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Giorgi Khazaradze Interview

Tell me a little bit of your back story and how you grew up?   I was  born in the Republic of Georgia and our family immigrated to Dallas, Texas when I was 8 years old. We left the country with nothing more than the clothes on our back in 2000. During that time, the country was in bad shape as the government slowly lost its power to corruption. My grandfather was heavily involved in creating the country’s banking infrastructure from the ground up after the Soviet Union fell apart and when Georgia became a republic in the early 90s. This was a period of time when our family was living comfortably but soon after the government became corrupted, we escaped to the United States. From the day we arrived in the U.S., my parents and grandparents worked hard to put food on the table. Witnessing this effort inspired my sister and I to attend college in hopes of creating a bountiful life in our new home. My first job was in a warehouse when I was in 8th grade, I worked alo...

Metaverse 101

Are you ready for the metaverse? Fear not, its still a future or two away. But financial analysts predict the metaverse market could surpass 1.5 trillion dollars within the next decade, so it serves our purposes to pay it heed. Before we begin, this being another crypto-related term we have more defining to do. The Metaverse is a space in which users can interact within a computer-generated environment with other users. This type of immersive experience has been around for a while in the name of virtual reality. The original virtual reality was an artificial environment created with software, appearing to the user in such a way that users suspend belief, accepting the computer generated environment as real. We come to know the world through our senses. In school, we all learned we have five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing. These are however only our most obvious sense organs. Through our various sensory inputs, ensure we have a rich flow of information from the env...

Crypto as an Investment

Ultimately, getting involved with DEIXA or any crypto coin involves investing in cryptocurrency.  During the writing of this book, cryptocurrencies have headlined the news for many of the wrong reasons. Dogecoin lawsuit, the collapse of LUNA, the unraveling of Celsius and Three Arrows. Its enough to give the unsophisticated crypto investor pause while crypto sorts itself out. The growing pains of crypto are well documented. In the few years I've followed the trends, I believe we're in our 4th bear market, always followed by feverish run ups as crypto's uses and efficiency continues to advance. But though the markets have proven volatile, what is undeniable is what started from nothing less than 15 years ago is now a trillion dollar industry with countless fortunes made in the process. Obviously getting in from the outset has its distinct advantages and full credit must be given for those who had the vision and the courage to see the movement through. And as with most booms,...

A Chapter of DeFi

Impossible to dabble in crypto and not confront the term Defi. And Defi being a crypto term, it will require some much needed explaining. DeFi is short for decentralized finance, which is an umbrella term for financial services on public blockchains, with Ethereum being the most popular among users. With DeFi, you can do most of the things that banks support, earn interest, borrow, lend, buy insurance, trade derivatives, trade assets, and more. but it’s faster and doesn’t require paperwork or a third party. As with crypto generally, DeFi is global, peer-to-peer (meaning directly between two people, not routed through a centralized system), and open to all. Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an emerging financial technology based on secure distributed ledgers similar to those used by cryptocurrencies.  DeFi takes the basic premise of Bitcoin, digital money, and expands on it, creating an entire digital alternative to Wall Street, but without all the associated costs (think of...

Chapter 5: Crypto Communities

What makes up a crypto community? Cryptocurrencies are best understood by examining the structure and values of the communities they represent. Cryptocurrencies are really cryptocultures of which there are many. Put simply, these are open-sourced communities with their own micro economies. Each community embeds its values into their blockchain. The values and tech are closely intertwined with each other. Overall, Cryptocurrencies, even the jokey meme ones, have become part of a robust, well-funded ideological movement. Bitcoin, which emerged out of the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis, first caught on among libertarians and anti-establishment activists who saw it as the cornerstone of a new, incorruptible monetary system. Since then, other crypto communities have evolved with similarly lofty goals. Crypto communities are essentially groups of individuals with a shared interest in cryptocurrency investing. Cryptocurrencies are complex, and members of crypto communities mak...

Web3 Explained

  Web3 is the name some technologists have given to the idea of a new kind of internet service that is built using decentralized blockchains. the shared ledger systems used by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether. Inherent in the emergence of Web3 technology is there must have been a Web1 and Web2. So lets begin begin with a brief history of these other Webs. Web1 refers to the  original internet of the 1990s and early 2000s. It was the internet of blogs, message boards, and early services like AOL and CompuServe. Most of what people did on web1 was passively read static web pages, much like an internet Wikipedia. Web2 was the next phase of the internet. Starting around 2005, it is the Web we are most familiar, the one characterized by social media behemoths Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In Web2, people began creating and posting their own content, actively participating in developing web content rather than passively reading it. But most of our creative cont...

The Spirit of the DAO

Welcome to the age of the DAO or the Decentralized Autonomous Organization. Quite the mouthful, these DAOs. Lets break down what exactly are these exciting new clubs for crypto enthusiasts. Broadly speaking, DAOs are organizations of individuals who establish their own governing rules and make decisions executed by pre-programmed smart contracts on a blockchain. DAOs remove the need for any central entity or single point of control. Their core objective is to bring together a community of like-minded users with similar interests to work together toward a common goal.  Being internet organizations, DAOs have several advantages over traditional organizations. One significant advantage of DAOs is the lack of trust needed between two parties. While a traditional organization requires a lot of trust in the people behind it, especially on behalf of investors, with DAOs, only the code needs to be trusted. Trusting that code is easier to do as it’s publicly available and can be e...