Going On Offense In The Creator Economy
I’ve been thinking about defensive vs offensive use cases enabled by blockchain. It's been well noted that cryptography is one of the tools that actually gives a defender the advantage. And this is critical for financial use cases:You can't seize my assets just because I have different ideologies than you.You can’t prevent me from participating in an early stage project capital formation event just because of the country I live in or the fact that I didn’t inherit generational wealt...
Going On Offense In The Creator Economy
I’ve been thinking about defensive vs offensive use cases enabled by blockchain. It's been well noted that cryptography is one of the tools that actually gives a defender the advantage. And this is critical for financial use cases:You can't seize my assets just because I have different ideologies than you.You can’t prevent me from participating in an early stage project capital formation event just because of the country I live in or the fact that I didn’t inherit generational wealt...
Exchange Staking on Work Networks
Today Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong shared out that there were rumors that exchanges offering staking services to retail users may be made illegal in the US. https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1623459203150131201 I agree with Brian’s thread, but also have the opinion that if exchanges are marketing staking products purely as yield generating financial machines, they’re not doing their retail customers a valuable service in the grand scheme of things. Let’s unpack this a bit. First of all...
Exchange Staking on Work Networks
Today Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong shared out that there were rumors that exchanges offering staking services to retail users may be made illegal in the US. https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1623459203150131201 I agree with Brian’s thread, but also have the opinion that if exchanges are marketing staking products purely as yield generating financial machines, they’re not doing their retail customers a valuable service in the grand scheme of things. Let’s unpack this a bit. First of all...