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How Do NFTs Become "Viable"? The Practical Needs for Horizonal Integration
Now that I'm part of a Web3 company (TeiaSurf, whom I’m a co-founder of) I've noticed there's a couple of big bottlenecks in the crypto industry that has to be addressed before we start seeing "real" utility in the NFT space. There are a lot of cultural bottlenecks which will be challenging for the industry as a whole, but there are a number of practical issues that will also need to be solved as well. The cultural issues are subjective and messy, but here I’d like to focus on ...
How Do NFTs Become "Viable"? The Practical Needs for Horizonal Integration
Now that I'm part of a Web3 company (TeiaSurf, whom I’m a co-founder of) I've noticed there's a couple of big bottlenecks in the crypto industry that has to be addressed before we start seeing "real" utility in the NFT space. There are a lot of cultural bottlenecks which will be challenging for the industry as a whole, but there are a number of practical issues that will also need to be solved as well. The cultural issues are subjective and messy, but here I’d like to focus on ...
For Crypto to "Win", it Has to Solve its Own Problems
The idea of "smart investing" comes with the assumption that the market rewards reason and punishes irrationality in the long-term. What they don't tell you, though, is that the opposite is often true in the short-term. If you want to make money, more often than not you do have to have the discipline to move contrary to what most are doing. It's been almost a decade since I started getting into this stuff but the above still seems to hold true. Crypto has been mostly flat for about ...
For Crypto to "Win", it Has to Solve its Own Problems
The idea of "smart investing" comes with the assumption that the market rewards reason and punishes irrationality in the long-term. What they don't tell you, though, is that the opposite is often true in the short-term. If you want to make money, more often than not you do have to have the discipline to move contrary to what most are doing. It's been almost a decade since I started getting into this stuff but the above still seems to hold true. Crypto has been mostly flat for about ...
AI Art is a Threat to the Economy, Not Art (Or: The "Solution" to AI Art is Art Education)
Recently there’s been a surge of interest in artworks produced by “Artificial Intelligence” - and the fears that it may eventually end up “replacing” working artists since people would no longer have to commission art from human artists anymore. To the point where some people on GoFundMe are raising legal funds “in defense” of artists out there. Here are their demands:Updating laws to include careful and specific use cases for AI/ML technology in entertainment industries, i.e. ensuring no mor...
AI Art is a Threat to the Economy, Not Art (Or: The "Solution" to AI Art is Art Education)
Recently there’s been a surge of interest in artworks produced by “Artificial Intelligence” - and the fears that it may eventually end up “replacing” working artists since people would no longer have to commission art from human artists anymore. To the point where some people on GoFundMe are raising legal funds “in defense” of artists out there. Here are their demands:Updating laws to include careful and specific use cases for AI/ML technology in entertainment industries, i.e. ensuring no mor...
Measuring the Ethical Value of NFTs: How Do We Know What is "Good"?
As a follow-up to the previous article where I talk about our over-valuation of the “numerically gifted”, I’d like to dedicate an article on the topic of “artistic merit” and how that relates to everything that has happened in the crypto industry thus far, including its ethical standards…or lack thereof. The main thrusts of this article is as follows:Art = Truth = Transparency = Ethics. As a “product”, this is the chain that needs to be created (ethics needs transparency and truth, as does ar...
Measuring the Ethical Value of NFTs: How Do We Know What is "Good"?
As a follow-up to the previous article where I talk about our over-valuation of the “numerically gifted”, I’d like to dedicate an article on the topic of “artistic merit” and how that relates to everything that has happened in the crypto industry thus far, including its ethical standards…or lack thereof. The main thrusts of this article is as follows:Art = Truth = Transparency = Ethics. As a “product”, this is the chain that needs to be created (ethics needs transparency and truth, as does ar...
The Psychology of the "Numerically Gifted" - How and Why Bankers Ruin Everything
Even after all that’s happened with the FTX meltdown and Sam Bankman-Fried so far, Kevin O’Leary (aka “Mr. Wonderful”) still claims that he still “likes the guy”. 🤯 Love is blind, but so is greed - especially so when it comes to the love of money as a thing in itself. There’s something weird going on here that I think is worth diving deeper into. O’Leary also happens to be a guitar player and you occasionally see him playing in front of the camera - he knows how to play well enough to impres...
The Psychology of the "Numerically Gifted" - How and Why Bankers Ruin Everything
Even after all that’s happened with the FTX meltdown and Sam Bankman-Fried so far, Kevin O’Leary (aka “Mr. Wonderful”) still claims that he still “likes the guy”. 🤯 Love is blind, but so is greed - especially so when it comes to the love of money as a thing in itself. There’s something weird going on here that I think is worth diving deeper into. O’Leary also happens to be a guitar player and you occasionally see him playing in front of the camera - he knows how to play well enough to impres...
