Austin Hill

What Can We Call Blockchain To Help People Understand It?

Understanding blockchain technology is not for the average person. This is level 10,000 on the nerd scale. Which makes for a sizable challenge if you're a startup trying to build a business based on a

Bitcoin 2.0: Unleash The Sidechains

"Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet," <a target="_blank" href="http://startupboy.com/2014/04/01/the-fifth-protocol/">says</a> Naval Ravika

Google, Eich, Rice: The Evil That Tech Does

Techies hate politics. Well, no: we hate the <em>idea</em> of politics. Whenever I talk to pretty much anyone in the industry about politics as a sphere of human endeavor, from individual coders to z

Investor Austin Hill Cashes Out Of BumpTop And Standout Jobs On The Same Day

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/austinhillsmall.jpg"> It is only Monday, but Canadian seed investor and serial entrepreneur <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/austin-