Marcel Mairhofer

A list of crypto readings and resources (2018-2019). It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts — followed by specific topics such as: 

• governance; 


• privacy and security; 


• scaling; 


• consensus and governance; 


• cryptoeconomics, 


• cryptoassets,


• investing


• fundraising

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Once you uncover what you should truly be doing—and you can wholeheartedly justify it to yourself—there's really nothing more empowering.

Stupidity is the cost of intelligence operating in a complex environment.
I defined stupidity as overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information.

Two domains engineer stupidity:
One is benign: magic. The magician misdirects your attention. The whole goal of the magician is to make you stupid, to not notice something you should have. The o... See more

In crypto, the price follows this weird (but structured) feedback loop where it actually increases the fundamental value by rising.The rising price creates more interest, which leads to new ideas, new startups, and new projects who ultimately feedback into a positive price again due to the innovation happening.


What´s a Blockchain? A virtual

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We begin with a familiar experience for end users and build out self-custody capabilities over time.

7 steps to transition to web3, for non-technical folks. It can be daunting to make a career shift to web3, especially for those who don’t code. There are new roles that don’t exist in other industries, and recruiting seems informal and network-based. A mini-guide 🧵

In the past, trust was purely social (think the caveman days). Then it switched to trusted institutions (banks, governments, companies) which was a step up, but we still had to rely on the other parties goodwill, or their incentive to behave in the right way.
The problem today is that institutions have become the sole gatekeepers of trust. We are st

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