# Market-Making on the Internet – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

<https://stratechery.com/2021/market-making-on-the-internet/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Interesting take from Thompson (as always!) thinking through what Twitter-Scroll could be doing to create a market between users and creators. It is particularly interesting where Thompson leaves this:

> The web started with no economy, then built a commoditized advertising-only one, and now is increasingly a market for all sorts of goods and services — the more differentiated the better. That doesn’t just mean interoperability, in the purest most fungible form of money, but also opportunity.

As I read this it made me think of the [Brave](https://brave.com) web browser and the [Basic Attention Token](https://basicattentiontoken.org) that it has created. This market-making concept is very compatible with various blockchain web3 solutions.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT186: Weekly Thing #186 / Blockchain, Pairing, Sharding](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/186/), Recommended Links

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- [Brave Software | Building a Better Web](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/07578741294f/) (brave.com, April 4, 2016)

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