I write at Byteisha on Substack on the future of money, data, and the technologies reshaping both.
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In crypto, you can be your own bank. Hold your own wallet and you hold the keys. No exchange. No institution. No company between you and your money. The crypto community calls it self custody. The original vision. Pure…
View on Substack → Jun 14For those who wanted exposure to crypto without stepping into it directly – DATs and Bitcoin ETFs offered exactly that. The gains of the crypto world inside the familiar wrapper of traditional finance. But that was just…
View on Substack → Jun 13Bitcoin was just the beginning. Once developers realised they could write financial rules directly into software, everything changed. DeFi. Layer 2. DAOs. You keep hearing these words. Here is what they actually mean –…
View on Substack → Jun 12Most people think buying crypto is the hard part. It isn’t. The harder question comes after: Who is actually holding it? When you buy crypto, there are generally three possibilities: 🔐 You hold the keys. 🏢 An exchange…
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This is Part Three of a four-part series. Part One covered Bitcoin, blockchain, and where your money goes when you buy crypto. Part Two covered what people are building on top of it -- Layer 2, DeFi,
This is Part Two of a four-part explainer series. In Part One we covered Bitcoin, blockchain, miners, and where your money actually goes when you buy crypto. Start there.
I write about digital finance regulation and the future of money. This series is for everyone who has ever felt locked out of that conversation.
All eyes are on yields and who gets the float. Quietly, small countries are asking different questions entirely.
What Kyrgyzstan's three stablecoins tell us about the emerging nature of money.
The European Union and the United States both examined stablecoins and took action. What similarities and differences did they observe?
The name promises a digital dollar you can use anywhere, instantly, for anything. The reality is more complicated. Let's start from the beginning.