What Are Municipal Bonds Municipal bonds (also known as “munis”) are debt issued by state and local governments. Often these bonds are tax exempt for the creditor purchasing them. In the United States, the first ever recorded municipal bond occurred in 1812 in the City of New York for the construction of a canal…

Dear Dig3st follower, Haven’t written here in over 2 years. Currently there’s 31 of you, and that may seem kind of lame…but I think it’s pretty cool. There is something pretty inspiring that for however brief period of time a synapse fired in your brain and said…”neat,” and you proceeded…

This is essay #4 of 7 as part of The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Join the discussion with build_ in the Discord. After cracking open the Messari Crypto Theses for 2022 (highly recommended), they open with a real heavy-hitter about the Collapse in Institutional Trust to set the stage from…

This is essay #3 of 7 as part of the 7-day Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Join the discussion with build_ in the Discord. With everything seemingly moving at the speed of light in web3 (and arguably the tech sector at large), it’s important to periodically step back and assess the…

This is essay #2 of 7 as part of The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Join the discussion with build_ in the Discord. Since the release of the open-sourced whitepaper in July of 2021, the build_community has seen an influx of nearly 600 members, 39 City NFTs claimed, and 4 physical…

This is essay #1 of 7 as part of The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge Cohort #2. Join the discussion with build_ in the Discord. Social media and reputable journalism are fundamentally at odds with one another in the 21s century. On one hand there is a finely-tuned algorithm designed to…

This is essay #7 of 7 as part of The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Join the discussion with build_ in the Discord. Having just recently launched this grand web3 experiment called build_, our mission is to build, accommodate, and invest in a collective of innovators vested in the best interests…

This is essay #6 of 7 as part of The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Join the discussion with build_ in the Discord. Since committing recently full-time to build_, it’s been a fascinating ride. From my own home, I have met more people from around the world in the last 3…

This is essay #5 of 7 as part of The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Join the discussion with build_ in the Discord. Let’s start this essay by recapping what we’ve covered so far: In Part #1 we unpacked some of the beautiful chaos that is web3 and attempt to add…