finance How to raise money by selling NFT's of paperclips and bananas In the last decade of tech blogging there's everything else that has been written, and then there is what Chris Dixon has written. I can't think of another person who
finance Clapping Through It Today's the one year anniversary of one of the more surreal moments of my life. A year ago, I was at Stocktwits and we rang the opening bell of the
game design Format Replacement cycles Something interesting is underway. Over the past month, NBA Top Shot, a digital collectable similar to a basketball card has exploded in interest and in price. My friend Michael Batnick
finance Cardboard Picassos A couple weeks ago, two 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan Rookie Cards sold for $738,000 each. That's a high number, but not nearly as high as a Mike Trout rookie
finance Bitcoin is the new Buyback Earlier this week $TSLA announced that it bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin. Since then other companies, including $TWTR and $UBER have made some noise about purchasing some, and others
finance Gas Prices, Currencies, and Enabling Economies to Scale If you've been following Ethereum at all you will see that Gas is Too Damn High. Gas prices, or the fee miners charge to use the Ethereum network has been
game design GameStop and Bartle Player Types I've written in the past that I'm very interested in Game Design as a lens for Product Design and a trend we will see really catch on in the coming
finance PFOF is the Ad Model for Brokerage Lots has been said about the business of Payment for Order Flow over the past five years, and even more has been discussed in the past week as Robinhood has
finance The Billion Dollar Cartridge Tomorrow a bunch of younger investors are going to put a quarter of a million dollars into a dinosaur. I'm not talking about GameStop, rather it's the latest offering on
finance Organized Noise In market microstructure, noise traders are traditionally participants who when interacting with a market maker do not (or "should" not) inform prices at all. Traditionally retail investors would fit this
finance On Conway's Law and Social Financial Media Every now and then a stock market story comes around that captures the attention of the nation. Yesterday, we were blessed with such a story as short squeeze on all
tech Fear and Loathing in Crypto “There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory
finance Coinbase, Facebook, and Why Values are What Really Matters This week Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, published a Medium post reaffirming its mission to "create an open financial system for the world" and announcing that Coinbase would not be a
finance The Stock Market Game As I've been furnishing my home office, I've been picking out cool stuff to hang on the walls. One item I came across is this patent from 1950 for a
