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2 days ago

Social Graph as Infrastructure: The Anthropological Case for Distributed Storage

Dunbar proved your social layers are a resource allocation system. Granovetter proved your weak ties are a routing mechanism. Watt...

1 week ago

Investing in Altcoins - a Flawed Strategy or a Last Hope?

The “altseason’ was promised so many times that even the penguins across Antarctica must be tired of hearing about it. There has n...

Mar 02, 2026

Meet the Historian of the Internet’s Underground Future

Michel Bauwens has spent decades mapping the edges of change. From peer-to-peer networks to distributed autonomous organizations,...

Feb 10, 2026

The Commercialization Trap: What Happens When Subculture Goes Mainstream

Using rave culture as a case study, this article examines how autonomous, community-driven movements—from music scenes to crypto—g...

Jan 31, 2026

The Crypto Sellout

Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan, called crypto a “fraud … worse than tulips” The bank’s token, The JPM Coin, facilitates over $1B in...

Jan 12, 2026

A Deeper Look at the Runtime War

The nation-state doesn't need to ban Bitcoin or arrest DAO founders, writes Ray Svitla. The revolution's biggest enemy isn't oppre...

Jan 05, 2026

Decentralization vs. Democracy in Crypto: Are They the Same Thing?

Decentralization refers to the distribution of power and infrastructure. Architectural decentralization addresses how many indepen...

Dec 24, 2025

The Day I Realized My Smart Contract Was the Bug

The “perfect” on-chain architecture of Web3 payments seemed self-evident, but it wasn’t working. A user would pay a small fee in A...

Dec 23, 2025

Web3 jobs in 2025: why the market is not coming back, but growing up

Web3 is no longer building outside the system, but integrating into it. The Web3 job market of 2025 is more demanding, more select...

Nov 27, 2025

How Crypto is Getting Centralized (and What We Can Do About It)

Decentralization isn’t just a fancy buzzword to sell digital products, it’s the principle that makes crypto worth trusting in the...

Nov 12, 2025

When Amazon Crashed, "Decentralized" Blockchain went Down With it

The October 2025 AWS outage revealed blockchain's dirty secret: despite claims of decentralization, 37% of Ethereum nodes and 70%...

Nov 07, 2025

Emerging Tech Companies Must Stop Using Decentralization As An Ideological Gimmi...

The stakes are much higher now with agentic AI, DePIN, and autonomous finance protocols.

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