Devin Baker

This may be the first time we see a shift in public perspective where automated accounts and bots are not seen as bad actors on social media, but community leaders and influencers.

He presents evidence that liquidity tends to lead market movements by a window of three to six months. This insight suggests that tracking global liquidity can offer valuable foresight into potential market behavior, enabling investors to make more informed decisions.

A typical liquidity cycle lasts 5-6 years from trough-to-trough and, based on the October-2022 low point, we expect the current cycle to peak around Q4 this year.

Now, it is still incredibly useful to calculate net income = income – expenses when evaluating any subset of token holders (and you’re not concerned with directly comparing the line items from PoW vs. PoS). For example, if you are considering staking a given token, you especially need to also know the expected net income from staking. The inverse... See more

It’s not that most people can’t make heavy things. It’s that they don’t notice they aren’t. Lightness has its virtues—it pulls us in, subtly, innocently, whispering, ' Just do things .' The machine rewards movement, so we keep going, collecting badges. One day, we look up and realize we’ve been running in place.

And then you feel it: a quiet,... See more

I wanted the brand to have my face. I wanted the product to convey the culture, life, lifestyle, dignity of work. We are a listed company, and I wanted to manufacture a product with dignity. I wanted a profit with dignity. Because the press all talk about the moral ethics of profit. Why can’t we have a dignified profit then?

Would you buy something... See more

The beauty of blockchains and smart contracts is that they are under-explored spaces in which you can look at problems through a news lens – specifically those related to capital formation, coordination and automation.

Given that your project isn’t for everyone, the goal isn’t for everyone to understand it. The goal is for people who might take action to understand it enough that they will take action. Every great brand that I know of has as the unspoken next line in their brief: “This might not be for you.”

Seed Club is a participant-owned venture network. It’s a bet that doing venture capital from the first principles of a network instead of the first principles of a firm will create dramatically more interesting outcomes.

It’s a subtle but fundamental shift. It means that instead of the organization at large being narrowly focused on investing... See more