Cancel culture creates a mega opportunity for a new social network -- Twitter 2.0
1. Pseudonymous (no verified profiles!) so you can't be cancelled and policies are applied fairly
2. Public follow graph + DMs (Twitter + Telegram)
3. Discovery engine to find insightful new voices
When Axie Infinity launched, AXS tokens were owned by the creators and developers behind the game & private backers. The platform then issued additional AXS tokens that were sold to the public. Today, tokens are bought and sold similar to equity shares. As discussed later, new AXS tokens continue to be issued to key stakeholders (developers,... See more
“I think science is very young. I think eventually we will figure out that there is something much much bigger going on and that humans are just a curious little side-effect of a much bigger thing” – Lex Fridman
All of the big incumbents will want to keep their users tables proprietary in the beginning, because that's their moat and it gives them the network effects and lock-in that markets and investors reward them for.
As agency has increased, and the world has become more meritocratic, many people reject it. It’s like someone is handing you power over your life and you say “no thanks!” Why? Because accepting power and agency means success or failure is your responsibility and your ego can’t handle it.
When bosses are too invested in everyone getting along they also fail to encourage the people on their team to criticize one another other for fear of sowing discord. They create the kind of work environment where being "nice" is prioritized at the expense of critiquing and therefore improving actual performance.
Crypto has transformed grassroots-level organizing. For the first time in history, it is possible to economically align networks of strangers into working together by using programmable incentives and providing them with tools to make decisions and govern shared resources in a decentralized manner. These new organisms are called by many “DAOs,”... See more