This series has mostly been addressing Web3 from a vantage point of hope, appreciation about emerging technology, and what it might mean for the future of collaboration, governance, real estate, etc. We have not actually written much on basic cryptocurrencies as our focus and interest in the space is not

So far in the Down the Rabbit Hole [https://wordonthestreets.ghost.io/tag/down-the-rabbit-hole/] series, we have covered NFTs [https://wordonthestreets.ghost.io/smart-contracts/], DAOs [https://wordonthestreets.ghost.io/wtf-are-daos/], fractionalization [https://wordonthestreets.ghost.io/the-meme-economy/], and we have also looked at a recent real estate application utilizing smart contracts

Earlier this month The Ethereum Foundation (EF), a non-profit that supports the Ethereum ecosystem, released their 2022 Annual Report [https://ethereum.foundation/report-2022-04.pdf]. The report is not just about what was accomplished in 2021 but also ventures to explain the reasoning and philosophy [https://ethereum.foundation/philosophy/] that shape

While we plan to, at a later date, offer a fuller case for non-profits to pay close attention to the possibilities that blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies might facilitate for their work and organization, we wanted to, at the very least, go ahead and introduce readers to Endaoment [http://app.endaoment.

Perhaps you saw this article by Jonathan Haidt [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/?fbclid=IwAR3xVkomYMfB8zQ_hkrp-d9ODAy89FMzwHA0hVP0F7G0MwvJc6obbJYfJwg] that came out in The Atlantic on Monday entitled, "Why the past 10 years of American life have been Particularly Stupid." It’s a brilliant (and long)

There is a really interesting opportunity emerging as smart contracts are making it possible to write agreements and rules into self-executing code. Contracts have long been written to solidify agreements between parties that are transacting or partnering with one another. This is a really important component of any functional relationship.

You have probably been hearing the word ‘metaverse’ more and more lately. It seems to have become a something of a ‘trending topic’ over the last year or so. While the term itself dates back to 1992 when author Neal Stephenson [https://www.nealstephenson.com/]introduced the concept in Snow

“I AM HODLING” he banged into his keyboard as he titled what would become a liquor fueled rant on the Bitcointalk forum. It was December 18th, 2013. GameKyuubi [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=26945], a self-declared bad trader, was determined not to sell, even as the price

There is a project that seems, at least to us, to be a great place to point newcomers. Most importantly it is fun, it's full of web3 OGs, it's accessible, and it connects participants to what is arguably one of the most significant memes to ever grace the internet! First, a little internet history

We have been getting some great feedback on the weekly newsletter in general and we would love to hear from more of you, BTW! While people will naturally gravitate to one column over the others based on their own life and interests, we are realizing that perhaps there needs to

One extremely important development that enabled mass adoption of the internet itself was the advent of the Domain Name System (DNS) which is a little like the phonebook for the internet. It made it possible to use human-readable domain names like WellBuilt.City or BikeShopTampa.com instead of the actual

DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization and these are a new kind of entity made possible by the use of smart contracts. Self-executing smart contracts make it possible for a large decentralized group of people to work together towards shared values and goals without needing any centralized intermediary. This is

Last week, we discussed smart contracts [https://wordonthestreets.ghost.io/smart-contracts/] and alluded to their endless potential use cases. Since that article, Tampa Bay made history as it became home to the very first home sale using NFT’s in the United States. As we covered last week, an NFT

The best way to illustrate this is a vending machine. When someone wants a drink or a snack out of a vending machine, they do not need to call for help, or ask anyone, they simply provide the proper inputs and the output is automated. That is effectively a smart contract.

Now that hopefully your wallets are set up there are a million things we want to introduce you to but first, there is a somewhat necessary detail we must cover. Namely, transacting on the blockchain. There is a rich, deep technological construct behind transacting that can get quite technical so

Last week's intro [https://wordonthestreets.ghost.io/down-the-rabbit-hole-vol-1-2/] to this series pointed out some key differences in the log-in mechanisms for Web1.0 and Web2.0 because we wanted to set up the discussion about how Web3 sites will have you connect. Web3 websites ask you to ‘connect