It’s not as though Dylan can just sit down and write a classic, era-defining song. Rather, ideas percolate in his mind. Consider that “Like a Rolling Stone” started out as a twelve-page draft that Dylan described as a “long piece of vomit.”⁶
You can think of blockchains like digital nations - ultimately, what's most important is that people have jobs that increase the GDP of the digital nation. For blockchain games, your energy is spent on these separate islands and not benefiting the countries they built on top of. I think, over time, there will be more networks that look like play-to... See more
...scarcity in the ability to actually develop each "local" user experience in a way that both aligns with the culture of the new market and holds true to the company’s core product beliefs and north star vision for the business.
Once identity is solved, credit risk becomes easier. You can’t commit fraud or default on your debt just by wriggling free into the ether; your credit history is immutable and follows you everywhere. In a fully transparent world — even if pseudonymous — willingness to pay becomes a given, and so the analysis can focus on ability to pay.
Unlike Amazon, which is an online marketplace where customers go to buy stuff, Shopify is a software platform visible only to merchants. You don’t go shopping on Shopify the way you do on Amazon; Shopify doesn’t list products directly on Shopify.com.
To create a form of liquid value attached to reputation, coins should accrue to point holders through a series of dividends, where each point holder is awarded coins based on the number of points they have.
"Like Bitcoin, BitClout is a fully open-source project and there is no company behind it--it’s just coins and code". For something relating to people's identities, there SHOULD be responsibility there. There is a place for decentralization, but it is not with other people’s non-anonymous identities.
It’s easy to agree that going meta and reflecting is valuable, and far harder to actually do it. The core problem is that reflecting often feels important, but rarely feels like the top priority. It’s easy to be stuck in the short-term, chasing whatever is currently top of my mind, and letting my blind spots forever remain blind spots. And I think ... See more