The Decentralization of American Innovation
In the 2000s, Silicon Valley (SV) was the epicenter of wealth creation, with giants like Google, Facebook, and Uber making it the place to be for big returns. Merely living in Silicon Valley often provided a front-row seat to early-stage opportunities that became massive successes. However, the internet has broadened access, opening doors to talent and ideas from all over the globe, and we're now seeing the results. Peter Thiel, ahead of the curve as usual, highlighted this shift back in 2018...
The Decentralization of American Innovation
In the 2000s, Silicon Valley (SV) was the epicenter of wealth creation, with giants like Google, Facebook, and Uber making it the place to be for big returns. Merely living in Silicon Valley often provided a front-row seat to early-stage opportunities that became massive successes. However, the internet has broadened access, opening doors to talent and ideas from all over the globe, and we're now seeing the results. Peter Thiel, ahead of the curve as usual, highlighted this shift back in 2018...
Stablecoins will change the world
Inflation as the first moverMost of the world does not have access to a stable currency. If you live in a country like Argentina or Turkey, most of t...
Stablecoins will change the world
Inflation as the first moverMost of the world does not have access to a stable currency. If you live in a country like Argentina or Turkey, most of t...
The Art of the Deal
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Why Farcaster is special
Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network. It is an open protocol that can support many clients, just like email. Farcaster was co-founded by Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan. Both co-founders have extend experience in the crypto space at Coinbase. Social protocols are open data graphs where users own the relationship with their audience, and developers can read and build on top of the graph without any limitation. Farcaster is a social protocol, but the team is also building a ...
Why Farcaster is special
Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network. It is an open protocol that can support many clients, just like email. Farcaster was co-founded by Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan. Both co-founders have extend experience in the crypto space at Coinbase. Social protocols are open data graphs where users own the relationship with their audience, and developers can read and build on top of the graph without any limitation. Farcaster is a social protocol, but the team is also building a ...
How Solana scales maintaining decentralization
Solana scales to 65k transactions per second, while other popular blockchains do not scale as much. For example, the average Bitcoin network processes around 7 transactions per second, and the Ethereum network processes around 15 transactions per second. The Ethereum network plans to switch to proof-of-stake and there are other layer 2 solutions that improve the throughput of the network. In the meantime Solana presents a much higher throughput than Ethereum. Usually when blockchains increase...
How Solana scales maintaining decentralization
Solana scales to 65k transactions per second, while other popular blockchains do not scale as much. For example, the average Bitcoin network processes around 7 transactions per second, and the Ethereum network processes around 15 transactions per second. The Ethereum network plans to switch to proof-of-stake and there are other layer 2 solutions that improve the throughput of the network. In the meantime Solana presents a much higher throughput than Ethereum. Usually when blockchains increase...
Web3 fundamentals
Bitcoin and EthereumWhy Bitcoin MattersWhy Bitcoin Matters (2014) by Marc AndreessenHow Bitcoin WorksThe 5 minute versionThe longer versionBitcoin, the MVP of BlockchainByzantine Fault Tolerance (2017) by Georgios KonstantopoulosProof of Work (and Proof of Stake) (2017) by Georgios KonstantopoulosPricingMichael Saylor and Ross Stevens on BitcoinModeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity (2019) by PlanBDecentralizationWhy Decentralization Matters (2018) by Chris DixonScaling the blockchainEthereum L...
Web3 fundamentals
Bitcoin and EthereumWhy Bitcoin MattersWhy Bitcoin Matters (2014) by Marc AndreessenHow Bitcoin WorksThe 5 minute versionThe longer versionBitcoin, the MVP of BlockchainByzantine Fault Tolerance (2017) by Georgios KonstantopoulosProof of Work (and Proof of Stake) (2017) by Georgios KonstantopoulosPricingMichael Saylor and Ross Stevens on BitcoinModeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity (2019) by PlanBDecentralizationWhy Decentralization Matters (2018) by Chris DixonScaling the blockchainEthereum L...
