Why You Shouldn’t Build a Blockchain

Special thanks to 0xRahul for feedback and review. Preamble: In early 2016, Ethereum was my gateway into the crypto industry. From late 2021 through early 2026, I worked in the industry full-time. I saw the good, the bad, and the ugly. More recently, I’ve had a handful of conversations where people asked me: “So after all these years, what do you think?” This post aims to capture my journey, the opinions I formed along the way, the tradeoffs of having a blockchain, and where I believe value will accrue in the industry moving forward. ...

August 13, 2026 · 13 min · 2612 words · Substack

7 Pocket Network Analogies

tl;dr Explaining what Pocket Network is through a series of 7 internet networking analogies. Subscribe if you want to be notified of when…

October 22, 2024 · 8 min · 1647 words · Medium

Monetizing User Data on the Blockchain

Note: This is a repost of a blog published in early 2018.

July 20, 2018 · 6 min · 1247 words · Medium

Ethereum is to Bitcoin as the US is to Gold

This post was originally written as a follow up email to this tweet where one of the hosts of The Investor’s Podcast ran a poll regarding people’s thoughts on Bitcoin. — — — — — — — — — — To provide a fair comparison between Ethereum and Bitcoin I will start by defining the basics, and expand on how each of them can be used without drilling down too deep into the technical details ...

June 16, 2017 · 7 min · 1424 words · Medium