Making sense of web3 & crypto. Introduction to key concepts and ideas. Rigorous, constructive analysis of key claims pro and con. A look at the deeper hopes and aspirations.
Use this list with your AI agent
Add the Context Awesome MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client, then ask:
"Show me bitcoin resources from web3"
Installation instructions →What's inside
Iron-manning the pro arguments
- 7 Things To Read About Bitcoin (For Institutional Investors)Bitcoin
May 2020 - by [[people/Matt Huang]]
- Bitcoin for the Open-Minded SkepticBitcoin
May 2020 - by [[people/Matt Huang]]. Note: more an argument for why Bitcoin will "make it" than any argument why that is socially valuable (or not).
- Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol InnovationFat protocols
2016-07-28 - by Albert Wenger at USV. Move about incentivizing investment in the protocols
- Fat ProtocolsFat protocols
Aug 2016 - Joel Monegro at USV - more about incentivizing adoption
- https://rufuspollock.com/fixing-facebook/Fairer Economy
- If I Only had a Heart: a DisCO ManifestoFairer governance
Dec 2019 - A joint publication by DisCO.coop, the Transnational Institute and Guerrilla Media Collective. "Value Sovereignty, Care Work, Commons and Distributed Cooperative Organizations. The DisCO Manifesto is a deep dive into the world of Distributed Cooperative Organizations. Over its 80 colorful pages, you will read about how DisCOs are a P2P/Commons, cooperative and Feminist Economic alternative to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). The DisCO Manifesto also includes some background on topics like blockchain, AI, the commons, feminism, cooperatives, cyberpunk, and more."
Critique
- Abuse and harassment on the blockchainGeneral
- Abuse on the blockchain – Guest lecture at Stanford UniversityGeneral
- Against Web3 and Faux-DecentralizationGeneral
2021-10-19 by Soatok
- An Anatomy of Bitcoin Price ManipulationTrading/Market Microstructure/Security Risks
Matt Ranger, 2022. Speculative analysis of centralized cryptocurrency exchange market data to support a price manipulation hypothesis.
- Anonymous cryptocurrency wallets are not so simpleGeneral
- “a normal person explains cryptocurrency”Humour
2021-12-22
Inbox
- BanklessDAO: State of the DAOs #7: Social Tokens and the Future of Work
2022-01-13
- Booming NFT art market plagued by 'mind-blowing' fraud
- Cryptoeconomics as a Limitation on Governance
2021-11-11 - Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder
- Financial Times: Matt Damon’s crypto ad is more than just cringeworthy
- Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3
- https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/web3-a-map-in-search-of-territory/
Jan 2022 - by Evgeny Morozov
What is blockchain, web3, etc.
- http://kernel.community
A custom web3 educational community with free learning resources at
- On Blockchain and Trust
February 12, 2019 by Bruce Schneier. The article also appeared on wired.com as
- The Myth of Decentralization and Lies about Web 2.0
2022-01-07 by Emily Gorcenski
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