Dan Conway

Nov 10

Tradeoffs of the Permaweb

Thirty-three days ago, Scott and I had the idea to engage the Lurker community in the content creation process. We asked everyone to offer an idea for what we should focus on in the next episode. We’d randomly choose one of the ideas, and then when we auctioned off that episode as an NFT, that person would get 50% of the proceeds, with everyone who offered an idea sharing 25%. This seemed to be a good way to surface interesting content and take advantage of Mirror’s economic tools to engage t...

Dan Conway

Sep 16

Introducing Lurker

We’ve been lurking in the shadows for most of our lives. Biding our time. Waiting for our moment. Just chilling out, frankly. But also learning and growing stronger. Preparing to make our mark. But then deciding we can always make our mark tomorrow. “We’re here, aren’t we,” we tell ourselves. “Isn’t that enough?” Like you, we are members of five or six DAOs. DAOs are a lurker's dream. These are extraordinarily interesting and rewarding places to hang out. They are bursting at the seams w...

Dan Conway

Jul 26

DAOs brought me back to crypto

When the people I loved most in crypto, the OGs at r/EthTrader, broke off and formed a new subreddit, r/EthFinance in 2019, I was bummed. I migrated to r/EthFinance with them, but I could never get comfortable with the signaling of the moniker r/EthFinance at the top of the stack. I was more excited by DAOs than DeFi. If we needed a new name, why not something more inclusive, like r/EthEverything? At the time I became obsessed with Ethereum in 2016, I was a middle manager at a big company. I ...

Dan Conway

Nov 10

Tradeoffs of the Permaweb

Thirty-three days ago, Scott and I had the idea to engage the Lurker community in the content creation process. We asked everyone to offer an idea for what we should focus on in the next episode. We’d randomly choose one of the ideas, and then when we auctioned off that episode as an NFT, that person would get 50% of the proceeds, with everyone who offered an idea sharing 25%. This seemed to be a good way to surface interesting content and take advantage of Mirror’s economic tools to engage t...

Dan Conway

Sep 16

Introducing Lurker

We’ve been lurking in the shadows for most of our lives. Biding our time. Waiting for our moment. Just chilling out, frankly. But also learning and growing stronger. Preparing to make our mark. But then deciding we can always make our mark tomorrow. “We’re here, aren’t we,” we tell ourselves. “Isn’t that enough?” Like you, we are members of five or six DAOs. DAOs are a lurker's dream. These are extraordinarily interesting and rewarding places to hang out. They are bursting at the seams w...

Dan Conway

Jul 26

DAOs brought me back to crypto

When the people I loved most in crypto, the OGs at r/EthTrader, broke off and formed a new subreddit, r/EthFinance in 2019, I was bummed. I migrated to r/EthFinance with them, but I could never get comfortable with the signaling of the moniker r/EthFinance at the top of the stack. I was more excited by DAOs than DeFi. If we needed a new name, why not something more inclusive, like r/EthEverything? At the time I became obsessed with Ethereum in 2016, I was a middle manager at a big company. I ...