Portfolio / Nicolas Preti

Press Releases and OpEds

Here is some of my writing from 2017-2019 as Head of Research and Content for Pure Knot.

Yahoo Finance • 30th August 2018

BTC.com: Ethereum Mining Pool

Because contracts are charged per line of executed code and miners are rewarded for dedicated hashes using GHOST, Ethereum provides multiple different reward incentives to contribute hash power to the network

5th November 2018

BTC.com and RSK Merge Mining

RSK’s two-way peg locks a transaction on the bitcoin blockchain and releases the corresponding value on a secondary network—a sidechain.

VentureBeat • 12th August 2019

Sila Money on FedNow

Most countries today settle and clear retail bank transfers within minutes if not seconds. In the US it takes days, and there are still bankers who ask, do we really need faster payments?

Cointelegraph • 14th October 2019

SALT Lending on Smart Contracts

How do you know that the gold held in a vault is real and not counterfeit and that the people managing your gold aren’t exploiting their contract?

CNBC • 11th May 2018

BTC.com and Huawei

Huawei has released a bitcoin wallet on its app store, allowing Chinese consumers to hold virtual currencies even as Beijing steps up regulation on the nascent industry.

Financial Post • 5th September 2019

SALT and Paxos Partnership

SALT diversifies its collateral options by adding NYDFS-regulated PAX Gold bringing crypto-backed loans to gold investors

MarketWatch • 13th March 2019

Accelor.io: FPGA Hardware Acceleration

Accelor.io, emerged from stealth to unveil its Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) frameworks to optimize computing performance and decentralized security.

Business Insider • 18th February 2020

Launch of Equiti Games

Equiti Games returns distribution rights to developers and facilitates the resale of digital games through smart contracts run on blockchain technology.

Yahoo Finance • 26th June 2019

SALT Masternodes

Our development team has made a technological breakthrough and has advanced our mission by unlocking value and liquidity in cryptocurrency assets through collateralizing the Dash connected to masternodes.

1st August 2018

BTC.com: Bitcoin Cash

August 1st marks the first birthday of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the cryptocurrency that launched (forked) a year ago from bitcoin with the simple purpose of increasing the space available to make transactions through the bitcoin protocol.