HeyJaredUtopia in Beta
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Home turf (opens the original)
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a few in depth articles I hope to publish on here soon, hence the irregular newsletters in your inbox. I promise they are worth it! Following the takedown of articles from the Sandmark website, I wanted to surface the below. Having now spent some time back in the UK I’ve been pleased to find that many crypto founders are still going against the negative online discourse and choosing to stay to grow their businesses. Subscribe now
A rocky “nothing” (opens the original)
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The below is a slight rework of a piece I wrote for Sandmark, looking at the era of private banking in Scotland and how it relates to today’s stablecoins. Sandmark had their whole news site taken down so expect a few more of these in the coming weeks. For years Scotland ran a banking system with no central bank. Private companies issued their own notes, redeemable on demand, and competed for the public’s willingness to hold them. Adam Smith recorded in 1776 that “the business of the country is a
Nodes and Neighbours (opens the original)
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It was a normal day in paradise when the inhabitants of Network School, Forest City, Malaysia, woke up on the morning of 21 July. People got up, went to the gym, chatted over breakfast and opened their laptops, preparing for the slew of meetings, social events and the day-to-day chaos of running tech startups.They had faced a gruelling few days on social media, caught up in allegations that the organisation had facilitated Israeli nationals to cross the Malaysian border. Founder Balaji Srinivasa
The Uses of No-Place (opens the original)
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When I first heard the title of Joad Raymond Wren’s book, The Uses of Utopia, I was instantly intrigued.First, there was, obviously, the title, which, having called this Substack Utopia in Beta, seemed pretty aligned, but then, when I went into it more, I realised the book could potentially shed a whole new light on moonshots, techno-optimism, utopian thinking and, possibly, network states.(Plus, the introduction c
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