Alex Wittenberg

Supply is obviously just one piece of the puzzle though. So in future pieces of this series we’ll also dig deeper on demand, game theory, ROI, and other aspects to good tokenomics worth knowing before investing or launching a project of your own. 

Before readers click and read anything on the Internet, they need to know the answer to 3 very important questions:

For any crowdfund, you will need to make specific choices related to the token supply. We recommend talking through these questions with your founders:What will be the total initial supply?Will it be fixed? (e.g. will future token creation be restricted)

To make things more troublesome still, it can be difficult even to notice when your outlook on life is being changed in this depressing fashion, thanks to a special problem with attention, which is that it’s extremely difficult for it to monitor itself. The only faculty you can use to see what’s happening to your attention is your attention, the... See more

As a brand grows, it becomes more than a set of first impressions and associations. Its reputation precedes it. As impressions are shared across users and consumers, they often develop similar sentiments. In this way, a brand operates as a consensus system, facilitating a consistent set of beliefs across people. 

“Twitter makes money from your attention, so they need to compel your attention. Sometimes that leads to good things, like connecting you to people and ideas that matter. But it also means that the addiction, abuse, and outrage that thrive on Twitter and other social platforms may be impossible to eradicate. So what’s left to do? You can change the... See more

But there is a difference. Because: to get users in the first place, platforms have to increasingly airdrop their token that incentivizes users not only to use the platform, but more importantly, grow its long-term value by getting their network to use it as well. No self-respecting platform under the watchful eyes of the SEC would say that they’re... See more

How do you build confidence in yourself as a writer? You write. It's so simple that it's complicated. The reason why writers struggle with self-confidence at the beginning of their journey is because they are still sitting on the dock, waiting, imagining. They haven't yet confronted the brutal reality that, once they begin, they probably aren't... See more