Hey, it’s Marc. I write about Bitcoin, Web3, and technology. ✌️

Welcome to another issue of my obsessively curated field notes to help you filter out 99% of the noise.

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“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

📚 Key Reads

  • The Web3 creator playbook. The most in-depth, on-point, step-by-step explanation of the “web3 creator” process I’ve come across. By Rafa Fernandez. Link

  • Revenue in this economy? Ways for native Web3 communities to generate revenue. By Seedclub. Link

  • Crypto-native NFT IP: a new era for consumer brands. By Mikey 0x. Link

  • Open vs. owned metaverse experiences. By Jean-Francois Thery. Link

  • A Starbucks Odyssey: Why NFT customer loyalty programs might actually work. By Alex Stein. Link

  • Is the federal government trying to kill off crypto? One of the most complete and impartial accounts of what’s happening on the regulatory side in the US. By Jen Wieczner, NY Mag. Link

  • Blockbrain crypto & stocks report, April 2023. Link

🚨 What caught my eyes

✨ Web3 + NFTs

  • Binance announces support for Bitcoin NFTs, aka ordinals. This is a major milestone for ordinal adoption, which has come a long way in the last few weeks, generating millions of inscriptions and billions in volume. New to ordinals? Read my primer here. Link