking UK censorship on The Bitcoin Podcast with Walker
  78. The Ofcom Files, Part V: Block Harder
  79. Chatting w. Taylor Lorenz about the fight to keep the Internet free

2025 32

  1. 4chan’s opposition brief to Ofcom’s motion to dismiss in the D.D.C.
  2. Who Writes the Laws of the Internet?
  3. On Marty Bent’s TFTC podcast talking about the U.S. free speech fight vs the UK
  4. Foreign censorship: Congress begins to move
  5. Civis Americanus Sum
  6. A Chronology of the American Fightback Against Foreign Censors in 2025
  7. Hosea 8:7
  8. The American Counter-Offensive Against Foreign Censorship Should Be Bipartisan
  9. “If I can protect 4chan from the UK, I can protect anyone from the UK.”
  10. Interview with Smash JT on the GRANITE Act and the fight against foreign censors
  11. What the world might look like if we get a federal GRANITE Act
  12. “We’re not just coming for UK censorship. We want it all.”
  13. The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
  14. This is not a drill
  15. On Galaxy Brains this week talking free speech + crypto
  16. “I was given the mandate, and instructions to wage war on the Online Safety Act and destroy it.”
  17. The Full Text of the Wyoming GRANITE Act
  18. The Ofcom Files, Part 3: No Surrender
  19. The Ofcom Files, Part 2: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act
  20. The GRANITE Act: How Congress Can Strike Back Against Foreign Censors
  21. The Ofcom Files: Exposing the UK’s Attempt to Destroy the First Amendment
  22. The Law of the Webserver is the Law of the Website: a Trans-Atlantic Free Speech Defense Doctrine
  23. A Proposal for a New British Constitution
  24. UK Lawyers: Be Not Afraid
  25. To Win Back Free Speech, Britain Needs a New Constitution
  26. An open letter to future AI
  27. Madison Budget Madness
  28. Remarks to the UK Free Speech Union, February 12th, 2025
  29. We Will Be Welcomed As Liberators
  30. UK Government Tech Policy Must Become Very Libertarian, Very Quickly
  31. Thoughts from a private citizen on the Madison Academy Community Center proposal
  32. The online censorship war isn’t over – but free speech is winning

2024 20

  1. UK Free Speech as a Sword, not a Shield
  2. On Blaze TV talking about threats to arrest U.S. social media entrepreneurs
  3. Europe can’t silence American free speech; it can only silence itself
  4. On the Galaxy Brains podcast talking Telegram, crypto, etc.
  5. Thoughts on the Durov arrest
  6. Two broadsides against British censorship law
  7. Thoughts on the legal basis for online censorship in England after the riots
  8. Why I celebrate the demise of the UK Higher Education (Free Speech) Act 2023, and you should too
  9. Thanks to NetChoice v. Paxton, this 4th of July, the First Amendment is in excellent health
  10. AI will wipe out public education in ten years
  11. On the CryptoLaw podcast with Gabe Shapiro
  12. The Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act, Section-by-Section
  13. On the Brave Technologist podcast
  14. AI Breaks the World, Crypto Fixes It, Part VI: Hacking the 2024 Election With Biden Deepfakes (A Thought Experiment)
  15. AI Breaks the World, Crypto Fixes it, Part V: OnlyFakes Requires New Forms of “Proof of Human”
  16. AI Breaks the World, Crypto Fixes It, Part IV: The Great Zoom Robbery
  17. DAOs are not useful, and will not be useful, for online extremism
  18. AI Breaks the World, Crypto Fixes It, Part III: How Crypto Can Solve the Joe Biden AI Deepfake Problem
  19. A short note on designing blockchain systems for RWAs/real-world assets: permissioned contracts on unpermissioned chains
  20. The Bitcoin Bull is back and you want to start a crypto company: 5 pitfalls to avoid

2023 16

  1. Section 230a: The Freedom for AI Innovation and Research Use Act (the “FAIR Use Act”)
  2. There is no such thing as a crypto-asset security
  3. In DeFi, code is not law; code is a source of law, and subject to it
  4. To beat U.S. regulators, DeFi needs to design itself in accordance with the First Amendment
  5. AI Breaks The World, Crypto Fixes it, Part II: the “AI Misinformation” problem can be completely solved by cryptocurrency-based “proof of human”
  6. My thesis: AI breaks the world; crypto fixes it
  7. IJBL Article: UK Rules, While Strict, Nonetheless Avoid America’s Securitarian Trap
  8. How to handle unlawful or undesirable content in your blockchain application
  9. A short note on the absurd Stoner Cats settlement
  10. Substance over form: a quick note on the SEC’s first NFT Settlement
  11. Section 301: Crypto’s Section 230?
  12. Ripple Labs Ruling Throws U.S. Crypto-Token Regulation into Disarray
  13. “Disinformation” is not a crime
  14. UK blazes its own trail with new cryptocurrency rules. Will it exercise restraint, or kill the golden goose?
  15. How to Build a Crypto Exchange Post-Coinbase
  16. Compliance: Impossible

2022 4

  1. Economic unreality: a retrospective on a decade of ICO litigation
  2. The next wave of crypto is social
  3. Craig Wright’s Pyrrhic victory proves that English libel law needs to be reformed, right now
  4. How to Build Decentralized Twitter

2021 5

  1. Minting the “Trillion Dollar Coin” is illegal
  2. Congressman: Yes, We Did In Fact Lose Afghanistan Because of Big Tech
  3. Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?
  4. The Free Net Project: a brief proposal
  5. Thoughts on the Trump Deplatforming

2020 15

  1. After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting
  2. Republicans: stop begging the government to protect you from internet censorship
  3. Summon the Libertarians!
  4. Anti-Cancellation Clauses: corporate timeouts for the digital age
  5. Section 230 explained with stick figures
  6. Reforming or repealing Section 230 to force Twitter to be neutral won’t work
  7. Not Legal Advice, 4/28/20 – With Kik and Telegram Cases, the SEC Tries to Kill the SAFT
  8. Don’t abolish bar exams, abolish law schools
  9. Brittle America vs. Resilient America: on Covid-19 emergency rule and the decentralization of emergency powers
  10. Not Legal Advice, 11 March 2020 – How to ensure your startup survives the Coronavirus
  11. Not Legal Advice, 2 March 2020 – The States Can’t Blockchain
  12. Not Legal Advice, 20 Feb 2020 – The three-year token “Safe Harbor” proposal would be hilarious if it weren’t so serious
  13. Not Legal Advice, 13 Feb 2020: UK prepares to nuke its tech industry with “Online Harms” proposals
  14. NIRP is going to ruin everything
  15. Help! The government’s at the door and they’re asking me for data… what do I do?

2019 20

  1. Lawyers, Guns and Bitcoin
  2. Not Legal Advice, 1 December 2019 – Stablecoins, North Korea, and Guns
  3. Not Legal Advice, 18/11/2019 – The federal government needs to stop using the word “decentralization”
  4. Not Legal Advice 11/9/19 – Dai hits $100 million; Crime doesn’t pay; FBI Director Wray speaks to Congress
  5. Will the UK-US data sharing agreement *really* not result in forced decryption of American communications?
  6. Not Legal Advice, 9/22/19 – self-proclaimed architect of the “Zug Defence” arrested, ICOBox sued, Section 230 limited by the 9th Circuit
  7. Not Legal Advice, 9/16/19: Crypto taxes, systemic risk in DeFi, and Section 230
  8. Not Legal Advice, 9/9/19
  9. Talking about Libra on What Bitcoin Did
  10. The LAO, demystified
  11. XRP: the more things change, the more they stay the same
  12. What Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act actually says
  13. Thoughts on Facebook’s Libra Coin
  14. Zucktoshi Bookamoto
  15. Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles
  16. Freedom-loving people everywhere should oppose the Online Harms White Paper
  17. Open access publishing platforms and unlawful threats
  18. Guest post for the Crypto Caselaw Minute
  19. Facebook’s new 10-digit security hole
  20. Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized

2018 21

  1. A very very short story, part II
  2. What do you legally “own” with Bitcoin? A short introduction to krypto-property
  3. Cryptoturkey
  4. I told you so… now, what’s next for American ICOs?
  5. “That’s not a squirrel taco”
  6. Chatting with Nelson
  7. The FCA/Cryptoassets Task Force Report: mostly boring
  8. A very very short story
  9. Bitcoin is as efficient as a lame hippopotamus with a hangover
  10. Thoughts on GeminiCoin
  11. With crypto, the United Kingdom needs to put its house in order
  12. 3D Printable Guns as Free Speech?
  13. Back to my roots
  14. Ether is not a Security?
  15. Ether was (probably) a security
  16. Marmot Energy
  17. Whether Ether is a security
  18. Stablecoins are doomed to fail, Pt. III: SAGA
  19. The American ICO is Dead
  20. Live Free or DAICO
  21. Stablecoins are doomed to fail, Part II: MakerDAO’s “DAI” stablecoin is breaking, as predicted

2017 22

  1. Venezuela’s “Petro” cryptocurrency proposal needs improvement
  2. How high transaction fees threaten cryptocurrency institutions’ solvency
  3. Estonia’s “Estcoin” is a Nakamoto Scheme
  4. Algorithmic Stablecoins are doomed to fail
  5. No, the U.S. Senate isn’t banning Bitcoin
  6. Basecoin (aka the Basis Protocol): the worst idea in cryptocurrency, reborn
  7. Ouch
  8. Absolute must-read
  9. Prog Rock Friday
  10. The UK FCA (Finally) Speaks About ICOs
  11. Blockchain ICO claims it will be worth $1 trillion by 2025
  12. ICO Thought of the Week
  13. Peak of Inflated Expectations: ICO Edition
  14. Mirabile visu
  15. On token liquidity
  16. On the Perils of Being an Intellectual Outlaw…
  17. alt-politics
  18. Table Selection
  19. Beaver Fever
  20. De Novo
  21. Listen to the privacy geeks…
  22. A heartwarming tale of a child pursuing her dreams in the face of adversity

2016 21

  1. Against Tokens: Part II
  2. Prog Rock Monday
  3. The MIT Licence, Line-by-Line
  4. Photography is dead, thanks to the culture algorithms
  5. Glam Rock Monday (Against the Culture Algorithms)
  6. “Can confirm. Am marmot”
  7. This is why I no longer live in the United Kingdom
  8. On Fred
  9. #Brexit: Eris Industries backs the EEA Option
  10. Legal #Brexit
  11. #BREXIT: For the record
  12. Even when unpopular
  13. This is how awesome America used to be
  14. #THEDAO: Broken, but worth fixing
  15. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  16. Eris Industries has a great week
  17. US-EU Safe Harbor Data-Transfer Talks Enter Final Week
  18. Right against warrantless searches is dead in the UK
  19. Freedom of speech is dead in the UK
  20. Prog Rock Monday
  21. A comparison of American and English Civil Liberties

2015 140

  1. Prog Rock Monday (except rap, and on a Tuesday)
  2. Prog Rock Monday
  3. On Radio 4’s Today Programme on the UK’s Draft Investigatory Powers Bill
  4. Day = Made
  5. Damn it feels good to be a gangster
  6. On the “New Kids on the Block(chain)” Panel at #Innotribe 2015
  7. Prog Rock Monday
  8. Money And Politics: Bitcoin’s Governance Crisis
  9. Demonsaw Uses “Social Cryptography” To Share Files And Data Anonymously
  10. Ranking Nations for Overall Freedom, not Just Economic Liberty
  11. What banks can learn from media companies that were hit by the digitization tsunami a decade ago
  12. Feels like home
  13. Enforce this
  14. Confuse this
  15. Bigger Isn’t Always Better: How A Big Round Can Hurt Your Startup
  16. Hacking For Cause: Today’s Growing Cyber Security Trend
  17. Presentation at the 2015 American Banker blockchain shindig
  18. The Mt.Gox Arrest Is The End Of The First Age Of Bitcoin
  19. Uncovering ECHELON: The Top-Secret NSA/GCHQ Program That Has Been Watching You Your Entire Life
  20. When they don’t protect themselves…
  21. 5 Months, 48 States
  22. Bitcoin and Blockchain: two revolutions for the price of one?
  23. Startup life is absurd
  24. Bitmarmots
  25. International symbol for “this shit just works”
  26. Object lesson
  27. Prog Rock Monday
  28. Your daily marmot
  29. “We are governed by morons”
  30. The real game: networks
  31. Hacking Team, Which Sells Surveillance Tech To Governments, Exposed By Major Hack
  32. Prog Rock Monday (6 July 2015)
  33. A Simple Explanation of Balance Sheets (Don’t run away… it’s interesting, really!)
  34. Prog Rock Monday (On Thursday)
  35. The end game or a new beginning for Greece? We have seen all this before
  36. A Closer Look At The Silicon Valley Vs. Wall Street Talent War
  37. French Anti-Uber Protest Turns To Guerrilla Warfare As Cabbies Burn Cars, Attack Uber Drivers
  38. The golden rule of British government spending
  39. SEC Reg A+ Will Now Let You Crowdfund Equity
  40. In the Future, Employees Won’t Exist
  41. Europe Has The Potential To Dominate Industrial IoT, But Can It Deliver?
  42. The Best Conditions For Building A Unicorn
  43. A reminder
  44. Towards a Unified Model for Replicated, Shared Ledgers
  45. The First Battle In The Mobile Payments War Is Over
  46. Breaking News From Bitcoin
  47. Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy
  48. Push For Greater State Surveillance Powers Could Have Chilling Effect On U.K. Tech Sector
  49. The Obsession With Silicon Everywhere
  50. Tim Swanson: “What impact have various investment pools had on Bitcoinland?”
  51. Why Every Enterprise Startup Needs A New York City Presence
  52. An Interesting Biography, an Interesting Blog, and an Interesting Lecture on ‘Ideal’ Money
  53. Elliptic Curve Cryptography: finite fields and discrete logarithms
  54. A Simple Explanation of How Shares Move Around the Securities Settlement System
  55. The Importance Of Choosing The Right VC
  56. Bitcoiners and their myths
  57. Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction
  58. Bubble 2.0?
  59. Clinkle Implodes As Employees Quit In Protest Of CEO
  60. Eris: Media Roundup
  61. Blockchain is where banks have the most obvious opportunity. But you ignore Bitcoin at your peril
  62. The FOSS Eris Industries Logo
  63. Tech Giants Pile On In Support Of The NSA-Curtailing USA FREEDOM Act
  64. Why the Uber of banking Fintech model is a mirage
  65. Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Lean Startups
  66. New U.K. Government Focuses On Startups And Spooks
  67. And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Is… Liquidity
  68. 10 Rules Successful Startups Should Follow
  69. Comin’ straight from the underground
  70. How to explain the value of replicated, shared ledgers from first principles
  71. Try the whole “blockchain without bitcoin” thing for yourself
  72. Why Bitcoin’s male domination will be its downfall
  73. Anthropomorphising the blockchain
  74. BitMarmot is back
  75. Bitcoin Vs. Wall Street: A Love-Hate Story
  76. Crypto 2.0 Musings – Deconstructing Trust
  77. Are we starting to fall out of love with Silicon Valley?
  78. Stop this madness
  79. a16z Hires Former Facebooker Ted Ullyot To Help Portfolio Companies Deal With Regulatory Issues
  80. Eris Industries features in the Wall Street Journal
  81. I am now old.
  82. The Dawn Of The Age Of The Software ‘Infrapreneur’
  83. The Real Reason Open Source Startups Fail
  84. Why use a permissioned blockchain?
  85. Answer: No
  86. “Just make it a metaprotocol on Bitcoin.”
  87. Cryptopocalypse
  88. Eris Industries’ International Marmot Video Party 1: Introduction to EPM
  89. ‘Blockchain without Bitcoin’ is now a thing
  90. Fintech 1,000: B2C Payments will be be 10x cheaper but volumes will increase 10x
  91. Eris: a graphical representation of the future of distributed computing networks
  92. 5 other insane things a corrupt DEA agent did while allegedly stealing Bitcoin from Silk Road
  93. On exactitude in the non-discipline of ‘crypto-economics’, or: the Fate of Bitcoin
  94. Eris: in plain English
  95. A dark knight is better than no knight at all
  96. Doing the Consult Hyperion FinTech podcast
  97. A Bitcoin IPO such as Coinbase could trigger mainstream merchant adoption
  98. What is Eris? (A video)
  99. It’s a frickin’ database
  100. Seeing the “Network for the Nodes” in Blockchain Technology
  101. A Central Bank “cryptocurrency”? An interesting idea, but maybe not for the reason we think
  102. On cuddly critters
  103. “F***.”
  104. This is how you are supposed to use blockchains and smart contracts
  105. Not advisable
  106. Eris Industries features in The New Republic
  107. For Bitcoin to get mass adoption in Underbanked, it has to be more like M-Pesa
  108. The marmots are everywhere
  109. Happy Prog Rock Monday (Close to the Edge)
  110. Deep Thoughts at the Met
  111. The Willy Report: proof of massive fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox, and how it has affected the price of Bitcoin
  112. A Drumlin Woodchuck
  113. Rocking Epicenter Bitcoin
  114. Protip
  115. You know you have a marmot problem
  116. The Marmotoshi Scale
  117. An Overlooked Development: Ethereum, IBM ADEPT and the Internet of Things (IoT)
  118. In the future, the Internet will not need servers
  119. Friday.
  120. On technological progress
  121. A Simple Model for Smart Contracts
  122. How to fix a bank in 100 days
  123. Welcome to the (growing) Club
  124. Diversifying this blog away from marmots
  125. Why I love what I do for a living
  126. Health Insurance Provider Anthem Reports Massive Data Breach
  127. Which Fedcoin?
  128. Look up “Post-libertarian” in the dictionary
  129. Eris Industries quoted in the FT
  130. Change The Bank By Importing StartUp Culture
  131. Happy groundhog day
  132. Raspberry Pi 2 Arrives: 6x Faster, An “Entry-Level PC” For $35
  133. A little sass goes a long way, Europe
  134. What’s wrong with libertarianism: an explanation of post-libertarianism
  135. We are in the 4th Fintech Era
  136. Unexpected Consequence of SNB #Francogeddon – The Broker Model Will Be Replaced By a Blockchain Model
  137. Clueless about the Internet
  138. Cost? Trust? Something else? What’s the killer-app for Block Chain Technology?
  139. Eris does Epicentre
  140. Trial With Dave

2014 70

  1. The 2015 Fintech Headline “RIP Bitcoin and XBRL, Incumbency Wins”
  2. Four Pivot Gates That Unicorns Pass Through
  3. Interview with WCN (video)
  4. Uber for Internet
  5. Uber for Cats
  6. Quote of the day
  7. A simple model to make sense of the proliferation of distributed ledger, smart contract and cryptocurrency projects
  8. Eris Industries is live and open-source
  9. Fintech startups that will be as big as Lending Club in 7 years time are probably using Blockchain today
  10. The TCP/IP Of Money Mirage #ripple #stellar #blockstream #ethereum
  11. Eris Industries features in the Daily Telegraph
  12. A Bitcoin Battle Is Brewing
  13. Zurich Fintech Fans Look Jealously To London
  14. How many real Fintech Unicorns are in the WSJ Billion Dollar StartUp Club?
  15. Eris Industries launching in London on 17 December 2014
  16. LEAK: Eris Industries releases first pictures of Eris
  17. LEAK: Eris Industries is actually a boy band
  18. The “Unbundling of Trust”: how to identify good cryptocurrency opportunities?
  19. Reverse Implementationcoin Xzibit
  20. Eris Industries Leaks – Week 3
  21. *Grabs popcorn*
  22. Fear Is Replacing Greed In Bitcoin
  23. Marmot-like critters excluded from ambit of the Commerce Clause
  24. USC Legal Tech Startup Weekend, November 7-9, 2014, Los Angeles: Links and resources
  25. Eris Industries Leak No. 2: Smart Contracts have a Mascot
  26. Talk to the invisible hand
  27. Eris Industries Leaks – week 1
  28. Eight reasons bankers and Fintech upstarts are “up at night” about Compliance
  29. A Message to the 21st Century
  30. Bitcoin 2.0: Sidechains And Ethereum And Zerocash, Oh My!
  31. Introducing Eris Industries
  32. Comparing Richard Branson and Peter Thiel Fintech bets
  33. Melbourne Asphalt Was The Hottest Ever
  34. Best job ever
  35. Those who cannot remember last week are condemned to repeat it
  36. Well I’ll be damned: BTSX BitAsset market failure after only 5 days
  37. Cool story, bro
  38. Crowdfunding Bitcoin startups is eating your own dog food – controversially
  39. BitSharesX: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
  40. Norton Doge Fulbright
  41. Transactional legal hackathon, NYC: Code the Deal: September 19-21, 2014
  42. The BitMarmot exists, and he is American
  43. BitShares: Don’t walk away. Run
  44. Supahmoon
  45. Yet less kool-aid
  46. Kool-Aid Free Zone
  47. Ethereum Genesis Sale: Are the IOUs for ETH “Derivatives”?
  48. Tim Swanson drops the wisdom
  49. How to make friends
  50. When you’re too busy to write
  51. Eris: Platform for distributed autonomous organizations on the blockchain
  52. It was a terrible war
  53. Interview with Stephan Tual on Ethereum’s Project Highlights: Project Ðouglas
  54. The Ballad of Doug the DAO, Part II: Project Ðouglas
  55. Happy Memorial Day
  56. Dennis McKinnon, Casey Kuhlman and Preston Byrne present: Trustless Xzibit
  57. Thank you
  58. Breaking news: bank finds productive use for altchain; world does not end
  59. Very vroom
  60. Good luck today, Josh Wise
  61. A serious Analysis of Dogecoin — Or: Why I am all-in on dogecoin.
  62. Wet Code: an illustration
  63. All aboard the moon rocket
  64. Lest you think I was kidding
  65. Money for nothing…
  66. Smart contract platforms != Law
  67. Yo dawg
  68. Bitcoin needs a new logo?
  69. That didn’t take long
  70. Law is not scary

2013 1

  1. Want to end the housing crisis? Here’s a hint: do nothing

2012 1

  1. On the Benefit-Industrial Complex, and Paying the Rent