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We've been here before

alixkun
June 30
People evolving in the crypto space know about them: the cycles. We more or less know (or think we know) the market moves in cycles, swinging like a pendulum between bull markets and bear markets. The inflection point from bull to bear is usually a black swan event, or a series of black swan events, that happens in a short span of time, when, in a very christian fashion, people believe they’ve had it too good and the time for redemptive suffering has come. The inflection point from bear to bull is much more simple, as it usually revolves around the Bitcoin halving, happening every 4 years or so. During these cycles, it’s 50 shades of bears & bulls: every now and then you find people trying to call the top during bull cycle, and people trying to call the bottom during bear cycles.
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Do we really want the Metaverse?

alixkun
January 22
The Metaverse has been a dominating narrative in the web3 space over the past 2 years, but is it the right one? Do people really want the Metaverse?
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We are the robots

alixkun
November 23
A story of AI creative tools, copyrights history, the Sleng Teng Riddim, Plato, Gutenberg and 18th Century England. Yes, you read that right.
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The artist(s)

alixkun
September 19
Human beings create. That’s what we do. We create things. It’s also one of the traits that delineates our species from others (well that’s what we’ve been thinking for a long time, at least). We create art with the intention of it being nothing more than art. The history of art production is a long history of interaction between concepts and the tools available to bring them to life, and as these tools evolved throughout history, we’ve seen a democratization of art production leading to a plethora of pieces, a phenomenon which endangers the very existence of art as a viable career to make a living. Through this blog post, we’ll try to explore & understand why the crisis music artists (in particular) go through nowadays is not necessarily due to corporate greed, but more to an imbalance between offerings and demands.
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Create Value To Earn

alixkun
June 29
Play To Earn started the "~to earn" trend in web3, but tokenomics should rely on fundamental value creation mechanics some projects seem to have forgotten.