The Best of Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛
The most popular Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ articles, as voted by our community.
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Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ on Crypto
On Crypto and Trust Minimization
What does it mean to trust someone? Usually, that person (or company, or technology) can take actions that share a bunch of characteristics: the action has a material impact on us, we cannot…
Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ on UBI
Universal Basic Income and the Climate Crisis
This morning I will be on a panel at Columbia University about Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the climate crisis as part of a conference on the Green New Deal. In my view UBI should be a central...
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Is Ethereum the AOL of Crypto?
Of course Ethereum is not a walled garden the way AOL was. Anyone can write and deploy a smart contract, whereas adding functionality to AOL required a contract and a custom implementation. What I...
Progress vs. Categories
As humans we like to put things into categories. It makes communicating and thinking easier. Scratch that. It makes communicating and thinking possible. Categories go hand in hand with words as...
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