Hi, I’m Jerry Brito. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are solely my own. You can subscribe to updates via RSS, email, or by following me on Twitter.
September 2020
August 2020
- Yes, you can use Bear to build a zettelkasten
- Permissioned or permissionless? A digital currency can’t be both
- Announcing Club P., an anonymous discussion board
July 2020
- You have no property rights over your Twitter data
- Disintermediating the media with… Substack?
- There is no such thing as “a bitcoin”
- More on CBDCs, AML, and anonymity in electronic cash
June 2020
- Central banks are wrong to say that CBDCs must be built to comply with AML regulations
- Hank Paulson agrees a Chinese CBDC is no threat to the dollar
April 2020
- Should CBDCs be token-based or account-based?
- What bugs me about @pmarca’s ‘Time to Build’ essay
- New COVID relief bill aims to create anonymous, bearer, censorship-resistant digital dollar
- No, the United States won’t break up because of the pandemic
January 2020
- Is a crypto de minimis exemption preferential treatment?
- Both the U.S. and its adversaries are wrong to focus on “national digital currencies”
- Bloomberg today has a story about the growing use of stablecoins in global trade.
- Why is DoJ bringing up device encryption again?
- Law enforcement access to encrypted devices is possible, but it’s a terrible idea
- Digital dollar advocates have a steep hill to climb to convince the Fed—and everyone else
- Crypto needs a de minimis exemption for buying coffee, sure, but maybe more importantly for transaction fees
- How the DOJ’s call for Apple to unlock the Pensacola shooter’s iPhone is different from the San Bernardino case
- China’s digital yuan is not a threat to the dollar
- TIL: Instant run-off Trump and the origins of global AML
- How to tell if a (crypto) bill is important
- More trends relevant to crypto
- An exercise in crypto trend-spotting
- Blogging is the new blogging
- Thinking out loud