I went through the entrepreneur’s presentation so you wouldn’t have to — Web3, I hardly knew ye. Jack Dorsey’s new company, TBD, recently announced its intent to create “web5”. It explained it as “a new evolution of the Web that enables decentralized apps and protocols.” Fear not, you didn’t miss Web4 passing us by. TBD’s idea is to sum the best…

The industry is ripe for disruption — wiNeFTs offer a solution — There’s recently been a flurry of announcements in the Wine NFT space. In early June, Winechain.co (relation to winechain.pt unknown) announced its ambition to “create direct links with new generations of wine consumers around the world”. Meanwhile, the “Wine Bottle Club” announced its latest mint day would also take place…

Everyone goes bankrupt, and no one has any fun doing it — There was a lot of noise this week about hotel chains considering selling reservations as NFTs. The idea is theoretically simple. A customer books a room and receives an NFT. If they cannot make it, they have to resell their reservations to someone else. That way, they can make their…

FlowCarbon? More like FlawCarbon. — Start-up FlowCarbon made waves today by raising $70M from a16z to “tokenize carbon credits and build an on-chain market to drive funding directly to projects that reduce or remove carbon from the atmosphere.” Here’s why this hasn’t worked in the past, in less than 200 words. Companies pollute. To compensate…

It’s a lot easier than you think — A lot of people are incentivized to say that crypto is complicated. It is not. Here is why the market took a dive over the past 48 hours, in less than 200 words. There was a digital coin (UST) that was supposed to be a direct equivalent to 1 dollar…

The history of the Internet is wild… and getting wilder — The world is bursting with talks of new, exciting technologies. Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, DeFi, Metaverse… all manners of concepts have seemingly sprouted from our collective digital imagination. Alone, they are naught but fun diversions. Together, they make up the key components of Web3. Despite forceful push-back from many corners…

Tools to cut the bullsh*t and make good decisions — Smart people have had stupid opinions about technology ever since we invented textile machinery. With each new invention, influencers take to books, newspapers, radio, TV and, lately, social media to share their thoughts. As technology is increasingly complex, these takes become increasingly fallible. Crypto is no exception. For the past…

This article does not contain the word “decentralization” — It seems all anybody wants to talk about nowadays is NFTs. We want to mint them, sell them, trade them, philosophise about them… all while remaining painfully unaware of financial, ecological and societal harm they cause. But enough about me and my seminal article about the profound stupidity of NFTs…