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Zorp Introduces zkPoW: A New Asset Class
We do not yet know what mining can do.
WRITINGS
Thoughts, updates, and deep dives into provable systems
3 min readJock and Awe
Monumental problems, opportunities, and sculptures.
1 min readThe Protocol vs. The Plantation
On the cold war brewing between Crypto and AI.
2 min readPining for Proofs
While Big Tech goes for the jugular, Proof-of-Stake declines.
2 min readHeads in the Cloud
They don't know what to do with the computers.
2 min readNockchain Syllabus Vol. 2
In April, we published a syllabus of sources for the 14 essays published at that point. In this post, we've compiled our sources for the 22 pieces we've published since. If a source already appears in Vol. 1, we do not repeat it here. Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Cantrell, Gregg. Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Coase, Ronald H. "The Nature of the Firm." Economica 4, no. 16 (1937): 3
3 min readSplit Futures
"Squalid ruin and techno-intelligenic runaway accelerate in inversely-tangled tandem." —Nick Land
3 min readAutism Is All You Need
Why ZK rollups are a dead end, and what comes next.
3 min readThe World Stack
"Capitalism is inseparable from the movement of deterritorialization... Capitalism is constructed on the ruins of the territorial and the despotic..." ——Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus (1972)