Proof of Work #10 We've hit our tenth issue! Two new projects have been added to the letter: Foam, an Ethereum-based project aiming to provide a location layer that isn't reliant on GPS and can be used to provide proo...

Proof of Work #9 Good evening from Boston. Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is immutability, that is, to what degree should the blockchain be the unchangeable and final arbiter of truth, and to what d...

Proof of Work #8 Hi from Boston, where I just landed after a whirlwind trip to Beijing and Tokyo. I've been in love with Tokyo since I first went there a decade ago (map

Proof of Work #7 Welcome to the fourth week of 2017. This Proof of Work update is delayed by a day thanks to the extremely hard working team behind the Great Firewall of China who have as of yet not responded to my in...

Proof of Work #6 Never a dull moment in crypto. Since last week's update the markets have taken a dip, sparked according to some by the news of yet another regulatory action against crypto in China. Interestingly, whe...

Proof of Work #5 In the second week of 2018, the funding environment for blockchain projects continues to be insanely hot. Anything interesting is massively oversubscribed. Bob Xu of Zhenfund, one of the most highly r...

Proof of Work #4 2018 has gotten off to a fairly exciting start; Ethereum's Casper FFG testnet launched, Peter Thiel's Founder's Fund made public that they have a large Bitcoin stake

Proof of Work Newsletter #3 We have a name! I received 207 great submissions (and 3 dumb ones) but *Proof of Work* is both clever and a good description of what this newsletter is about—substantive updates about real work bein...

Token Update #1 - Holiday Edition In the Chinese crypto community there's a saying "*圈内一天，圈外一年*.” Directly translated you get something like "Inside [crypto] circle one day / Outside world one year." No time has th...