Hacking Through the Weeds to Find the Crypto Gems
Identifying Projects Capable of Building and Sustaining Momentum is Critical to Investor Success Those who launch revolutions … will almost certainly fail to make the leap from good to great. No matter how dramatic the end result, the good-to-great transformations never happened in one fell swoop. There was no single […]
Ever bought a cryptoasset making magic beans look like a sound investment? I have, so to institute some discipline in my altcoin investing process. I’ve developed an audit to help me avoid duplicating past mistakes. Many things can derail promising cryptoasset projects. Minimizing the risk of going to 0 […]
Properly Assessing and Managing these Risks is Critical to Your Success Five components of Risk Management: Code Audit Anti Fragile – gets stronger when stressed Low funding risk (fiat) Attack Risk Regulatory “An idea survives if it is a good risk manager, that is, not only doesn’t harm its holders, […]
No One Agrees on What It Means. You Should Still Try and Evaluate Its Various Dimensions Anyway. Five components of decentralization: Widespread developer contributions Roadmap for decentralized governance Lack of Concentrated Holders (via Wallets) Would function normally without creators Global Given the uncertainty inherent in cryptoasset investing decentralization is an […]
Making Sure your Investments are Protected From the Malicious Actors Lurking on the Fringes of the Cryptosphere Five components of securability: High Volume of Nodes Systematic Approach to dealing with bugs The widespread distribution of miners / stakers Untiered rewards Easily Stored Securely Nodes for the purposes of this section […]
Is Your Investment More Likely to Rise Up or Burn Down? Five components of scalability: Project leads can hire and develop Clearly defined roadmap to obtain a share of the market Outside Developer Interest in contributing Sustainable Burn Rate Geographically distributed Depending on how far along the project is there […]
What Lurks Beneath the Surface Can Capsize you as a Cryptoasset Investor Five Components of Distribution: Insider skin in the game (allocations subject to vestings and lock ups reflecting their preferred status in obtaining tokens) Optimized for long-term usage of product Equitable token sale (at least 80% of tokens if […]
Understanding What They Bring to the Table to Make Your Investment A Success Five components of team evaluation: Track record of historical achievements Distinctive Combination of Skills Unique Qualifications for Tackling the Problem Experience Building Distributed Systems Transparent and consistent ethical behavior For a project to succeed its founding team […]
Ripple is a system is optimized for permissioned financial institutions to transact directly with each other cost efficiently. XRP was issued as a liquidity management tool to facilitate transactions in illiquid currencies as needed across the network. So XRP will only ever be involved in a fraction of the activity […]
Author’s: Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar Bitcoin, with a capital B, is a platform that carries upon it programmable money, known as bitcoin with a lowercase b. Chapter 3 – Blockchain, Not bitcoin? 5 stages of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies • Innovation Trigger • Peak of Inflated Expectations • Trough of […]