Crypto
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Back from the mountains: reflections on ETHDenver 2025
My first time attending ETHDenver was March 2023. This was post Terra-Luna and a couple months after the FTX bombshell. Crypto was a sad, dark place. As a third-timer at ETHDenver, I am far from a veteran, but I at least have the hang of this conference now and can more easily pick out the Continue reading
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Reflections on MoonPay’s acquisition of Helio
Introduction As someone building in the crypto payments space, it has been exciting to see the sector heat up and more acquisitions start to happening. After a ton of VC capital was poured into this vertical in 2021 and 2022, we are starting to see consolidation as traditional fintech players add crypto payment capabilities and Continue reading
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Reflections on Stripe’s acquisition of Bridge
It’s been 2 weeks since the big announcement from Stripe that they were purchasing Bridge for $1.1B, the largest acquisition in the history of the crypto industry. A lot of digital ink has been spilled attempting to explain the rationale and importance of this deal. A lot of the best analysis that I found was Continue reading
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Company Profile: Paxos
I learned of Paxos in July 2020 when the crypto world lit up with rumors that PayPal would be launching a crypto product – further vindication that crypto was going mainstream. With Square already offering crypto buying and selling services via its CashApp, it was only a matter of time until PayPal took a similar Continue reading
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The Stablecoin Moment
Introduction In the world of cryptocurrency, 2020 has become the year of the stablecoin. Stablecoins can be broadly defined as a “…class of cryptocurrencies that attempts to offer price stability and are backed by a reserve asset.” In most cases, stablecoins are pegged to the value of the dollar (the “reserve asset” mentioned in the Continue reading
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Book Review: Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Milli by Nathaniel Popper
In the Spring of 2019, I took a business school class on blockchain and cryptocurrency. The class left me more confused than anything, but it prompted me to start reading about the topic. Over the last year, I’ve gone down the proverbial rabbit hole as people in the space are fond of saying. For me, Continue reading
Jeff Cangialosi 