Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
21 Oct 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: DAOs-decentralized autonomous organizations-which are built and run on blockchains are nascent today. One day, they will be the dominant form of employment. I was reading A Prehistory of DAOs which was first published on Mirror (covered...
20 Oct 2021 2 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: When reality is increasingly subjective and filtered, belief takes over. There was an Op-Ed in the Wall St. Journal the other day called Biden and Nothingness: Costless spending, the ‘closed’ border and other manufactured alternative realities...
19 Oct 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Not suprisingly, they go hand-in-hand. Short-term behaviors and long-term consequences. The other day, in the post Speculation throughout history based on the book Devil Take the Hindmost: A history of financial speculation by Edward Chancello...
18 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Cryptoeconomics may not be a panacea. An academic paper explains why. In Cryptoeconomics as a Limitation on Governance, Dr. Nathan Schneider of the University of Colorado, Boulder, offers his opinions as to why “crypto” will not solve the many...
15 Oct 2021 3 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: A decade old post on the Internet brings perspective to crypto Somehow, I added The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff to my weekend reading list in the thinking that the article was newly published. On the...
14 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: It’s supply chains all the way down. A newfound appreciation of them and what it means for DeFi. I was reading Remystifying Supply Chains by Venkatesh Rao, who is one of my favorite writers and thinkers, bar none. A self-described “supply chai...
13 Oct 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
Here’s an impassioned thread I came across that makes a compelling case for why the use case for NFTs (non-fungible tokens) is higher than we even realized. 1 Essentially, as he argues in the 26th installment of the tweetstream, the rea...
12 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments jer979!!
I know Facebook has been taking a beating recently (too bad for them), so I’ll just pile on. Back on March 24, 2020, about 10 days into Covid, I saw the unlimited money printer go into effect, so I posted a long message on Facebook (which I visit abo...
11 Oct 2021 2 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: speculation today is pretty much the same as it has always been. That’s the lesson of ‘Devil Take the Hindmost.” I started reading Devil Take the Hindmost: A history of financial speculation and within minutes, I was post-it noting the pages....
8 Oct 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: when fixed income comes to crypto (and works), the big money will really start to flow. It’s coming. According to the ICMA Group, the size of the global fixed income market (as of August 2020-so it’s probably bigger now) is more than $128 tril...
