







If you’re here, we assume that you’re a developer/hacker who’s intrigued by the blockchain. You’re convinced that you understand how it works and now you’re itching to figure out what the blockchain means for you and your developer skill set.
The Decentralized Future Series | Y Combinator
A good method for discovering startup ideas is to look into technological breakthroughs and think about what they unlock that wasn't possible before. In this introductory post, we are going to use this framework to examine Bitcoin.
Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology | HackerNoon
Page through the articles on <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> today and you will see healthy discussions over its applications and endless debates over the future price action of someone’s favorite cryptocurrency. Yet rarely among all these topics is any mention of the most fascinating notion at the heart of the movement — blockchain as a novel means<strong> to incentivize desired human behavior</strong>.

GitCoin: Harnessing the Power of Blockchain for Open Source
Interview with Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin, on how they harness the power of blockchain for open source - and open source developers can make money.

Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future
This post describes why blockchain governance design is one of the most important problems out there, its critical components, current…

I'm very sorry, but you're going to have to learn to love the blockchain | TechCrunch
I apologize. I get it. You hear "blockchain" and you immediately think "shady get-rich-quick schemes" or "bubble of magical fake Internet money" or

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I’m a designer and developer by training and trade. I spend most of my spare time reading about business, finance and crypto. If this combination interests you, welcome to my corner of the internet. This is where I share my reading list, investment updates, and software adventures.

Requests for Startups | Y Combinator
Y Combinator is looking for startups working on these ideas. If you're working on something we're interested in, we'd love to hear from you.

Big Brain Holdings
We are witnessing the early stages of a technological revolution, with blockchain at its core—a shift as impactful as the advent of the internet.

Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...

What's it like being a nonprofit in Y Combinator? | 80,000 Hours
Now the obligatory Tech Crunch article is out, I'm thrilled to announce we've been in Y Combinator (YC) since June. YC is widely regarded as the world's best startup accelerator, and has supported companies such as AirBnB, Reddit and Dropbox. It provides investment and intensive coaching over three months. I've had a lot of questions about YC over the last couple of days.


Design.dev — Web Design & Development Resources
Web Design & Development Resources. Code generators, cheat sheets, and resources to boost productivity.


Complexity and Strategy | HackerNoon
I struggled with how to think about complexity through much of my career, especially during the ten years I spent leading Office development. Modeling complexity impacted how we planned major releases, our technical strategy as we moved to new platforms, how we thought about the impact of new technologies, how we competed with Google Apps, how we thought about open source and throughout “frank and open” discussions with Bill Gates on our long term technical strategy for building the Office applications.

The rules to make the rules
My journey to understand blockchain political systems continues.

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