Alex Wittenberg

Is the task easily definable, and how can you determine whether it has been done or not?Easily defined tasks can be packaged up and shared anywhere or with anyone, and often work well as bounties or grants. Other contributions are less well defined: someone may make many inputs over an epoch without them having been defined in advance, and the... See more

By now it should be obvious that tokens aren’t a magic bullet — there are no shortcuts to building a network. Networks that just need passive participation from users can use tokens as one tactic to overcome the cold start problem. But networks with active participation can be harder to bootstrap. In these cases, token rewards can incentivize... See more

Create a DAO that looks by all respects like a traditional organization except that it uses tokens for ownership and governance.

our lives, thanks to their finitude, are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time. Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son—a thought that appalls me, but one that’s hard to deny, since I surely won’t be doing it when he’s thirty—there will be a last time that you visit your childhood home, or... See more

By using Kintsugi’s voice-analysis program, a nurse might be prompted, for example, to take an extra minute to ask a harried parent with a colicky infant about his own well-being. 

The goal here is to get so specific that you feel like you actually can’t get anymore specific. You’ve made it abundantly clear who (exactly) this piece is for, and more importantly, who it ISN’T for. 

ROI in this case is not how much you think the token price will go up. It’s how much income or cash flow the token is able to generate for you simply by holding it.

Know Your Customer (KYC): How can we implement zero knowledge KYC obligations while retaining privacy and freedom for individuals, regardless of who they are or where they're from?Smart Contracts: How can smart contracts be recognized as a viable method of optimizing for compliance, just like how we have accountants to optimize for year-end audits... See more