Michael O’Rourke

Michael O’Rourke is the co-founder and CEO of Pocket Network. Michael is a self-taught iOS and Solidity developer. He was also on the ground level of Tampa Bay’s Bitcoin/crypto meetup and consultancy, Blockspaces, with a focus on teaching developers Solidity. He graduated from the University of South Florida.

Author’s posts

Decentralized systems are slowly putting power back in the hands of developers and users — and taking it away from Big Tech companies.

Nodes are going to dethrone tech giants — from Apple to Google

Michael O’Rourke

2022-10-15T19:49:42+01:00

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Thanks to the DeFi revolution, it’s no longer companies extracting value from users, rather it's developers extracting value from protocols.

Web3 innovations are replacing middlemen with middleware protocols

Michael O’Rourke

2022-01-29T02:08:00+00:00

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A decentralized autonomous organization provides power for users to create an online community with as little friction as possible.

DAOs will be the future of online communities in five years

Michael O’Rourke

2021-10-23T12:11:00+01:00

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As the decentralized space is growing at lightning speed, projects need to adapt to the multichain future or risk becoming irrelevant.

The future of DeFi is spread across multiple blockchains

Michael O’Rourke

2021-07-31T08:36:08+01:00

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