Alex Wittenberg

But — laughing out loud — Apecoin crucially has nothing to do with these transactions. It is just a fictional currency made by the same company. It’s likely that the value of $APE will go up in times when there is more general demand for or awareness of BAYC. The coin will be the “primary token for the BAYC ecosystem, as well as future Yuga... See more

“The future might not have happened yet, but it was already decided.” “The goal,” as she put it, “isn’t participation, but submission.” 

Here are a few predictions you might make if you buy the viability of this model:

Our obsession with extracting the greatest future value out of our time blinds us to the reality that, in fact, the moment of truth is always now—that life is nothing but a succession of present moments, culminating in death, and that you’ll probably never get to a point where you feel you have things in perfect working order. And that therefore... See more

“They weren’t taken by humans, and they weren’t taken for humans. They are by AI, for AI. They thus lack any sense of human composition or human audience. They are creations of utterly bloodless industrial logic. Google’s CAPTCHA images demand you to look at the world the way an AI does.”

You are giving people a fundamentally different understanding of who you are, how you think, and how you became "you," from the very beginning. The more people who know things about you (to whatever degree you feel comfortable sharing), the more opportunities will come your way. The more people will say, "Wow, I didn't know you did that type or... See more

It requires taking an arbitrary view on the transaction fee growth of the protocol for the next 10-20 yearsIt requires taking an arbitrary view on the appropriate discount rate to determine present value.

To manage data, we need a protocol that makes it easy to store, discover, and route information about an identifier. For Web3 to live up to its promise, that routing table should (a) be unified rather than siloed by application or any other boundary, and (b) be sovereign, give control of data directly to each identifier.This suggests a simple... See more

“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up,” Herzen says. “But a child’s purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn’t disdain what only lives for a day. It pours the whole of itself into each moment … Life’s bounty is in its flow. Later is too late.”