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Bailout Brink
The Tale of Two Bank Collapses, Or, How I Got Here
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David Phelps
December 2022
10 crypto predictions for 2023
10 predictions for what will be an incredible year for technology and probably a terrible year for finance.
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David Phelps
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November 2022
Where Are We? Part II: The Cost of Being Right
What's happening in crypto is nothing new—it's a tale as old as 1848.
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David Phelps
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August 2022
The Case for Modular Maxis
Blockchains are defined by two qualities—they're sovereign, and they're permissionless. But are they mutually exclusive?
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David Phelps
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Go Fork Yourself
Internet-native governance with Packy McCormick and Luca Prosperi
May 2022
March 2022
We're All Marxists Now
Could the web3 era of mass hyperfinancialization, anti-regulation, and artificial scarcity actually be... Marxist?
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David Phelps
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People are the New Platforms
In web3, platforms succeed by becoming protocols—which means people succeed by becoming platforms.
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David Phelps
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recap
a year in review
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David Phelps
3
January 2022
December 2021
The Twin Propellers of web3
why fractionalization and composability are the secret propellers of what's possible in web3
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David Phelps
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November 2021
Pixar and the Myth of the Cornered Resource
Why individual talent is inevitably overrated and overindexed—even in creative fields.
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David Phelps
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