Yishai Ofek

We tend to retreat from unfamiliar concepts, especially when they're being pushed in our faces.

If you can't stand it when people talk about crypto, you're not alone.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

If you’re a VC, financialization might seem natural and even fun. But most normal people don’t find financialization fun in the least. They view maintaining their 401(k) as a burden, they mostly ignore the stock market, and they don’t open their bills for a few days when they come in the mail. The idea that they’d want to get into a complicated... See more

The "crypto bro" stereotype can turn people off from learning more about the technology.

What primarily differentiates DeSci from other efforts to rethink our research system is its use of blockchain tools. This is similar to how blockchain is disrupting other industries, where web2 models of centralized ownership are being challenged by web3 models of decentralized, shared ownership.