Marcel Mairhofer

We universally lack the discipline to halt our inertia to ask, Should I still be doing what I'm doing?

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 and token distribution; 

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The main things we’re trying to figure out are:

1. Where is the supply right now?

A DAO is an organisation, a community and that means you can collectively look for and work on projects or build your own products.
No CV needed, no job interview, easy entry, work flexibly as much as you like and have a say by voting on proposals. If you are interested in freedom and flexibility, but still like the community you might have in an... See more

During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were built on open protocols that were controlled by the internet community.


During the second era of the internet, from the mid 2000s to the present, for-profit tech companies — most notably Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA) — built software

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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

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