Introduction
This page serves as a root from which all other topics branch and can be explored.
Key Concepts
Understand the terminology used to describe crypto and web3.
- Web3
- Crypto asset
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- Blockchain
- Bubble
- Money
- NFT
- Private money
- Fiat money
- Deflationary asset
- Sound money
- Ponzi scheme
- Pump and dumps
- Exit scam
- Wash trading
- Crypto exchanges
- Greater fool theory
- Zero-sum game
- Memecoins
- Pre-mine
- Assets
- Intrinsic value
- Store of value
- Speculative asset
- Market manipulation
- DeFi
- DAO
- Stablecoin
- Smart contract
- Regulatory arbitrage
- Predatory inclusion
- United States Dollar
- Central bank digital currency
- Proof of Work
- Proof of Stake
Contextual
Understand crypto and "web3" in terms of recent news events and interviews and external resources.
- Video Interviews
- Recent News Stories
- Commentary on 'Line Goes Up'
- Commentary on 'Web3 is a Libertarian Dystopia'
- Commentary on Secretary Yellen's Speech
- Commentary on Chairman Gensler's Speech
- Commentary on 'Driverless Finance'
Ideologies
Explore crypto and "web3" in terms of different perspectives on politics and economics.
- Market Fundamentalism
- Financial Nihilism
- Austrian Economics
- Post-state Technocracy
- Libertarianism
- Technolibertarianism
- Cryptoanarchism
- Anarchocapitalism
- Keynsian Economics
- Technosolutionism
- Technocollectivism
- Technopopulism
- Accelerationism
- Crypto-inevitablism
- Capitalism
Supporting Concepts
Understand the deeper theoretical concepts behind the technical and economic claims.
Economics
- Artificial scarcity
- Asymmetric information
- Central banks
- Capital formation
- Currency
- Currency peg
- Free rider problem
- Gold standard
- Market manipulation
- Moral hazard
- Public goods
- Zero-sum game
- Liquidity
- Pump and dump scheme
- Multilevel marketing scheme
- Pyramid scheme
- Ponzi scheme
- Ponzinomics
- Meme stocks
- Reserve currency
- Bretton Woods system
- Wash trading
- Non-economic
- Paper wealth
- Liquidity pool
- Bucket shop
- Artificial demand
- Financial asset
- Market mania
- Unbanked
- Assets
Technology
- Blockchain
- Cryptoasset
- Immutability
- Crypto Wallet
- Network effect
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Decentralization
- Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
- Non-fungible token (NFT)
- Ransomware
- Smart contracts
- Stablecoin
- Mining
- Permissioned blockchain
- Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
- Automated Market Maker (AMM)
- Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
- Yield Farming
- Hard fork
Regulation
- Howey test
- Securities framework
- Anti-money laundering law
- Know Your Customer Law
- Money laundering
- Regulatory capture
- Money services business
- Deposit Insurance
- Counter-terrorism financing
- Illicit financing
- Broker-dealer
Sociology
- Value
- Use value
- Sign value
- Whataboutism
- Bubbles
- Madness of crowds
- Decentralization
- Recentralization
- High control groups
- Thought terminating cliche
- Techno-obscurantism
- Bandwagon bias
- Tinkerbell effect
- Endowment effect
- Predatory inclusion
- Enclosure