Institutions for the Digital Age.
1mo
Are memecoins merely emblematic of the degeneracy that’s come to define the cryptosphere, or do they instead represent a powerful, Internet-native fus...
The Internet is the new America — the centre of the world’s cultural and economic activity — and it’s currently undergoing something of a revolution. ...
“Crypto” is notoriously hard to grok. While this is partly a function of the conceptual complexity that’s inherent to the subject — transcending, as i...
One of the persistent criticisms of crypto is that it represents the ‘hyperfinancialisation’ of things; an obvious and unflattering symptom of our ‘hy...
To anyone paying attention, it appears we’re at an interesting moment in the history of the Web. On the back of \~60 years of Moore’s Law, the Web is ...
1y
Yesterday, Sartoshi -- the pseudonymous founder of mfers -- vanished into the ether. To most of the world this means nothing, of course. But for a sma...
‘Monetary localism’ -- as expressed by Ethan Buchman -- is the idea that monetary value ought to be expressed at the local, community level, rather t...
It’s not that I’m unaware that NFTs aren’t universally attractive, at the minute. Or that their application as “PFPs” is just as likely to signal path...
We live in the present, we’re surrounded by the past, but the future’s forever a mystery — and yet we’re headed straight for it, we’re building it eve...
Friends of Eden, Over the past few months, the support we’ve received from you all has been humbling and cause for great optimism - thank you, truly. ...
Revolutions come in all shapes and sizes. Some are worthy of the name and change the world forever, while others fizzle out and become mere footnotes ...
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