Chris Burniske is a partner at Placeholder VC, a venture fund for crypto assets, and he previously worked as blockchain product lead at ARK Invest. Burniske is also the author of "Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin."
All coin and product reviews by expert Chris Burniske.
Chris Burniske
on Numerai
Partner at Placeholder Ventures
Numerai uses price signaling as an input and machine learning to determine the output of a resource allocation machine that could run the 🌎.
Full review2017-07-07
Chris Burniske
on Steem
Partner at Placeholder Ventures
STEEM's SMTs are like ETH's "ERC-20 tokens but with certain built-in ‘Proof-of-Brain’ properties...specifically for digital content businesses"... https://smt.steem.io/ (hat tip Jesse Walden). Good work Steemit and team, compensating human activity instead of machine activity is 🤔💭💭
Full review2017-09-28
Chris Burniske
on Decred
Partner at Placeholder Ventures
Decred’s killer feature is good governance, and with good governance, you can have any feature you want.
Full review2018-10-16
Chris Burniske
on Tron
Partner at Placeholder Ventures
I find the behavior of Justin Sun and the TRON Foundation appalling and would recommend avoiding the project.
For one, as Juan Benet points out, the plagiarism within TRON Foundation's white paper is intellectually dishonest and ungrateful to prior crypto efforts.
Secondly, inspect the Twitter feeds of Justin Sun and the TRON Foundation. Both represent a litany of repetitive pumps about crypto exchange listings and partnerships.
Full review2018-01-29
Chris Burniske
on Decentraland
Partner at Placeholder Ventures
When we live in a predominantly virtual world, why won't scarce and coveted virtual land be worth more than physical plots?
Full review2018-07-01
Chris Burniske
on Bittorrent Token
Partner at Placeholder Ventures
Tron Foundation’s TRX is pumping because it will allow people to claim BitTorrent-coin (BTT).
Though, per tweets like Bram’s & other whispers, Tron is just shilling BitTorrent’s brand, while talent bleeds & workability of BTT is an afterthought.
Full review2019-01-22
Chris Burniske
on Chainlink
Partner at Placeholder Ventures
Chainlink is the first “middleware protocol” to cross a billion dollar valuation in this bull market, expect more to come.
Full review2019-07-01
Chris Burniske
on Dai
Partner at Placeholder Ventures
BTC = internet gold.
ETH = internet oil.
DAI = internet currency.
2018-12-01
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