What is a DAO? DAOs, short for Decentralized Autonomous Organization, are often characterized as online forums with a bank account void of most hierarchy and organized democratically. Often DAOs evoke dreams and fantasies of a Cyber Punk future and are inseparable from Crypto. While some DAOs are indeed mere online forums with a bank…

This is a collection of three articles I wrote about the Waya Collective documenting the Waya experiment. The experiment took about a quarter of a year, after which three other co-founders, including me, left Waya due to a sudden disagreement about the underlying…

The Twitter ban illustrates much that is wrong with social media but, more importantly, how Blockchain could fix it. — Twitter as a Social Institution Anyone who has ever been to Nigeria will know of the importance Twitter holds in Nigerian society. The saying goes that there is an entire population, “Twitter-Nigerians”, — who seldom appear in real life. However, they did last October to demand their rights to be alive and work…

Why Family Offices Should Invest in Bitcoin — The interest of institutional investors in Bitcoin is growing steadily. The digital asset ecosystem has grown and developed rapidly and now provides the required legal certainty that we have known from the traditional financial markets for decades. Many institutional actors are now beginning to manifest themselves within the ecosystem —…