August 2025
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Bridging Assets With Stellar x Near Intents
Imagine being able to bridge and swap different assets across different chains with a single API call. That’s the promise of Near Intents who have just announced an integration with Stellar. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/moqWwcMppgY | Subscribe The recent launch of Near Intents for Stellar marks a major milestone in cross-chain interoperability,…
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The Alchemy Of Finance Summary – George Soros
George Soros challenges the foundational assumptions of modern financial theory in “The Alchemy of Finance,” presenting his revolutionary theory of reflexivity that fundamentally reframes how markets operate. Rather than accepting the efficient market hypothesis that dominates academic finance, Soros argues that financial markets are inherently unstable and driven by the bidirectional relationship between market participants’…
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Creating A Web3 Chat Room
Did you know that Chrome and other browsers have a built in speech-to-text API? I thought I could use this to create an online chat room using web3 serverless technology. The result… https://jamesbachini.github.io/Talking-Smart-Contracts The frontend is hosted on Github pages and the backend is just a permissionless, immutable smart contract hosted on Stellar, a decentralized…
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Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake
When Ethereum’s developers pressed the “Merge” button in September 2022, they cut the network’s electricity appetite by an estimated 99.95 percent overnight. The move rekindled a debate that refuses to die: is proof of work’s gargantuan energy bill a feature or a bug, and does proof of stake silently trade away the very decentralization crypto…
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The Inevitable Summary – Kevin Kelly
The Inevitable presents a compelling and deeply thought out vision of the future, grounded in the belief that certain technological trends are not merely likely but inescapable. Kevin Kelly, co founder of Wired magazine and a prominent futurist, argues that while we cannot predict the specific products or companies of tomorrow, we can forecast the…
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GPT5 on the next 10 years
The Next Decade, Rewired: Power, Compute, and the New Geography of Advantage (2025–2035) Date: August 2025 – full prompt at the end By 2035, the decisive constraint on growth will shift from capital and data to power and permission. AI will commoditize knowledge work faster than markets expect, but the bottlenecks and outsized returns will…
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IPFS vs Filecoin
The Developer’s Guide To Choosing Between IPFS And Filecoin A decade ago “decentralized storage” sounded like science fiction. Today the question has narrowed to a practical dilemma whispered in Discord channels and sprint retrospectives alike: IPFS vs Filecoin which should you build on? If uptime, censorship resistance, and predictable costs sit anywhere on your roadmap,…
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Stop Breaches Before They Start :: Inside The Stellar Security Audit Bank
A single unchecked line of smart contract code can vaporize trust and TVL faster than we can refresh the crypto twitter newsfeed. Yet securing a top tier audit often feels out of reach for developers bootstrapping their web3 projects. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/NatWTeVET9Q | Subscribe The Stellar Development Foundation’s Soroban Security Audit…
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Passing The Keys | Crypto Inheritance Planning
It is estimated that 26% of all Bitcoin will be lost forever by the first generation. You may have heard the story of James Howell who is still fighting a legal campaign to get a Welsh waste disposal ground excavated because he believes it holds his old laptop with nearly a billion dollars of Bitcoin…
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Principles Summary – Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio’s Principles is a hybrid manifesto, part memoir and part management guide, built on a foundational thesis: success whether in life or business is the result of identifying and consistently applying a set of fundamental principles. Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest and most successful hedge funds, distills decades of…
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The Bitcoin Standard Summary – Saifedean Ammous
The Bitcoin Standard presents a sweeping, interdisciplinary case for why Bitcoin is not merely a technological innovation or speculative asset, but a necessary evolution in the history of money. Saifedean Ammous argues that sound money money that is hard to produce and politically neutral is essential to the advancement of civilization. In his view, Bitcoin…
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How To Use Smart Contracts & Passkeys To Set Up Auth On A Web App
This tutorial dives into the creation of smart contract accounts and how this can be used as an identity platform also capable of payments James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/V2DwDzp43E8 | Subscribe The first step is to setup the passkey-kit demo which we will be using as a boilerplate. You can clone the repo…
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Web3 Social Media | The First Network Where You Keep The Likes
Imagine opening your favourite social app knowing that every photo, comment, and connection you create is yours, stored in a wallet only you can access, portable to any future platform, and even capable of earning you revenue instead of Meta’s shareholders. That future is no longer science fiction; it is the central promise of Web3…
