1/ For those of us who lived through the dot com mania 20 years ago, today’s crypto craze is an obvious rhyme. Both promised to revolutionize the world through new technologies, for communication (dot-com) or transaction (crypto).
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9/ (Aside) "Sharing Economy" is brilliant misdirection - the egalitarian lede “Sharing” obscures the fact that these companies fundamentally create “Economies”: they produce value by bringing informal, opaque economic resources and transactions into new structured marketplaces.
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10/ So I see the next big phase of tech as "Markets Eating The World", and the most promising crypto companies as those working the agoric angle. Because after all, we need many new markets, but only a few new moneys. (Excerpt from a longer essay for future publication).
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