The United States Is Suffering from the Innovator's Dilemma

This installment of Off The Chain is free for everyone. I send this email to our investors daily. If you would also like to receive it every morning, join the 38,000 other investors today. To investors, Bitcoin and blockchain technology are about to take the global stage. | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 4 years ago

Institutional investors are falling in love with crypto

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Bitcoin and crypto are hitting the big time. Morgan Stanley released a report yesterday stating that cryptocurrencies have become “a new institutional i … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Gifting crypto to politicians

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Governments and elected officials have no idea how to react to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. So far this week, we have seen the following: | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Bitcoin is more transparent than the Federal Reserve

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Bitcoin is more transparent than the Federal Reserve. I was reminded of this yesterday when Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen spent time ranting aga … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

The return of open source software

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Open source software is on fire this year. Before this weekend, we had seen: Microsoft purchase GitHub, a code-management service, for $7.5 billion. | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Crypto is caught in the trade war crossfire

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Global trade wars are affecting crypto. The US and China have been engaged in a trade war for some time now. The recent expansion of sanctions on the Ch … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Coinbase is the most underrated company in crypto

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Coinbase is the most underrated company in crypto. This statement may sound absurd at first, especially since the company did $1 billion in revenue in 2 … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Cheap electricity is king

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Access to cheap electricity is highly underrated. Recently in China, a man was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison and fined 100,000 yuan for stealing chea … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

US lawmakers want to outlaw certain software

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. The US government is becoming more vigilant around cryptocurrencies. Lawmakers are specifically becoming aware of the possibility that nation states cou … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

What a digital country could look like

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. The Prime Minister of Malta is all in on blockchain. Joseph Muscat gave an impressive speech to the United Nations during their meeting in New York City … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Bitmain is the modern day Carnegie Steel

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. If data is the new oil, computing power is the new steel. This would make Jihan Wu the Andrew Carnegie of our generation and Bitmain the Carnegie Steel. … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Coinbase is implementing Facebook's platform strategy

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Coinbase continues to execute at a world-class level. The company announced yesterday they will be drastically increasing the number of digital assets t … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Crypto is 4X more popular than stocks in Brazil

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Digital assets will eventually be more popular than traditional assets. We are already seeing this trend come to fruition in Brazil where more than 3 mi … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Banks are more fraudulent than crypto companies

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Banks are finally revealing their dark side. JP Morgan, Citibank, Mastercard, Visa and Bank of America were hit with a $6.2 billion fine earlier this we … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

The Bitcoin thesis is playing out in Venezuela

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Bitcoin is working in Venezuela. The Bitcoin thesis asks you to believe some combination of the following: Humans will print more money whenever they ca … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

The first qualified custodian for crypto has been approved

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. A regulated custody solution has finally arrived. BitGo, a blockchain security company, received a state trust company charter from the South Dakota Div … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Bitcoin is under attack in India

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Bitcoin is under attack in India. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) previously banned traditional banks from providing financial services to cryptocurrenc … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Crypto companies need to stop looking for regulation arbitrage opportunities

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. Regulation arbitrage has been all the rage recently. Teams across the crypto industry are searching the globe for innovation-friendly jurisdictions in a … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

A federal judge dealt a devastating blow to ICO issuers yesterday

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - subscribe now. ICO issuers suffered a devastating blow yesterday. A federal judge ruled that the ICO fraud case he was overseeing is subject to US securities law becau … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Bitcoin won't hit $50k by end of year, it may take another 4 years instead

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - sign up here. Bitcoin price predictions are hard. A proper prediction requires accurate identification of the future price of Bitcoin, while also stating the timeframe … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Coinbase may be the key to the promise of no-fee online payments

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - sign up here. Jeff Bezos once famously said “your margin is my opportunity.” This ruthless, financially savvy approach is beginning to play out in crypto markets as we … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

ICO issuers may be in more legal trouble than they originally thought

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - sign up here. ICO issuers may be at more risk of legal trouble than they originally thought. FINRA, the financial market’s self-regulatory body, issued an investor ale … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

The psychology of crypto investors

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - sign up here. Investor psychology is not talked about enough in crypto markets. We have seen every emotion — fear, greed, optimism and pessimism — play out in the last … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Coinbase may allow people to store, transact personal data as a digital asset

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - sign up here. Digital wallets will become the most important software an individual owns. These wallets currently allow you to securely store your crypto assets, simil … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

We are in the third worst price drawdown in Bitcoin history

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - sign up here. Crypto markets hit 2018’s lowest point yesterday with a total market cap of ~$230 billion. The steady decline over the last 9 months is coming off Bitcoi … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Bitcoin is being banned as a campaign donation in some states

Join thousands of others who receive this daily analysis of crypto markets & news in their inbox every morning - sign up here. It was only a matter of time before Bitcoin entered politics. Earlier this week, the North Carolina State Board of Elections Campaign Finance Office deni … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

EOS raised $4B but booked everything as non-dilutive revenue

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@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Jihan Wu is the Andrew Carnegie of advanced computing

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@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

The argument for why Bitcoin must remain the dominant crypto

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@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

High-level overview of State Channels, a layer two scaling solution for Ethereum

Today we’re going to try something new: providing high-level information on a technical topic. Please let me know what you think and whether we should continue to do this once a week. The scalability of different blockchains is a hot topic right now. I’ve asked | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Institutional investors are waiting for the crypto ETF

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@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Augur's assassination markets are testing crypto's ethos

This installment of “Off The Chain” is free. You can join thousands of others who receive this daily summary of crypto news & analysis in their inbox - sign up here. —————————————————————————————— Augur, a decentralized predictions market, recently launched with quite a bit of at … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Malta Stock Exchange is building a tokenized security exchange

Malta has been at the forefront of many trends in cryptocurrency and digital assets. This continued earlier this week when it was announced that the Malta Stock Exchange would begin building a “regulated and decentralized, global stock exchange for listing and trading tokenized s … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Goldman Sachs COO will create more interest in crypto

Goldman Sachs has named COO David Solomon as their incoming CEO. He will replace current CEO Lloyd Blankfein who has held the top position for the last 12 years. The announcement is noteworthy for a number of reasons: Goldman Sachs is in great shape financially. They reported a 4 … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

BlackRock CEO made big mistake when describing crypto yesterday

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink made a big mistake yesterday. He went on national television and said that none of BlackRock’s clients were interested in buying cryptocurrency. Since Fink is the CEO of the largest asset manager in the world ($6+ Trillion), it would be nearly impossible … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Miners and hardware manufacturers are suffering in crypto bear market

This installment of “Off The Chain” is free to everyone. You can join thousands of others who receive this daily summary of crypto news & analysis in their inbox - sign up here. —————————————————————————————— Depressed cryptocurrency prices are having a greater than expected impa … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Swiss stock exchange is building a regulated platform for tokenized securities

This installment of “Off The Chain” is free to all subscribers. If you would like to receive this daily summary of crypto news & analysis in your inbox - sign up here for less than $0.50 per day. —————————————————————————————— The Swiss stock exchange is building a regulated exch … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Privacy Coins are coming under attack by Secret Service

This installment of “Off The Chain” is free to all subscribers. If you would like to receive this summary of crypto news & analysis in your inbox daily - sign up here for less than $0.50 per day. —————————————————————————————— The FBI and NSA worked hard to | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

Governments are trying to use ICOs to fund development

This installment of “Off The Chain” is free to all subscribers. If you would like to receive this summary of crypto news & analysis in your inbox daily - sign up here for less than $0.50 per day. —————————————————————————————— The Italian city of Naples is reportedly doubling dow … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 5 years ago

APompliano's new crypto newsletter

The best crypto newsletter in your inbox every morning. The crypto industry is growing at an unfathomable rate. It’s hard to keep up with everything. So we created a daily email newsletter to give you everything you need to know in a 3-minute read. You can expect: Daily news Excl … | Continue reading


@offthechain.substack.com | 6 years ago