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 •

March 2023

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

Mar 27, 2023 •

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 •

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 •

July 2018

A way to gain influence is to accept personal risk for the benefit of a group. I.e. to become a hero.

Jul 15, 2018 •

March 2018

What is Influence

One cannot understand influence without knowing how to quantify it.

Mar 8, 2018 •

December 2017

Explanation of the HODL meme phenomenon may lie in military history.

Dec 7, 2017 •

October 2017

Netflix should not be thought of as a streaming business. Streaming is not the business model, it’s the source of data.

Oct 3, 2017 •

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