Digital media has spent the last two decades trying to reinvent the economics of writing, and yet the industry remains stuck in a strange paradox: more people read news than ever before, but fewer are willing or able to pay for it. Out of this dilemma has emerged a new idea known as “writer coins.” The concept borrows from cryptocurrency logic and turns readership interest into a tradeable token that can support journalists directly. I recently experimented with this by launching a MAZ coin f...

It has been said that the scale of the internet revolution is so massive that it is impossible for human society to fully tabulate whethe...

On an balmy afternoon in early July, while sitting in traffic on a long drive home, my mind was working overtime gaming out my next inves...