By now the concept of Black Swan events (via Nassim Nicholas Taleb) is reasonably familiar. In brief, no one thought black swans existed until they were discovered in Australia. When they were discovered it rocked the swanian world, and swan-ologists everywhere had to reconfigure their understanding of swan color. For our purposes, we’ll use “Black […]
The DePIN Incentive Cycle – Miner ROI
by Nik Hawks & Max Gold Max & I have always taken for granted that the “payback period”, commonly and incorrectly called ROI (for Return On Investment), is what drives miner sales in DePIN projects. The Payback Period is calculated at its simplest through dividing the cost of the miner by it’s daily earnings. Obviously […]
The DePIN Incentive Cycle – Onboarding Fees
by Max Gold & Nik Hawks How can onboarding fees help your DePIN project? This post is part of a series exploring the DePIN Incentive Cycle. Our goal is to help you understand the various tools and strategies that a project can use to navigate the complexities of this new form of business. Let’s start […]
The DePIN Lifecycle: State of the Art
by Nik Hawks & Max Gold As a business model, DePINs are new. We have not yet completed a cycle where a project has reached escape velocity, moving from crypto experiment to a real world going concern. We have, however, seen the beginning and probably well past the midpoint of a cycle. While the old […]
Success From The Bottom: Building In A Bear
by Nik Hawks & Max Gold In a DePIN bear market, the only thing that matters is whether or not you’re improving the key aspects of your project. Let’s go through what you need to be doing to maximize your project’s chance of success. Deploy miners where it counts. Every network has an optimum topology. […]