In this week's crypto market update, Spencer Bogart from Blockchain Capital and Jacob Canfield from Signal Profits debate whether Bitcoin will top it's...
Reading Time: 1minute As 2019 comes to a close, Blockchain Capital is excited to share our Year in Review industry report, covering the global macro environment, crypto asset market, adoption, regulation and major industry themes like DeFi and the emerging prime brokerage stack. Lastly, the Blockchain Capital team shares some of our boldest predictions moving into the new […]
Placeholder VC partner Joel Monegro, in his formative article on value captured by protocols, explained that shared data layers in decentralized networks and limited supply cryptographic access tokens (i.e., cryptocurrencies) make blockchain protocols valuable and accessible for all. The proliferation of blockchains has led to an influx of these “fat” protocols, which are capturing more […]
Reading Time: 2minutes Blockchain networks are open, accessible networks in which anyone can participate and contribute. There are many new ways to interact with these systems, including staking, voting, governance or app development. These behaviors are crucial to the health and overall utility of public blockchains. However, running secure and redundant node infrastructure that enables these types of […]
Reading Time: 2minutes Welcome! Here’s our list of introductory investor materials for learning more about blockchain technology. These readings touch on the industry’s main themes such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and explain why blockchains are a transformative technology. Blockchain Basics (Coincenter) What is Blockchain Anyway? – 2014 – A primer on the basics of Blockchain technology and its […]
Reading Time: 7minutes 2019 is the year we can finally say “institutions have arrived,” in the blockchain / crypto industry and in a big way. Despite being a commonly cited catalyst within the crypto space, progress has felt slow. After all, these are large organizations with significant value at risk, so they want to be careful and deliberate […]
Reading Time: 6minutes What follows is data and analysis from a survey of American adults regarding general sentiment toward Bitcoin — the survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll, on behalf of Blockchain Capital, from April 23–25, 2019 among 2,029 American adults. The survey was an augmented version of one we ran in October 2017 (we added […]