Jason Badeaux
@jasonbadeaux
Cofounder of Anode Labs. Bringing energy independence to every home.
Jason Badeaux
Financial assets are promises to trade certain things in the future, if certain events happen in the world. The financial system is the market for promises.
Not Investing Advice • The Market for Promises
A token must work as a necessary element of a self-sustaining system which is a public utility.
Mike Goldin • Mike’s Cryptosystems Manifesto
In order to build efficient, combustion-based generators, we needed to build them at economies of scale and extensive transmission and distribution networks to transport power along with them. Those wires are vulnerable to being knocked out by storms (or even squirrels), leading to blackouts, or supply shortages leading to cascading failure. That... See more
James McGinniss • AOE Part II: DERs and Local Resilience
Today, the blockchain is arguably a 10x+ worse consumer experience for anyone that hasn’t already been red pilled, but it can be 10x+ better in cases that rely on incentive alignment between large groups of people who don’t know or trust each other. This is the crypto mullet’s opportunity: web2 consumer products upfront, combined web3 technologies... See more
John Milinovich • The crypto mullet: web2 in the front, web3 in the back
This is where Professor Jeff Dahn Of Dalhousie University comes in. He and his team partnered up with Tesla in 2016 to create the Tesla Advanced Battery Research division. Their primary goal is to make batteries last longer, they also aim to increase energy density and decrease costs. Prof Dahn recently published a study showing the world the... See more
Will Lockett • Tesla’s Four Million Mile Battery
The underlying theme across all 8 of these bullets, except perhaps the last, is that each drives scale of battery production.
Kyle Samani • Tesla Is Not A Car Company — Kyle Samani
Tesla is by far the most advanced in releasing an FSD package, announcing in early 2020 that it had completed over 5 billion kilometers of testing under autopilot, against just 2 million miles over the past two years by its nearest competitor Waymo (backed by Google).
Tim Davies • Page not found • Holon
Our thesis is that users will willingly contribute their commerce, device, search, and social media data in exchange for tokens, which serve as both their interest in the data’s aggregate value and their governing power. This data can then be used by hedge funds and other investors to forecast the key performance indicators of public and private... See more