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November 9, 2021 This article has been translated into Russian by the 21ideas/21идея project. Proof of stake is a scam. When I say that, I mean that proof of stake is (1) claimed to be a consensus system, and (2) constitutionally incapable of actually producing a consensus. To understand why this is…

Dark Mode Toggle 2021 Oct 31 See all posts Crypto Cities Special thanks to Mr Silly and Tina Zhen for early feedback on the post, and to a big long list of people for discussion of the ideas. One inte

Again and again, I run into situations in which change agents in organizations that I work with run into organizational boundaries that stop them from moving forward in a way that makes perfect sense from a business and innovation perspective. For various reasons, within the current organization,…

Photo: Pavel Brodsky A huge thanks to Ellen Fishbein for collaborating for months on this essay with me. It would’ve been twenty thousand words long, instead of just a thousand, if not for her. The overarching problem of the information sphere is a signal-and-noise problem. Sorting through the…