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Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
A week before New York Tech Day, the Canadian government announced the launch of a new digital currency effort, called Mint Chip, that it hoped would spur innovation in payments.
Nathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The advertised decentralization of power out of the hands of a few has, in fact, been a re-centralization of power into the hands of fewer. The top 9% of accounts hold 80% of the $41B market value of NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. The practice of “whitelisting” keeps the bulk of NFT profits within a tight circle of insiders. Bitcoin is even more ... See more
Scott Galloway • Web3
chief technology officer at OKCoin. He’d left OKCoin in 2015 and created Binance in 2017; two years later, he was being described in industry publications as “the most powerful man in crypto.”
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The Pseudonymous Economy
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