Sometimes when I tell people I live in Vermont, they say, 'I've never been, but it's just like New Hampshire, right?'

No. No it's not.

Happy Birthday to Iggy Pop! 🎂

Iggy Pop
The Passenger
Manchester Apollo 1977

The manure trucks trundle up and down the road to spray their stinky liquid gold on the corn fields.

Spring has truly arrived.

Omg it’s brilliant

Here are some (broadly-defined) areas where I believe crypto can make a difference in the world.

1/ Payments
Problem: Payments are highly inefficient, especially when sending them across borders. People spend $647 billion on remittances every year, with an average cost of 6.25%.

1/ Big tech will not be tamed by lawsuits, fines or draconian rules, but by the same forces that fueled its rise.

I'm sorry, bad reputation? They are irreplaceable. What else are you going to put on top of your casserole?

Couldn't do any of it without them

I’m doing more pods now!

Catch me on the latest a16z crypto

This one was fun

creeefs.eth Michael Blau & I cover everything from RWO internet eras to the Eras Tour.

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What can we learn from the response to the Titanic disaster (112 years ago today!) for regulation approaches in general and to crypto specifically?  I wrote a piece explaining how that response was a disaster-in-the-making and why principles based regulation matter. 🧵

Looking forward to speaking and signing books at Harvard Blockchain’s Blockchain Conference in Boston tomorrow.

It'll be a fireside with professor Tom Eisenmann, who taught me many of the lessons on building networks that I wrote about in Read Write Own. Hope to see you there!

Signs of spring: snow fences are coming down, and manure is going onto the fields

When top-tier engineering team (Sam Ragsdale, moodle zoup, ncitron.eth) implements paradigm-shifting academic research (@arasuarun, Srinath Setty, Justin Thaler), the results ought to be and are ground-breaking. Open-sourced zkVM. Congrats to the team.

If Your Friends Were Nonfiction Writers

You: How do you make sure great pizza?

Friend: In 1573, Mario Napoli wanted a snack. He had been working at his forno per il pane -- the traditional Italian bread oven -- since before dawn, turning out bread and confections for his