Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
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When we invested in Onename in 2014 it was with the conviction that decentralized applications will require human readable identity systems for some applications. Take the DAO for example. As of writing this post it has raised nearly $110 million dollars including some from me. The allocation of this capital will be decided through voting. Now imagine the difference between voting on a proposal made by 0x8f585e5578a9695151fe51ac92f560c8a9cc9a14 (my DAO address) versus one made by albertwenger (a human readable name registered using Onename). It will be interesting to see to what extent the DAO can succeed using only or primarily machine readable addresses.
In order to build a decentralized infrastructure for naming the Onename team wound up building a fair bit of technology which has become known as the Blockstack. It allows the creation of namespaces on top of the bitcoin blockchain and supports naming, identity, storage and authentication services. A great community has sprung up around Blockstack with many active contributors. There are many applications for using Blockstack and Onename turns out to be only one of them as the following picture illustrates.
To avoid confusion, the team has decided to change the name of the company to Blockstack Labs. Blockstack Labs will continue to drive forward the development of the Blockstack platform.
When we invested in Onename in 2014 it was with the conviction that decentralized applications will require human readable identity systems for some applications. Take the DAO for example. As of writing this post it has raised nearly $110 million dollars including some from me. The allocation of this capital will be decided through voting. Now imagine the difference between voting on a proposal made by 0x8f585e5578a9695151fe51ac92f560c8a9cc9a14 (my DAO address) versus one made by albertwenger (a human readable name registered using Onename). It will be interesting to see to what extent the DAO can succeed using only or primarily machine readable addresses.
In order to build a decentralized infrastructure for naming the Onename team wound up building a fair bit of technology which has become known as the Blockstack. It allows the creation of namespaces on top of the bitcoin blockchain and supports naming, identity, storage and authentication services. A great community has sprung up around Blockstack with many active contributors. There are many applications for using Blockstack and Onename turns out to be only one of them as the following picture illustrates.
To avoid confusion, the team has decided to change the name of the company to Blockstack Labs. Blockstack Labs will continue to drive forward the development of the Blockstack platform.
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