Why The World Needs Cryptocurrency As We Work Ourselves To Death
I read a statistic that really shocked me today. It’s a pretty simple one, but I think it speaks to a depth we don’t talk about enough. The worldwide average for hours worked per year is 1,764. In the US, that number is 1,780. In South Korea, that number...
Why The Token Taxonomy Act May Change Crypto Forever
One other thing I want to talk about is the bill introduced in the US Congress. The “Token Taxonomy Act” seeks to exclude “digital tokens” from being defined as securities, amending both the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of...
You Need To Know About This: REITs & STOs
So, something I want to talk about are Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs. Specifically, I want to discuss what happens when you marry an REIT with an STO, a Security Token Offering. ICOs showed that tokenization in itself isn’t special. The first...
Disrupting The Banks The Cryptocurrency & Bitcoin Way
I remember a certain fee that still upsets me from my days of credit card and bank account churning where I’d sign up for new accounts, perform the necessary actions to receive the bonus, and keep the account open long enough to validate the bonus. Bank...
What Exactly IS Tokenization & Why Should I Care Or Invest?
I want to specifically look at the question of “What exactly is Tokenization?” What exactly are we talking about when you hear the phrase, “Tokenize the World”? And, furthermore, isn’t tokenization just a fancy way of saying ‘securitization’? So, the...
The Security Token (STO) Wave
Anecdotal evidence worldwide has been indicating that a security token wave is on the cusp of forming. What makes this new breed of digital assets is one that seeks to comply with existing regulators, rather than to subvert. Security tokens are are...
Jay Clayton & The SEC Vs. Cryptocurrency
To me, the prevailing trend of cryptocurrency around a push for legitimacy and the tools of a maturing market. This was on display as SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, gave a speech about the coming year of SEC rulemaking and cryptocurrency:...
The Battle Of Security Tokens
As I’ve started to really push the Security Token narrative, I’m slowly discovering a nascent battle of wills going on. It stems from an “us vs. them” mentality and ultimately I think Security Tokens are being given an unfair lens because of it. That...
Cryptocurrencies & Charities
In this age of the global trust experiment known as money, the vast majority (92%) of the world’s wealth is digital. It’s no surprise, then, that crypto’s impact has really been in getting people to question certain norms, such as the percentages payment...
0x Coin Spotlight & Research Analysis
Today’s RSC Coin Spotlight is the 0x Protocol (ZRX): No doubt you’ve heard about ZRX in the past several weeks since its listing on Coinbase on October 11, 2018. But you may be asking yourself: What is ZRX? And What gives it value?ZRX is the governance...