As rare crystalline skies hung over our cities, urban residents enjoyed genuine breaths of fresh air in what were once areas of poor air health. For a brief few weeks, pollution levels dropped around the world. …

Envisioned by wunderkind Vitalik Buterin in 2013, Ethereum truly changed the game for cryptocurrencies the moment it came into being. The second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Ethereum’s biggest selling point is that it features smart contract functionality. After Ethereum was created, blockchains were no longer limited to only providing…

You should be forgiven for forgetting that after Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a reinvented phone in January 2007, the iPhone was slow to take off. While today a basic necessity for the daily life of most residents in the developed world, initially the iPhone struggled to find its killer…

Since early 2018, the cryptocurrency markets have fallen precipitously. As with previous crashes, many have claimed that the markets are unsalvageable and Bitcoin is dead. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that the crypto markets cyclically go through a bear market only to recover and scale to new…

Introduction The hashrate and price of a cryptoasset are typically linked; as cryptocurrencies recover in 2019, it is worthwhile to evaluate the hash power of the leading cryptoassets to gain a sense of the mining community’s confidence in the future prospects each cryptoasset. In this post I evaluate the hash power…

Overview Ethereum’s fall from grace this year is a poorly guarded secret within the broader crypto and finance communities. The decline in Initial Coin Offerings’ popularity is one obvious factor, but of pertinence has been Ethereum’s proven inability to process transactions across its network in an efficient manner. In this post…

Proof of Work Currencies as Scarce Commodities: Summary Given the relatively low adoption rate of Bitcoin as a means of exchange (~ 250,000 transactions per day for Bitcoin on 1/25/2018) and the rapid appreciation of its price during Q2 & Q3 of 2017, some market observers have argued that Bitcoin…