Devin Baker

As the hero, you get to stand up to those notions and reframe who you are. You get to teach those around you about who you have become. And this last phase—the landing, the integration, the return—cannot be avoided. Because if you refuse to return home, if you refuse to integrate, then your life just gets heavier. You end up with all of this treasu... See more

Recently the term REV (Real Economic Value) was coined – representing the subset of network activity that directly compensates the protocol for providing security and state maintenance. This includes:

• Base fees collected for transaction inclusion


• MEV tips that pass through to validators or stakers


• Blob/data availability fees in the case of modular ch

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The DeVIN space is primarily broken into classes of solutions:

• Protocols that decentralize compute


• Protocols that decentralize data storage

When I worry constantly about the imperfections of my relationship, I keep my love at an equally constant distance.

Back in 2013, there was a point where 48.3% of the coins hadn’t moved in over a year, even though the network was still relatively young. The resulting bull market unlocked a lot of those coins, and the ratio fell to 35.7% in 2014. This was a 12.6% reduction in the ratio.

In early 2016 after a long bitcoin bear market, 61.5% of coins had not moved o... See more

Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around. So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world.

You can make more wealth.

Wealth has been getting created an... See more

Gold historically was the underlying monetary system until recently. Modern tech is by far, more important than gold now, and isn’t essential currently for a reserve system, as tech is much more important to underpin an economic system. Institutions and govts will take tech over gold now .

Network TEV (Total Economic Value) is defined as follows:

TEV = Network Fees + MEV Tips + Issuance

Self-sovereignty is no longer a fringe concept but rather a core principle for the majority of the world, albeit less so in the United States. Smart contracts are rapidly becoming the standard rather than a novel design meant for the corners of the internet.