Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
29 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the Bitcoin DeFi market. Bridge builders. Calling Bitcoin a “fast follower” may sound nuts. Though, technically it wasn’t the first effort at “digital gold,” it certainly is the mack daddy of the crypto space, the longest chain, and has first...
28 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: how creditworthiness might be assessed in the future. Maple Finance and TrueFi. Just like there’s little doubt in my mind that Bitcoin becomes the global reserve currency, there’s also little doubt in my mind that “DeFi will eat CeFi.” Decentr...
27 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Scaling solutions to Ethereum show us that demand and thus adoption are growing. Gradually…then suddenly. As Ethereum has gained in popularity, market forces are at play in a variety of ways. The first, and most obvious, is that because space...
26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: the threat is looming, but so is the opportunity. In what become the ultimate “it’s possible to do well by doing good” play of all time, the “climate tech” market seems (finally) to be on the cusp of high growth. Now, it’s possible that all of...
26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: A “relatively” user-friendly way to take advantage of DeFi’s high-yield opportunities. One of the things that is most appealing about the world of Decentralized Finance (aka “DeFi’) is the numerous high (and in some cases, really high) yield o...
22 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
Seth Godin wrote in “the most important blog post”: Even if no one but you reads it. The blog you write each day is the blog you need the most. It’s a compass and a mirror, a chance to put a stake in the ground and refine your thoughts. Well, today...
20 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Following the deplatforming of Trump from social media, awareness of the power of Big Tech forces us all to confront the reality. My friend Ben sent me a powerful graphic the other day If you click on it and enlarge, you can see just ho...
15 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Hoping the boundaries of civilization are stronger than they appear. I never read Lord of the Flies as a kid so I’ve been working my way through it over the last few weeks. The book, purportedly, is about the thin veneer of civilization that s...
14 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: People are herd animals. One of the things that has fascinated me about the recent Bitcoin bull run is the way people have responded to it. I saw a cartoon recently that summed it up quite nicely. I tried valiantly to find it, but couldn’t. Ba...
13 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Green will be the new Green in the 2020s. I was reading Fred Wilson’s New Year’s Day note, in which we said that he felt climate was going to be this decade’s “cloud computing.” In other words, it will be huge, both in terms of social impact a...
