I think there’s several key factors that contribute to what makes a NFT PFP collection successful, so I’ll talk briefly about some of the factors I’ve noticed. The first and most obvious is one, is just the aesthetic. How does the actual NFT PFP look? Punks use some a retro pixel art style. BAYC uses a more modern comic book kind of style. Cool Cats look like they came out of a webtoon. I can’t prove it, but I believe that the aesthetics of these collections had a direct impact on the kind of...

I think there’s several key factors that contribute to what makes a NFT PFP collection successful, so I’ll talk briefly about some of the factors I’ve noticed. The first and most obvious is one, is just the aesthetic. How does the actual NFT PFP look? Punks use some a retro pixel art style. BAYC uses a more modern comic book kind of style. Cool Cats look like they came out of a webtoon. I can’t prove it, but I believe that the aesthetics of these collections had a direct impact on the kind of...

Introduction and DesignTimeless is a brand new experimental new defi protocol. Timeless is a protocol that allows users to speculate on tokenized interest rates in either direction. Timeless does this by offering a yield token that differs from current yield tokens (Element/Pendle/APWine) in that Timeless’ yield tokens will never expire, allowing holders to collect yield on underlying assets infinitely. These are called Perpetual Yield Tokens, or PYT for short. In order to access these PYTs, ...

Introduction and DesignTimeless is a brand new experimental new defi protocol. Timeless is a protocol that allows users to speculate on tokenized interest rates in either direction. Timeless does this by offering a yield token that differs from current yield tokens (Element/Pendle/APWine) in that Timeless’ yield tokens will never expire, allowing holders to collect yield on underlying assets infinitely. These are called Perpetual Yield Tokens, or PYT for short. In order to access these PYTs, ...

Once upon a time, there were believers of a magical decentralized financial system accessible to all, governed solely by lines of logic and recorded on a enchanted scroll that stretched infinitely long. Anyone could inscribe incantations onto the scroll using some spellbinding ink, and before long the scroll had attracted a plethora of magicians, seeking to add contributions of their own. These faithful magicians were spread across the four corners of the globe, but united in their unwavering...

Once upon a time, there were believers of a magical decentralized financial system accessible to all, governed solely by lines of logic and recorded on a enchanted scroll that stretched infinitely long. Anyone could inscribe incantations onto the scroll using some spellbinding ink, and before long the scroll had attracted a plethora of magicians, seeking to add contributions of their own. These faithful magicians were spread across the four corners of the globe, but united in their unwavering...

This is the ct_zpy Mirror. The market nuked pretty hard today, but I went outside and played some basketball right before sunset with a friend so that was fun. Was introduced to mirror by @anon75374998, really smart dude. I’m always pleasantly surprised by the amount of really smart people on crypto Twitter. Admittedly, crypto probably attracts a lot of left and right curve people because of the life-changing amounts of money that can be made and the intellectual stimulus of the rapidly evolv...

This is the ct_zpy Mirror. The market nuked pretty hard today, but I went outside and played some basketball right before sunset with a friend so that was fun. Was introduced to mirror by @anon75374998, really smart dude. I’m always pleasantly surprised by the amount of really smart people on crypto Twitter. Admittedly, crypto probably attracts a lot of left and right curve people because of the life-changing amounts of money that can be made and the intellectual stimulus of the rapidly evolv...

IntroI’m going to talk about flipping in OSRS, partially because I’m bored, but also because it’s probably one of the biggest reasons I ended up in crypto today. I first started playing Runescape at a time period later than most, around 2010. I played it on and off through the years, but in early 2021 I discovered exactly how profitable flipping was in OSRS. For a period of around 2-3 months in spring 2021, I traded for anywhere between 4-8 hours a day on the Grand Exchange. During this time ...

IntroI’m going to talk about flipping in OSRS, partially because I’m bored, but also because it’s probably one of the biggest reasons I ended up in crypto today. I first started playing Runescape at a time period later than most, around 2010. I played it on and off through the years, but in early 2021 I discovered exactly how profitable flipping was in OSRS. For a period of around 2-3 months in spring 2021, I traded for anywhere between 4-8 hours a day on the Grand Exchange. During this time ...

IntroductionToday I will talk about Art Gobblers, a NFT experiment designed by the engineers at Paradigm. The premise of Art Gobblers is that Art Gobblers are NFTs that can produce blank pages by burning Goo, a token that is emitted by these Gobblers. The amount of Goo that is emitted by a Gobbler is dependent on how much Goo they currently hold. The more Goo that a Gobbler holds, the more Goo it will produce. This makes Goo highly inflationary. Blank pages can be drawn on by artists, and Art...

IntroductionToday I will talk about Art Gobblers, a NFT experiment designed by the engineers at Paradigm. The premise of Art Gobblers is that Art Gobblers are NFTs that can produce blank pages by burning Goo, a token that is emitted by these Gobblers. The amount of Goo that is emitted by a Gobbler is dependent on how much Goo they currently hold. The more Goo that a Gobbler holds, the more Goo it will produce. This makes Goo highly inflationary. Blank pages can be drawn on by artists, and Art...

IntroductionI’m writing this piece to paint a better picture as to exactly what happened to the economy during the Covid crash, and what the Fed did to support the economy. It’s a bit long, quite complicated, and also I’m an idiot with zero formal economic background so take everything you read here with a grain of salt. Some bits of this are stolen from Stanley Druckenmiller’s talk with USC. Other parts are stolen from random websites that I stumbled upon during my Google searches. I am a th...

IntroductionI’m writing this piece to paint a better picture as to exactly what happened to the economy during the Covid crash, and what the Fed did to support the economy. It’s a bit long, quite complicated, and also I’m an idiot with zero formal economic background so take everything you read here with a grain of salt. Some bits of this are stolen from Stanley Druckenmiller’s talk with USC. Other parts are stolen from random websites that I stumbled upon during my Google searches. I am a th...

the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis was caused by a lot of things, but one of the big factors were these things called CDOs (collateralized debt obligation), which is a type of bond with a lot of mortgages in it. if you buy say 1% of a CDO, you are loaning out money equivalent to 1% of the mortgage principal in it. the idea is to get your 1% investment back, plus interest as all these mortgages slowly get repaid. big banks started buying up a lot of loans, grouping them into a CDO, then selling...

the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis was caused by a lot of things, but one of the big factors were these things called CDOs (collateralized debt obligation), which is a type of bond with a lot of mortgages in it. if you buy say 1% of a CDO, you are loaning out money equivalent to 1% of the mortgage principal in it. the idea is to get your 1% investment back, plus interest as all these mortgages slowly get repaid. big banks started buying up a lot of loans, grouping them into a CDO, then selling...