Archive - Maciek's blog

The Hidden Cost of Fake Money: Why Birth Rates Are Collapsing

What if birth rates are collapsing not because we're too rich, but because our monetary system is telling us we're poor?

Jan 4 •

June 2024

How to Turn Adversity into Opportunity

For a long time, I convinced myself that the bad things in my life were actually good.

Jun 16, 2024 •

January 2024

Picture this: A hiring process in which candidates thank you for the refreshing experience, and you achieve a 90% reduction in interviews while snagging…

Jan 10, 2024 •

March 2023

There is an arcade with AI-powered games, one of which is Pong.

Mar 27, 2023 •

June 2022

Bitcoin Private Equity

Two years ago, I wrote that we should see the rise of Bitcoin VC, which will be predominantly libertarian.

Jun 17, 2022 •

April 2022

Twitter Should Adopt an Identity-based Business Model

Twitter should start charging for handles, and they could make more money while improving the relationship with their users and startups in their…

Apr 13, 2022 •

July 2020

June 2020

Bitcoin Venture Era

The Bitcoin ecosystem will develop its venture capital. And it will be as an activist for libertarian causes as Silicon Valley’s capital is for…

Jun 8, 2020 •

December 2019

The common denominator of success

I just stumbled upon this pamphlet from 1940.

Dec 21, 2019 •

February 2019

Attention as a Source of Scarcity for Decentralized Identity Systems

This document was originally published here.

Feb 27, 2019 •

August 2018

Decentralized Identity Trilemma

Identity remains an unsolved problem for decentralized networks. None of the existing solutions are privacy-preserving, Sybil-resistant, and…

Aug 13, 2018 •

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