It’s not hard to imagine how grateful I am to my mentor, J. But I believe the best way to repay him isn't by giving back tenfold, or even sending a Mid-Autumn Festival greeting. The true way to honor his gesture is by using web3 technologies to make the world a better place and paying forward the inspiration he gave me; pay it forward...If you’re a paying subscriber to this newsletter and don’t yet own any Bitcoin, here’s your chance...

I have a knack for impulsive decisions— no plans, no roadmaps. Just last week, amidst a typhoon warning, perhaps influenced by Mercury in retrograde, I impulsively rented a tiny space and decided to open a micro-sized bookstore.

Yet, the more society crumbles, the more I persist in my daily work. I firmly believe that civic technology is a way forward. This article, originally titled ‘From Zero-Sum to Republic’, gives a short summary for The Sociology of Blockchain: Reimagining Money, Media, and Democracy. It discusses the

Since Bitcoin's fourth halving, the market has been a rollercoaster. Some believe the bull market has quietly slipped away, while others are convinced that Bitcoin will follow its historical cycle and that next year will mark the true bull run. While opinions clash over price movements, application

I don't advocate for "powering through love", nor do I want our mission to become empty rhetoric. That's why, when launching DHK dao, I leveraged the validator business we had been running within the Cosmos ecosystem, which was already generating some income.

If you’ve been following the development of DHK dao, you might already know that the DHK token recently migrated from the Cosmos ecosystem’s Juno chain to the Optimism chain (OP Mainnet) within the Ethereum ecosystem. Before reaping the benefits of Ethereum’s ecosystem, this move initially left DHK

While e-books excel in portability and low distribution costs, their business model hasn’t evolved much. In contrast to traditional bookstores, where even in markets dominated by chains like Eslite in Taiwan or Joint Publishing in Hong Kong, there’s still some room for independent bookstores, the e-

from July 2020 to July 2024, the world has been dramatically transformed by the pandemic, inflation, regional wars, and worsening US-China relations. Hong Kong, for well-known reasons, has experienced a severe decline. Since the first edition went out of print four years ago, this new edition of The

Before digital technology, we didn't have to judge whether the virtual was real. Before biotechnology, we didn't need to question whether a cloned life was equivalent to a human life. Before the maturity of artificial intelligence, we didn’t have to ponder whether it was pathological to fall in love

Beyond negotiation and resistance, the most unstoppable path to achieving democracy is through creation. If the value and democratic advocacy in this book seem overly "idealistic" or impractical, consider what has happened over the past year. The ideas presented here aren't as far-fetched as they mi