If you’re reading this you probably know what the bitcoin halving is. Or, at least, that something called the halving will occur in 8 days (to access the most important timer across the economy, go here). As part of bitcoin’s issuance, bitcoin miners are rewarded a number of bitcoins per…

A pandemic is generally classified as a deflationary shock: during a pandemic, people stay home, so people spend less. As demand for goods goes down, prices of those goods go down, too. Since people are buying less, companies lay off their employees. …

“Smart-contract platform” is, by far, the most dominant category of newly launched and soon-to-be-launched blockchain projects. Tezos, Algorand, Nervos, Kadena, Dfinity, Polkadot, Celo, and many others support smart contracts and try to differentiate their respective projects through consensus mechanisms, scalability, use cases, or monetary policy. As all of these platforms compete against Ethereum and older Ethereum competitors like EOS, we’ll see wildly fluctuating behavior.

There are a few truisms of life: the sky is blue, water is wet, and algorithms get smarter as they receive more human feedback. Let’s take a high-level look at LinkedIn’s ‘People you may know’ feature. When you confirm a match, you teach LinkedIn what a good match looks like…