Archive - Stuffed Blocks

Palm Springs (2020) and learning loops [SPOILERS]

SPOILER ALERT: PALM SPRINGS (2020) ON HULU. IF YOU DON’T WANT THIS MOVIE SPOILED DO NOT READ THIS POST. - - - - - - - - - Wife and I watched Palm…

Aug 3, 2020 •

July 2020

YFI Ponzinomics

How things get designed to only go up

Jul 24, 2020 •

Censorable assets are toxic collateral

For the first time ever, a balance of USDC has been frozen by the creators of the asset, the CENTRE consortium. (Worth mentioning that USDT has frozen…

Jul 9, 2020 •

Unblocking creative output with technology leads to category defining platforms

What mediums can blockchains and smart contracts unlock?

Jul 8, 2020 •

June 2020

Crypto use-cases by liquidity and throughput

I’m working on a post gaming out the scenarios for DeFi to scale and as I was writing it I came up with this 2x2 exploring the properties required for a…

Jun 29, 2020 •

Friday Stuff: #CryptoForBlackLives, Podcasts on Yield Farming, Live Stream

Hope everybody had a great week. Some miscellanea going into the weekend: I am supporting #CryptoForBlackLives. Like so many of those around me, I was…

Jun 26, 2020 •

Beware illiquid markets: lessons from COMP price action

And some observations on market manipulation and the oracle problem

Jun 24, 2020 •

Yield farming is the new GPU mining

Wow hello I have missed writing you. I have a lot to say so expect more regular posts. Over the last week, “yield farming” has dominated the…

Jun 22, 2020 •

January 2020

Some games need closed ecosystems

Jan 10, 2020 •

December 2019

Acquisition vs defense mindset

Last weekend, a few friends and I got to talking politics over dinner (as one does) and the topic of wealth taxes and corporate taxes came up. How…

Dec 6, 2019 •

November 2019

The virtual worlds future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

I've noticed a lot of talk over the last year or so about virtual worlds. It's impossible to ignore. Internet access and speeds and growing, gaming is…

Nov 30, 2019 •

How to get into VC

The Top Quartile VC Loop

Nov 14, 2019 •

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