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In this week's newsletter I'm transporting readers to rural Portugal, where a network society project is using web3 to rethink the relationship between community, land and participation. Sign up to get it into your inbox tomorrow! utopiainbeta.substack.com

Hey Bitcoin2025

Bear heads, brass bands and blockbuster payment cards -- Consensus this year had it all. But with it, a wave of real world adoption is coming. Read about my experience this year in this week's Utopia in Beta. Sign up to get it in your inbox: utopiainbeta.substack.com

Completely missed this post! At Consensus2025, I sat down with Danielle from the Filecoin Foundation to talk about the launch of Utopia in Beta and share my ideas around journalism and its intersection with web3 technologies. Really fun - thank you guys for having me on!

It’s a good day to talk about the future Edge Esmeralda

Bitcoin 2025 was a whirlwind -- a celebration of adoption and "financial freedom". But it left me conflicted. You'll read why in my next newsletter - I welcome any counterarguments. Sign up below to get it first. utopiainbeta.substack.com

experts have long warned

Crypto VCs are officially evolving? Hypersphere thinks the game is changing, and you won't want to miss what they have to say. We sat down with Mehdi Farooq & Jack Platts from Hypersphere Ventures to break down: - BTC, ETH, SOL, and more as treasury assets - Crypto

Touching grass

BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here's what Apple discovered: (hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)

At Bitcoin 2025 I sat down with Adam Back to get his take on Bitcoin's adoption story - really enjoyable conversation. Publishing tomorrow on my substack (link below) -marking the first of my "Future Talks" series - unfiltered interviews with futurists. utopiainbeta.substack.com

Tomorrow I go into ApeCoin DAO and the longeterm potential of DAO governance Don't miss out Subscribe to get it into your inbox using the link in my bio

Our governance technologies are almost 400 years old – is it time for an upgrade? Join us for a discussion with @Balajis, @JarradHope_ and @EJ_Spode on how blockchain technologies will serve as the central nervous system for future human collaboration. x.com/i/spaces/1mrGm…

Last week I spoke to elizaOS shawmakesmagic about the prospect of UBI as AI becomes increasingly powerful. Safe to say, he isn't a fan of it. But we had a really nuanced chat around the subject, with him proposing an alternative, more modular, solution. Top quote: "Now

IF YOU WORK IN CRYPTO YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!! A targeted malware campaign has been quietly compromising dev environments across crypto for years, and nobody’s talking about it. It hits Python, Node.js, and works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Here’s how it works

Pseudonyms have been a cornerstone of how people operate in crypto, representing an opportunity for online privacy and a separation of online persona from their day to day life. But I wanted to know more - so I spoke to some of crypto twitter's pseudonymous creators to

Sick of being gaslit into thinking AI videos look realistic

$200 million in OTC scams stolen... Centralized exchange hacks, fake Zoom malware, wallet drainers, and even major tech companies like Google suffering from major data breaches and password leaks. What is happening in web3 right now with security, and can we ever truly trust