Byron Gilliam

Byron Gilliam

Byron Gilliam writes the Blockworks Daily newsletter, in which he tries to explain crypto markets to traditional investors and traditional markets to crypto investors (while trying to explain both to himself). Before joining Blockworks, Byron spent 25 years trading international equities for banks and brokers in Frankfurt, London, Paris and New York. He holds a bachelor's degree in History from Binghamton University. Contact Byron at [email protected].
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Trade isn’t war and prosperity isn’t a contest

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Crypto’s highest purpose might be to make markets better by making them bigger

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An improbable tale of the world’s 40th graphics-chip startup

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Cuts to government R&D budgets may prove penny wise, bitcoin foolish

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In the age of AI, focusing on what’s right in front of you may be the best bet

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Who needs gold when you have taxes?

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The stock market loves crypto more than the crypto market does

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What happens to your investment portfolio when the companies driving returns are no longer in it?

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Crypto is a business — and it might be winner-takes-most

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In crypto investing, quantity has a quality all its own.

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Why equities are more stable than in past decades, plus advice from Peter Lynch

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Conferences are pop-up innovation clusters—and filters for the riff-raff

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Money for enemies isn’t fun, but crypto can be

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The future of crypto isn’t just going to happen

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The banking system still processes payments like it’s 1975. Crypto might have a fix.

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Markets look forward, even when we can’t see past the news

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Greenwood was a success story before it was a tragedy

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Asymmetric information is threatening crypto the same way it once threatened equities. Disclosure might be the fix.

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Even in today’s fully fiat system, the question of who ultimately stands behind the dollar still matters

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From bank porters to stablecoins, the history of money is a story of acceleration