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MEMO W36 SEP 2024

The new meta in Ethereum land has apparently been to suggest that we better reduce the amount of available blobs for data availability, because the fees generated as revenue on Ethereum are now "too low". When you have a look at the timeline, then high fees were bearish for Ethereum in 2021, beca...

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MEMO W35 SEP 2024

The purpose of a system is what it does. That is a complicated way of saying that we are not mere prisoners of the games we play. We are not supposed to be held hostage by the rules that try to confine us. The games we play, the tools we use, were all made by us. They were made by us in order to ...

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MEMO W34 AUG 2024

In crypto we suffer from the utility paradox. The space is full of speculators. And all of those speculators love to, well, speculate. Their imagination is what drives them. And in turn, anything you can explain and prove with data is not surrounded by that magic fairy dust of wishful thinking an...

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MEMO W33 AUG 2024

Many must be concerned with the nightmare that is taxes. It surprises me every time I hear somebody say thay are not declaring their crypto holdings when doing taxes. What is the plan with that strategy? You own something because you want to use it some day. Maybe I am making wild assumptions her...

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MEMO W32 AUG 2024

The Missing Billionaires, Against the Gods, The Price of Time. Books about money and finance. Books about wealth and ruin. Books about the art of investing and knowing thyself. One of those books brought the coin flip challenge to my attention. The task of that challenge is simple. You have a bia...

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MEMO W31 AUG 2024

This week I want to open with a framework that I call the relevant and probable. The relevant and probable describes types of information and their value that we should rather pay attention to, or rather not. From a system point of view, information can be many things. And only the information th...

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MEMO W30 JUL 2024

It has been ETH ETF week. The word Ethereum is printed on a large banner hanging outside of the so much renowned New York Stock Exchange as I am writing these words. Without paying too much attention during the week, I had the feeling there was an awful lot of cope and quiet in the air. Is this j...

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MEMO W29 JUL 2024

The market is a magnificent beast. Price action allowed voices to be raised, wondering whether the glorious bull market be already over now. Complaints could be heard that this is by no means the bull market that people expected. And now others come out proclaiming how the bull market has barely ...

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MEMO W28 JUL 2024

We have been in the belly of the beast this past week. We have been to Brussels for EthCC. The heart of Europe and the power centre of the EU. Not to dwell too much on politics, but to me personally the state of the nation had a rather rotten smell to it in many different ways. I would summarize ...

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MEMO W27 JUL 2024

Many continue to express concerns how crypto as an industry has no use cases. And I keep saying that this is not true. What seems to be the case is that people who say that crypto has no use cases are simply not using the available use cases themselves. The major use case that this industry provi...