1/ I use first principles to explore better product-market fit for dapps b/c apparently nobody has thought of a process more efficient than throwing $13B at ICOs and seeing what comes out of it.

Conclusion is dapps can compete w/ censored web.

medium.com/@noahruderman/… 2/ To start off dapps have three properties:
1. trust minimized computing
2. tight coupling with a monetary system
3. censorship-resistance (platform dependent)

If you want a killer dapp you might want to leverage these.

1/ There are two kinds of very intelligent people I see in #crypto privacy. One group naturally gets privacy and the other deeply struggles with it. Surprisingly, much of it boils down to personality. 2/ The intelligent people who don't get privacy are generally optimistic about human nature. They tend to view people as basically good and they have a tendency to see the best in others. They are often overly honest, trusting, and kind.

1/ I think the NSA / CIA knows who Satoshi is, or at least has him on a short-list. Reason being that if Bitcoin were created by a foreign government, it would be a pretty big national security risk. 2/ Picture a foreign government inserting subtle backdoors in the original implementation. If BTC becomes big, exploiting those backdoors can severely disrupt an advanced economy.