DAOs can Scale to Meet Our Challenges
After corporations and our democracies, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) promise to scale even further our ability to coordinate and to…
Writing & Ideas
Two decades of thinking, in order.
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Web3 Will Be Important, and it Will Take Time
Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and now Web3. Will we ever stop? Probably not, but Web3 is going to represent an…
Don’t Believe That Bitcoin is Wasteful
Don’t believe that Bitcoin is wasteful. We are building the global financial and economic infrastructure for the 21st century, the…
Resilience Through Necessary Inefficiency
Do we want resilient systems? When is it necessary to aim for them? And if the consequence is a certain…
Methods and Tools for Learning in the 21st Century
Learning not only the pieces of knowledge, but the additional tools that are dearly needed in order to be active,…
Bitcoin Improves the Sovereignty of Nations
Bitcoin and mining are going to deliver an increased degree of sovereignty, not only to individuals, but to entire nations.…
AI’s Astonishing Progress
What are the highlights of Artificial Intelligence development in the past year or so? I define Artificial Intelligence as a Jolting…
Digital Identities: true names, pseudonyms, anonymsse
We are creating digital realities and must enrich them with the kind of features that can benefit us. NFTs are…
Metaverse Infrastructure and Business Models
There is an explosion of interest around the concept of the metaverse, and it is worth describing its various features…