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But I am starting to notice changes in my own shopping behavior. It started with me wanting to check out local options before heading to Amazon to complete my purchase. It was a dickish thing to do to begin with, using other people’s shops as a gallery before buying things somewhere else. And now I find myself buying more and more either directly... See more

The websites at the top of Google are not the highest quality websites, but the ones that put the most effort into SEO [1] [2]. There is an entire industry whose purpose is to game their way to the top of search results, which inevitably leads to those results being debased over time.

This means, for the first time ever, we can have community ownership and network alignment completely consistent with capitalism. And this is uniquely unlocked by crypto tokens that enable us to distribute the value of ownership in the same way we distribute information — instantly, to anyone, anywhere in the world.

For fans, the possibility of profit amplifies their incentive to support a creator. Interestingly, it also introduces an entirely new segment into the creator’s orbit that had never existed before in web2: speculators. Importantly, all of these users—by virtue of becoming owners of an asset that is aligned with the creator’s success—have an... See more