Still trying to develop a thesis around the new Zora update and “content coins,” but I find it very off-putting that so many people are all-in on this shift with no coherent thesis of their own.

Here’s my thesis: 

1. Content is valuable 
2. The internet has a value capture problem
3. Crypto and open markets solve that problem 

The net result is an internet that now has free information and value capture for producers, distributors and consumers of information.

Therefore: make it as fun, simple and easy for anyone to tokenize their content. Do so with the most efficient market model possible on open protocols.

In the success case we move from closed platforms and closed algorithms to open protocols and open markets.

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Ep. 9 of /dialectic w @jacob is live.

Jacob is co-founder & CEO of /zora, a platform that allows anyone to tokenize media. He's spent his career thinking about how blockchains, tokens, markets, and ideas enable internet-native coordination.

They're building on Stewart Brand's premise that "information wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive.” In an internet era where content is abundant and effectively free, it is also expensive to consume and create—not by way of money, but time.

We discuss a world where markets around attention and content allow better coordination around what information is worth our time.

We also discuss why memes are so powerful, speculation vs. gambling, reflections on popular crypto ideas and Zora's history, Coinbase and co-creating USDC, and many other topics that showcase Jacob's generative creativity, unique ways of thinking, and inspirations.

https://pods.media/dialectic/9-jacob-horne-markets-for-what-matters?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

If you’re interested in hearing this in depth, I recently did a 2.5 hour podcast with @jacksondahl discussing and challenging this idea.

If you’re interested in hearing this in depth, I recently did a 2.5 hour podcast with @jacksondahl discussing and challenging this idea.

https://warpcast.com/jackson/0x6f4ee485

i’d like to see you implement the market curated feed idea

it’s the most compelling thing in there, to me