“At first the plan was for the DAO to vote on whether or not to hire a writer & how much to pay them. But although the DAO was fine for making so-called smart contracts, it didn’t have a mechanism for signing regular old-fashioned dumb contracts, or for paying anybody in what crypto people derisively call ‘fiat currency,’ but which you and I call ‘money.’ […] In the end I was offered a contract from Mysterious Entity. I submitted my invoices to and was paid, in dollars, by Mysterious Entity, Inc. The Piper DAO was not a party to the contract.”
“bro they stole your entire game” — latest roundup from Jauwn, the Youtuber on a neverending quest to find and review an NFT game that’s actually good.
(*To be clear, crypto scams are still chugging right along. Web 3 Is Going Just Great has a steady influx of new posts! They’re just all variations on the same 3 or 4 themes. Even Amy and David’s blogging has occasionally thrown in an AI-scams roundup to fill space.)