Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
1 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: why mining for gold and Bitcoin is really the same evidence, in different forms. I gave a presentation once to the Board of a publicly listed gold mining company one time. I made the comparison that the same thing backing gold was the thing ba...
31 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: On the mindset and economics of aligning large groups of people in pursuit of a common goal. One of the questions I am asked (and sometimes ask myself) is “how can you both be the CMO of an OKR-focused startup and lead an investment fund for c...
30 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
A former colleague of mine in the tech industry has recently been playing around with Web 3.0 and crypto. He installed MetaMask and sent me the following text: It’s the truth. Once you have dealt with the hassle of setting MetaMask up and securing...
29 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: the Metaverse is coming. How are you preparing? I saw a great infographic on Twitter titled “Why are people buying NFTs?” As I glanced through it, 5 of the 6 immediately made sense and then I came to the term “metaverse prepper,” which...
25 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: when do you offer it and when not? Over the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of recruiting for Gtmhub. My team has grown by more than 150% since January 1, so that’s a lot of resumes and emails. One thing that continuously baffles me is w...
24 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
The word of the year for 2020 was “Unprecedented.” I was really invited to a talk with some economists talking about what might happen in the economy when things truly begin to open up. In this case, their guess is as good as yours. Here’s the M1 tot...
23 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the pieces of the puzzle fueling the Non-Fungible Token boom. I saw this excellent chart in a newsletter from Messari Research. I think it does a wonderful job of breaking the NFT segment into its various components. The so-called “Layer 3”...
22 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: what happened in small town Louisiana in 1873 haunts us today. One of the more troubling books I’ve read recently was The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction. It was also a humbling expe...
19 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: turning your computer into a source of (small) income with Theta. One of my favorite things about decentralized networks is how the more effectively utilize assets which are otherwise latent, dormant, or sub-capacity. This is true in storage (...
