by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you’ve ever had the chance to take an introductory class on CS, you might have come across the traveling salesman problem. It’s a classic problem that deals with the complexity and challenges you’ll face as a computer programmer. The problem goes like this:...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
There was an article on ccn.com that was entitled, ‘Wall Street is Backing Out of Crypto’. So, of course, let’s address that. First, the article is clearly following the Bloomberg article from Dec. 23rd, ‘Wall Street Quietly Shelves Its Bitcoin Dreams’, and the...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
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 is...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
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 1934. The bill...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
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 REIT was...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
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 Of America,...