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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
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Today, crypto technologies like decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) enable a new model of character development and ownership that could not only unbundle creative media, but also lower the barrier to entry for online communities to bring new characters into the world.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • “Fantasy Hollywood” — Crypto and Community-Owned Characters - a16z crypto
The strong implication is that Buterin and his colleagues will have to take a back seat in the AI bandwagon, which represents the climactic technology in the history of human invention. The idea of a new generation of transformational technologists does not fit the plot line of a new eschaton. But Google and its world are looking in the wrong direc
... See moreGeorge Gilder • Life After Google
The success of these systems will depend on their ability to deliver the actual benefits of decentralization, including more equitable ownership among stakeholders, reduced censorship, and greater diversity.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How - a16z crypto
This utterly decentralized and amorphous force increasingly self-organizes to provide its own news, entertainment, and services.
Anthony Williams • Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
The narrative of ownership is integral to decentralized financial technology. Traditional online bank accounts represent balances as numbers stored in a centralized database, which can notionally be withdrawn or exchanged for goods and services at any point. As the story goes, this requires placing trust in a banking institution. Blockchain protoco... See more
Kei Kreutler • Inventories, Not Identities
Saifedean Ammous’s book The Bitcoin Standard,
George Gilder • Life After Google
For this digital, embedded, and decentralized world to reach its full potential, there are meaningful problems to be solved. We must be able to establish identity, at point of transaction and over time, even if pseudonymous. We must have real time and persistent credit risk management, for people, businesses and for specific obligations between and... See more
Matt Harris • The Future Of Money: A Complete Revolution
Chesky believes that a “trusted intermediary” and secure payment system have a lot to do with this record.