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Two tennis players face off on a floodlit court. A cone of shots runs straight from the left player's racket across the net and passes through the opponent at the waist. A thought bubble above the left player holds the same scene in miniature.

Dichotomy and Containment

Margaret Johannsen ·

Six rallies in a row, the ball goes crosscourt to the backhand corner. Nothing about it is dramatic. It lands deep, a few feet inside the sideline, with enough height to push the opponent back and not enough pace to […]

A soap bubble holding the old financial system in sepia (bank, vault, bowler-hatted queue, tally sticks) amid a glowing wild world of DeFi: floating islands, a broken bridge spilling coins, a surfer on a huge wave, token stalls and liquidity pools.

Tallies and Tokens -- Transitioning to DeFi

Social Liberty Foundation ·

On October 16, 1834, a pair of workmen were told to get rid of two cartloads of old wooden sticks stored in the Palace of Westminster. The sticks were Exchequer tallies, notched hazel rods that had recorded payments to the […]