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🟪 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.

Feb 18, 2024

🟪 Wall Street is Missing Out on DeFi

If DeFi can just figure out how to improve both security and compliance, nothing would stop traditional finance from entering the game.

Feb 16, 2024

🟪 Friday Attention-Grabbing Charts

The news from this week was high inflation, low retail sales, global recession and new all-time highs in stocks.

Feb 15, 2024

🟪 Thursday No Regrets Mailbag

I get why bitcoin, but why is everything else going up?

Feb 15, 2024

🟪 The Prefunding Problem

A few years ago, I heard a quote that changed the way that I think about UX.

Feb 13, 2024

🟪 It’s Time to Bring Back ICOs.

At least 5,500 US stocks trade at less than $0.01 per share, according to OTCMarkets.

Feb 13, 2024

🟪 Will Blockchains Be Cost-Plus Utilities?

When Sam Insull became President of the Chicago Edison Company in 1892, his staff informed him that the total addressable market for electricity in the city was 25,000 people.