The Tinkering Society

As mentioned previously, I believe crypto-specific blow-ups and forced liquidation is behind us. Yet the gm Portfolio is in cash with the thesis that ...

The 1982 Blade Runner is a masterpiece.A recent rewatch brought up questions about AI and how crypto-biometrics could ultimately curtail the concerns ...

With AI-generated content and profiles proliferating exponentially, I’ve been frequently asking myself “ Is this human-generated? ” and “ Do I even care? ”. I believe that though seemingly simple, these are two of the biggest questions in determining the future of social media and guessing at w...

This is our second ChatGPT tinker. Make sure to check out PixelWhimsy, an NFT collection developed (almost entirely) by AI.Lots of DAOs bloomed out of...

It doesn’t take a wizard to realize Gitcoin is in a state of operational flux. Grants is a towering beast of collaboration that seems to be cooling off, like much of DeFi in these grizzly and low-key building months. ‍ As highlighted recently by M0nkeyFl0wer, Cause Rounds Lead, one of the core...

Note: this assumes a high level of familiarity with Curve ecosystem tokenomics. For a primer, read this first.It’s been a while since I caught up on t...

ChatGPT is a trove of potential, and the recent OpenAI paper squarely put Blockchain Dev as a career at risk from its growth. We decided to set our own task to it after seeing experiments filter through our feeds from coders across Twitter. We asked ourselves: can AI create effective NFT contr...

The DeFi ecosystem needs lending markets for the long tail of protocol tokens.Being able to borrow and sell a token (short) is good for price discover...

If you spend your time on Twitter, the Bitcoin vs Ethereum maxi debate can become overwhelming. “Bitcoin is the only money and Etherium is just a slow, premined, ponzi database built to distract us from solving everything.” “Ethereum is built on ultrasound network effect and doesn’t fall prey t...

Young industries are often cyclical as the potential future outlook can swing wildly between “will take over the world” and “Beanie Babies”. Crypto is no different as any long term price chart of Bitcoin will tell you. This is my 4th cycle - I came of age in the 2011 cycle when after reaching d...