Canton Creator Raises $355M: Wall Street On-Chain Moves Beyond Storytelling
Digital Asset closed $355M led by a16z crypto to scale Canton—shared institutional infrastructure with configurable priv…
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Long-form notes on blockchain, AI, and business — signal over noise.
The Most Dangerous AI Is the One That Always Makes You Feel Right
A Stanford study in Science found AI validates user behavior 49% more than humans—social sycophancy that mirrors your s…
The Viral "White-Haired Stock Guru" and the Perilla Leaf Theory
Chinese investors coined "perilla leaf theory" for Serenity @aleabitoreddit : don't chase flashy AI winners like tuna be…
AI Agent Builders Are Falling Into a New Kind of Vanity Trap
MIT NANDA finds 95% of enterprise GenAI spend shows no measurable ROI. Agent demos look like digital employees—but mista…
Cry Wolf: Anthropic's Alarmism Comes Home to Roost
Anthropic pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally after three days—export controls it couldn't operationalize. Years of exi…
AI 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0: Mapping the Agent Economy with the Web 1.0 → 3.0 Framework
Agent Economy: when agents gain memory and multi step autonomy, humans, firms, and agents all become economic actors. Th…
Native Organization — We Don't Lack AI Tools, We Lack a New Organizational Imagination
Giving everyone AI tools ≠ an AI native company. Kong Jianping's book asks whether workflows were rewritten, wait time c…
Energy Efficiency's "Dimensional Strike"
Comparing carbon based brains, Mac mini edge compute, and H100 clusters reveals orders of magnitude gaps in energy effic…
US–Iran Persian Gulf Conflict: Two-Month Evolution, Narrative Trends, and Risk Forecast (MAS Simulation)
A MAS simulation projects US–Israel–Iran conflict over two months in three phases—low intensity probing, Hormuz blockade…
The Diamond Sutra and Blockchain
A monk asks Joshu: "Does blockchain have a master?" Joshu: "No." Blockchain is modern engineering's best interpretation …
Is the Bitcoin Community Facing a Split?
BIP 444 proposes a temporary soft fork to cap script size and curb on chain arbitrary data—framed as network protection …
Bitcoin as I See It: A Digital Energy Cube
From a West Africa gas turbine project where power sat idle for lack of transmission lines, the author frames Bitcoin as…