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Ian Lee @ianjohnlee
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Proud to be among a growing list of @UCBerkeley @BerkeleyHaas leaders in #blockchain & #crypto. Pls add others! Go Bears!

@dawnsongtweets (Oasis)
@adamludwin (Chain)
@veradittakit (Pantera)
@MaxFangX (B@B, Dekrypt)
@ronenkirsh (B@B, Dekrypt)
@AshleyLannquist (MOBI, WEF)
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@adambsterling (UCB Law)
@douggalen (RippleWorks)
@kristykim1015 (Kinetic)
@chartouche (BitPesa)
@msantoriESQ (Blockchain)
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{THREAD} For a decentralized project to succeed, it needs:

1. Team
2. Vision
3. Governance & economic model
4. Plan
5. Capital
6. Service (usable in market)
7. Users

Not enough importance, energy, or discipline has been put into #7, nor how it affects #1-#6. I'll explain how...
1. Team.

Most projects don't have experienced product or design co-founders, or they hire a head of product or design too late.

Like startups today (e.g., Airbnb, Slack, Pinterest), bring them in at the beginning to balance deep tech with user-centric design.
2. Vision.

@m2jr looks for founding teams with "earned secrets," which often come from deep experience in the field working (& seeing pain points) with customers & users at a granular level. Teams & visions should be configured this way. How do we know X should be decentralized?
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1/ For years, people have been waiting and hoping for crypto's "Netscape" moment. The gateway to the web that brought the internet to the main stream.

IMHO, looking for the Netscape for the #crypto space is not a relevant or applicable analogy. Here's why...
2/ The way people imagine crypto's "Netscape moment" is very literal: as a window, gateway, or browser (just like Netscape) to easily acquire, save, and use crypto and access the decentralized web.
3/ But that sounds a lot like a wallet and exchange, which already exists. And yet, even with these onramps and "browsers" into crypto, we haven't had that "Netscape moment" people are hoping for in terms of mass adoption.
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1/ In the early 2000s, @ideo pioneered a process for venture development referred to as the "3 Circles" of Desirability, Viability & Feasibility (ideou.com/blogs/inspirat…). #crypto has a long way to go across all, but right now it is really struggling with the first: Desirability.
2/ Desirability is the question of "Do people want it?" and asks, what is the unique value proposition? How do people hear about, learn, try, buy, use, love, and share it? What are its functional but also emotional benefits? How is it 10x better than the current user experience?
3/ Iterating to product-market fit requires testing & ultimately proving at each stage of development that all three are true (it's desirable, feasible & viable) and work together. In the early stages of a venture, this means building evidence that they will be true in the future
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We had our final class of Cryptocurrencies, #Blockchain Technologies & the Law yesterday!

At long last, here is the syllabus. (And yes, it is already out of date in this high-speed #crypto world.)

ledgerprof.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/blockc…
The course, as with the tech itself, is a work in progress. Thanks to my students for going along for the ride and to @VladZamfir for joining us for the governance class!
Some of my learnings:

It's really hard to decide how much time to spend on basics of the tech before moving into legal questions. I wish students could have a full course on the tech, its historical antecedents, its history over the last few years, key players in the space, etc.
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0/ The #crypto and #blockchain space can get awfully noisy. Below, the bits that caught my eye over the past 24 hours or so.

21 events compressed into a humble #Twitter thread. Enjoy!
1/ 🙋‍♂️ @IOTAtoken [ $IOTA ] made hires #52 and #53 for 2018 via Andreas Penzkofer and William Sanders.

The former is an electrical engineer and physicist specializing in analytical and numerical methods. The latter, an academic focused on commutative algebra and category theory.
2/ 💡 Australian #blockchain startup @PowerLedger_io [ $POWR ] upped its presence in the U.S., announcing the deployment of its P2P renewable #energy trading platform at licensed retail electric provider @APowernet's Pennsylvania HQ.

Click below for more! medium.com/power-ledger/p…
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I’m still learning what a social frenzy late 2017 created for the mainstream around #crypto, and the shenanigans of opportunistic charlatans.
If the #crypto tide continues to go out there will be more dead bodies found, and the regulators will surface many regardless.
All of this is a cleanse for #crypto. The scammers were drawn to a bright light, keen to exploit, and importantly, were not part of the community that created “#crypto” over the many years prior.
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Just saw the @ReadyPlayerOne movie and want to know how it stacks up against the reality of virtual reality? This thread that breaks down what RP1 gets right, not-quite-right, and flat-out wrong about the future of #VR, immersion, & the metaverse.
We’ll also examine the tech #ReadyPlayerOne left out altogether. After all, the film is set in 2045, and given the exponential rate of technological advancement, 27 years will likely yield some dramatic changes in society.
There are a few articles that have pointed out some of the basics, but having worked in the industry for 4+ years, I want to paint a fuller picture of our impending reality, with RP1 as the jumping-off point.
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Ok thread #blockchain. Une blockchain = un registre open, décentralisé, vérifiable, insupressible, dont l'intégrité est garantie pke impossible à altérer. Chq nvel ajout est vérifié par un gd nb de personnes indépendantes. Dc : registre impiratable, inconfisquable, incensurable.
Principal challenge technique : permettre une haute fréquence d'écriture dans la blockchain (sachant que tte nouvelle inscription doit être validée par plusieurs personnes). Permettra le suivi fiable de n'importe quel flux de data en le rendant fiable et incontestable.
Si on arrive à cette "haute fréquence", ttes les industries voudront basculer l'enregistrement de leurs flux sur une blockchain, pr éradiquer les risques d'erreurs / malversations, et réduire les coûts d'intermédiaires => des 100aines de milliards d'économies à réaliser.
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Proud to finally announce P2P Models, my €1.5M 5-year ERC research grant to build decentralized, democratic & sustainable #CollaborativeEconomy organizations: p2pmodels.eu @p2pmod. Starting thread of tweets 1/10
#Blockchain #PlatformCoop
@p2pmod @BKCHarvard The Collaborative Economy is rapidly expanding, but it is dominated by centralized web platforms which hold user data and concentrate all decision-making power and profits. 2/10
@p2pmod @BKCHarvard The idea of the @p2pmod project is to tackle these issues, replacing the centralized web platform with a #DAO on the blockchain, so we reduce the difference of power between the "infrastructure owner" and the user community. 3/10
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