Author: Jordan S. Hatcher
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EU Inc
There’s a great petition going around: https://www.eu-inc.org/ The drive for this: Unlike in the US, continent-wide investments and collaboration are rare in Europe—less than 18% of first-round investments are pan-European. The complexity of navigating multiple legal systems is a key barrier. Founders are stuck in national silos, which are limiting opportunities, slowing funding, and hindering…
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Cypherpunk and the Law
About this version of my talk planned for ETHDam 2025… Submitted Abstract (ETHDam 2025) This presentation will focus on my current research project on a media virus called Dystopian Cyber Future 1984 (DCF-84). For ETHdam, we will explore the hypothesis that cyberpunk literature influenced movies which in turn influenced the tech oligarchs of today. These…
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Working in crypto IS more fun
Couldn’t agree more with https://dune.com/blog/work-in-crypto. This part really hit home for me: Most folks work in an industry. Crypto is not an industry, crypto is a community. Both in the sense that people across the world come together to make a better financial system, but also as a cultural phenomenon. The community is composed of…
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The Block/Apple of Discord
Barcelona style https://www.casabatllo.es/en/antoni-gaudi/barcelona/block-discord Architects search for the prettiest one on the streets of Barcelona, which later becomes an attraction in itself.
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Revisiting Open Data Commons
I’ve been reflecting more recently on the work I did on the Open Data Commons project at the beginning of my career (back in 2007) and the impact it’s had. A first… We were the first or one of the first to create a major public open license for data, including: Some background on the…