The Otonomist - February 2024 Issue
In this February issue of The Otonomist, we talk about new functionality in the Otonomos dashboard, revisit Malta, and introduce a new “Long Reads” section.
Keep hodling, keep buidling!
Han, Founder & CEO
PRODUCT UPDATE
Do more from within your Otonomos dashboard
Our February development sprint at Otonomos focused mainly on the ongoing maintenance of your entities.
Our mission is to make the process of setting up companies easier and quicker, and to give you more direct control and visibility of the entities you are involved with, irrespective of where you - and they - are based!
This post summarizes the new functionality you will find when logging into your Otonomos dashboards, and the further changes on the horizon.
JURISDICTION DOUBLE-CLICK
Revisit Malta
Soon, the European Union’s new MiCA crypto rules will require a local presence in the E.U. for crypto asset service providers.
Malta and Ireland come to mind as candidates to set up shop, each on their own merit.
Today we invite readers to revisit Malta which despite some negativity in the early crypto days remains an attractive basecamp from where you can scale the European digital asset markets.
LONG READS
Long reads are one of our favorite pastimes. In this new section, we post what we’ve been reading recently and share our key takeaways.
1. Read Write Own
In Read Write Own, Chris Dixon, who heads A16Z’s crypto investments, gives an insightful narrative of how the open-source Web1 (thesis), which morphed into the corporate logic of Web2 networks (anthesis) finds its synthesis in Web3 thanks to blockchains.
Remarkably accessible also for non-tech readers, each chapter of this compact book distills deep insights from spending decades at the heart of tech as both entrepreneur and investor.
A useful framework to understand the evolution of tech and the inevitability of decentralized networks!
2. Tracers in the Dark
Tracers in the Dark is a mostly entertaining and occasionally disturbing narrative that puts the spotlight on a dark corner of blockchains.
In equal measure sensationalist and informative, the book documents efforts to de-anonymize a technology that was never designed to be fully anonymous in the first place.
However, by putting the focus solely on the statistically low use of crypto for crime, the book never really raises questions about the fundamental trade-offs around privacy and anonymity.
Next month in The Otonomist: A 10,000 ft survey of the world’s leading jurisdictions and two guests posts about building and investing in crypto.