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7 Jul 2023 4 minute read 8 comments Allen Taylor
Collect this post on Paragraph and receive an airdrop of 200 Taylor Tokens ($TAYL). After an excellent earning month in May, June fell off a cliff. That's the way it is in Web3. It's unpredictable, but that doesn't mean great things aren't taking pla...
5 Jul 2023 3 minute read 8 comments Allen Taylor
TOP NEWS THIS WEEK: Users experience issues after Twitter places daily limits on reading posts, supposedly to combat data scraping. We've all known all along that Twitter, Facebook, and legacy social media platforms have data issues. If user data isn...
30 Jun 2023 5 minute read 8 comments Allen Taylor
Canada is making history and not in a good way. In May, the country north of the largest internet user base passed a new law known as Bill C-11. It's also being referred to as the Online Streaming Act. But what is it? Bill C-11 is an amendment to Can...
28 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
Are Bitcoin Ordinals the future of NFTs? This tweet makes some great points. Serious NFT investors consider chain risk. For that reason, bitcoin could be the NFT platform of the future. On the other hand, there are some drawbacks. Meta will block soc...
23 Jun 2023 6 minute read 7 comments Allen Taylor
After studying Web3 for several years and having written two books on the subject, I've come to the conclusion that Web3 is definitely the next phase of the internet. That doesn't mean that everyone will onboard onto Web3 right away. It's likely that...
21 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
Personal note: Recently, I launched the Taylor Token ($TAYL), a personal token for my fans and me. To learn how you can receive some $TAYLs, listen to the Defluenced podcast later in this newsletter or read my MIrror essay on social tokens. If you li...
20 Jun 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Allen Taylor
Behind Palestine, Texas, our next most popular video is Hanover, Pennsylvania. If you really want some history, this little town is rich with it. And culture too. Home of the Hanover Shoe Farms, Hanover was also instrumental in the Civil War. Just a...
19 Jun 2023 5 minute read 23 comments Allen Taylor
I’ve been thinking about creating a personal token for quite some time. Late last week, I finally did so. I tested the distribution of these tokens on a few subscribers to one of my Paragraph posts. I sent 100 tokens to all three collectors and all t...
16 Jun 2023 9 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
I'm convinced Web3 publishing is the wave of the future, but that doesn't mean I'm convinced of every single promise Web3 gurus make. Some have staked their futures on non-fungibles (NFTs) while others are bullish on hard-earned rewards. Still others...
14 Jun 2023 4 minute read 7 comments Allen Taylor
Good morning my fellow Web3 nerds, Yesterday, I finally quit thinking about it and created my own social token. It was much easier than I thought it would be, and I didn't use a platform like Roll. Instead, I used a token creation protocol and, in ju...
