unbounded capital year in review 2022

While 2021 was a year of “soaring asset valuations for both publicly traded crypto assets and private equity,” 2022 was a year of collapse, contagion, and even criminal complaints against companies previously regarded by our peers as “blue chip.” In this 2022 year in review, we will dive into previous trends that are still developing, new trends that emerged, updates on companies in our portfolio from our Fund I, and updates from our recently launched Fund II.
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Jan 20, 2023 | by Zach Resnick & Dave Mullen-Muhr

WHY THE WORLD'S LARGEST BLOCKCHAIN VCS KEEP INVESTING IN FRAUDS, PONZIS, AND USELESS TECHNOLOGY

As the crypto bubble continues to collapse, investors are naturally wondering where value will come from in the next phase of blockchain. Some will argue that this market collapse is just a bump in the road, and that the same playbook will still work in the long run. Others will say that blockchain has no value at all and that there won’t be another blockchain epoch.
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Nov 23, 2022 | by Jack Laskey

Why the lightning network doesn’t work

The Lightning Network (LN) is a 2nd layer payment protocol for Bitcoin’s perceived scaling problem. In this article we will outline the technical issues with scaling this network, legal reasons why widespread adoption is incredibly unlikely, and how the proposed solutions end up implemented as centralized solutions relying on trusted 3rd parties, the very entity Bitcoin was created with intent to remove from peer-to-peer transactions.

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Aug 29, 2022 | by Joshua Henslee & Zach Resnick

solana and the quest for global state

Solana markets itself as a massive improvement over Ethereum because of its higher throughput and lower fees - a pitch which is probably familiar to Unbounded Capital readers
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Sep 15, 2021 | by Jack Laskey

Could coordinated law enforcement actions send btc to zero?

Can Law Enforcement Censor Blockchain Networks? Explore how Cryptocurrency/blockchain networks are being used to facilitate billions of dollars of criminal exchange and how, the US Government, have already seized cryptocurrency proceeds of crime and can continue to do so by legally compelling large miners to comply.
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Sep 01, 2022 | by Dave Mullen-Muhr

Opportunity fund year in review 2021

2021 was an exciting year in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space which brought soaring asset valuations for both publicly traded crypto assets and private equity
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Mar 22, 2022 | by Zach Resnick

only cash sales

The only network with a commitment to massive scale which can actually achieve it by being a cash-like system is Bitcoin SV
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Sep 1, 2020 | by Jack Laskey

The truth about Bitcoin’s environmental impact

The reality of the “green bitcoin” debate is that both sides of the argument misunderstand Bitcoin and, thus, necessarily misunderstand its interaction with the environment
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Sep 9, 2020 | by Dave Mullen-Muhr

if bitcoin was a family plan

While it would be a fair criticism to suggest that the blockchain-as-phone-bill is not a perfect 1:1 analogy, the framework for understanding what you are buying when you pay a $30 transaction fee on BTC versus what you are buying when you pay a $0.0001 fee on BSV is useful nonetheless
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May 27, 2021 | by Dave Mullen-Muhr

why i believe in bitcoin

There are several prominent versions of Bitcoin networks out there, but only the Bitcoin SV version (BSV) is unbounded, without limits on its scale or ambition
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June 14, 2021 | by Zach Resnick