Published in DataDrivenInvestor·4 days agoCan Crypto Architect a Regulatory Cease-Fire with Incentive Payments to Government Treasuries?Impossible or Pragmatic? — Block Rewards paid to network validators were one of the primary innovations that enabled Bitcoin to succeed where prior cryptographic payment systems like Digital Gold had failed (see Cryptoeconomics In 30 Minutes by Vitalik Buterin (Devcon5)). …Cryptocurrency8 min readCryptocurrency8 min read
Mar 22The Peak of Human-Only Creativity?The Cultural Primacy of 1994 to 2022 — Well, I think this is it: the pinnacle of purely human creative output. Starting not long ago, in tiny tech-forward pockets around the world; artists, writers, designers, and curious creatives began experimenting with generative AI. …AI4 min readAI4 min read
Feb 21Live Fine-Tuning of Crypto-Economic Parameters Using a Smart Contract.Can it be done while the network is in motion? — Crypto-economics are a powerful tool for global coordination. You can set incentives and penalties that automatically elicit the behaviors that a community desires. But what are the right magnitudes for those incentives and penalties? …Blockchain7 min readBlockchain7 min read
Published in CryptoEconLab·Jan 26ChatGPT is coding Solidity on my Filecoin Hackathon TeamAs an avid AI enthusiast, I’ve made an account at https://chat.openai.com/chat and have started using “prompt engineering” to solicit coding help from this large language model. The code is not bulletproof, but moves me forward dramatically faster than doing it myself or piecing together StackOverFlow articles. Meanwhile, Filecoin is launching…Filecoin6 min readFilecoin6 min read
Published in CryptoEconLab·Jan 17CryptoEconLab Research Seminar: How Statistical Physics relates to CryptoeconomicsCryptoEconLab started conducting monthly research seminars among our team members in December 2022. Axel Cortes Cubero presented on critical phenomena, statistical physics, and their part in cryptoeconomics. Below is a summary of the content. Seminar Part I: “Critical Phenomena, and the different ways in which Cryptoeconomics is not Statistical Physics” Statistical physics is the most well understood and theoretically developed branch of complex many body systems…Cryptocurrency2 min readCryptocurrency2 min read
Published in CryptoEconLab·Jan 11Filecoin’s Adaptive Block Rewards Will Autonomously Reactivate After Baseline Crossing in Early 2023TL;DR: For over a year, Filecoin Block Rewards have been fully maxed out. In Feb 2023, we project that conditions will lead to re-entry into the variable, performance-based regime of payouts, providing incremental incentives to grow the network and bank any foregone rewards until a future time. The Filecoin blockchain…Filecoin3 min readFilecoin3 min read
Published in CryptoEconLab·Jan 3Welcome to the CryptoEconLabWho we are We are a research and development cryptoeconomics lab operating at the unique intersection of blockchain technology, computer science, network science, statistics, economics, and systems engineering. The team specializes in incentive mechanism design for Layer 1 (L1) protocols, smart contracts, decentralized applications (Dapps) design, and token governance. …Cryptocurrency3 min readCryptocurrency3 min read
Published in Chatbots Life·Oct 30, 20205 Reasons Why Advances in NLP Can Enhance a HelpdeskOne of the questions we get asked the most is “What are the advantages of Natural Language Processing (NLP)?” Helpdesks literally run on human language — adding organizational structure, keyword tags, workflows, and more to incoming questions and answers. …Naturallanguageprocessing6 min readNaturallanguageprocessing6 min read
Jun 28, 2020How Would You Allocate the U.S. Government Budget? (with link to tool)Let’s Understand the Data I see a lot of heated discussion about taxes and government spending, but it’s rarely, if ever, given in the full context. I built the spreadsheet tool linked below in the hopes of bringing objectivity to how much money the government collects, and how they spend it: Link to Budgeting…Government4 min readGovernment4 min read
Jun 26, 2020On Fractured Attention (Staying Productive Despite Today’s Disjointed Tech)We stand on the shoulders of giants in the current age. Consider any IT, cybersecurity, or programming job. We don’t have to complete the basic mathematics and physics necessary to use computer science. When it comes to computer hardware, we don’t have to construct the materials and power grids to…Automation4 min readAutomation4 min read
