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A Starbucks Odyssey
Why NFT Customer Loyalty Programs might actually work
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What is a brand? When Don Draper Met the Nouns
The Nouns Project. The Past and Future of Brand Building.
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Alex Stein
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Yes, Web3 Has a Use Case.
No, it may not be relevant to you.
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Alex Stein
Introducing Charterless
A newsletter about DAOs for the crypto curious.
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Alex Stein
The Infrastructure of Dissent: The Internet, the Blockchain and Life After Roe
Imagining a new digital infrastructure for resistance and organizing against government overreach.
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Alex Stein
Wikipedia: The World's First DAO
No tokens required.
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Alex Stein
Breaking Ground
Homebase, Solana and the mind boggling Implications of Real Estate on chain
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Domingo Valadez
The FTX Rohrschach Test
In which I make my best case for why crypto is over/early.
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Balaji Shrugged: Network States and the Limits of Libertarian Maximalism
Crypto's Tom Paine tries his hand at Common Sense. The limits and opportunities for digital community in a physical world.
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Status U: Student Loans and Why Harvard is Like TikTok
Biden's student debt relief plan and the status-conscious roots of its divisiveness. The weird American Elite University System. What education…
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Alex Stein
The War For the Metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg, Benevolent Platform Dictator vs. Cryptopunks, Vanguard of the Digital Enlightenment
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Alex Stein
Nigeria: Crypto Utopia?
The promise and perils of life after fiat in Africa's largest economy.
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Alex Stein
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