### Content on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

#### Dec 16, 2020  
The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running continuously since January 3, 2009. Much has happened in the crypto world since then, including of course the launch of Ethereum [...] [Read more](/content/writing/2020/12/stacks-2-0/index.html)

#### Jul 8, 2019  
I’ve shared my views on this before here at AVC. I believe business model innovation is more disruptive than technical innovation. A good example of this was moving from web apps to mobile apps, which was largely a technical innovation. [...] [Read more](https://avc.com/2019/07/business-model-innovation/)

#### Mar 5, 2019  
Earlier today, the Arweave team announced that they’ve raised additional capital in order to fund developers who want to build on Arweave through two new programs - Arweave Grants and Arweave Boost. People are already building lots of amazing things [...] [Read more](/content/writing/2019/03/arweave-project-ideas/index.html)

#### Oct 1, 2018  
We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. Platforms evolve from an iterative cycle of apps=>infrastructure=>apps=>infrastructure and are rarely built in an outside vacuum. [Read more](/content/writing/2018/10/the-myth-of-the-infrastructure-phase/index.html)

#### Jul 30, 2018  
One of my favorite things about the cryptocurrency / blockchain space is that our conception of “what it all means” is still very much in flux. Nic Carter just published a nice analysis of how the functional narrative around bitcoin [...] [Read more](/content/writing/topic/blockchains-crypto/page/2/index.html)

#### Aug 8, 2016  
Note: see the 2020 follow-up post here: Thin Applications. Here's one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) produced immeasurable amounts of value, but most [...] [Read more](/content/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/index.html)

#### Oct 31, 2013  
We owe many of the innovations that we use every day -- from our favorite longstanding websites to the latest mobile applications -- to the existence of underlying highly technical protocols. End users don't need to understand these any more than [...] [Read more](/content/writing/2013/10/bitcoin-as-protocol/index.html)