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Written by Julien Genestoux. Entrepreneur, Hacker, Investor & Advisor You should follow me on Bluesky and Farcaster

  1. November 22, 2022

    The arrival of Elon Musk as Twitter’s new CEO has been a watershed moment in the history of Twitter. The company became private again, he…

  2. July 30, 2022

    Rather than write about web3 again, I want to write about web1: the 90's. At that time, I used something called Communicator. You can think of it as a suite of internet clients and applications. Of course, it had Navigator, a web browser, but also a Messenger for emails, a news client, and even a push system.

  3. March 07, 2022

    The debate around web3 and NFT is raging. Unfortunately, too often, it’s just engagement farming. Still, I see a regular criticism that (and…

  4. December 23, 2021

    Let’s start with a little caveat: web3 is many things to many different people, exactly like web 2.0 was. Web 2.0 is also very different now…

  5. December 19, 2021

    The H in HTTP and HTML is for Hypertext. Hypertext is text with “references” to other documents, usually about the same topic. It creates a…

  6. September 21, 2021

    Blockchains are forever. Once a transaction gets mined, it’s stored permanently. The NFT that you purchased is in your wallet until you, and…

  7. May 12, 2020

    A lot of this thinking has been a rabbit hole around the idea of "Decentralized Autonomous Organizations", which are enabled by blockchain and cryptography, but I uncovered a much larger space and I want to share a bit of my thinking around them so you can, in turn, bounce back ideas and examples. Please, share your thoughts ;)

  8. January 24, 2020

    Before 2008, I was a banker. I worked for BNP Paribas, one of the largest banks in the world. When the so called “sub-prime” crisis exploded…

  9. December 30, 2019

    SEO has a bad rep. Yet, it is an incredibly powerful tool that can drive web traffic like no other channel. It is also one of the few areas…

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