An Art Deco bank hall with a wall of sealed safe-deposit boxes and a giant hourglass, where one figure holds a key up to the only box that glows

Binance Update: Waiting on a Zero-Knowledge Proof

Binance reopened withdrawals and says it has covered 95% of the $6.3 billion hack. The proof that the money is there is a zero-knowledge proof, and it's running a day late.

November 2, 2026 · 4 min · Brad Feld
A concrete vault with a giant intact padlock on its front door while red coins pour out of a small open side door

Life Imitates Art: The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack

Someone stole $6.3 billion from Binance ten days after I published the last chapter of Zero Knowledge. Some of the coverage reads like chapters I already wrote.

October 31, 2026 · 8 min · Brad Feld
Samantha running down a gravel road beside a creek with Cooper trotting next to her, aspens on the slopes - the chapter 82 plate, pop art style

Zero Knowledge: 116 Chapters In

I just finished chapter 82 of Zero Knowledge. That's 116 of 137 chapters in the first draft. Here's what the book is, how a chapter gets made, and where I want to take it with AuthorMagic.

October 16, 2026 · 7 min · Brad Feld
Seth driving through Boulder with Cooper in the back, the Flatirons at sunrise - the chapter-twenty plate, art deco style

Zero Knowledge: Twenty Chapters In

A month ago I opened up Zero Knowledge, the crypto-thriller I'm co-writing with my AI. There are twenty chapters now, a cast page, a plate for every chapter, and a pile of reader notes I'm grateful for.

July 24, 2026 · 6 min · Brad Feld
Zero Knowledge - a novel

Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It

Zero Knowledge, the crypto-thriller I'm co-writing with my AI, now has a home at zeroknowledge.ink. Six chapters are live, you can mark up any sentence, and the whole thing is being built in the open.

June 19, 2026 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Writing a Novel with Phin Argofy

I've written nine non-fiction books and have no idea if I can write a novel. I'm trying anyway: a crypto-thriller called Zero Knowledge, co-written with my AI, Phin Argofy.

June 13, 2026 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Adventures in Claude

My obsession with Claude Code continues. Amy is now referring to Claude as my other best friend. I realized my Claude posts were taking over this blog. Since I’ve been

February 16, 2026 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Are You A Camel, A Lion, or A Child?

I’m working on a new book with Dave Jilk, my first business partner. It is titled The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors. We are in the home stretch

January 25, 2021 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

Poetry is complex, beautiful, and mysterious. My wife Amy writes poetry. So does my first business partner Dave Jilk (Rejuvenilia, Distilled Moments). There is a lot of poetry in my

January 21, 2021 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Writing More About Women

Following is an abridged email that showed up in my inbox recently that caused me to stop and think for a few minutes. I took a look back through your

October 23, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld