Digital Ownership
March 07, 2022The debate around web3 and NFT is raging. Unfortunately, too often, it’s just engagement farming. Still, I see a regular criticism that (and…
Written by Julien Genestoux. Entrepreneur, Hacker, Investor & Advisor You should follow me on Bluesky and Farcaster
The debate around web3 and NFT is raging. Unfortunately, too often, it’s just engagement farming. Still, I see a regular criticism that (and…
Let’s start with a little caveat: web3 is many things to many different people, exactly like web 2.0 was. Web 2.0 is also very different now…
The H in HTTP and HTML is for Hypertext. Hypertext is text with “references” to other documents, usually about the same topic. It creates a…
Blockchains are forever. Once a transaction gets mined, it’s stored permanently. The NFT that you purchased is in your wallet until you, and…
A lot of this thinking has been a rabbit hole around the idea of "Decentralized Autonomous Organizations", which are enabled by blockchain and cryptography, but I uncovered a much larger space and I want to share a bit of my thinking around them so you can, in turn, bounce back ideas and examples. Please, share your thoughts ;)
Before 2008, I was a banker. I worked for BNP Paribas, one of the largest banks in the world. When the so called “sub-prime” crisis exploded…
SEO has a bad rep. Yet, it is an incredibly powerful tool that can drive web traffic like no other channel. It is also one of the few areas…
If you’ve read Yuval Noah Harari, you know Homo Sapiens’ most unique characteristic is their ability to collaborate at scale, through space…
Or, an attempt at convincing my friends who care about open source software that blockchain and smart contracts are the future of our work…
Want more context? read this first (3 minute read): 20 years I wrote how I believe blockchain and distributed ledger technologies may be the…
