Title inspired by Vitalik Buterin’s blog post Soulbound — This is real. There really is another me who is simultaneously older and younger who has wishes, hopes, and desires for the present me. I mistook him for my son because he’s younger. I mistook him for my father because he’s older, but it really is me. I’m not afraid because I live in the future, and anything that seems like madness pushes us there faster.

Organizations can use price segmentation and universal dividends to make their products more like common goods. — All goods and services (whether labeled “private,” “public” or “common”) lie on a spectrum ranging from least to most accessible. In this article, I’ll explore the possibility of moving goods toward greater accessibility. For the purposes of this article, I define a common good as a good or service whose…

How to claim Dai from the TREE snapshot by May 31st The ability to claim DAI will take place from May 21st to May 31st at https://whalerdao.github.io/astrodrop/claim/QmeW1NroA2xkRysggXLWs4HxFz22e7DKjWqjUgxn1xXMLv. Astrodrop is a tool by Whaler DAO founding member Zefram Lou for creating airdrops cheaply — no coding required. Motivation and details When we originally created TREE, the goal was to create, above all, a strong community…

Here’s what the next three months look like for BrightID. — Let’s go into each of the six milestones in a little more detail. 🔬 Node discovery. How does a client (for example the BrightID app on your mobile device) know which node in the BrightID network to connect to? After this milestone, clients will be able to find out about…

My journey to my personal mission — In part one, I talked about what lead me to start thinking about economic reality and the broader human situation for the first time. In this part, I’ll talk about how it lead me to my personal mission. After some reading, I saw that the commonplace problems of homelessness and…

My journey to my personal mission — In 2007 I woke up because grocery stores were empty and IHOP pancakes had gotten smaller. There was an oil shortage; gas prices were reaching levels that seemed impossible. I did some research and found “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.” …

We created IDChain to synchronize BrightID node operations, but its unique qualities make it an attractive platform for other projects. We’ve been using it for several months, and it’s ready for other projects to use. Features Short block intervals. Every verified unique human gets a lifetime supply (average) of gas. Validators…

We created IDChain to synchronize BrightID node operations, but its unique qualities make it an attractive platform for other projects. We’ve been using it for several months, and it’s ready for other projects to use. Features Short block intervals. Every verified unique human gets a lifetime supply (average) of gas. Validators…

Subs are great for small apps with high growth potential needing a unique identity solution. — We’ve explored Sponsorships in three articles (1, 2, 3). In this one we’ll look at Sponsorships and Subscriptions in terms of the value they offer applications integrating with BrightID. According to the BrightID whitepaper, there are two main reasons an application would want to buy Sponsorships: 1. To acquire new users.