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🟪 New Things vs. Old Things Done Better

Business fortunes are made whenever technology enables a new way to distribute a product or service.

Feb 26, 2024

🟪 The Gravitational Pull of Airdrop Farming

In the run-up to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, it became increasingly clear that the investment banking industry was becoming a black hole of human capital.

Feb 25, 2024

🟪 Bitcoin Still Has a Scaling Problem

The best way forward is to find a balance between technical sophistication and general usability

Feb 23, 2024

🟪 Friday Party Time Charts

Nvidia kept the market party going this week with another set of historic results, adding $277 billion of market cap on Thursday alone.

Feb 22, 2024

🟪 Thursday Many Parts Mailbag

Instead of selling 10% of the company to institutional shareholders at an artificially low price, why not airdrop 1% of the company to users?

Feb 21, 2024

🟪 Does Blockspace Belong in a Bundle?

Much of business history can be framed in terms of either bundling or unbundling — and often both.

Feb 20, 2024

🟪 On the Contingent Love of NFT Art

Susan Sontag’s The Volcano Lover is a study in the pathology of high-stakes collecting.

Feb 19, 2024

🟪 Should Crypto be Anonymous? Or Just Private?

My first reaction to last week’s dumbfounding account of a finance writer being scammed into withdrawing $50,000 from the bank and putting it in a box to hand to a stranger was not, “How could someone be so stupid?” — it’s impossible to know how your brain might work in that situation until you’re in it.