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As part of a creator’s relationship with the broader Koji platform, Koji provides and manages liquidity and exchange of USD/kUSD for registered creators. By bridging from fiat to cryptocurrency at transaction time, we allow audience members to seamlessly transact in the ways in which they are familiar, while providing the creator community with a... See more

Layer doesn't reinvent a spreadsheet product from the ground up, but creates a complementary layer on top of existing spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel) which is interesting because:

Let the flame of Definite Optimism burn away the Mimetic virus. Use the Internet to curate your environment, so you can be hyper-mimetic towards the rare few who are anti-mimetic. Copy the people who don’t copy people. Take risks. Build a differentiated skillset. Pursue timeless wisdom, not intellectual fashions. Be skeptical of convention, and... See more

-Using blockchains to create more trusted, transparent and verifiable versions of existing processes.

Both centralization advocates and privatization advocates accept as a central tenet that institutional change must come from outside and be imposed on the individuals affected. Despite sharing a faith in the necessity and efficacy of "the state" to change institutions so as to increase efficiency, the institutional changes they recommend could... See more

Thanks to a new licensing agreement, Facebook now pays NYT directly for content.

-distributing funds for a grant program