Thread by @BradyDale

🧵So I think 2020 was my best year so far as a journalist. Too bad it aligned with a terrible year for everything else. I guess it helps that I cover a world that's native to the internet 1/18

🤾‍♂️Here are 11 stories that I think at least touch on the big topics I was all in on this year.

First up: really a mistake'ish. I thought 2020 would be the year of blockchain interoperability. That day is coming, but I was v early. 2/18
coindesk.com/one-network-ma…

📈 Any retail investor who specifically followed my coverage closely would have been way the fuck ahead of everyone else on the DeFi boom. I was way on top of all the big moments. I've been telling you all since 2019.

JUST.
SAYIN'.
3/18
coindesk.com/why-defis-bill…

📺But please you know if you're a booker for a mainstream teevee show, bring on some NYT or Reuters reporter who just heard about $YFI last week to explain it. That's cool. You know whatever.
4/18

😎 This story had a lot of twists and turns but when the Hive hard fork happened, I think that was the climax of Justin Sun's abortive takeover of Steem

Really illustrated how life on the blockchains is different than on the old web
5/18
coindesk.com/steem-communit…

🦖 Only posting this because I think it's fun I compared @MakerDAO to #Godzilla 6/18
coindesk.com/the-coindesk-5…

🧮With these DeFi stories, it's easy to explain how they work but often hard to unpack the real numbers. This is one time during the $COMP kick off I think I found a good way to do it
7/18
coindesk.com/some-numbers-t…

👩‍🌾 So I only see the numbers around my work in dribs and drabs but it MIGHT be true to say that the world has spent as much raw time reading this one post as they have everything else I've ever written combined. 8/18
coindesk.com/defi-yield-far…

📚 Another title for this post could be: "Hey Publishers You're Going to Want to Have Someone Do a Book on This Topic PICK ME" 9/18
coindesk.com/ethereum-defi-…

👀 The team I'm on at CoinDesk did a lot of great stories in our little #ETHat5 series. If you're a newcomer to Web3 you could do worse than to hunt them down. 10/18

🧠 So, I basically think that @iearnfinance is the most interesting thing in this new DeFi world. A real new kind of organization that doesn't have legal entities so far because there's been no real need.
The True DAO.
11/18
coindesk.com/what-is-yearn-…

💒DeFi and NFTs...
perhaps...
NFTFI?
...is a great example of how the web will be a very different beast when value exists natively on the internet and everyone is using it
This post illuminates the earliest observations there
12/18
coindesk.com/nfts-yield-far…

🦉I had this plan to do eight big stories about philosophy and crypto in the first half of 2020.
I did one toward the end of the year. More to come.
13/18
coindesk.com/cypherpunk-cry…

🚚 Like I said...
Yearn.
Very interesting. 14/18
coindesk.com/mergers-positi…

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I want to make an editorial note here.
Like I said this has been my best year to date, both for eyes and original reporting I liked doing.
What you can't see that I've done behind the scenes is this: I have shoved the PR industrial complex away as much as I can. 15/18

🙃 Many of them don't even try to contact me anymore. This has only been to the good. No regrets.
Pitched stories are the empty calories of journalism.
16/18

Slightly more comprehensive list in this Moment I mostly made for myself 17/18

https://twitter.com/BradyDale/status/1363548339711664130

💅 I'll post whatever I think are the top 4 or 5 of these on here later today or... soon
In the meantime you can see my picks here for my first seven years as a journalist 18/18
bradydale.com/portfolio.html