A Surface Level Look at the Distributions of Daily Percentage Returns of Bitcoin (BTC) and Gold…Brian Koralewski is the founder of Austere Capital Advisory LLC, a digital asset derivative consulting firm headquartered in New York City.Dec 28, 2020Dec 28, 2020
A Guide for Hedging Against Bitcoin Price DeclinesBrian Koralewski is the founder of Austere Capital Advisory LLC, a digital asset derivative consulting firm headquartered in New York City…Dec 28, 2020Dec 28, 2020
Dark: How a Netflix Series ChangedA teenage boy rides up to lone traffic light before a dark forest, which overlooks nuclear power plant stacks in the distance. He wears a…Aug 18, 2020Aug 18, 2020
Flattening the CV-19…Line (???) in New York City — Part TwoHi all — if you missed it, I’ve been posting videos on YouTube on my analysis of the CV-19 pandemic.Mar 22, 2020Mar 22, 2020
Flattening the Curve in New York City— an Update on CV-19As the CDC numbers are completely unreliable and severely lagging, I will solely use New York City’s health department numbers as well as…Mar 20, 2020Mar 20, 2020
An Economist’s Response to “Valuing Cryptocurrencies As . . . Currencies?”Daniel Gorfine — Chief Innovation Officer and Director of LabCFTC — released a piece this week that attempts to value Bitcoin (BTC) as a…Mar 29, 2019Mar 29, 2019
Published inCryptoDigestHow Digital Enterprises Can Boost Sales via Tokenized NetworksDecentralized networks ala cryptocurrencies are all the rage nowadays — yet their real-world practicality remains severely limited if…May 17, 20183May 17, 20183
Published inCryptoDigest“Tokenomics” for a Decentralized YelpI recently was consulted to devise a token-economic incentive structure for a “decentralized Yelp” — i.e. a decentralized restaurant review…Apr 4, 201810Apr 4, 201810
Published inCryptoDigestMV=P…Que? Love and Circularity in the Time of CryptoAuthors: Anshuman Mehta and Brian Koralewski, General Partners, Austere CapitalFeb 23, 20184Feb 23, 20184
What Stellar Lumens Teaches Us About Token EconomicsAuthors: Anshuman Mehta and Brian Koralewski (@BKoral_Austere), General Partners, Austere CapitalFeb 9, 201815Feb 9, 201815
Oracles and the ChainLink PlatformThe following is a product of Austere Capital Research by Managing Partners Brian Koralewski and Anshuman Mehta.Jan 31, 20181Jan 31, 20181
Austere Capital — Investment Thesis SummaryA Fundamental Approach to Investing in Distributed Ledger TechnologyJan 24, 20182Jan 24, 20182
Austere Capital NewsletterThe following is a sample of our bi-monthly newsletter — “Wolf Trails”.Jan 19, 2018Jan 19, 2018
Stellar (XLM) — The Decentralized, Multi-Faceted Financial Services PlatformDISCLOSURE — I owned Lumens — the Stellar Network’s native token at the time this piece was written.Dec 17, 20171Dec 17, 20171
Musings on Blockchain Scalability Solutions, Consensus Mechanisms, and Code Robustness — Part 2On Consensus Mechanisms — “ …a process in computer science used to achieve agreement on a single data value among distributed processes or…Dec 9, 2017Dec 9, 2017
Musings on Blockchain Scalability Solutions, Consensus Mechanisms, and Code Robustness — Part 1This is Part One of a Three part series in which I cover the main fundamental roadblocks for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies —…Nov 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017
Factom vs. OriginTrail — A Brief Comparison of Blockchain-based Database Management SystemsDatabase management is arguably blockchain technology’s natural use-case, due its inherent immutability vis-à-vis hashing (i.e. a digital…Nov 21, 20171Nov 21, 20171
Miner Economics Part 2 — The Forks(Note — I wrote this piece at the end of October, before 2x was “suspended” — there is an update to this piece below)Nov 9, 2017Nov 9, 2017
An Introduction to the Economics of Mining within Cryptocurrency — Part 1Cryptocurrency Miners are an integral part of the blockchain ecosystem, with the other components being the “users” (or consumers) and…Nov 9, 2017Nov 9, 2017
