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Securing the world’s assets: $1 – 10T

A measure of success tied to a feeling rather than a number feels enlivening precisely because it’s about what makes you come alive rather than what you think people will want.

The first is more social than media. It’s driven by a backlash to performative, status-seeking social media: people want to spend quality time online with close friends and family. This means less Facebook and Instagram and more WhatsApp and Messenger.

This has to do with the idea of breaking up a larger app/platform into multiple apps/platforms, instead of building more features into the main app

Rather than storing a memorized secret like a password, users can apply public key cryptography to sign up, access sites, and take sensitive actions by using private keys to deterministically prove ownership of a represented account on a shared ledger. It may sound like voodoo to the average person, but it is a bit like electricity. Flip a switch,... See more

71% of Gen Z sought information about coronavirus through independent news outlets, over government organizations.

This is how NFTs make me feel: like the future is useless but expensive, and world-altering technology is now in the hands of a culture so aesthetically and spiritually impoverished that it should maybe go back to telling stories around the cooking fire for a while, just to remember how to mean something.

So the question is, how do you get to that scale? There are a million networks that died out before they ever achieved that scale.