Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
7 Oct 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: Data that everyone can find on chain…and what it might mean for side-by-side comparisons. One of the challenging aspects associated with putting a value on crypto projects is that, while there are some similarities to “traditional finance,” th...
6 Oct 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the Nouns DAO and the future of marketing I was reading Nick Tomaino’s post about the Nouns DAO which, crazy as it may seem, auctions off a different noun every 24 hours (forever) as an NFT. That’s right, you can own the word “orange” or “blan...
5 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade is the next volley. A few weeks ago, when all of the Bitcoinerati whom I follow on Twitter were talking about the so-called “Taproot” upgrade that would be “monumental.” Knowing that Bitcoin’s preferred development pa...
4 Oct 2021 2 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: my diagnosis, dealing with it, and because I want to, how it relates to crypto. One of the more challenging things I’ve had to deal with in the past year, which has been challenging for all of us in so many ways, of course, is the clinical dia...
30 Sep 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Designed to be a democratizer of wealth, is Ethereum becoming another Elysium? Don’t get me wrong. Along with Bitcoin, I think Ethereum is one of the great innovations of all time. The idea of programmable smart contracts has launched a tidal...
29 Sep 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: Will the first mainstream application of DAOs be for lobbying? Recently, a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) donated $4 million to Coin Center (a Washington DC-based government educational firm). I don’t know for a fact, but I think...
28 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: With transparency as the default, our behavior can be monitored…which changes the nature of who does the investigations. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you are well aware that the NFT market has been exploding. The largest facilitator of tra...
27 Sep 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Building a team structure that is optimized for agility. Over the last 7 months, my team at Gtmhub has grown from 3 to 20. Most of the people on the team are my direct reports. Traditional management orthodoxy says that the largest number of d...
24 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
I honestly don’t even know why I feel compelled to write this post today. Maybe it’s because the journey through the crypto revolution has been so eye opening on so many levels. The other day, I ran into the mother of a former intern of mine who said...
23 Sep 2021 2 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: Designed to help scale Ethereum, will they just end up fragmenting it? To use the Ethereum network, you need to pay “gas” in the form of gwei. Gwei are to Ether as cents are to dollars, except there are 1 billion Gwei in Ether. Anyway, as the...
