One of the interesting problems in designing effective blockchain technologies is, how can we ensure that the systems remain censorship-proof? Although lots of work has been done in cryptoeconomics in order to ensure that blockchains continue pumping out new blocks, and particularly to prevent blocks from being reverted, substantially less […]
Monthly Archives: August 2024
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Michael S. Falk, CFA, and Joachim Klement, CFA, are the co-authors of Capitalism for Everyone from the CFA Institute Research Foundation. Climate change remains a key issue to solve in the coming decade. We say decade because any longer may already be too late. We all will have to pay […]
Been a while, I know, but then these are rather busy days. I’m writing this from a Starbucks in Shanghai sitting behind the Great Firewall, able to peep out only occasionally. I’ve been in Asia with Marek for the last couple of weeks, mainly for meetups, workshops and technical meetings. […]
For decades, strategic asset allocation has been considered the driving force behind investment portfolio returns. But the old adage that allocation determines 90% of performance is rapidly becoming outdated. Over the course of 2020, we have seen how the world of investing is shifting from one in which declining interest […]
When I started evangelizing bitcoin and blockchain tech back in 2012 my Dad was a hard sell. There was the common skepticism and typical counters of “what’s backing it?”, “what can be done with it?” and “what the heck is cryptography?” Back then my pitch wasn’t refined and the learning […]
Most long-time investors are familiar with the herd bias phenomenon, or “the bandwagon effect.” It leads individuals to make investment decisions based on the belief that “everyone’s doing it.” This type of behavior is part of human nature, though in the context of markets, it’s usually associated with novice retail […]
One of the important issues that has been brought up over the course of the Olympic stress-net release is the large amount of data that clients are required to store; over little more than three months of operation, and particularly during the last month, the amount of data in each […]
Special thanks to Gavin Wood, Vlad Zamfir, our security auditors and others for some of the thoughts that led to the conclusions described in this post One of Ethereum’s goals from the start, and arguably its entire raison d’être, is the high degree of abstraction that the platform offers. Rather […]
Pause to Think: Using Mental Models to Learn and Decide. 2024. Jaime Lester. Columbia Business School Publishing. Pause to Think offers a perfect balance of light and serious reading. It is direct, delightful, and articulate in suggesting specific ways to improve approaches to anything we attempt to do. The author […]
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