Graham Novak

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I only sip crypto regulation if it's from the French Hill region of the Financial Services Committee

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A personal note on this: I spent the last year of my blogging career focusing on exploring from first principles the fundamentals of blockchains. It hasn't gotten much attention, but I still believe it's by far the most impactful writing on my old blog. Blockchains are only useful for strict global consensus, with the key overarching usecase being objective accounting. For everything else, there are far more efficient and more decentralized options available/to be invented. Being dogmatic about only using blockchains has actively hindered growth for years - to expand the onchain economy we must adopt & invent better solutions, even if its not technically "onchain".

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Ugh I regret not being active on farcaster when it was blowing up It was an insufferable period where people were playing all of these awful follower games to boost their audiences Lmfao whoops

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Organizational debt is even harder to solve than technical debt

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Before onchain organizations, there were governments and companies. Analog organizations enforce governance with legal maneuvering that is ultimately backed by a governments. Onchain organizations ensure functioning governance through indisputable smart contracts

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I am once again struggling with threads on warpcast so here's a summary of the research piece on Onchain Organizations https://x.com/gnovak_/status/1815420488451006485

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having a discussion with a small working group on the ontology of Onchain Organizations, tomorrow at 11am ET. comment or shoot me a DM if you'd like an invite to join there's a research piece that's getting published in conjunction with this too

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i remember a lot of your takes on your podcast ~4 years ago were much more left leaning (pro-Bernie, pro-dem). how has it evolved over the last few years and what does that mean for you & your choice in the election? (out of curiosity, not judgement or anything)

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what would you add to this chart on autonomous DAOs emphasis on orgs that are truly controlled by smart contracts and have onchain governance

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Well deserved, Paul!!

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yessir 🫡🫡🫡

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wrote a thread on twitter about the new paper out of the UK Law Commission. if you're in DAOs, you probably want to read it https://x.com/gnovak_/status/1811527414742422003

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well, i'm an idiot and apparently don't know how threads work on here, so here's a link to the twitter post: https://x.com/gnovak_/status/1811527402490651034

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Impressive Nuance. The commission has a clear understand that there's heavy disagreement about simple things, like the A, of DAO, "Autonomous," referencing "independent from jurisdictions" or "automatically executed by smart contracts"

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Setting the Scene. The commission absolutely NAILs the common philosophical goals of DAOs. They touch on transparency, decentralized decision making, censorship resistance, incentives, and the allowance of pseudonymous participants

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The Law Commission of the United Kingdom just published a huge paper (289 pages) on DAOs today. It's really good, but unbearably long. For all of you with TikTok attention spans, I've got some goodies for you:

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id say the incremental friction of bank APIs vs an onchain actions makes a big difference APIs fail, access can be revoked, requires a bank account to start with

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