PSA: If you’d like to receive this update over email once a quarter, subscribe here. Hello, It has been a crazy few months for cryptocurrency — 60 Minutes did a segment on Bitcoin, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and President all commented on cryptocurrency…

Grey Mirror is a podcast from MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative on technology, society, and ethics. In today’s episode, I interview Devon Zuegel, an open-source product manager at GitHub who is helping build the GitHub Sponsors program. We chat about that program, her philosophical mindset towards open-source, the pros…

This is a podcast from MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative on technology, society, and ethics called Grey Mirror (Soundcloud, Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Overcast). In today’s episode, I interview Kelsey Piper, a writer at Future Perfect—an Effective Altruist-inspired media publication from Vox. …

This is a podcast from MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative on technology, society, and ethics called Grey Mirror (Soundcloud, Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Overcast). In today’s episode, I interview Caitlin Long, a 22-year Wall St. veteran and Forbes writer who leads Wyoming’s blockchain coalition. We chat about how Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, Libra, will co-evolve with Bitcoin and nation-state fiat.

This is a podcast from MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative on technology, society, and ethics called Grey Mirror (Soundcloud, Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Overcast). In today’s episode, I interview Larry Lessig, a Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, a co-founder of Creative Commons, and an advocate for…

This is a podcast from MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative on technology, society, and ethics called Grey Mirror (Soundcloud, Youtube, iTunes, Spotify). In today’s episode, I interview Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University, the director of the Center for Ethics in Society and a faculty…

This is a podcast from MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative on technology, society, and ethics called Grey Mirror (Soundcloud, Youtube, iTunes, Spotify). In today’s episode, I interview Tim Hwang, the director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative (a $26M AI ethics fund), and an old co-founder…

Read this article (and find other exclusive content!) on my blog, here: https://www.rhyslindmark.com/personal-wednesdays-brainstorming-topics/ Hey everyone! Today is my 1st “theme day” for “Personal Wednesdays”. The macro goal here is to set aside some of my writing time to explore “traditionally non-work” ideas (which I’m underindexed on, imo). Another (kind of…

Read this article (and find other exclusive content!) on my blog, here: https://www.rhyslindmark.com/club-goods-digital-infrastructure-and-blockchains/ The goal of this article is to define, differentiate, and examine the following set of four goods: Private Goods, Public Goods, Club Goods, Common-Pool Resources. In my past writing, I’ve (lazily) used “public goods” (or the singular…