While writing this article I pulled together a very early “proof-of-concept” for a DeSci publishing platform called SciFoundry. So far, SciFoundry is an ERC721 smart contract hosted on the Rinkeby testnet. Users can mint their articles and receive an NFT which can be viewed on Opensea. Anyone can download the full article and its assets using the... See more
So let’s review: there is both little evidence that Twitter can monetize via direct response marketing, and reason to believe that the problem is not simply mismanagement. At the same time, Twitter is absolutely essential to a core group of users who are not simply unconcerned with the problems inherent to Twitter’s public broadcast model... See more
One of the big differences between Beacons and a page generator like Linktree is the fact that the core abstraction of the product is the "block", not the "link". A link is a piece of text you click to get somewhere else; a block is embedded in the page, and as such can have additional functionality beyond acting as a redirect.