I joined the HAYVN Webinar Series in May 2022 as a panelist to talk about something that’s been central to my work at Automattic: cryptocurrency payments for businesses. This was still relatively early days for mainstream crypto payments. Bitcoin had been around for over a decade, but adoption by regular businesses – not crypto-native companies, […]
Category: Web3 & Crypto
Learning Hack podcast – LH #54 What Rough Beast with David Lockie
It was a privilege to talk with my old friend John Helmer for this episode of his Learning Hack podcast, all about how Web3 could impact learning. John talks to David Lockie, an entrepreneur and investor in leading-edge web technologies who is Co-chair of the British Interactive Media Association’s Blockchain Counsel and passionate about blockchain, […]
Crypto Terror
It seems inevitable that giving groups of very techno-savvy people powerful new cryptographic tools, opportunities to make generational wealth, autonomously and anonymously self-organise and assert economic influence will lead to the bad bits of humans rearing their ugly heads too. I really enjoy learning about cybersecurity and crypto. This post is just a way to […]
The clown in the mirror
I heard an analogy on a podcast (frustratingly I can’t find it now) about how Trump appeared to be a clown, and people laughed at him. But when the people looked at him again, he held up a mirror, and they saw that they too were clowns. That is, after all, the traditional purpose of […]
web3 – What do brands and agencies need to know?
This was an event for BIMA where I co-chair the blockchain council with Paula Pettit: https://bima.co.uk/events/web3-what-do-brands-agencies-need-to-know/ BIMA Blockchain Breakfast Briefing: Web3 changes the rules, breaking away from traditional centralized models of the internet and moving towards a world where communities profit through collaboration and decentralization. In the final BIMA blockchain event of the year, David […]
GoDaddy Pro EMEA Meetup – Web Industry after the Shift from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
Had the great pleasure in participating in this discussion around web3 and its potential impact on the current web and WordPress!