#coronavirus silver linings: a thread 0. The coronavirus outbreak is disruptive, scary, and tragic. In a moment of crisis, it's natural to lose hope. However, crises often have surprising, and positive, second-order impacts. In the spirit of hope and resilience, here's a thread of silver linings.

A thread on why crypto is like the internet, why the corporate R&D economy will be replaced by an open-source economy, and why we need crypto to get there. The internet fundamentally changed the economics of information distribution, making many things >10x cheaper:
- exchanging information pairwise (email, facetime)
- collaborating on shared information (wikis, reddit, github)
- distributing information en masse (netflix, twitter)

Since leaving Google / TensorBoard, I've been working on #sourcecred. SourceCred's goal is to recognize open-source developers and maintainers by assigning 'cred' to their contributions. Here's a development update from the past month. 1. @wchargin and built a new prototype, which ingests data from GitHub and Git into a large graph and runs PageRank on it. We wanted to check that we can scale in-browser PageRank to graphs with >100k nodes. The answer: we can! It's even quite fast.

attended a crypto dinner hosted by @a16z /@ali01 last night. Ali asked everyone for one controversial opinion. here are my notes! (opinions ethically published with consent from attendees 😇) from @ali01 (a16z): every piece of crypto-infrastructure will wind up being commoditized. "economic routers" will sit one layer above and route away from platforms that have excess pricing power or profits