After some amazing years at @protocollabs and @cryptoeconlab, I'm looking forward to the next chapter with @GlowFND. Wrote about the journey so far and what excites me about Glow 👇🌞

Glow International is happy to announce its newest member of the team: Chief Scientist Vik Kalghatgi!

Town hall next Thursday. See you there 🫡☀️

@DavidVorick's latest @GlowFND is clear expression of what @ecofrontiers frames "Ecocapitalism 2.0" ➡️strategic redirection of capital flows through programmable incentives & collective governance. It’s not about replacing capitalism, but re-encoding to serve ecology & humanity.

"The first iteration of Glow lacked the very humanity that it sought to imbue into Capitalism" - Glow: The Human Era, by David Vorick

Bitcoin's optimization function is to maximize the production of hashrate. Glow's optimization function is to maximize the amount of solar that it tips from slightly less profitable to slightly more profitable.

In many parts of the world, coal is only *slightly* more profitable than solar. But a slight edge is all it takes to dominate the market - what Capitalist would make $10 when they could instead make $11? Glow tips the scales by adding just enough incentive to let solar win.

Capitalism is a psychopathic beast with no sense of right and wrong. The only thing it sees is money. This means that it's a beast that can be tamed. You can steer capitalism in any direction simply by making that direction the most profitable direction to go in.

On average, each medium sized coal power plant (~400 in the US) causes around 100 excess deaths in the population per year. If the US switched from coal to solar, it could save 40,000 lives per year.

If you offset lifetime emissions with trees, you need about 8500 acres of forest for every 1 MW produced by a modern, efficient coal power plant. To do the same with solar, you need about 500 acres of forest, and only 30 acres of panels and batteries. Solar is land efficient.