Astrology expresses complex ideas about personality, life cycles, and relationship patterns through the shorthand of the planets and zodiac symbols. And that shorthand works well online, where symbols and shorthand are often baked into communication.
The crypto ecosystem (or web3, or blockchain-based, or whatever you want to call it) is offering a new set of promises of how wonderful it will all be. Most of these promises will not be fulfilled, at least not fully or in the way we expect. But in trying to fulfill them, we will learn new things about what people can do online, and what types of b... See more
Web3 is best defined as a decentralized online ecosystem based on the blockchain. Access to data and machine analysis will also be extremely commodified, which will make continuous learning and human-skills development a must.
Crypto will be a total clusterfuck for privacy, as the foundational tenets of the blockchain—distributed data across many machines with no central control, inalterable data, public data around pseudonymous (or anonymous) identity, permissionless reading and writing—are utterly antithetical to all contemporary privacy thinking. It’s hard to think of... See more
Azuro x Merit CircleWeb3’s composability allows for us to bring our two worlds together and integrate the Azuro protocol into Merit Circle’s soon coming platform, allowing for in-game betting direct from the dashboard. Just like the real world, the metaverse deals with uncertainty in outcomes, in turn, offering opportunities for prediction/betting ... See more
The world of cryptocurrency is very economic (lots of tokens flying around everywhere, with lots of functions being assigned to those tokens), very neo (the space is 12 years old!) and very liberal (freedom and voluntary participation are core to the whole thing). Do these critiques also apply to blockchain systems? If so, what conclusions should w... See more