blockchain - Rhys Lindmark

Rhys Lindmark

blockchain

A collection of 20 posts

effective altruism

FTX Future Fund and Longtermism

Roote [https://www.roote.co/] is writing a grant application for FTX Future Fund's [https://ftxfuturefund.org/] first grant round. (You should too! Apply by March 21 [https://ftxfuturefund.org/apply/].) As part of that, I wanted to research how important FTX Future Fund is for the longtermist

Web3 Starter Guide

Start With: * The Five Camps of Crypto [https://medium.com/@caseycaruso/the-five-camps-of-crypto-1aa8695b76bc ] Then to Explore More: * Web3 & Society [https://www.roote.co/web3-society] * Cypherpunk Reading List [https://www.zfnd.org/blog/cypherpunk-privacy-reading-list/] * a16z’s CryptoCanon [https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/] * The Electric Capital Developer Report [https://www.

CryptoBoomer's Guide To DeFi 2.0

> Web3 from 2017 to 2021 I saw this tweet from my friend Jill the other day: > I am going to have to spend time understanding Olympus now aren't I — Jill Gunter (@jillrgunter) October 11, 2021 [https://twitter.com/jillrgunter/status/1447693709521440773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] I

Abundance: Money

In our last two posts, we defined abundance [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/defining-abundance/], and looked at abundance in trust [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/abundance-trust/]. Today, we'll look at abundance of money. Our outline: I. What is money? II. Abstracting money III. Abundance of money IV. Abstracting the transfer

Abundance: Trust

In our last post Defining Abundance [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/defining-abundance/], we discussed: 1. How abundance is created through abstraction. (Image: Black Box [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/content/images/2020/04/image-8.png].) 2. How an increase in quantity leads to an increase in quality, which we called "variable-quality

Unstoppable Code

Unstoppable Code

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." — Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail The goal of this article is to help readers understand the latest #CryptoEthics reading group

The "Mother of All Demos" for Crypto?

The "Mother of All Demos" for Crypto?

The crypto world has been super excited by PoolTogether [https://www.pooltogether.us/] this week (especially the ETH-focused cryptoeconomics world). It reminds me of the excitement around FOMO3D [https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark/status/1023657025648119808] about a year ago. It has me thinking about Doug Engelbart's "Mother of

Blockchain & Self-Actualization

Blockchain & Self-Actualization

All new technologies are driven by a feedback loop between the supply side (developers/employees who are excited to work on a product) and the demand side (consumers/enterprises who want to buy the product). In today's post, I want to explore the supply side in blockchain. Current

RadicalXChange

Civil Society will play an increasingly important role in our future. Movements are a leading indicator of the role these new "Civil Society groups" will play. Therefore, I try to "track" the different emerging movements, e.g.: Effective Altruism, #MeToo, #BLM, Intellectual Dark Web, #MarchForOurLives, Fridays

Club Goods, Digital Infrastructure, and Blockchains

Club Goods, Digital Infrastructure, and Blockchains

The goal of this article is to define, differentiate, and examine the following set of four goods: Private Goods, Public Goods, Club Goods, Common-Pool Resources. In my past writing, I've (lazily) used "public goods" (or the singular form, "public good") as a stand-in for

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

As part of DCI's efforts to "build a new field" [https://mitcryptocurrencyresearch.substack.com] (of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology), and as part of my personal interest in paradigm shifts, I recently read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_

Devcon4 Recap

Hello! The goal of this article is to give a recap of Devcon4, especially for folks that weren’t there and aren’t deeply connected to the Ethereum community. We’ll look at: * What happens outside of Devcon (“Off Devcon”) * How the Ethereum ecosystem sees their community as powerful and

Joining MIT

Introduction from Neha Narula, the Director of the Digital Currency Initiative: Part of the DCI’s mission is to build cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to empower people. This means all people, not just those who might have the means to buy coins or the time and opportunity to build the

Crypto is Networked Nonviolent Protest

> “Technology rarely generates absolutely novel human behavior; rather, it changes the terrain on which such behavior takes place.” > — Zeynep Tufekci The goal of this article is to explain how the internet (networked information) enabled fragile nonviolent protest, then map that onto how blockchain technology (networked capital) is enabling

The Sovereign Individual

“The transition from one stage of economic life to another has always involved a revolution. We think that the Information Revolution is likely to be the most far reaching of all. It will reorganize life more thoroughly than either the Agricultural Revolution or the Industrial Revolution. And its impact will

Memes as an Institutional Vehicle

The goal of this article is to further define #ETHCommons, show how the Ethereum ecosystem is expressing the meme, and explain future plans. In summary: the #ETHCommons mindset has spread widely in the last couple months (which is awesome!). The “Deep Why” Behind #ETHCommons No offense to #ETHCommons, but the

Friends of Rhys Update #3

Hello all! This is a quick update on my progress and future direction. First off, a reminder on my “Deep Why”: November-March Update: 1. I co-organized and MC’ed ETHDenver, the largest Ethereum hackathon to date—1500 people! #BUIDL 2. I performed my 1st self-imposed tax and gave $3000 to

GameB & ETHCommons

The goal of this article is to outline my upcoming crowdfunding experiment to be a Co-Steward of the Open-Source Ethereum Commons Co-op. Essentially: various people/projects will support me to facilitate cross-project collaboration. Why is that needed? We’ll get there by starting super abstract (with the macro system context)

The Blockchain Attention Economy

This document is a text supplement to my podcast video overview (Soundcloud link). I hope this can be a community resource for anyone working on the Attention Economy — if you’d like to contribute, please comment on the google doc here. Thanks! - Rhys Topics to Explore 1. World After

aggregation theory

The End of Aggregation Theory

The goal of this article is to help people to understand the disruptive impact of blockchains (through the lens of Aggregation Theory). It is the first in a series of articles on blockchain macro trends (see full list at the bottom). I would love your brutal/honest feedback—the goal