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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Stripe and Circle are betting the plumbing of payments is ripe for disruption

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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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If fear moves markets, there could be more all-time highs to come

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Airlines defend their rewards moat, Binance courts favor over breakfast, DAT fees pile up and systematic thinking

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An SEC commissioner walks into a cypherpunk meetup…

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Peter Thiel’s $5 billion Roth IRA walked so token IRAs could run

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Uniswap’s DUNA plan might blaze a new trail for decentralized governance

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When politics divides, the market conquers

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What happens when banks fear regulators and DAOs fear no one

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Crypto is still on a mission — and still needs users

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You don’t own the protocol. You own the incentives.

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All models are wrong, but some are useful

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A new quantum experiment shows that observation changes reality — but investors knew that already

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Fiscal dominance isn’t about interest rates and it isn’t about Trump, either

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SPAC investors seem surprisingly skeptical of crypto

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Some businesses run on low margins by choice. Others do it because they have no choice.

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What if growth goes exponential while you’re hiding in gold and bitcoin?

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For just $54, you, too, could send a memecoin 500% higher