Matt DesLauriers

worth reading Vitalik’s essays on blockchain governance imho—a lot of essays and discussions extol the virtues of on-chain DAO governance but he has long pointed to the problems of this model.

Great article demonstrating how Stable Diffusion and AI synthesis is probably going to upend everything to do with the image and image-making process... →

Interesting paper on zero-knowledge proofs for cryptographically verifiable and anonymous credentials, identity, attestations. 👇

Good essay by @matdryhurst, "D̶i̶g̶i̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶S̶c̶a̶r̶c̶i̶t̶y̶ Feasible Abundance and the Shock of the Nude." →

great article. 🙌 though if you go down the route of PGP signing + PayPal/Stripe payments (a la Sedition), some users will inevitably desire more decentralization. I’d be curious to see you respond to this as it covers some of the points you’ve raised.

searching an open market is like looking at your inbox without a spam filter and wondering why the quality is so poor. I would recommend taking a look thru FeralFile’s curated exhibitions for a start:

this is great, and very clear in what it targets (fossil fuel based Proof of Work facilities, mining @ home is fine). 👍 I expect this trend will continue in other jurisdictions, putting more pressure toward the shift to non-PoW consensus mechanisms.