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Shakti Goap, who is the founder of Devfolio and ETHIndia, passed away few days back due to COVID.His passing away makes me sad. You know how when you talk to someone you can instantly feel strong resonance? I felt that with Shakti.Shakti might be gone, but his ideas, values, and energy should persist. He gave time and attention to young people before anyone else validated them.He was kind and full of energy. He was helpful to me when I was getting started. He generously introduced people in t...
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There is a primal demand for extreme sports type thrills in finance. This includes cryptocurrencies, Tesla stock, S&P put options, and liquidity mining. Investing is a form of entertainment like riding a roller coaster or watching a horror movie. The ticket fee you are paying is in the form of possible investment losses. Invest your money to save to buy a house, send your kids to college, save for retirement, blah blah blah. Sounds boring. Buy a call option on AMC Entertainment for $300 to ma...
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How crypto will reorient society
Shreyas HariharanShakti Goap
Shakti Goap, who is the founder of Devfolio and ETHIndia, passed away few days back due to COVID.His passing away makes me sad. You know how when you talk to someone you can instantly feel strong resonance? I felt that with Shakti.Shakti might be gone, but his ideas, values, and energy should persist. He gave time and attention to young people before anyone else validated them.He was kind and full of energy. He was helpful to me when I was getting started. He generously introduced people in t...
Shreyas HariharanInvesting as Entertainment
There is a primal demand for extreme sports type thrills in finance. This includes cryptocurrencies, Tesla stock, S&P put options, and liquidity mining. Investing is a form of entertainment like riding a roller coaster or watching a horror movie. The ticket fee you are paying is in the form of possible investment losses. Invest your money to save to buy a house, send your kids to college, save for retirement, blah blah blah. Sounds boring. Buy a call option on AMC Entertainment for $300 to ma...
Shreyas HariharanHow to Structure a Protocol's Treasury
How should a protocol like Uniswap or Compound structure its treasury? This post covers the principles of protocol treasury management, fiscal policy, asset allocation, ways to diversify the treasury, and responsibilities of a treasury committee.Credit: [DeviantArt](https://co.pinterest.com/pin/799740846299206540/)Principles of treasury management Infinite time horizonThe treasury should be structured to exist in perpetuity.There should be no time preference, i.e. no preference given to fundi...
How crypto will reorient society
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We have tools to communicate with billions of people but our tools to coordinate with people haven’t kept up with this. It has been over twelve years since Satoshi published the Bitcoin whitepaper. Since then, we’ve had several successful experiments in human coordination. It is clear to me that crypto will re-orient society. It will affect how people think, feel, and live.
It was easy to predict the automobile in 1880; it was difficult to predict the traffic jam. For a technology to affect the way we live, society needs to be re-oriented around it. For the automobile to affect the way people lived, we needed to build roads, highways, traffic signals, parking garages, drive thru restaurants, seatbelts, traffic laws, and toll stations. Over the next few decades, we will build the infrastructure needed for crypto to affect the way people live.
This blog will focus on crypto and society. I will dive into crypto projects and protocols, Etherscan transactions, Discord and Telegram chats, governance proposals, and smart contract exploits. I will cover pseudonymous reputation and justice, DeFi, DAOs, social tokens, NFTs, decentralized governance, encryption, digital nation states, and more. I will write about how crypto will re-orient society.
DM me on Twitter at @HelloShreyas if you have any thoughts or questions.
We have tools to communicate with billions of people but our tools to coordinate with people haven’t kept up with this. It has been over twelve years since Satoshi published the Bitcoin whitepaper. Since then, we’ve had several successful experiments in human coordination. It is clear to me that crypto will re-orient society. It will affect how people think, feel, and live.
It was easy to predict the automobile in 1880; it was difficult to predict the traffic jam. For a technology to affect the way we live, society needs to be re-oriented around it. For the automobile to affect the way people lived, we needed to build roads, highways, traffic signals, parking garages, drive thru restaurants, seatbelts, traffic laws, and toll stations. Over the next few decades, we will build the infrastructure needed for crypto to affect the way people live.
This blog will focus on crypto and society. I will dive into crypto projects and protocols, Etherscan transactions, Discord and Telegram chats, governance proposals, and smart contract exploits. I will cover pseudonymous reputation and justice, DeFi, DAOs, social tokens, NFTs, decentralized governance, encryption, digital nation states, and more. I will write about how crypto will re-orient society.
DM me on Twitter at @HelloShreyas if you have any thoughts or questions.
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