Jason Badeaux

A token is a necessary element of a system if the use of any other in its place would damage the system’s normal functioning.

Jobs showed all of the other major smartphones in the industry to the audience, and in hindsight their cluttered, fixed, physical keys have not aged well.

This is a very new technology. It could be decades before it is developed enough to be put into a car. The high levels of cobalt could also be a huge issue. Not only is cobalt more than twice as expensive as any other battery metal, but its mining is environmentally and humanely dubious. Many companies, including Tesla, want to have cobalt-free... See more

The work token model captures ~100x more value than the proprietary payment currency model.How is this possible?If you instead use a utility token as a right to perform work on behalf of the network, it becomes valued at a multiple of the operating cash flows that the system generates rather than as a fraction of revenues paid to service providers.

Importantly, autonomous transport should save consumers both time and costs. The average car owner in the US spends more than 420 hours per year driving—more than 10 work weeks.

It's unfair to judge Ethereum (which launched 7 years ago) or Solana (which launched 2 years ago), both of which do claim to enable "use cases", by Bitcoin's 13-year history. Smart contract platforms are a different technology than blockchains, even if they are colloquially used interchangeably. Many major projects on Ethereum, have only a few... See more

Our multi-year research effort into Tesla’s manufacturing capabilities andsupply chain integrations suggest that Tesla is more than 6 years ahead of anycompetitor. This lead is expanding.

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).