BOOM TIMES

Boom Times: Moxie and the Future

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Moxie Marlinspike is the founder of the encrypted messaging app Signal, and his recent post criticizing web3 is insightful and great, even though it centers largely on this Banksyesque prank he played at the NFT marketplace OpenSea, where he sold a digital artwork that displays as a poop emoji when viewed in a crypto wallet […]

From The Brick House Cooperative
On January 14, 2022
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Boom Times: Panic! At The Dawn of Web3

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Web3 replaces secretive, top-down platforms, like Facebook and Google, with transparent, shared-ownership networks powered by blockchain.

From The Brick House Cooperative
On December 7, 2021
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Boom Times: The Unicycle of Dudebro Opinion

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What might be the most mansplainy thing yet written about blockchain technology appeared last week on the blog of fiction writer and former Twitter executive Robin Sloan. The author describes himself as “not merely a skeptic, but a full-fledged enemy of Web3,” though in the essay that follows, he proceeds to hedge like crazy: Web3 […]

From The Brick House Cooperative
On November 18, 2021
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Boom Times: Paying with Fire

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how many credit cards have you got?

From The Brick House Cooperative
On November 2, 2021
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Boom Times: Don’t Stop Believin’

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despite the grief

From The Brick House Cooperative
On October 30, 2021
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Boom Times: Hot Hot Hot

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on crypto energy use

From The Brick House Cooperative
On October 26, 2021
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Boom Times: The Filthiest Lucre

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why Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin

From The Brick House Cooperative
On October 22, 2021
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