(This is part 2 of startup luck series. Go to part 1). It is clear that startups increasingly depend on luck. However, almost all startup advice in Silicon Valley teaches you how to maximize your skills. …

Startups require luck. All successful founders (those that have built “Unicorns”) had great skills and great luck. Skills need no definition, as they are widely understood and recognized. We know them when we see them, be it in engineering, product development, sales, marketing, or operations. But luck is hard to…

In a world without volatile cryptocurrencies, we wouldn’t need “Stablecoins” The whole proposition of a stable asset like real estate or stocks is preposterous. People invest in assets with an expectation of profits, other wise they would just hoard cash. And therefore no one needed another “stableasset”. So, why are the rules different when it comes to crypto? What creates…

#11. Number of miners: Bitcoin price increases with an increase in the number of miners, because it increases competition, thus increasing aggregate hashrate and therefore network security and trust. Nakamoto Competition VS Realworld Competition: In a traditional economic models, when there is a consumer demand for a good or service at a profitable price…

#4. Future network size expectations: One of the factors that determines the price of Bitcoin today is the expected size of the network in the future. If users expect the bitcoin network to be larger in the future, the current market price for bitcoin will tend to be higher, all else being equal. …

Bitcoin is Rat poison. It is a Scumball activity. It has no utility. It wastes energy. It is killing the planet! We’ve all heard the incessant chatter, either dissing bitcoin or deifying it. Depending on who you ask, you are either stupid for investing in a bubble, or are helping…

Applying the time-tested shareholder property dividend model to cryptocurrency distribution. — The SEC considers 99.9% of token fundraises as unregistered offerings of securities. Instead, we propose a methodology for distributing cryptocurrencies & digital assets that are NOT SECURITIES and don’t violate securities laws. TLDR — Skip below to “SOLUTION — An alternative, fully compliant cryptocurrency issuance framework”

Tokens, tokens everywhere. Every day brings more news of tokens. Many companies seem to want to be applying tokenization to some aspect of their business, to raise funding or for marketing reasons. Given the wild times of 2017, there is still a belief that another gold rush is coming. …

There is a lot of controversy in the cryptosphere about tokens. There are people think that Tokens are all scams. The “Tokens are scams” argument comes from from two groups 1. Bitcoin maximalists worried that “Bitcoin Dominance” is being threatened (Bitcoin dominance is the market cap of Bitcoin divided by…