Bitcoiners face a collective action problem and miners are best positioned to overcome it

April 2022

A new IMF report shows that global regulators are coming to grips with the new reality that crypto portends
Apr 18, 2022 I’m back from some much needed R&R. Hope you missed me as much as I missed you. Today I want to provide some commentary on a recent speech…

March 2022

Mar 28, 2022 A short one this week as it’s my birthday weekend and I should spend it with my family rather than bloviating here. If you’d like to do…
Mar 21, 2022 So Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill as expected, but it did not include the Mnuchin self-hosted wallet rule as I feared, which is good…
Mar 14, 2022 On Thursday, Peter, Neeraj, and I recorded a podcast in which we discussed the new Biden executive order on digital assets and the…
Mar 7, 2022 In the many conversations I had last week with reporters and policymakers in D.C., there was general confusion not just about whether…

February 2022

Feb 28, 2022 What a remarkable few days it’s been. While I thought Russia would invade Ukraine, I only imagined they would do so in the Donbass. By…
Feb 21, 2022 Last week I was in Denver. Erik Voorhees and the amazing folks of ShapeShift DAO hosted a fundraising dinner for Coin Center taking…
Feb 15, 2022 Hello fellow nerds! This newsletter (which is neither a letter nor does it typically convey news) has now surpassed 1,000 subscribers…

January 2022

Jan 28 2022 Well, that was quite a week. When I woke up on Monday I had no idea it would be like that, but here we are and it’s not over yet, though we…
Jan 10 2022 Happy new year, everyone. Today there’s no real main course, more of an assortment of tapas. Let’s start with follow up from my last missive…