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Startup Prophecies
February 7th, 2023
I have a few core beliefs that animate Not Boring:
Web3 Use Cases: Today
June 23rd, 2022
Crashes aren’t only painful because of price declines, although it’s never fun to see your account balances slashed relentlessly, day after day. Crashes are also painful because belief drains from the market as quickly as cash does. And those who never believed in the first place rush in to fill the void with a chorus of schadenfreude-laced I told you so’s.
June 9th, 2022
Originally published on Not Boring
Designing Token Economies
May 25th, 2022
Good token design, like good product design, starts with understanding what users want.
Infinity Revenue, Infinity Possibility
July 20th, 2021
From an internet cafe in Cabanatuan City, Philippines, a 22-year-old named Howard described the game he plays to make a living as innocent-looking but strategic. That game, Axie Infinity is a Pokémon-like game built on the Ethereum blockchain in which people buy digital pets, called Axies, as NFTs, and breed, battle, and trade them. It’s cute. It’s unassuming. This is what it looks like:
May 10th, 2021
This didn’t start as a piece about games. I set out to answer this question: why are tech growth stocks sagging while crypto moons and value roars back?
April 29th, 2021
April 15th, 2021
If you retweeted this tweet and included your ETH address before the end of the Power to the Person NFT Split Auction...
April 12th, 2021
If you’ve spent much time on the internet recently you might have noticed something: it’s gotten really fast-paced and really fun. It just keeps getting faster and funner. Bitcoin, Clubhouse, NFTs, unicorn startups galore, the Creator Economy. Each feels simultaneously like a potential fad and a nascent revolution.