The Slow Hunch

Crypto, 2015.

Cryptonetworks, tokens, decentralization, identity2 posts

  • Jun 15, 2015
    The Blockchain as verified public timestamps

    Two weeks ago at USV’s annual CEO Summit, Muneeb Ali from OneName explained the blockchain in a way I hadn’t heard before, and which I thought was really helpful: the blockchain is time. That’s a somewhat abstract way of saying it, so more concretely we could say that: The blockchain is database of ...

  • May 22, 2015
    OuiShareFest Paris: Venture Capital vs. Community Capital

    Photo: Rudy (Loïs) Pignot I am in Paris this week for OuiShareFest, and spoke yesterday morning during the opening session.  OuiShareFest is in its third year as a large international gathering of folks interested in the peer/collaborative/sharing/networked society, put on by the community organizat...