For the past ten years I would agree that it seemed nonsensical to argue over linguistic variance. The main goal was to get the tech working and readily available. Now that we have layer twos, alternative layer ones like Solana with cheap block space and a plethora of financial, creative, and storage applications, it feels prudent to bring the discussion back to words and marketing. Counterclaims from people who dislike these ...

This is not some novel innovation. It’s a discovery of modular creativity. Based fundamentally on the tech stack that cryptography - both in application and consumer culture - affords us. Open Source Networks are an improvement on socially centralized daos (theoretically). A new layer of economic, scientific, humanistic, and technological hybridization for the next generations of internet users. A mental model here; open source networks are how small businesses return to prominence in the dig...

Founding Higher was not at all what I expected meme making to be. From an instance of ‘hey this could be a cool meme’ led into 1000s of people, one million+ micro-transactions, and a nine figure valuation from a community created tokenization of said meme (with a subset of holders I think many would be surprised to know about). Throughout the frenetic pace of March -December I solely focused, in hindsight, on putting one foot in front of the next; trying not to slip off the uncharted path. I ...