BlogHide Resteemsmatyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Time to cash in the ICO chips?During a recent video recording for The Human Factor, at the start-up company Screenist, I asked why it had begun as an ICO, only to then change to a more ‘conventional’ VC route for fundraising. My…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Death and taxesHow many access codes, passwords and cryptokeys do you have, and where do you keep them? No, it’s OK, I don’t need to know the details, but I’ll bet that the number is a large one, and that even if…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Golden elephantsLast year in one of my postings I raised the question of whether Bitcoin would become the ‘gold standard’ of the crypto world. That question is still being asked, most recently at the World Economic…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The worst idea everWe’re familiar with the concept of ‘too big to fail’ and saw it particularly around the collapse of Lehman Brothers, eleven years ago. As the subprime mortgage scandal gathered speed, the US…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Breaking News!As the Founder of iBlock TV, Dushan Spalevic explains, the fundraising instruments of token sales have been through some rapid changes in the last year, from ICOs, to STOs, IEOs, and other hybrid…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agoLights, camera, action!In my previous posting I introduced the concept of The Human Factor, which I noticed was missing from the very many presentations and pitches which I witnessed during 2018 as I travelled around the…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agoPeople-to-peopleWhen we talk about a large corporation we say ‘it’, whereas the ‘Mom-and-Pop’ convenience store at the end of the street gets ‘they’. That’s because while Amazon or IBM may be (almost) faceless…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agoI presume it’s a car…If I asked you to design a car, how would you start? I think you would presume quite a lot of the basics before moving onto the details. For example, you would include four wheels – one at each…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agoDoctor’s ordersA man goes to the Doctor and says, “I want to become healthy.” She gives him a very thorough examination, asks him a lot of questions, then begins writing on a notepad. “I’ve had a lot of success in…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agoThe great bitcoin robberyThe Hungarian inventor, László József Bíró, gave his name to the ballpoint pen he invented, which became so common across the world that even today it is known in many countries as a ‘biro’ rather…matyaszaborszky (25)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Taking stepsMy team and I have been involved in some large ICOs in recent months, as well as other forms of tokenized offerings, and I feel it’s worth mentioning that however big and complex these are, the…