
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].
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].

Gold is proof that belief sustained over millennia creates real value; crypto is hoping to take a shortcut
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Every transformational technology begins with utopian hopes, and then runs into the world as it is
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A new quantum experiment shows that observation changes reality — but investors knew that already
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Some businesses run on low margins by choice. Others do it because they have no choice.
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