Universal basic income is socialism, and any government that values freedom should be staunchly opposed to it. That doesn't mean society shouldn't have a safety net. It should. But there's a world of difference between putting a floor under the poorest and handing everyone a government check, and understanding that dis...
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The staking leaderboard is now LIVE.
In just under two weeks:
66M $DEGEN have been staked.
297 Degen NFTs have been staked.
Almost 40% of supply staked, without even announcing what the points give you 👀
If you haven't staked yet, you might want to.
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The tendency of the intellectual community in most countries, but particularly the United States, is to move like a herd in support of state and private power. Intellectuals like to think of themselves as dissident, critical, courageous, standing up against power. Absolutely untrue. If you look at the historical record...
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When designing tokenomics, I think we've seen too many lopsided airdrops, and it's worth examining why.
$BLUR is a good case study. According to DeFiLlama, Blur has generated around $70M in lifetime protocol revenue. But the token had two airdrop seasons, with Season 2 alone valued at ~$160M at the time of distributio...
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Users you don't want.
One of the things I learned from running a reward token on top of Farcaster is that it attracted a lot of undesirable users to the platform.
There was a moment when @dwr referred to these users as "low quality users." I felt taken aback at the time. But in hindsight, there are users who hijack a...
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You can now increase your NFT and $DEGEN stake on our Dream platform without losing points. We’ve also fixed a bunch of bugs the community flagged.
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There's this notion the American empire is ending. Not defending U.S. actions but the empire is far from over. Wealth and military superiority remain unmatched.
When the U.S. broke from Britain, Britain was the most powerful empire on earth. Losing America barely slowed them down. Their greatest century followed, powe...
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