Explorations of the emerging crypto-economic models and their potential implications
30 Sep 2020 3 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
l;dr: Cryptoeconomic networks change the economic model from shareholder to stakeholder capitalism. A few days ago, anyone who had contributed liquidity to the Uniswap decentralized exchange, woke up to find that they had been “airdropped” some UNI t...
29 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: how secure is census data? Does that concern matter? As many people know, 2020 is also a year for conducting the Census as mandated by the US Constitution. What many people may not know, however, is that a small sub-section of households recei...
28 Sep 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: LinkedIn may be the top place for recruiting, but it’s hiring interface facilitates bias and is out of step with a decentralized world. I’m running a recruiting process now for a demand generation leader. As it’s the largest site for professio...
25 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: it’s all about the Benjamins. Turn on CNN at any point, scroll through the NYTimes, or catch a clip from Saturday Night Live and you’re pretty much guaranteed one thing. There’s going to be something about Donald Trump. And there’s no secret h...
24 Sep 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: DeFi is exploding. Barriers to entry are low. What is the differentiator? Good governance. The pace of innovation within the DeFi space is too fast for me to keep up. A few weeks ago, a project called Sushi Swap came on the scene and within 6...
23 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: crypto-native art, secured by non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on a blockchain, can be converted into cash in seconds. A new market and asset class emerges. I didn’t know what day it would arrive, but I knew it would arrive one day. And it happened...
22 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
I went to a funeral the other day. In person. As I stood there, listening to the Rabbi, I gazed around at the other headstones. All these lives lived and completed. I knew nothing of these people except they existed at some point. Well, that’s not...
21 Sep 2020 4 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: what the shipping container did for physical global trade, Ocean datatokens might do for data. Yeah, it’s big. It’s difficult for me to convey the amount of excitement and enthusiasm I have when I have the opportunity to sit down and immerse m...
18 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: new tech adjusts the definition of “need.” Crypto and traditional finance. There’s an ad on where I live from Capital One saying “when you need your bank, it’s there for you.” It’s a nice sentiment, but not entirely true. What about when:...
17 Sep 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: how much of modern macroeconomic theory is premised upon restrictions to financial liquidity? I was very reluctant to start reading The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy. My deep biases for crypto, hard...
