### Jun 2, 2019
During the past week, I have traveled through airports using TSA Pre and Clear and plan to travel internationally soon using the Global Entry system. I have recently renewed my TSA Pre and Trusted Traveler accounts. I am also in [...
](https://avc.com/2019/06/universal-biometric-identity/)

### Jun 1, 2019
This Unchained Podcast with Patrick Gibbs of the law firm Cooley and Ted Livingston founder of the Kin cryptocurrency project is a great discussion of the Howey Test that the SEC has put forward as the framework through which to [...
](https://avc.com/2019/06/audio-of-the-week-how-about-howey/)

### May 30, 2019
I was reminded yesterday how much of a shit show raising seed capital via SAFE notes is. I can’t and won’t get into why I was reminded of that, but let’s just say nobody wants to go there. So I [...
](https://avc.com/2019/05/unsafe-notes/)

### May 29, 2019
A few months ago I posted some data on this blog that showed the growth of homeschooling in the US with almost 5% of K12 students being schooled at home. I wrote at the end of that post: This is [...
](http://avc.com/2019/05/outschooling/)

### May 28, 2019
Over the last year, the SEC has been investigating a significant number of token offerings that took place in 2017. While some of those offerings were scams or worse, many of the ones that are being investigated by the SEC [...
](http://avc.com/2019/05/defendcrypto-org/)

### May 27, 2019
It is Memorial Day, the most solemn of our national holidays. Let’s all take a moment some time today to remember our fallen soldiers. [Read more](https://avc.com/2019/05/remembering-3/)

### May 26, 2019
I wrote this tweetstorm on Friday when I read the blog post about Poloniex’s decision to geofence certain assets away from US customers, driven by the SEC’s recently published framework for digital assets. Geofencing Crypto Assets Out Of [...
](https://avc.com/2019/05/geofencing-crypto-assets-out-of-the-us-is-bad-policy/)

### May 25, 2019
In my new gig as interviewer, I sat down with Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain Capital and one of the top token fund managers, at Token Summit. [Read more](https://avc.com/2019/05/video-of-the-week-olaf-carlson-wee-at-token-summit/)

### May 23, 2019
I woke up sick this morning and could not fly to Toronto where I was planning to do a session at Collision with Matt Glotzbach, CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet. I sent some emails to let people [...
](https://avc.com/2019/05/sick-day/)