Andrew McCluskey

what do we call this trend? https://t.co/LkloGMCB6a

Despite working with DeFi teams for the last 5 years, I think onchain finance is a better name for whats happening.

Decentralization is an important substrate, the real pull is the increase in utility and value when an asset comes onchain turns into a money lego.

Whether an asset is blockchain-native or a real-world asset will matter less and less.

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I have never come out of a situation where I was negative to or about someone else and felt better. Any time I have been disdainful of another person has ended with me wishing I had kept my mouth shut. Turns out that hurting people, even when I think I’m right, even if they “hurt me first”, just makes me feel worse, and made their life worse in the... See more

We’re living in an interesting moment: culture has arguably changed more in the last 30 years than in any three decade span in history. Technology supercharged the pace of social change. The internet and smartphones drove change over the last quarter-century, and AI will drive change over the next quarter-century.

“You’re getting worse at [your art], but you’re becoming a great marketer for a product which is less and less good”

But labels and rights-holders see the same tools as built on an enormous act of industrial-scale theft. Decades of copyrighted recordings, the fruits of 100 years of human artistry, have been scrapped and repurposed as training data without so much as a licensing check or a royalty paid.