Posts tagged QAnon
DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan
DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan

This week, we look at:

  • How the music industry needed The Pirate Bay and Napster

  • Why J.P.Morgan is paying $1B in fines for allegedly manipulating the precious metals market

  • Whether DeFi is flirting with self-dealing and veering towards apathy

  • Why QAnon and 8chan are a bad example for global governance

  • And how the European Commission’s proposed crypto-market rules are highly productive for blockchain-based capital markets infrastructure

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central bank / CBDC, decentralized finance, exchanges / cap mkts, big tech, digital lending, digital securities / STO, enterprise blockchainLex SokolinNapster, Pirate Bay, JP Morgan, QAnon, 4chan, European Commission, Alan Moore, Anonymous, Marcel Duchamp
The absurdity of how the Internet is both beautiful and awful, and the memetic infection of Finance
The absurdity of how the Internet is both beautiful and awful, and the memetic infection of Finance

This week, we get philosophical and look at:

  • Embedded finance and how it will be woven into the fabric of the Internet

  • Applying the philosophies of existentialism, nihilism, and absurdism to Finance

  • Parsing symptoms in decentralized finance (Based Protocol) as artistic protest

  • Finding Dadaist beauty in chaos

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philosophy, decentralized finance, embedded financeLex SokolinQAnon, Nietzsche, Ray Dalio, Albert Camus, Based Protocol, Something Awful, 4chan, Weird Twitter, Reddit, Marcel Duchamp, Dada