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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SPAC investors seem surprisingly skeptical of crypto

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Some businesses run on low margins by choice. Others do it because they have no choice.

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What if growth goes exponential while you’re hiding in gold and bitcoin?

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For just $54, you, too, could send a memecoin 500% higher

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A wireless network inspired by lost drones is now helping telco carriers reach your phone indoors

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Retail investors once paid irrational premiums to bet on a bond king. Now they’re doing it for crypto kings

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The VOC’s spicy dividend strategy has lessons for today’s token holders

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Markets are all-in on optimism — is that a forecast or a delusion?

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The House embraces crypto — but keeps the fences up

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Stablecoins are a new form of money, with an old kind of limit

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If pump.fun is a success, NYSE may have to return to a six-day workweek

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Trade isn’t war and prosperity isn’t a contest

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Crypto’s highest purpose might be to make markets better by making them bigger

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An improbable tale of the world’s 40th graphics-chip startup

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Cuts to government R&D budgets may prove penny wise, bitcoin foolish

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In the age of AI, focusing on what’s right in front of you may be the best bet

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Who needs gold when you have taxes?

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The stock market loves crypto more than the crypto market does

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What happens to your investment portfolio when the companies driving returns are no longer in it?

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Crypto is a business — and it might be winner-takes-most