Crypto’s use-cases, experiments, and narrative shifts
timour.substack.com
Crypto’s use-cases, experiments, and narrative shifts
The main trap that governments should avoid is too quickly sacrificing optionality. An existing city could fall into this trap by launching a bad city token instead of taking things more slowly and launching a good one. A new city could fall into this trap by selling off too much land, sacrificing the entire upside to a small group of early adopter... See more
Vitalik Buterin • Crypto Cities
Expanding Our Cultural Reference Points
society.mirror.xyz
He wants to enable a radical reimagining of how human beings self-organize, while maintaining a rigorous agnosticism about what people choose to do with that power.
Vitalik Buterin • Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
"Let's Run The Experiment": A conversation with Chris Dixon about DAOs and the future of organizations online
Steven Johnsonadjacentpossible.substack.com
And, through programmable trust, cryptonetworks stand to enable human cooperation at a scale that is completely unprecedented. Trust is becoming unbundled, decentralized, and inverted –– instead of flowing top down from institutions to individual people, it is now beginning to emerge bottom up from individuals and software.
Ali Yahya • Web 3.0 and the Future of Trust
In the past decade and a half the institutions that people were told had their best intentions at heart have failed them, and the cypherpunk ethos of distrust of institutions and prioritisation of personal liberty has become a compelling story. The appeal of cryptocurrencies is the promise of the creation of new institutions that are resilient and
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