## Jan 18, 2019
Recently, Simon Morris, a long-time BitTorrent exec, wrote a provocative series of posts on the nature of decentralization, in the wake of BitTorrent Inc’s acquisition by TRON. They are relatively short and a good read: Why BitTorrent Mattered — Bittorrent Lessons [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2019/what-decentralization-is-good-for-part-1-resilience/)

## Jan 8, 2019
I am in Hong Kong this week for Blockstack’s Decentralizing the World Tour (more on that in a forthcoming post). I arrived yesterday and have been exploring the city a bit. The first observation is how awful the air [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2019/the-octopus-card/)

## Dec 19, 2018
USV’s book club book for this month is Drug Dealer, MD, by Dr. Anna Lembke, Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford Hospital – so we have spent a bunch of time recently talking about addiction. It is not [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2018/managing-digital-addiction/)

## Dec 17, 2018
Debt is a complicated subject. On the one hand, it is empowering — it lets you get a quick start on something, and lets you do things that would not be possible otherwise. There are times when it is useful, [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2018/paying-down-debt-financial-technical-and-otherwise/)

## Dec 10, 2018
For the past week or so, I have been experimenting with the Pixel Slate, Google’s new hybrid tablet/laptop. Here is me typing this blog post right now, on the train to NYC. For a longer, more technical analysis, this review [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2018/google-pixel-slate-first-impressions/)

## Nov 28, 2018
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and I am not your lawyer. I have been in an uncountable number of conversations over the past few years discussing the question of what defines a “security” in the context of cryptocurrencies, cryptonetworks, [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2018/a-visual-guide-to-the-howey-test/)

## Nov 27, 2018
Our good friend Chris Burniske was on Squawk Box this morning. I got up and watched it. You can see the video here. Of course there is interest in the crypto market right now, as it is falling hard. [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2018/crypto-fundamentals/)

## Nov 19, 2018
One of my favorite things to do is get my hands into something and figure out how it works, whether that’s an app, or a gadget, or a house. For example, over the past few months I have been renovating [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2018/getting-hands-on/)

## Nov 7, 2018
With real-time, interconnected, self-executing systems, sometimes when things wrong, they go really wrong. I wrote about this general idea previously here. Yesterday, while I was writing my post on Trusted Brands, I was doing a little searching through [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2018/the-dangers-of-unstoppable-code/)