Thomas Chow 🌱
@chinaesq
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Public company and startup tech executive + director. @Strategy, @Chia_Project, @PermutoCapital, @silicondotnet, BiBoLabs, @PubMatic, @Snapchat, @Vindicia.
Tysons Corner, VA
Joined October 2009
I am humbled to announce that I am joining Chia Network, a layer 1 public blockchain, as Chief Legal Officer. I am also a crypto skeptic. These are not mutually exclusive statements. I’ve always believed that there was a place for blockchain in our world… https://t.co/zt9QEBwQIv
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I am honored to announce that I am joining Chia Network, a layer 1 public blockchain, as Chief Legal Officer. I am also a crypto skeptic. These are not mutually exclusive statements. I’ve always...
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Wednesday (11/5) at 8am eastern @trenttmartensen and I will join @DavidDTawil on his show Finance Daily to talk @permutocapital ACs and DCs
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💯💯 Was true of the World Bank and CAD Trust for us (chose the Chia blockchain because of the tech and @chia_project generates revenue), and yet people act like we must have paid them off because that's what the rest of the industry does. 🤦♂️
I recommend that we, as an industry, stop this silly game of celebrating/bragging about a new entrant choosing a certain chain "because they liked the tech" when the more likely explanation is they were paid to. Transparency is supposed to be one of the core principles of crypto
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The Chia Cloud Wallet is now officially in General Release! Starting today you can access: 🌱Buy XCH 🌱Advanced Coin Management 🌱Vaults for secure key and fund management 🌱Recovery to update your keys with ease 🌱Chia iOS Signer
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“Permuto Capital is developing a new asset class that runs more efficiently on blockchain rails.” - Thomas Chow (@chinaesq)
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The phrase is 'Cypherpunks write code' not 'Cypherpunks get rich'
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Enjoyed speaking about blockchain 101, what's a "native" token, state of play of US legislation, privacy laws for public blockchains, and insider trading risks for digital asset treasury companies at @accinhouse #ACCAM25 while Donna Coaxum @OSIsustainable covered supply chain.
Looking forward to speaking about blockchain and crypto at the ACC Annual Meeting with other General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers during a CLO session. Come find me if you want to talk all things blockchain, crypto, and regulation. #ACCAnnualMeeting #ACCAM25 @ACCinhouse
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And I love how @andrewrsorkin draws parallels between 1929 stock market bidding and the current day memecoin pumps and dumps. 😅 @ACCinhouse #ACCAM25
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Interesting quote (paraphrased ) from @andrewrsorkin at @ACCinhouse #ACCAM25: "The most successful people I know take *everything* personally... Every problem... Every sleight... If they are too detached, they have delegated too much."
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Looking forward to speaking about blockchain and crypto at the ACC Annual Meeting with other General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers during a CLO session. Come find me if you want to talk all things blockchain, crypto, and regulation. #ACCAnnualMeeting #ACCAM25 @ACCinhouse
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Some of the things we are trying to accomplish at @permutocapital by using @chia_project for the most decentralized L1 on a coin/utxo model with peer to peer sans centralized smart contracts/intermediaries. And secure the bag for truly efficient dividends with minimal fees. 😇
estimated annual cost savings from removing public market securities intermediaries through tokenization note: for this to work you can't just replace them with new intermediaries (e.g., replacing non-crypto transfer agents with crypto transfer agents), you have to actually
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I love the ideas presented by @prestonjbyrne here. And I agree they are broader than just censorship laws. Enforceability of foreign laws and even foreign judgments is difficult. That's what happens when each nation state is its own sovereign and has it's own locally
In this longform post, I articulate a new legal doctrine - lex loci machinae - that I expect will develop out of U.S. litigation fighting European attempts to censor American websites. https://t.co/zeM9K786UB
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In case you missed it, Gene Hoffman (@hoffmang) talks about the dangers of MEV and how it affects trading securities on chain.
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Reading a liquid staking token in an ETP or ETF is a superior product to the native token because it creates decentralization vectors. Arguably so. But it also creates more opportunities for the LST and the native token to depeg (contagion/arbitrage), the LST to become valuable
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Hot take: law should encourage the right policy and technical outcomes. And if that means technical specs are done in a way that could squarely put you in regulatory cross hairs, then the right call is re-architecting not crowing about regulation being not "tech neutral".
I think it is bad form, and a bad strategy, to try to summon the regulatory demon to strike down your competitors over technical or ideological disagreements Where will you hide when the demon turns around on you?
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Offer files and state channels don’t need votes…
Addendum for pedants 😛 Yes stage 1 means that a security council with a 75% vote can override the onchain code. However, stage 1 also requires that a quorum-blocking (>=26%) portion of the council sits outside the org that is managing the L1. Hence, the org cannot unilaterally
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Because decentralization matters. Oh wait, I guess it doesn't there. 🤦♂️ And that's what makes these L1s glorified databases and "trust me bro' chains.
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“One size fits all” is another way to say ok for all and perfect for none. Don’t settle for an “ok” financial portfolio, demand one tailored for your needs. ACs and DCs are the only way for retail investors to take back control of their financial future.
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