Devin Baker
@devin
Devin Baker
Fundamentally, I consider ETH to derive most of its value from being a global, permissionless store of value, and while it is engaging to discuss the value accrual story as it relates to scaling of the ecosystem, long-term user and developer growth should take precedent over short-term focus on token mechanics. The rollup-centric roadmap makes a... See more
HackMD: Your Collaborative Markdown Workspace for Knowledge Sharing
The writer creates, the reader receives, the librarian stores and the curator decides what is worthwhile and why .
The curator (also known as the "critic" in literary circles) decides what is valuable, to whom is it valuable, and why it is valuable. They create and sustain culture . Their role is to build and maintain canons—not "set in stone"... See more
The curator (also known as the "critic" in literary circles) decides what is valuable, to whom is it valuable, and why it is valuable. They create and sustain culture . Their role is to build and maintain canons—not "set in stone"... See more
Tom Beck • Curator Economy, Not Creator Economy
Blockchains are at the computing frontier, as PCs were in the 1980s, the internet was in the 1990s, and mobile phones were in the 2010s. People look back today on classic moments in computing and wonder what it was like to be there. Noyce and Moore. Jobs and Wozniak. Page and Brin. Hobbyists dabbling, debating, driving forward. Tinkerers hacking... See more
Chris Dixon • 16 insights from New York Times bestseller Read Write Own - a16z crypto
Web3 and The future
Thinking back, a frustrating thing about living in an unconventional way was that we felt like we weren’t allowed to complain about our problems. Maybe this is a Swedish thing. But if you break the script and then run into problems, people (not all people, but many) take it as proof that you were wrong and they were right.
Reflections on my first year writing full time
Wisdom and
We believe that, with proper construction, Attention Assets could transcend to a bonafide asset class. To help accelerate this idea, this essay proposes the idea of Attention Oracles, a new oracle construction that could enable Attention Perps—novel instruments for traders to go long or short the attention of cultural fixtures.
In short, Attention... See more
In short, Attention... See more
Building The Attention Economy
Web3 and
“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger
- If history is any guide, the USD is about to peak cyclically, in line with our interest rate view.
Joe McCann • Asymmetric Market Update™️ #25
The most obvious tradeoff of our proposed oracle is that the inputs are difficult to obtain. If you want to construct a LeBron James attention oracle, you must first create many different liquid prediction markets for topics related to LeBron. In addition, those markets must stay liquid over time and be replaced with liquid markets as existing ones... See more
Building The Attention Economy
Investing and
Blackbird Pay offers restaurants a flat 2% fee on payments , versus an industry average of 3-4%.
Payments is how Blackbird will make the majority of its revenue. Ben explained that, in the short-term, they’ll lose money on some transactions (when users choose to pay with credit card and Blackbird eats those fees), and make money on others (when... See more
Payments is how Blackbird will make the majority of its revenue. Ben explained that, in the short-term, they’ll lose money on some transactions (when users choose to pay with credit card and Blackbird eats those fees), and make money on others (when... See more
Packy McCormick • Blackbird
Web3 and