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    Nir Kabessa
    • Nov 30, 2020
    • 4 min

    NFT Curator Rewards

    A new revenue stream for NFT creators, curators, and collectors focused on likes.
    Nir Kabessa
    • Nov 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    Introducing Social Token YUP Rewards

    A groundbreaking new revenue stream for social token holders TLDR; Yup presents a new reward mechanism for social tokens and their holder...
    Nir Kabessa
    • Oct 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Social Weighted Voting: Remedying Rational Ignorance in Governance

    A simple proposition for a new voting model for collective decision-making.
    Nir Kabessa
    • Aug 21, 2020
    • 7 min

    Pseudonymous Lives

    A philosophical take on rise of pseudonymity and its effect on the 'self' based on Balaji Srinivasan's lectures.
    Nir Kabessa
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 4 min

    Influence Mining

    The internet deserves a trustless sentiment layer and web3 is well-positioned to offer it.
    Nir Kabessa
    • Jul 11, 2020
    • 6 min

    Blind Share: Spreading Un-Seen Information

    A short discussion on the incentives that cause people to share content they haven't read.
    Nir Kabessa
    • Jan 10, 2020
    • 24 min

    On Online Social Consensus

    The internet needs a distributed and platform-agnostic social network where users own their identity/data and no one company makes the rules
    Nir Kabessa
    • Dec 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    How We Got Ivy League Students to use Blockchain Tech

    How could we get students that know nothing about crypto/blockchain/dapps/wallets to use Yup? We’ll break down some of the most important de
    Nir Kabessa
    • Nov 13, 2019
    • 5 min

    Should Likes Exist?

    There has been serious debate on the importance of public 'likes' on social media platforms. Let's discuss this further. Originally publi...
    Nir Kabessa
    • Sep 6, 2019
    • 13 min

    The Opinion Economy

    What yours is worth and why it matters Co-written with Liam Donohue, with revisions by Noam Levenson and Omid Malekan. Originally publish...
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