Beyond Hoarding: How Ethereum Can Break the Tragedy of the Digital Commons
The crypto world has a hoarding problem. While Ethereum promised to democratize finance and create new forms of value, too many participants have fallen into the same trap that has plagued economic systems for centuries: mistaking scarcity for value and accumulation for wealth creation. It's time we examine how people actually use ETH and other assets on Ethereum—and how we can do better.The False Promise of Digital ScarcityWalk into any crypto discussion, and you'll hear familiar r...
Beyond Hoarding: How Ethereum Can Break the Tragedy of the Digital Commons
The crypto world has a hoarding problem. While Ethereum promised to democratize finance and create new forms of value, too many participants have fallen into the same trap that has plagued economic systems for centuries: mistaking scarcity for value and accumulation for wealth creation. It's time we examine how people actually use ETH and other assets on Ethereum—and how we can do better.The False Promise of Digital ScarcityWalk into any crypto discussion, and you'll hear familiar r...
A Democratic System
A Democratic SystemI had been sitting on this document for a while, but was inspired by Audrey Tang and Glen Weyl's book Plurality to post it to my blog. The link to Restate goes to an unfinished hackmd doc, but I think it's worth sharing as my goal for a forkable presentation of rights that can be used in contracts with people and governments. Any person or government can make their own presentations and choose to accept all or part of another person's. To me, empowerment mean...
A Democratic System
A Democratic SystemI had been sitting on this document for a while, but was inspired by Audrey Tang and Glen Weyl's book Plurality to post it to my blog. The link to Restate goes to an unfinished hackmd doc, but I think it's worth sharing as my goal for a forkable presentation of rights that can be used in contracts with people and governments. Any person or government can make their own presentations and choose to accept all or part of another person's. To me, empowerment mean...
Response to "What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?"
Vitalik recently posted an article to his blog critiquing Worldcoin and proof of personhood approaches in general. There are some great thoughts which I'd like to respond to, and make it better known what BrightID's approach is, especially since a lot of it is tied to Aura--a new verification method for BrightID, which had an initial beta release and is undergoing major changes based on the feedback from beta testers. There are also some features of BrightID core (blind signatures w...
Response to "What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?"
Vitalik recently posted an article to his blog critiquing Worldcoin and proof of personhood approaches in general. There are some great thoughts which I'd like to respond to, and make it better known what BrightID's approach is, especially since a lot of it is tied to Aura--a new verification method for BrightID, which had an initial beta release and is undergoing major changes based on the feedback from beta testers. There are also some features of BrightID core (blind signatures w...
