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title: "My new blog, Blocksplain"
date: 2018-02-12
author: "Richard MacManus"
featured_image: "https://ricmac.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blocksplain_cover_1280-1.jpg"
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  - name: "Notes"
    url: "/category/notes.md"
tags:
  - name: "Blocksplain"
    url: "/tag/blocksplain.md"
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# My new blog, Blocksplain

It’s been over five years now since I left ReadWriteWeb. During that time I wrote and published two books – Trackers (2014) and Presence (2016). But it was time for a change in 2018, so I’ve started up a new tech blog. That’s because I’ve become obsessed, in a healthy way, about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole, as they say in crypto circles.

My new blog is called [Blocksplain](http://blocksplain.com/). Its goal is to track blockchain and cryptocurrency startups, and explain how they fit into the emerging blockchain ecosystem.

At first I’m aiming for a similar audience to ReadWriteWeb in the early days: tech-savvy people who are curious about this new phenomenon. But I think blockchain will gradually become of interest to non-geeks too, just as Web 2.0 did a decade ago. It’s still early days for blockchain, but I believe we’re seeing a new and significant Internet platform develop.

Check out [my introductory post on Blocksplain](http://blocksplain.com/2018/01/22/blocksplain-intro/) for further details. If you want to join the ride (hodl on!), [subscribe](http://blocksplain.com/feed/) to my blog and/or follow it on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/blocksplain) and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/blocksplain).

In addition to Blocksplain, I continue to write a weekly column for New Zealand’s largest news website, Stuff. You can see my recent posts by clicking the [Column](https://ricmac.org/tech-column/) link in my menu.