A venture investor’s open letter on why Layer 2 is working exactly as intended Editor’s note: The following is a fictional but representative steelman of the pro-L2 VC position, written in response to Meet the New Boss. We’ve tried to …
How crypto quietly became the thing it was built to replace There’s a quote that gets applied to revolutions so often it’s become a cliché: meet the new boss, same as the old boss. It’s a cliché because it keeps …
A Different Kind of Risk Throughout modern history, economic booms have tended to spill their risks outward. Railroads, telecom infrastructure, mortgage derivatives, biotech bubbles—each created waves of optimism followed by painful collapses. And when those collapses came, the burden was …
Recent developments in the HEX ecosystem suggest a deliberate move away from staking, a mechanism that once stood as the project’s primary value proposition beyond its fabled meme-like appeal. This shift raises pressing questions: Why is Richard Heart seemingly discouraging …
A Personal Journey Through Computing’s Golden Age There’s something extraordinary about the way computers used to be—when they were more of an enigma than a household item. I was just 11 when I first encountered a computer, a TRS-80, in …
SOURCE: https://twitter.com/danielvf/status/1847023591117795708?s=46&t=QXQlDuRByp9WRsn3iew3Fw HW Wallets and the ongoing Blind Signing Debacle With a little help from ChatGPT ChatGPT 4o Prompt by @gruvinThere has been an ongoing issue with hardware wallets such as Trezor, where they do not make any attempt to …
– Just a Crypto Sales Pitch? “Buy-and-burn” mechanisms are one of the most commonly touted strategies for increasing the value of tokens in the cryptocurrency world. The narrative is simple: by using a portion of revenues or transaction fees to …
Sit back and enjoy this Kiwi pilot’s take on flying — a cheerful mix of laid-back wisdom and mild paranoia wrapped in a flightless bird’s reality check. “Flying is safe,” they said. “It’s statistically safer than driving,” they claimed. And …
The Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto: A Masterfully Constructed Persona? As cryptocurrency evolves and infiltrates every corner of the global financial system, one of its most captivating mysteries remains unsolved: the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Since Bitcoin’s debut …
Opinion: How to Live in a World Where AI Shapes What We See and Believe Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything around us, faster than we ever imagined. From the news we read, to the ads we see, and even …
