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Steven McKie

Steven McKie

Steven McKie is the co-founder of Amentum Capital and a crypto researcher and developer.

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Opinion
Taking Crypto Back to Nature
The crypto community has taken a keen interest in the long-term environmental and societal implications of utilizing decentralized protocols at scale. With a focus on public goods, energy usage and environmental regeneration, we are seeing trends emerge around how to best support those efforts in the industry.
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By Steven McKie
Nov 21, 2022 at 7:10 p.m. UTC
Nov 21, 2022
Opinion
Allegorical figures representing virtue and abundance, 1760
Policy
Identity
Reinvent Money to Reward Virtue
Bitcoin wrested control of money from the state. Ethereum and other technologies will return it to the heterogeneous communities that dot the globe, write Matthew Prewitt and Steven McKie.
Allegorical figures representing virtue and abundance, 1760
By Matthew PrewittSteven McKie
Jul 3, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 3, 2021
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Policy
Politics
Cryptocurrency Is Just a Minor Threat to the State
States still have the armies, the police and – on a good day anyway – democratic legitimacy. All of that still matters, and will for a long time.
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By Steven McKie
Oct 17, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. UTC
Oct 17, 2020
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Tech
Opinion
Why the Decentralized Web's Development Is Unstoppable
The time to hone in on the “New Internet” is now.
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By Steven McKie
Aug 18, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. UTC
Aug 18, 2020
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Liquidity
Decentralized Liquidity Is the Backbone of DeFi
How decentralized liquidity venues govern the health of DeFi.
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By Matthew PrewittSteven McKie
Dec 8, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. UTC
Dec 8, 2019
LiquidityDeFi
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Markets
Technology
Don't Believe the FUD: Ethereum Can Scale
The narrative that ethereum can't scale is being actively disproved in production environments on a daily basis.
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By Hunter HillmanSteven McKieEric Olszewski
Feb 2, 2019 at 11:40 a.m. UTC
Feb 2, 2019
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