Interesting that the piece you linked there is optimistic about Filecoin Plus Call me naive but the one thing I couldn't figure out from that article is where the money comes from that actually pays for the storage – purely from convincing people to make speculative investments?
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GDP Growth Model Ignores Planet and Majority of People
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Anything supporting the GDP, productivity and growth = good model in isolation means ignoring the planet & a majority of its people. Where long termism is defined as a Seven Generations model ancestors & the earth are honored. Otherwise, it’s techno solutionism for the few.
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Measuring Nations by IQ Per Capita Instead of GDP
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GDP per capita is fine, it's time we start measuring how countries rank on IQ per capita.
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Managing Social Networks Harder Than Rockets Due to User Unpredictability
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Managing a social network is harder than rockets because the users of a social network are not a deterministic system as conclusively demonstrated by Twitter’s users over the last few weeks
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How Technologies Become Standard: Adoption Process Framework
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first they do it as part of their job then they do it as a stepping stone then it wins
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Content Creators Trust Platform Decentralization Risk
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In this particular case I think the group that matters most isn't the majority of end-users, it's the much smaller group of people who produce the majority of the content – and who really will think hard about what platform they trust most not to rug-pull them in the future
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Early Adopters and Ponzi Scheme Dynamics in Crypto
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And some of them were! There were plenty of examples of people who really did get in early and make money on this (assuming of course they didn't then lose it later) Of course that only works if there's a steady stream of latecomers to take the money from
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Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts Victims of Unintentional Long-term Deception
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"I do not believe the people you see on Twitter – the average cryptocurrency enjoyers – are morally bankrupt, but a victim of an extremely long, messy and unintentional con"
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New social contract for digital economy discussed in Brussels
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Un nuevo contrato social para la economía digital. Hiperrelevante. Si estáis por Bruselas, no os perdáis esto
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Facts Tell Stories Sell: Marketing Strategy Insights
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‘Facts tell, stories sell!’ (Heard at a marketing forum)