Byron Gilliam

Byron Gilliam

Byron Gilliam writes the Blockworks Daily newsletter, in which he tries to explain crypto markets to traditional investors and traditional markets to crypto investors (while trying to explain both to himself). Before joining Blockworks, Byron spent 25 years trading international equities for banks and brokers in Frankfurt, London, Paris and New York. He holds a bachelor's degree in History from Binghamton University. Contact Byron at byron@blockworks.co.
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Conferences are pop-up innovation clusters—and filters for the riff-raff

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Money for enemies isn’t fun, but crypto can be

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The future of crypto isn’t just going to happen

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The banking system still processes payments like it’s 1975. Crypto might have a fix.

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Markets look forward, even when we can’t see past the news

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Greenwood was a success story before it was a tragedy

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Asymmetric information is threatening crypto the same way it once threatened equities. Disclosure might be the fix.

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Even in today’s fully fiat system, the question of who ultimately stands behind the dollar still matters

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From bank porters to stablecoins, the history of money is a story of acceleration

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Why is it controversial to say things are better than they used to be?

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Crypto continues to do its thing: incentivizing behavior

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The financial backwaters they laughed at might be the only thing keeping the dollar afloat

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The best capital markets are open to the most people — and crypto capital markets are open to everyone

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The bond vigilantes you heard about this week aren’t real

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Is crypto straying too far from things of value?

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Discounted cash flow is as close as you can get to a fundamental truth in the art of financial valuation

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What the history of global reserve currencies says about crypto’s future

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Cash enables law evasion at a small scale and crypto enables it on a large scale

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This week’s market action seems to suggest that even a 10x increase in tariff rates won’t derail the US economy

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Could crypto disintermediate DC lobbyists?