I write occasionally about tech, startups, and other things.
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The EU passed the Chat Control Act. So at ETHGlobal Lisbon we built Lortnoc Tahc - chat control spelled backwards. It hides real messages inside ordinary Telegram chats using steganography. Everyone else sees small talk.
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I gave a talk at ETH Prague on why the next era of crypto businesses will have real revenue models and tokens that actually distribute shareholder value. Here's the video.
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2026 is the year of resurrecting 2016-2022 era enterprise blockchain use cases. Many of the reasons these prior projects failed have now been overcome.
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As the EF starts to prioritize the EU in it's Global Policy initiatives, I had some perspectives to share.
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The next era of crypto businesses will be profitable, have real business models, and have tokens that actually distribute shareholder value. This article is part history lesson, part how-to guide.
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The long-awaited ChatGPT Store launched this week Wednesday January 10th. Leading up to it’s launch, the TalentLayer team has been developing a very exciting tool in this new ecosystem...
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A letter to the TalentLayer open-source community about our next steps to scale the protocol.
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Everyone has a reason for building. For some people, it’s to solve a problem they’ve experienced. For others, it’s to earn a sustainable income or “make it big”. Some build just because they love building. I build tools for sovereignty.
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Two months ago were accepted into the NGI Search Support Programme funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme. NGI is an initiative to support research and new open-source innovations that increase data searchability and sharing across the web.
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The “chicken and egg problem” in labor marketplaces refers to the challenge of attracting both workers and customers to a platform when one group is needed to attract the other. How do we overcome it?
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Exploring how market networks, unbundling, and user-owned networks are changing the future of marketplaces.
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Verifiable work is the bedrock of reputation. This is why you have the strongest reputations with people you have worked with directly or with a few degrees of separation; it is easy to find people to attest ...
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At one point in my life I was "supposed to be an artist". As a kid I was always told the only thing I was good at was art. So, I decided I had...
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I can’t shake the feeling that intellectual property NFTs are on the horizon. NFTs are a type of cryptographic token
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How does Uniswap V3 hope to boost capital efficiency through increasing stakeholder decision rights? Three highly impactful innovations are present in V3... Concentrated Liquidity, Fee Tiers, Liquidity Positions being represented as NFTs. In this piece, we’ll take a look at these updates and their implications.
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In DeFi, gas wars eat profits and harm the ecosystem. When a borrower experiences a liquidation event on platforms like Compound, Aavem collateral is put up for sale or auctioned. Traders and bots compete to trade during these event..
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All too often, I see founders in the enterprise blockchain space making the same mistake; a lack of human-centric design. I’m talking about intimately involving who you’re project...
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This workshop was hosted as part of the FedEx Institute of Technology Speaker Series, a virtual series on the current and future state of blockchain technology where tech leaders from Microsoft, IBM, IEEE, Consensys Health, and more shared their real world experience
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You’re building a blockchain-based solution that will revolutionize the way your industry does business. A few early partners have committed to help launch your multi-stakeholder solution. Together, you’ve begun to recruit other industry players interested...
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The top three enterprise blockchain coalition patterns (and what you must know about them).
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The following transcript is from the webinar Protecting Intellectual Property (IP) in Partnerships; a scenario-driven webinar discussion on how to leverage best practices for IP protection to build more secure, mutually-beneficial business partnerships.
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The following curriculum is updated periodically with new modules and readings. The last update was made on August 20th, 2020. If you are interested...
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My tutor stores all of her funds in iTalki credits. When she needs to buy groceries, she converts just enough iTalki credits to Argentinean peso to cover what she needs to buy that day and preserves the remainder in credits. This allows her to avoid the money she earned on Monday depreciating into dust by the time she wants to buy something on Friday.