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Cobie
Personal blog · cobie.substack.comeconomicsbusiness
Cobie is a personal blog at cobie.substack.com about economics and business. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Web 3 Doesn't Exist”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cobie's Substack, which covers crypto and web3, including posts on token attention economics and an explainer on what web3 is.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Cobie: thoughts on crypto, money, markets, life, whatever.
Most-linked posts?
- Web 3 Doesn't Exist4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-01-03
- Trading the Metagame3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-26
- Tokens in the Attention Economy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-28
- ApeCoin and the Death of Staking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-21
What Hacker News says?
> You give your money over to another organization, and that organization promises a % yield / APY in return. Coinbase is not promising a yield. It would be illegal for them to do so. They are advertising the current market rate defined by the token's network. That rate incentivizes stakers. It is defined in code. If too many people are staking on, for example Ethereum, the network would lower the rate automatically…
Comment linking /p/apecoin-and-the-death-of-staking
on “Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals”Submitted Web 3 Doesn't Exist as a story · 115 points
HN discussionI don’t know if it’s provenance or attention. My gut says attention as many small NFTs projects start out with no provenance, and as the attention around the project builds, so too does the hype and price. This article is worth a read - https://cobie.substack.com/p/tokens-in-the-attention-economy...
Comment linking /p/tokens-in-the-attention-economy?r=2nco6&utm_medium=ios
on “Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up”Submitted W** Is Web3 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttps://cobie.substack.com/p/wtf-is-web3
Comment linking /p/wtf-is-web3
on “Web3 is centralized”Submitted WTF Is Web3? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tokens in the Attention Economy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Probabilistic Thinking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ApeCoin and the Death of Staking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incentives Structures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trading the Metagame as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trading the Metagame as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Staking, Pegging and Other Stuff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (3,3) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tokens in the Attention Economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trading the Metagame as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
