Why I joined OHM, one of the most ambitious financial experiments in DeFi. Disclaimer: This is no financial advice. I’m an Ohmie. Is Olympus DAO a Ponzi scheme? Olympus DAO is currently the most misunderstood DeFi project out there. Its OHM token promises to generate an extremely high APY of over 8,000% when staked. In addition…

A white paper for a new climate exchange that was presented during the first hackathon for BitClout in early May 2020. What is ClimateClout? ClimateClout is a new type of exchange that lets you invest and speculate in the decarbonization of the world’s atmosphere with any money, and it’s built on top of…

Miami is the first US municipality to accept cryptocurrency contributions through CityCoins. “What’s interesting about Bitcoin is that its use case has essentially been a store of value, and the question is, does MiamiCoin remain a store of value … or does it have a different use case? We feel…

Ginkgo Bioworks’ market debut last Friday marked one of the largest biotech transactions to date with $1.6 billion in proceeds raised. This milestone demonstrates the maturation of synthetic biology from a science to an emerging industry. What are other promising private synbio companies that are currently being built? Here is a list of seven promising synbio companies that program biology to create…

Question: How have language, metaphor, and fiction shaped synthetic biology, and can we find new scripts to generate other meanings? 1. Meaningless Words aka Buzzwords The field of Synthetic Biology, similar to Silicon Valley, can be a breeding ground for coded language, jargon, and outright nonsense. Founders, scientists and investors juggle all-too-often-heard buzzwords to explain…

Humanity’s Hardest Problem — Climate Change We are entering a major crossroads in human history: As the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere rises, the impacts of global warming are becoming more evident: Extreme weather conditions, groundwater crisis, glacier melts, and sea-level rise. The climate crisis poses challenges to energy security, food and water…

Dapper Labs’ Flow, an NFT platform, could be the next frontier of the blockchain revolution focusing on the consumer space. NFTs create new digital opportunities Blockchain is going to fundamentally alter the financial industry and have a major impact on consumers and their behaviors. …

Why Chamath for California is the best thing that could happen. California has been the leading center of tech innovation in the last decades. But instead of improving the living standard in California, it has never been harder to live in the state. The state is facing an imminent climate…

A Process for Capturing CO2 from the Atmosphere Carbon Sequestration The notion of a “silver bullet” for solving global warming has persistent appeal: “What’s the one big thing we can do?”. However, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to a multi-layered problem, such as global warming. Renewable energy and electric cars will not…