Jason Badeaux

When building a two-sided blockchain marketplace (buyers and sellers, or buyers and miners), which comes first, the chicken (miners) or the egg (buyers)? One solution: pay off the chickens.

In 2019, Bloomberg surveyed 5,000 Tesla Model 3 owners. The survey revealed that 99% of Tesla owners would recommend the car to a friend, and 98% would buy the same Model 3 vehicle again. The results of this survey suggest that every customer an ICE manufacturer loses to Tesla is unlikely to return to their brand (at least until they can produce a... See more

Crypto-economic protocols allow for people to coordinate their economic activities without a centralized, rent-extracting party, and will help move these industries from corporate feudalism to meritocratic capitalism and freer markets.

A hundred years from now, we’ll all look back and think “duh.” Obviously scale was key. Tesla is catalyzing and capitalizing on what will be the largest economic and technology shift of our lifetimes. This is bigger than IT, tech, AI, the Internet, blockchains, or any other buzzword. Everything runs on electricity, and Tesla is going to radically... See more

Using the proposed approach, nine different-by-design value capturing mechanisms were identified: value transfer*(1), work “staking” token(2), protocol consensus token(3), dividend(4), backing by another asset(s)(5), discount token(6), internal product governance(7), meta-governance(8)**, and hedonic value(9)

We can pump out a number of other popular use cases, and for each one, I'll let you move the goal post to not include that particular project.

• Filecoin - A commodity market for storage that's currently 0.0011% the cost of S3.

To achieve clean energy targets, many jurisdictions will have to overbuild renewables, increasing curtailment, or wasting of renewable energy. LDES could reduce or eliminate curtailment, allowing renewables to produce at full capacity whenever the weather is aligned.