1/ Crypto still faces a massive education problem.

This Fall, we've welcomed many new freshmen to @StanfordCrypto, and many have asked me how to get started.

So we've put together a "Stanford Blockchain Reading List" on Crypto 101:

blockchain.stanford.edu/crypto101 2/ The reading list is primarily based on blog-post content we've published on the Stanford Blockchain Review, and intends on providing a crash-course overview of the most important topics in crypto

review.stanfordblockchain.xyz

On the Digital Serfdom of Art 🧵

1/ Today, the artist’s sovereignty is under the full-scale assault of modern tech monopolies. Big Tech platforms, derive their entire business model from divorcing content value from content creator. 2/ Copy-paste has probably stifled more artistic progress than all the purges and executions of the 20th century. In this new world of digital serfdom, artists’ livelihoods have been starved away by Internet giants’ near-zero marginal cost of duplicating digital assets.

1/ People often say that in Web 3, everyone can create their own currency. That’s true, but here’s the catch: not everyone can create their own liquidity. 2/ Any commodity can have liquidity: stocks, bonds, real-estate, gold, cigarettes, and NFTs included. Because of this, any commodity can be a currency, and there is no fine line between a commodity and a currency.