Hi everyone - Anna here. I work at the intersection of regulation, economics and the practical experience of founders.

I’m particularly interested in what happens when regulation creates costs and uncertainty that are not obvious from the rules themselves.

With the recent complaints from crypto companies to the Danish Ombudsman, this feels especially relevant. In my recent article #7, I look at the problem from the founder’s side, including MiCA, and try to make one thing clearer: where the real burden of regulation falls, and what founders can do when the formal rules and the practical reality diverge.

That’s one thing I tend to look at differently: not just whether a regulation is formally correct, but who actually carries its economic cost.

Looking forward to learning from the community and contributing where I can. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7486028428601794560/

Hi, I hope it's OK that I also do some community promotions. Coming up is the pre-event Blockathon on Thursday, and FirstBlock-athon has shared a post on Linkedin. https://lnkd.in/p/eh_j6zDS

Here's Onchain Community, the one I wrote about in today's email: https://onchain.kaupr.io/community It's open, there's a handful of people in it, and it's exactly as quiet as you'd expect a new room to be. That's the honest starting point. That's why I'm asking the 27 of you here. You know what this one feels like from the inside: — What makes a community worth coming back to? — What would make you post something yourself? — What would you want out of a room like that? Answer here in the thread. Morten

onchain.kaupr.io

Later today we're opening a community for Onchain by Kaupr — same setup as this one, but open to everyone moving onchain: https://onchain.kaupr.io/community You're hearing it first, which is part of what this room is for. It's also the reason I wanted to try this here before taking it further. You're the first to use it, and what happens here shapes what happens there. If you notice something — what works, what's awkward, what made you hesitate before posting — tell me. That's more useful to me right now than almost anything else. Morten

onchain.kaupr.io

Thank you to those of you who took the time to write back. And a good late summer to all of you.

We're 25 in the room now. That's enough to deliver on two things several of you asked for: getting to know each other, and having somewhere to actually talk.

So we're turning on the community function here.

Hi everyone — Morten here.

I run Kaupr, which means I write, edit, produce and press publish, mostly on my own. Before this I spent more than 30 years in communications and consulting, including a stretch as a financial journalist. Right now I'm covering onchain finance across the Nordics and Baltics, and building the place where you can follow it.

One thing you might not know: I sing bass in a mixed choir. Rhythmic stuff — pop, jazz, even hip-hop.

Your turn.