Riley Crane

What if a crypto wallet replaced the crumbling cookie?

Wallets resemble cookies in some ways and improve upon them in others. Like a cookie, a wallet is a unique, anonymous identifier. Applications can create wallets on a user’s behalf and append metadata, just like a cookie,. In addition, a user can exert influence and control over each.

The most insidious feature of kludgeocracy is the hidden, indirect, and frequently corrupt distribution of its costs. Those costs can be put into three categories — costs borne by individual citizens, costs borne by the government that must implement the complex policies, and costs to the character of our democracy.The price paid by ordinary citize... See more

Join me in a thought experiment. Imagine you are imprisoned in a room by a despotic regime and allowed contact with the outside world only through a primitive computer. Called a text-only terminal, the computer lets you send and receive as many written messages as you like. It lets you read as many articles as you like. But it can’t display images ... See more

Web3 Analytics resemble web2 in theory but differ in practice. Of course, daily active users and cohort metrics will hydrate dashboards. But so will Discord user activity and token trades. Marketers must answer new questions: Are the people chatting in my Discord tokenholders? Who are the whales (the largest account holders)? How does my user base ... See more