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No-one knows crypto mobile is broken. Here's the problem.
There’s this quote from VisaKanv which goes - “a problem is by definition something that is poorly-defined. As soon as you know how to solve it, it becomes a task”. And that is where crypto on mobile is today - it’s an undefined problem.What is the problem? I can tell you exactly, having attempted to build crypto mobile apps with my mate Shun. He built Light Wallet - using it, you can approve transactions within Safari on iOS. Here are the problems:The problem on mobile.Onboarding.Users must ...
No-one knows crypto mobile is broken. Here's the problem.
There’s this quote from VisaKanv which goes - “a problem is by definition something that is poorly-defined. As soon as you know how to solve it, it becomes a task”. And that is where crypto on mobile is today - it’s an undefined problem.What is the problem? I can tell you exactly, having attempted to build crypto mobile apps with my mate Shun. He built Light Wallet - using it, you can approve transactions within Safari on iOS. Here are the problems:The problem on mobile.Onboarding.Users must ...
Welcome to Dappnet Alpha.
I’m excited to announce the first technical preview of Dappnet, a bulletproof platform for hosting decentralized frontends. Dappnet makes it possible to publish content that cannot be censored. Users can access it easily as simply as typing 1inch.eth inside their browser. Domains are resolved using ENS, and content is served using IPFS, a P2P network. Today we are releasing 3 things:The Dappnet client for macOS, which works with Chrome, Brave and Firefox.Full open-sourcing of the entire proje...
Welcome to Dappnet Alpha.
I’m excited to announce the first technical preview of Dappnet, a bulletproof platform for hosting decentralized frontends. Dappnet makes it possible to publish content that cannot be censored. Users can access it easily as simply as typing 1inch.eth inside their browser. Domains are resolved using ENS, and content is served using IPFS, a P2P network. Today we are releasing 3 things:The Dappnet client for macOS, which works with Chrome, Brave and Firefox.Full open-sourcing of the entire proje...
From Mona Lisa to AI Art: Exploring Culture's Decentralization and Nonlinearity
A spiritual follow-up to Culture is Stuck by an amateur cultural analyst. What is art? The Mona Lisa is a great work, because for its time, it demonstrated remarkable mastery. Nowdays, many can replicate it with ease. Generative AI will reduce this cost to near 0.Detail and mastery.Art also means evoking feeling - a banana taped to a wall, is that art? Ironically, do the endless Facebook debates about whether it is art or not, make this a good piece of art?Context and placement - social media...
From Mona Lisa to AI Art: Exploring Culture's Decentralization and Nonlinearity
A spiritual follow-up to Culture is Stuck by an amateur cultural analyst. What is art? The Mona Lisa is a great work, because for its time, it demonstrated remarkable mastery. Nowdays, many can replicate it with ease. Generative AI will reduce this cost to near 0.Detail and mastery.Art also means evoking feeling - a banana taped to a wall, is that art? Ironically, do the endless Facebook debates about whether it is art or not, make this a good piece of art?Context and placement - social media...
The invention of Loot — open, programmable lore.
People to talk to about this:thesis: Loot is a seminal innovation, just like proof-of-workthis is like bitcoinbitcoin was all the rage in 2013people had lots of ideas - microsoft and mit thought of all these cool smart contract applicationsthough we hadn’t even realised what was innovative - it was the blockchain.when I was in highschool, I wrote one of the first articles about this, “the invention of the blockchain”. for a while, it was the top google resultthen Ethereum came along and reinv...
The invention of Loot — open, programmable lore.
People to talk to about this:thesis: Loot is a seminal innovation, just like proof-of-workthis is like bitcoinbitcoin was all the rage in 2013people had lots of ideas - microsoft and mit thought of all these cool smart contract applicationsthough we hadn’t even realised what was innovative - it was the blockchain.when I was in highschool, I wrote one of the first articles about this, “the invention of the blockchain”. for a while, it was the top google resultthen Ethereum came along and reinv...
Understanding Nouns.
reify. verb. the turning of something abstract into a concrete thing or object Nouns is a model of decentralized brand creation. But what does that really mean? It’s about creating a reification loop. In the beginning, there is nothing but an idea. What if we made a decentralized brand? The idea has an image - the Nouns glasses. ⌐◨-◨ So people contribute money to this idea. Where could it go? And after a certain period of time, the DAO begins to grow a treasury. What do you do with a treasury...
Understanding Nouns.
reify. verb. the turning of something abstract into a concrete thing or object Nouns is a model of decentralized brand creation. But what does that really mean? It’s about creating a reification loop. In the beginning, there is nothing but an idea. What if we made a decentralized brand? The idea has an image - the Nouns glasses. ⌐◨-◨ So people contribute money to this idea. Where could it go? And after a certain period of time, the DAO begins to grow a treasury. What do you do with a treasury...
