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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.' Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI
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A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet - and how that affects us all - from technology…
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I first heard about this book on one of my favorite podcasts: Hard Fork. The author is a famous crypto investor at perhaps the world’s leading technology venture capital firm: a16z. The author got a hard time from the hosts, who are both pretty skeptical of crypto. But he handled it so well I knew I had to read the book.
Read Write Own is persuasive in cautioning against dismissing the entire crypto sector due to early failures. The examples used are great: like the Helium project—a kind of crowdsourced “people’s 5G network” that uses cryptocurrency payments as incentives.…
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