Omg time for a professional announcement!
I’ve joined
@avara
to work in Growth :) 🤝
I’m on my lane, moisturised, focused and as I like it best, onchain. So very lucky to be able to join
@StaniKulechov
@parisrouz
@0xChristina
and so many hyper talented people.
I want to share
Due to my tax advisor’s gross negligence, on Thursday while trying to pay for a burrito, I found out my main bank account was seized by the tax authorities. You may wonder why I’d make this public. Well, read this thread.
I’ve gotten a fair share of comments and DM and different view points on the topic of DeFi being hostile to women. I’ll explain shortly why we feel this way now, and didn’t before. Thread:
Bitcoin’s not gonna save Argentina.
DAI is also not gonna save Argentina.
DAOs are certainly fucking not gonna save Argentina.
Nothing we build can ever save a country like Venezuela or Argentina because the problems are more than 100 years old and our tools are futile still.
There's no such thing as DeFi on Bitcoin, but honestly, there is so much versatility on Bitcoin you don't actually need it. Like you can have Bitcoin on Bitcoin, or Bitcoin, and maybe also Bitcoin. You can collect your Bitcoin, or trade your Bitcoin.
*"the crypt" does not mean anything but this looks like Tales from The Crypt, the background squiggle will haunt my dreams, and really the monitors? the placement? the Lindsay Lohan Mykonos nightclub is a better curated experience than this.
Hey
@_Kevin_Pham
while you’re holding
@VitalikButerin
responsible on the ETH price, i’m buidling on ETH and focusing on code, tech, inclusion, diversity and community. What has fucking bitcoin done for this?!! Just wondering. We’re hardworkers not speculators.
The past week in NY has showed me that “going into web3” now means selling out your NFT drop, and that “joining a DAO” means joining a discord and vibing.
Not mad just sad we’ve been working so hard through a long bear market towards collective cognitive dissonance.
We're winding down JPG.
I am so proud to have built, together with the best team and co-founder I could ever wish for, meaningful tools and an incredible community.
1/ The end of an era 💔💔
With super heavy hearts, today we’re announcing that we’ve begun to wind down JPG as a company. As you know, we sunset our existing products in June/July looking to pivot into a new direction.
The last months I've been interviewing and eating humble pie, as, 7 years in crypto yet I feel I'm not a culture fit anywhere because of the loss of identity in our industry.
There are teams asking as requirement that you have experience in management consulting (????????)
I said I skipped Paris cause I was minding my own business.
Well now I’m minding it publicly.
After years and years of working for protocols, I’m now a protocol co-founder, on the intersection I love the most, art + tech.
It feels unreal, it feels right, and I’m so proud.
GM.
Today’s the best GMs of them all as you’ll wake up to a live JPG, Deep Time exhibition + (sold out) SALT gift shop.
Wake up and smell the cultural infrastructure of the future, frens.
Please help your elderly neighbors. Leave a note on the stairs or doors offering your help buying groceries and other necessities - and leaving them at their doorstep. If you’re healthy, you can do this and it might save lives and decrease anxiety and feeling of helplessness
Been here since 2017 and the space feels like a very stupid ouroboros. Never learning always extracting, celebrating the wrong actors.
Don’t know how to fix this. The goals and technology are meaningful and necessary. But the hype and grifters problems won’t let us grow.
having worked in the blockchain space for ~2.5 years I've formed some unpopular opinions that I'd like to share.
1. the problems with security are laughably underestimated by almost everyone here.
most people act as if losing your identity and all of your money because you
Little art/wedding thread concerning the Deal Toy that
@steviepxyz
x Clearmount made for
@dennnnnnnnny
and i's wedding (and you can mint as souvenir below)
Every once in a while this panel pops up. I was so terrified of speaking at Art Basel - fresh off the 2 years of covid lockdowns and travel bans.
I did quite well tho. Next week I’m marrying one of these people (not Holly unfortunately!)
Vitalik's an incredible person and we're lucky to have him, but this should be obvious. Last Sunday, one of the cornerstones of the India dev community and a friend of many within Ethereum died at 31.
Dog tokens -->
@CryptoRelief_
, period.
And thank you
@sandeepnailwal
& co.
Just dumped 200k goeth again - Denver needs cheap testnet eth.
This time I donated the fresh ETH to Turkey and Syria Earthquake Relief Fund via
@endaomentdotorg
- and you can also donate Goeth directly :)
This is incredibly upsetting. The Argentinian National Bank is banning fintech from offering crypto.
In a country with 104% inflation crypto is life saving. Latin America doesn’t only do crypto. They need it to survive.
La Comunicación “A” 7759 del BCRA publicada recientemente prohíbe a las billeteras virtuales (PSPCP) como
@uala_arg
ofrecer criptoactivos. Esto nos fuerza a suspender la posibilidad de operar Cripto, donde ya contamos con más de 300.000 cuentas abiertas. Nos duele mucho.
Rarely use Twitter for these things lately - I feel what I post here can be weaponized against me very quickly, but what the hell:
Seeing a whole hospital cease to exist, 400 more people massacred including humanitarian workers, should not be tolerated by anyone, no matter
In 2021 in NFTs we celebrated innovation and weirdness. Experimentation and concept came first.
In 2023, none of that matters. People celebrate “grails” aka safe investments, & remove anything that’s good & interesting from those works by inventing some lame ass solemnity.
Hi I'm back helping organize
@ETHBerlin
2024, and I'll be looking after sponsorships.
So remember all those DMs asking me about ETHBerlin when I was no longer at ETHBerlin? Well, now you can resume them.
1/ Stop hacking DeFi for a minute please (whether ethical or not) - free audience research! With
@83TB
& co we had a really fun 4 hours researching audience and personas for the web3 ecosystem yday and I made them into memes for more
#MemeDrivenDevelopment
. Let’s share them!
Really not understanding the “
@ConsenSys
has done nothing” narrative prompted by
@forbes
. We basically rely on
@infura_io
while they are vocal we need more options.
@metamask_io
is used by ALL. Sure some spokes are superrandom but those 2 alone do so much...
My latest feature for
@ForbesCrypto
is all about defending the choice for anonymity/pseudonymity. Thank you
@kenshokenji
@SHL0MS
@0x113d
for reflecting about your choices with me for this article!
1/ OMG it's time for my pERsOnaL AnNouNcEmEnt:
Bit bittersweet but I want to share that two days ago, I resigned to the MD position of
@ETHBerlin
/ Department of Decentralization.
But there are really good news on that front, so tHrEaD:
Lol the curator @ most commercial art gallery in Berlin has called NFTs a pyramid last Saturday and this week (!!) opened an NFT sale on Decentraland.
NFTs are a scam unless the middlemen are in. Makes sense, right?
Really excited to learn how to onboard the next billion users from underserved countries and unbanked communities to crypto for only 999 USD per conference ticket price!
A hard decision but the necessary one to ensure the longevity of what we've been building so far. Something more important than a product, a shift of the mindset of the NFT ecosystem.
A proposal, a quest to find cultural value, and a truly unstoppable community and brand.
An announcement. The JPG products have been paused.
But our brand and community carry on, because they're truly unstoppable.
Stay tuned for what comes next. We're strong and optimistic. We hope you stick with us.
NEXT WEEK IN BERLIN - Market Makers, the exhibition comissioned to
@______jpg______
by Berliner Volksbank
What to expect - NFTs, blockchain art, and trad art from the Bank's collection.
Opening on 5/10 6pm - wine for everyone.
@claracxw
@shamrock_xyz
@MPtherealmvp
is co-founder of JPG and has worked in the blockchain space since '17, having consulted/worked with many prominent projects across the Ethereum ecosystem. She has curated many art shows and writes about tech and art topics, including curation, communities, and more.
Wow this escalated - now i’m more humbled by how kind everyone is.
Like I said: i’m all good doing cool stuff enjoying my bags and playing with all the amazing stuff being built out.
But seeing the job listings presenting crypto as FAANG, and how as a generalist that has had
The last months I've been interviewing and eating humble pie, as, 7 years in crypto yet I feel I'm not a culture fit anywhere because of the loss of identity in our industry.
There are teams asking as requirement that you have experience in management consulting (????????)
1mm Goerli ETH have been dumped in ETH and
- 56 ETH donated to
@ethStaker
earmarked for testnet development
- 33 ETH will go to
@trust_support
a Berlin based organization for grants on r&d for a better world
I think what this space needs is for people to put their money where their mouth is. Pay the few curators there are because they are getting burned out.
Support projects that foster curation and context, don't leave them on read.
But sure - its the curators.
Hey! So this week was tough on me but along came $UNI and gave me a bit of extra cash.
I’ve now paid it forward a bit and donated to
@she_256
1000 USD because that’s approximately 1 USD per mention telling womxn to grow a thicker skin.
I’ve always felt strongly against the system but i always coexisted. Now they cut me off. In two days, they completely changed my life and forced me to figure out alternatives. I’m so lucky I’ve learnt about the alternatives before, and that I’m working in this industry.
Okay so the announcement (of an announcement) I wanted to make today is that we (
@______jpg______
) published our website with a high level explanation of what's in store.
A new, much needed primitive for NFT ecosystem.
@niftynaut
First I’d just throw all this to the garbage. Custom frames for aspect ratio. Dark wall. No cringe title, art blocks would just do. Wider wall (they can afford this of course, that’s just drywall). No squiggle in the back, nada. It’s just added noise.
It’s not rocket science
Any attempt to block stablecoins is a direct attack on people’s right to economic stability: Especially those in emergent economies, victims of hyperinflation and unbanked.
Don’t let pseudo-progressives fool you
As a skeptic and critic working in Blockchain and with NFTs since early, I find myself in a tough spot dealing with the current hype. So I picked up my books once again to try to understand, and I hope it helps other cynics too.
Got back from my travels to the ultimate brain treat by Ruth Catlow
@furtherfield
and
@pennny_rafferty
💙💙 thank you so much!
Incredible book about DAOs, collaboration, art and so much more.
Some favorite snippets below:
@emrata
@ChristiesInc
Look I stan and congrats on this move, really, but red eyes stand for Bitcoin people and you’re selling an Ethereum-based token. Different chains and communities. The NFT is paid in USD, so really nothing to do with Bitcoin :)
Dear Crypto People: you don’t need 7 community managers, 10 technical writers, 4 event managers, 9 PR people and a douche to oversee it all. You just need at most two resourceful people that can manage all, and products that don’t suck. We are not even near needing such teams.
Here’s a selfie with new sunglasses that make me look like a Nouns derivative.
Very timely given the fast growing
@______jpg______
Derivatives canon, I believe this is now a business expense.
Browse the canon here:
Yo, Consensys layoffs - I’m looking for a community manager. As my new parody VC persona would say: let me know how can I be helpful.
Also feel free to reach out with list of available talents and our team at
@ETHBerlin
can spread the word.
My dad’s in town visiting and i can’t believe that i’m 37 and he still asks me if I have money when i go and get us a coffee; but also I don’t, Dad, I work in fucking crypto and we’re excavating the bottom.