China wants control, and China will get control. That's their default modus operandi. Crypto-Tech is no different than the Internet and Web… — William Mougayar China Copy Share Image
There is a new economy out there, what I call the Crypto-Tech Economy, that could be as big, if not bigger, than… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
As much as one would like to think that what China does doesn't matter, the reality is that when China sneezes at… — William Mougayar China Copy Share Image
The blockchain symbolizes a shift in power from the centers to the edges of the networks. — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
When (not if) regulators start looking at ICO deals they might want to investigate, they will likely start with the ones that… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
Government leaders should get up to speed on the blockchain by understanding it first and committing to exploring its potential. — William Mougayar Government Copy Share Image
A new DAO is like a startup. It requires a product/market fit, business model realization, and a lot of users/customers. — William Mougayar Business Copy Share Image
The token itself is not your new business model. What the token enables for you and for your users is the key… — William Mougayar Business Copy Share Image
Most blockchain platforms don't share that much in common, resulting in choice lock-ins, lack of interoperability, and potentially dead-ends that are hard… — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
The blockchain start-ups that have done ICOs are just at the beginning of something. Ask me how they are doing in a… — William Mougayar Beginning Copy Share Image
Study how to write smart contracts, which is the basic unit of programming a blockchain for business purposes. It is the equivalent… — William Mougayar Business Copy Share Image
Cryptocurrencies are not evil and are not for money launderers and scammers. They are for entrepreneurs, technologists, change-the-world dreamers, and anyone who… — William Mougayar Business Copy Share Image
My advice to many ICOs is to start reading about startups and focus on the product, customer, and market as soon as… — William Mougayar Advice Copy Share Image
The blockchain is an asset normalization platform that can enable a new liquidity in transactions, hence creating large networks of usage and… — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
Big companies do not want to disrupt themselves. All they want to do is improve themselves. They see the blockchain as another… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
Just like paying a toll to use a freeway, the token can be the pay-per-use rail for getting on the blockchain infrastructure… — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
A blockchain-based startup could have a product/service as part of what they are developing, but their stride is best hit when they… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
The blockchain is custom-made for decentralizing trust and exchanging assets without central intermediaries. With the decentralization of trust, we will be able… — William Mougayar Authenticity Copy Share Image
Blockchain infiltration will be met with resistance because it is an extreme change. — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
Owning a token bestows a right that results in product usage, a governance action, a given contribution, voting, or plain access to… — William Mougayar Action Copy Share Image
A token is not a short term carrot, nor a stick for that matter. Just having a token doesn't mean that you… — William Mougayar Business Copy Share Image
How do we create new value? You create value by running services on the blockchain. — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
Let's hope the Canadian public sector starts putting the blockchain on their agenda so we can see a significant difference in how… — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
You have to think of the blockchain as a new utility. It is a new utility network for moving value, moving assets. — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
As we prepare to enter the cryptoconomy, undoubtedly it looks fuzzy, foggy, risky, buggy, uncertain and unproven, but so did the Internet… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
The old question 'Is it in the database?' will be replaced by 'Is it on the blockchain?' — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
ICOs cannot escape startup evolution characteristics. This means that their growth will be hard fought, hard earned, and hardly a walk in… — William Mougayar Escape Copy Share Image
In the blockchain world, each user can and should own their data, and 'central' players are less vulnerable to data losses and… — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
The world is preoccupied with dissecting, analyzing and prognosticating on the blockchain's future; technologists, entrepreneurs, and enterprises are wondering if it is… — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
In order to grow-up, blockchains will eventually need a lot of standards that are vendor- and solutions-agnostic. So many areas are ripe… — William Mougayar Currency Copy Share Image
If you think about the web, the web has been an incredible development platform, and everything today is developed on the web.… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
Ideally, it is important to communicate exactly when large amounts of tokens become unlocked and therefore available in public exchanges. It is… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
Public blockchains are almost like the public Internet, which is open and widely accessible. If you can get on the Internet, you… — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
Many regulators are quick to apply existing compliance practices that treat tokens as a security, therefore elevating the barriers and costs of… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
Conceivably, blockchains could rely on a number of standards above the Internet's existing standards to allow a smooth bridging from one layer… — William Mougayar Breakthrough Copy Share Image
If you haven't used Bitcoin first-hand, you may not get the inherent advantage of a quicker appreciation and understanding of its potential.… — William Mougayar Appreciation Copy Share Image
Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
For the first time, companies can be their own payment processors without the cumbersome or costly aspects of traditional financial settlement options.… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
The blockchain applications market is unravelling along a segmentation of activity that is spread along two sets of variables: private vs. public… — William Mougayar Blockchain Copy Share Image
If you have your own currency, you have your own governance, so each currency becomes their own mini-government. Mini-government is a big… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
