Fast Finality or Pulling a Fast One? The Stablecoin Chain Marketing Game
another AI-assisted braindump
Fast Finality or Pulling a Fast One? The Stablecoin Chain Marketing Game
another AI-assisted braindump
Farcaster's Growing Pains: The Delicate Balance Between Crypto Innovation and Mass Appeal
Another article thanks to me braindumping into Claude
Farcaster's Growing Pains: The Delicate Balance Between Crypto Innovation and Mass Appeal
Another article thanks to me braindumping into Claude
Re: Falling out of Love with Farcaster
Justin Hunter @polluterofminds wrote a good blogpost that I have some thoughts about in longer form:Justin Hunter on FarcasterA lot of you aren’t gonna like this one https://polluterofminds.com/blog/falling-out-of-love-with-farcaster/FarcasterFalling Out Of Love With FarcasterA blog post by Justin Hunterhttps://polluterofminds.comI get critiquing "not going down the RSS+ path" is not the primary thrust of this article, but since it was called out: RSS should be renamed Really Shitty Syndicati...
Re: Falling out of Love with Farcaster
Justin Hunter @polluterofminds wrote a good blogpost that I have some thoughts about in longer form:Justin Hunter on FarcasterA lot of you aren’t gonna like this one https://polluterofminds.com/blog/falling-out-of-love-with-farcaster/FarcasterFalling Out Of Love With FarcasterA blog post by Justin Hunterhttps://polluterofminds.comI get critiquing "not going down the RSS+ path" is not the primary thrust of this article, but since it was called out: RSS should be renamed Really Shitty Syndicati...
Real World Assets and Blockchain Governance: Preserving Decentralization While Respecting Legal Realities
"No really, you can build something less decentralized on top of something more decentralized." aka "See you in Kleros Court."
Real World Assets and Blockchain Governance: Preserving Decentralization While Respecting Legal Realities
"No really, you can build something less decentralized on top of something more decentralized." aka "See you in Kleros Court."
The Stripe L1 Dilemma: Why Traditional Finance Keeps Missing the Point
Time is a flat circle
The Stripe L1 Dilemma: Why Traditional Finance Keeps Missing the Point
Time is a flat circle
Digital States: Consensus or war
Cyberpunks begat Cryptophunks and there’s a war in the metaverse. Blockchains are many things, but ultimately they are virtual digital computers that operate on consensus. There is a digital state, rules to transition that state, and a consensus mechanism to agree that the state transition rules are being followed correctly. In the ruleset, public-key cryptography is used to enforce an accounting system, namely: only the holder of a secret private-key can spend the funds associated with a pub...
Digital States: Consensus or war
Cyberpunks begat Cryptophunks and there’s a war in the metaverse. Blockchains are many things, but ultimately they are virtual digital computers that operate on consensus. There is a digital state, rules to transition that state, and a consensus mechanism to agree that the state transition rules are being followed correctly. In the ruleset, public-key cryptography is used to enforce an accounting system, namely: only the holder of a secret private-key can spend the funds associated with a pub...
Hardware wallets are not the silver bullet for scammers
The vast majority of attacks in Web3 are of the phishing/social engineering variety, not a rootkit worm getting full access to the contents of your hard disk & memory. Here are a few instances of real-world attacks: In the following case, the author enters his seed phrase into a form claiming to be an airdrop for Olympus DAO after seeing a notification pop up on Discord: https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2021/11/13/i-got-scammed/ Engaging in a screen sharing session with a scammer: https://tw...
Hardware wallets are not the silver bullet for scammers
The vast majority of attacks in Web3 are of the phishing/social engineering variety, not a rootkit worm getting full access to the contents of your hard disk & memory. Here are a few instances of real-world attacks: In the following case, the author enters his seed phrase into a form claiming to be an airdrop for Olympus DAO after seeing a notification pop up on Discord: https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2021/11/13/i-got-scammed/ Engaging in a screen sharing session with a scammer: https://tw...
