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19 Feb 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
I joined Steemit in March 2018 when STEEM, the native cryptocurrency, was in the $1.80 to $2.00 range. Initially, I was excited to be a part of the platform despite its obvious flaws. The platform’s user interface was atrocious, the trending topics p...
18 Feb 2021 5 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
In my first post on Facebook’s fictitious blockchain, I talked about how Bob could have earned cryptocurrency by posting to Facebook daily if Facebook had launched with a blockchain. In my last post on the topic, I discussed Facebook’s fictitious sta...
16 Feb 2021 4 minute read 16 comments Allen Taylor
In my last post, I introduced you to Bob the Facemeister, an ordinary guy who could have earned a modest income posting to Facebook regularly for 18 years, if Facebook had a blockchain, but I made some basic assumptions about the value of Facebook th...
15 Feb 2021 3 minute read 5 comments Allen Taylor
While working on my manuscript for a book on the intersection between social media and blockchain technology, I discovered that it might be prudent to show people new to cryptocurrencies but familiar with social media just what a blockchain-based soc...
11 Feb 2021 3 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
Current payments models are about 10 years behind the technological ability to implement. An article published in Wired online two years ago asked rhetorically, “Shouldn’t we have seamless micropayments by now?” The article points out that a “402 Pay...
8 Feb 2021 3 minute read 3 comments Allen Taylor
Website owners have searched for the ultimate web monetization method since the waxing days of the internet. In the 1990s, banner ads and sponsored content were popular, but those quickly gave way to something much more robust. Pay-per-click (PPC) ad...
7 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
You’ve likely heard the big news about Robinhood. If not, let me sum it up for you: In December, GameStop stock was at $4. Hedge fund billionaires began shorting the stock. However, a group of Redditors decided to fight back and started buying...
15 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
This week's Friday Fintech Roundup features Affirm, Blend, and a host of other fintech firms. Transcript: Affirm started selling shares on the Nasdaq on Wednesday and saw the price soar 100% from the initial listing of $49 to $97.24 at closing time...
23 Dec 2020 11 minute read 24 comments Allen Taylor
Defining Satoshi’s twelve apostles isn’t as easy as it seems. For one thing, some of the contenders are among his predecessors. On the other hand, there are hundreds of cryptocurrency pioneers who are doing amazing things in the blockchain and crypto...
16 Dec 2020 5 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
Crypto freaks and geeks know Satoshi Nakamoto as that mysterious anonymous inventor of bitcoin. But did you know that none of the ideas he used to create bitcoin were his own? None of them were unique. In fact, they had all been discussed and experim...
