The web3 challenge
Three unique new capabilities web3 makes available to developers and how these primitives unlock opportunities that previously did not exist.
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Social tokens and the community economy
The creator economy has a cold start problem. What social tokens are and why they're a win/win for both creators and fans.
Why ownership is the future
In today's Internet, consumers are renters. About the ownership economy, and why Uniswap > Coinbase.
How to send your child to a school like Elon Musk's
About Elon Musk's school and what makes it different. Why I'm creating a DIY version and how you can too.
How to understand an economic engine
A framework for economic engines, a comparison of the Bitcoin and Ethereum economic engines, and why Ethereum is undervalued.
Why we must choose to go to the moon
How popular stories that go viral can affect economic outcomes, and why it's time to choose to do the hard things.
A map to the crypto landscape
A 30,000 foot view of crypto, broken down by category, with key definitions and resources.
The shocking truth about crypto
How crypto networks collapse the cost of large scale network coordination and Big Tech's business model along with it.
11 metrics for DeFi marketplaces
Most decentralized finance applications are marketplaces, and marketplaces are hard. A guide to evaluating their health.
What is a crypto asset, anyway?
How crypto assets fit into Greer's asset superclass framework, how they accrue value and their distinct economic characteristics.
Can bitcoin compete with the dollar?
Bitcoin could become a reserve asset, but you're not likely to see stores pricing in bitcoin. Different types of money do different jobs.
How to value and invest in money
How to think about a new money as a venture investment and navigate the path from hypothetical value to real value with Bitcoin.
Software Eats Money
What everybody ought to know about money
A simple framework to understand how different types of money emerged and how they interrelate.
Software Eats Money
Wallets are bigger than money
The wallet may be the new bank, but the wallet is also who you are and your key to prove it.
Software Eats Money
The wallet is the new bank
The wallet's jobs to be done and why the biggest company in the internet of money will own the wallet.
Software Eats Money
Credit in the age of abundance
Why the money in your bank account is not technically yours and how banking-as-a-service will mean big changes in the credit data market.
Software Eats Money
The internet of money
What is the internet of money? How will it work? Will it use central bank digital currencies, crypto dollars or Bitcoin? Or all of them?
Software Eats Money
How to beat the bank
Build something no one else can measure.
Software Eats Money
How software eats money
Unpacking the software eats the world hypothesis and explaining why and how software eats money.
Software Eats Money
The passion economy and the future of finance
If AngelList enables any good startup investor to run their own venture fund, who will enable any good money manager to run their own hedge fund? Or mutual fund?
Software Eats Money
Saving in the age of abundance
Can software save savings? New thinking for a world with negative real interest rates.
Software Eats Money
Why Bitcoin will be bigger than you think
What if thinking about bitcoin in the context of gold is like thinking about Uber in the context of taxis? Bitcoin's competition is not gold. It is non-consumption.
Education
The world has changed. Will public school change with it?
A re-opening proposal for the San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD) and an open letter to the board of education To: San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education [https://www.srvusd.net/district/boardofeducation] (Greg Marvel [https://www.srvusd.net/district/marvel] <[email protected]>
Software Eats Money
Analysis of bitcoin as a product
Who are Bitcoin's customers? What jobs does bitcoin do? Is bitcoin digital gold? Is digital gold better than physical gold? Is bitcoin money?