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Unpacking Micropayments Part 2: User Base Dichotomies, and a Cyberpunk Sensibility

By maxhampshire, March 30, 2017

“Our new technologies have fractal effects that can be observed on global levels, societal levels, and individual levels. Consider the environmental effect of high-tech manufacturing; consider conflict minerals going into so many laptops; consider the effect the ubiquity of smartphones has on geopolitical discourse; on national discourse. Consider where the American stock market would be [...]

Unpacking Micropayments Part 1: Lightning, Scalability, and Going Off-Chain

By maxhampshire, March 14, 2017

“…we believe that a third web is coming. The first was the World Wide Web of documents, with hyperlinks between nodes. The second was the Social Web, with links between nodes representing friend relationships. And the third is the Machine-Payable Web, where the links between nodes represent payments between machines. Why would such a web [...]

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Unpacking Micropayments Part 2: User Base Dichotomies, and a Cyberpunk Sensibility

Unpacking Micropayments Part 1: Lightning, Scalability, and Going Off-Chain