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We All Need to Stop Only Seeing the Dark Side of Crypto

WIRED Magazine essay on the real world usage of cryptocurrencies in the developing world.
2021-12-19
6 min read

The Quest for Perp AMMs

Article on decentralised perpetual futures for Deribit Insights. Co-authored with Dr. Abdulla Al-Kamil.
2021-10-04
10 min read
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Bitcoin 2021 - What To Do When Your Country Bans Bitcoin

Main stage panel appearance with Alejandro Machado, Matt Odell & Francis Pouliot.
2021-06-04
1 min read
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On The Brink - On Bitcoin adoption trends in Cuba

With Nic Carter
2021-06-04
0 min read

Disrupting ransom payments

Originally published on CoinDesk
2021-01-15
3 min read

Social Proof of Work

On why many intellectual jobs are pretend jobs, why pretend work is actually a valid way of assessing real work, ponzi schemes and imposed structure
2021-01-15
19 min read

Ugocsa Non Coronat - the Visegradation of the European Union

Is Eastern Europe becoming more like Western Europe, or is Western Europe becoming more like the East?
2021-01-01
4 min read

DeFi needs a Silk Road moment

Originally published on CoinDesk, I argue that if decentralised finance (DeFi) is going to be both useful and uncensorable, we will see it adopted by organised crime.
2020-12-11
5 min read

Why Cuba is primed for bitcoin adoption

Originally published on CoinDesk.
2020-12-11
3 min read

My thoughts on Cambridge Analytica

On my role in unearthing the Cambridge Analytica scandal and why psychographic advertising does not work.
2020-11-07
6 min read