Private Not Public Before I begin, I’d like to clarify the difference between a public and private blockchain. The overarching distinction...

I happen to think that the crypto boom and the blockchain hype have done a lot of good. They’ve driven capital into distributed ledger technologies...

Over the last 10 years, Octopus Ventures, like many other VCs, has been defined by three things: the money we have available to invest, the deals...

Death is something that most people would rather not think about. So much so that we talk about “Life” insurance, not “Death” insurance....

Terms like: “trustless network”; “getting rid of trusted intermediaries” and “trust replaced with mathematics” crop up all the time....

The atmosphere was electric, the place full of the crypto-faithful, many of them now very wealthy people given the crypto markets’ recent performance....

In the last couple of weeks there has been a cacophony of rage against the FCC repealing net neutrality here in the US. Open internet...