Published in Blockchain Biz·Jan 1Crypto Winter Is Here To Stay in 2023Winter is upon us, and in crypto land, winters can last for a long time. The recent collapse of FTX was a setback for the entire industry which could prolong the winter throughout 2023. Coinbase Institutional predicts the following tendencies in 2023 Crypto Market Outlook: 1. A flight to quality…Crypto3 min readCrypto3 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Jan 1GPT-4, AGI & Dark Matter of ConsiousnessLooking back at 2022, ChatGPT & GPT-3 In 2023, AI is no longer hidden away behind office building walls, IT systems, or user interfaces in apps. AI has moved its way into the hearts and minds of entire populations, including those people without an interest in tech. Last year, OpenAI’s text-to-image model DALL-E 2 took the internet…AGI4 min readAGI4 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Dec 23, 2022Meta is Moving Fast and Breaking Things Including the LawCTO and Head of Reality Labs at Meta, Andrew Bosworth, published a manifesto this Monday telling investors why he and his team stills believe in Meta’s VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) future. Reality Labs is the department of Meta working on Zuckerberg’s “Metaverse”. …Facebook4 min readFacebook4 min read
Published in Blockchain Biz·Dec 18, 2022Is Binance in Trouble? Let’s Look at the Facts and the FUDNow that Sam Bankman-Fried is under arrest the “cybernetic super-intelligence” — to borrow a phrase from Elon Musk — has found a new thing to be enraged about. Is the largest crypto exchange in the world going to suffer the same faith as FTX? In this post, we’ll answer this…Binance4 min readBinance4 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Dec 18, 2022Web3 Has Become a Marketing Term. What We Need Is an Open InternetThis post is mainly intended as a comment on Jack Dorsey’s push for a native internet protocol for social media. The so-called “Twitter Files” is a part of the story. In general, I try to stay out of politics and report as neutrally as I can about technology’s impact on…Social Media6 min readSocial Media6 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Dec 10, 2022Crypto Anno 2022 — Perspectives from Matt Levine, Vitalik Buterin and Rune ChristensenMatt Levine’s take In late October, a highly regarded financial journalist, Matt Levine, published “The Crypto Story”, a cover-to-cover issue of Bloomberg Businessweek detailing “where it [crypto] came from, what it all means, and why it still matters.” As the editor, Joel Weber writes in the preface: “(..) crypto has dug itself into…Crypto6 min readCrypto6 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Dec 5, 2022ChatGPT is a threat to search engines… and everyone else?OpenAI announced ChatGPT this Wednesday. A chatbot that interacts in a conversational manner and can “answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.” If you have not done so yet and would like to catch a glimpse of the future of chatbots, I recommend that…3 min read3 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Dec 5, 2022Sam Fried-Bankman Applauded at The New York Times EventAt The New York Times event, DealBook Summit, November 30, founder of crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), made a controversial online appearance — against his lawyers’ advice — alongside other speakers such as Mark Zuckerberg, Mike Pence, Larry Fink, and President Zelensky. At the event, SBF told the interviewer…Sam Bankman Fried3 min readSam Bankman Fried3 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Nov 30, 2022Where we stand with Bitcoin according to ECBEarlier today, The European Central Bank (ECB) posted an opinion piece on their blog, “Bitcoin’s Last Stand”. To say that the authors are not believers in Bitcoin would be a clear understatement: “The value of bitcoin peaked at USD 69,000 in November 2021 before falling to USD 17,000 by mid-June…Bitcion3 min readBitcion3 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Sep 29, 2022Crypto has Lost Its Way — The Past, Present, and FutureHere is a post about the past, present, and future of crypto, how it can change the world for the better, and how it is changing the world for the worse. — Introduction In November 2021, the crypto market hit an ATH market cap of USD 3 trillion USD. As of this month, the total market cap hovers below USD 1 trillion USD. The crash was of course expected. …Crypto14 min readCrypto14 min read
