Mike Maizels PhD

Executive Director, Princeton DeCenter

[Critical Inquiry @CriticalInquiry]

"Arte Programmata provides a nuanced, incisive window into the ways in which artists grappled with arrival of computing technology in postwar Italy."

New in review, @timevalueofart on Lindsay Caplan's Arte Programmata, from @UMinnPress:

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@punk6529 Couldn’t agree more. Would love to see if I could assist w foresight. I’m a former academic cultural historian now head of crypto research.

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@Everette @Kickstarter Love to connect with anyone on your team about these kinds of project. I’m the Interim Head of Research at Adim, an a16z backed creator economy co founded by @RMcElhenney to help resolve these kinds of issues!

[Incention @incention_io]

We are excited to welcome a key addition to the Adim team, Mike Maizels 👋!

Mike is joining Adim as our Interim Head of Research and will be taking an academic lens to many of the problems we are trying to tackle with Adim across the unit economics of creative production.

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@Melt_Dem Been writing something on “max weber enters the metaverse” I’d love to get your feedback on !

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

The heart of the problem put very well “Alameda couldn’t close its doors because it was at the heart of FTX’s value proposition: As the “prosumer” exchange of choice for professional crypto traders, FTX needed Alameda to continue making markets, even at a loss”

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@bgilliam1982 best #crypto #newsletter in the game. His “The worst bank in the world” take on ftx is an instant classic

[Soona @soona]

1/ Over the last couple months, the predominant emotion driving the crypto market was fear and recently that's changed to apathy.

As we reflect on the macro, below is a glimpse of what to expect when crypto markets turn apathetic, through a few different lenses:

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

Delight to announce that I will be speaking at the @sigchi Human Computer Interaction Conference on Friday along with my colleague Zilin Ma at Harvard. We will be presenting our work on crowd coordination and DAO governance, which recently received a grant from @UniswapFND

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

Proud of the Sumeria team!

[DIA Oracles @DIAdata_org]

🎉 Partnership update @ZumerProtocol

DIA has deployed an update on the custom #oracle built for Zumer.

The update adds floor price feeds for 8 more #NFT collections, expanding the number of assets supported in the Zumer platform.

→ Learn more: https://t.co/o0zoKlxw2J

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@clairesilver Yes! I wrote about this in tech crunch: https://t.co/d0f7GoKs76 Am a fan of your work would love to hope on a call sometime if you were interested

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@TyDanielSmith Crowdsourced art & fraud scavenger hunt https://t.co/BCNWWgN65E

[University of Michigan Press @UofMPress]

Now Available: "Collecting the Now" by Michael Maizels @timevalueofart explores how dealers and artists made pop art fine. Find it at: https://t.co/oZ5Z4DLX5v.

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@eek637 @devinawalsh Hello all--I'm the Head of Research at Abra. Congratulations on this proposal! This dovetails closely with a research project of mine. If anyone might be free for a short virtual coffee I'd love to connect

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@Melt_Dem Love your commentary. Im the head of research at abra. Would love to connect some time if you are down for a short virtual coffee. Im also based near Boston—not far from NH

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

https://t.co/QaWUbvMfZD Fascinating take from Slate magazine on the intersections between Faith in Bitcoin and American Christianity--"X to Earn" is coming as the next chapter of Weber's Protestant Work Ethic

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@bgilliam1982 again with most on point analysis. Regarding FOMO on risk, "These human and institutional flaws are amplified in crypto, because the one thing that DeFi has genuinely accomplished is that it’s perfected the art of recursive leverage."

[DIA Oracles @DIAdata_org]

🎉 Partnership with @ZumerProtocol

We are delighted to announce that the Zumer protocol has integrated DIA's #NFT Floor Price oracle to power the #liquidity protocol for NFTs.

→ Learn more: https://t.co/o0zoKlP7rj

[Mike Maizels PhD @timevalueofart]

@DrawThisTweet An artifact of future history

[Meltem Demirors @Melt_Dem]

the ratio on the SEC chairman's tweets is absolutely fascinating - 10x replies to likes or shares

what does that tell you?