Sublime

Katie: It's a great question. We're seeing that the middle class suffers in traditional institutional settings. Crypto democratizes participation. Investigative reporting is an area where crypto can help - we've seen crypto crowdfunds take off.

From a Bitcoin maximalist’s perspective, the VCs were playing three-card Monte.

For anyone who has worked in early-stage products and companies, you know how heavy the boulder is that rolls up the hill towards product market fit. Allowing early adopters a chance at future upside can make the other side of that hill just a bit lower.

There are a lot of crypto projects that are built as crypto projects, for crypto people. Crypto Bezos, on the other hand, would build products, from Day One, that are better for the regular customer than anything they have access to today.

Celo is based on a belief that programmable money will unlock new economic models, and that changing the features of money (which is possible because money’s just a technology) can lead to a more beautiful world. And it’s a bet that mission-aligned builders will care as much about a Layer 1’s community as they do its tech specs. When everything is ... See more

In 2009, Cypherpunk Hal Finney became the first person to transact Bitcoin as well as the first maintainer of the Bitcoin software code base.