Startup CEO at
@atomicform
(
#MakingArtImmortal
for NFTs). Techstars All-star Mentor. MIT PhD Materials Science. Learning and sharing all things start-up life.
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The Wyoming DAO law is a major step forward to bridging the fiat present and our crypto future. Amazing work by
@CaitlinLong_
,
@GovernorGordon
, and everyone in Wyoming.
I respect Bitcoin and Ethereum, but I’m enthralled with Cosmos (both the tech and the community).
This is where I’m placing my attention for the next few years (at a minimum).
The recent SA-CORE-2018-004 and SA-CORE-2018-002 security advisories have sparked a lot of conversations in the Drupal community regarding all things security. IMHO, it's important to highlight several talking points to keep things in perspective.
@petergyang
He wants an audit from people he trusts.
Also, it might help set expectations around team and company norms. I imagine there will be a few meetings to get that ball rolling.
Crypto scams by project percentage: 90%
(this is why the skeptics won't touch the space)
Crypto scams by total market cap: 10%
(this is why the supporters think the industry is fine)
Love the Cosmos ecosystem, but, not going to lie… feels like a lot of growing pains.
* Evmos halt
* Juno prop 16, then halt
* Terra implosion
* No stablecoin alternatives on AMMs
Lots of smart, hard working people so I know this will pass. Just a lot at once
Even if the air drop didn't happen, this
@BanklessHQ
podcast with the $ENS team has made me excited about the broader implications of the
@ensdomains
team, protocol, and DAO.
LFG 🚀🚀🚀
We need more of this.
Two people, willing to step into the arena not necessarily to convince, but to understand each other (with dignity and respect).
Proud of
@JeffHarryPlays
, who once again inspires me to keep reaching out and searching for common humanity. 🙏🏻
I just had an AMAZING conversation with a progressive and
#BlackLivesMatter
activist and we didn't yell at each other or call each other names and actually found a lot of common ground. Thank you
@JeffHarryPlays
!!!
I love
#Bitcoin
, but we also need
#Zcash
to succeed because it will continue to push the envelope of Zero Knowledge Proofs/tech. Will will be the only way we will guarantee true privacy in the public chains.
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Any of my previous colleagues not get an
@ensdomains
.eth address yet?
If gas fees are preventing you from plunging in, let me know. I'd love to pay it forward with a couple people.
@maiab
@jmj
I thought the same at first, but it’s the equivalent of a standard 20% recruiter fee on a 250k salary.
Still, very generous to open up to the network vs a recruiter!
What happens when you analyze the metadata of 4,000 NFTs owned by
@Vince_Van_Dough
?
You find a tremendous amount of variability in the storage, media type, and metadata structure.
Analysis and article by
@wcj111
Did the right thing and delegated half my $juno to
@JoeAbbey
, who has been an absolute beast on the research and data visualization work for the community.
The odd feeling. I had a recurring reminder to call my grandma on Fridays. It was my ritual to just check-in and say how much I loved her.
Since she passed, it's feels odd to keep her in my address book. At what point do you delete a loved ones phone number?
This is huge.
Old way: bridge tokens to different chains containing different dapps.
New way: allow dapps to connect to tokens and dapps on other chains.
Instead of moving tokens to compute, we move compute to tokens.
Great chatting with
@BanklessHQ
@TrustlessState
@sgoldfed
&
@zmanian
on General Message Passing between Cosmos and Ethereum.
TLDR: You can build a Cosmos app chain & have
@MetaMask
users interact with it seamlessly from any EVM chain without bridging!
[and vise versa: Cosmos
Read 20+ books in 2019, and the one that challenged my worldview the most was "The Coddling of the American Mind" by
@JonHaidt
and
@glukianoff
. I'm still processing it and will likely read a 2nd or 3rd time in 2020. Highly recommended
Congrats to
@ParallelNFT
on their Prime Proposal! 🎉
@atomicform
also ❤️ the cards. Here, the talented
@sirkitree
is working on some gallery views so we can show off our collections 🙌🏻🖼
I think it's still not getting enough spotlight.
Arweave consistently hits week-to-week tx volume ATHs without any issues in system throughput.
The tx fees remain stable, unaffected by all of it.
Pretty cool to break free from the endless loop of a fee market 🫡
This was solid. My TL;DR
* Saying YES is divergent, helping you find opportunities.
* Saying NO is convergent, focusing you on the winning opportunities.
Add hard work and consistency, and you convert short-term income into long-term wealth.
I'm an imperfect person trying to be better.
I'm ignorant of so much, but trying to learn.
I have complex and sometimes inconsistent beliefs and views of the world, and I'm trying to find a way to untangle them.
I'm a work in progress, and I always will be.
@paulg
I've found that they are different use cases.
Reply if I want to join the conversation with the person's community OR QT if I want to spark a conversation with my followers.
I get that most people use it for more malicious reasons... but I 50/50 mix both use cases.
@TrungTPhan
Reminds me of the quote:
> The most exciting sound in science is not "eureka!" but "wow that's weird".
Paying attention to unexpected outcomes/mistakes can lead to game-changing outcomes.
@Creech
My original thinking around NFTs has changed greatly. But I think the podcast where
@cdixon
described them as a new primitive (similar in how a web page can be anything) is when it changed how I viewed them.
Attend an open AA meeting and listen to at least 10 speakers, and you will never again question how crazy life can get before a rock bottom turn-around.
After you've seen enough shit in real life, you become a different type of gullible—and that's probably not even the right word.
Like, you can believe anything you read on the internet, not because you're naive, but because you've lived or first-hand observed something similar.
Your experience with NFTs change when you see them on a 4K display.
Just testing the initial
@atomicform
Wave, I immediately purchased another 2-3
@ParallelNFT
cards.
@uTobian
A lot of people feel misunderstood or under appreciated. I genuinely like to learn about what makes them tick. Also believing and seeing in them what they can’t see/believe in themselves.
One of the beautiful things about cryptography + NFTs is the ability for multiple private keys to sign and attest different properties.
Love that
@ParallelTCG
is exploring this territory
The more I think about it,
@ArweaveEco
+
@irys_xyz
+
@chainink
could serve as the base infra layer of a web3 Internet Archive / Wayback Machine.
Storage + timestamping + oracle verification and boom... a true trusted history.
Don't wait for your friends and loved ones to reach to you.
Be the one that reaches out first. You'd be amazed at how much they've been waiting to share, but were just waiting for the right time.
Today is the right time.
Much love and respect to
@BridgetPhetasy
for sharing her powerful fight with trauma and how it allowed her to be of service for another woman in need (listen to end of this episode). Intense...
If you’re not going to join me at
@atomicform
, the next best place to start a web3 career as a dev is the Cosmos ecosystem.
@jack_zampolin
and
@zmanian
et al can point you to places to plug-in/get started.
This is such a subtle, but fantastic point.
No one can stop you from transacting in the network, but participants of the network can be penalized (off chain) for transacting with you.
To pick up the conversation from yesterday, I don't see how Bitcoin can be censorship-resistant if users can't use the chain privately. This seems obvious to me.
It's not a question of if
@Onrampinvest
will become a unicorn. It's just a matter of it's in 2024, 2023, or 2022.
Super exciting to watch
@TR401
and his team execute!
I love this so much.
Onchain data is great, but it's not always connected and/or linked together.
@jalil_eth
is doing the hard work of ensuring the entire
@jackbutcher
network is documented. Love to see it!
Hot take: Arweave market cap is under-priced by 10x.
NFA. I have no bags. But I may need to buy some ahead of time (as a user) before number-go-up and my costs 10x.
Any of my previous colleagues not get an
@ensdomains
.eth address yet?
If gas fees are preventing you from plunging in, let me know. I'd love to pay it forward with a couple people.
Overwhelmed with gratitude today while taking my daughter to the movies. Two years ago she lost nearly 100% of her hearing, but now (with hearing aids) it’s 100% back.
It’s easy to take something so simple for granted ❤️🙏🏻
@anothercohen
It's not a matter of features. It's an industry that is conservative and optimizes for reliability/accuracy/consistency over all else.
You can bring alternatives to your CPA/accountant, but they'd prefer to migrate you into Quickbooks vs whatever you come with.
The two greatest moments of joy in 2020:
1. Jan 1st: discovery we were pregnant again! ❤️❤️❤️
2. Meeting my 2nd, beautiful daughter for the 1st time 🥰
Currently enjoying paternity time with the 3 most important people in my life.
Not saying this is for everyone, but it works. My mom was the queen of garage sale arbitrage before the internet and made enough extra cash to make it worth it to our family.
Here’s how you can make a few thousand per month flipping shoes and bags (purses)
The beautiful part is you’ll know how much you can expect to make BEFORE you buy the shoes.
Follow me on Instagram for more videos
@jackbutcher
If you're willing. It adds to the Lore.
At some point, it would be amazing if the metadata included these like music liner notes. Sure, only the die hards would look or care, but those that do...
@antoniogm
Isn't it wonderful?
It'll go back to a baseline. I bet it's 5-7 years of repressed Tweets bursting out. Once people get their fix, they'll go back to being boring.
What if regenerating the planet had less to do with taxes and funding and more to do with incentives and coordination?
If that interests you, keep an eye out on
@regen_network
If you can't be brilliant, try to not be stupid.
If you can't be a saint, try to not be a sinner.
If you can't improve a situation, try not to make it worse.
You don't need to hit home runs to win. Consistent base hits will do the trick.
Just try to minimize your errors.
NEW POST:
It's Time For Bitcoin To Be Better For Laundering Money
I wrote about the Canadian truckers and how if Bitcoin is actually going to fulfill its mission, the infrastructure needs to get built up so that it can't easily be surveilled.
Pumped about this! NFTs continue to remind me of the early days of hand coding websites with HTML files. We are just scratching the surface of what can and will be done in a world of 1 trillion NFTs (yes, we already passed 1 billion).
We are excited to announce that
@rickmanelius
will be stepping into the role of CEO of Atomic Form! We are thrilled to have him at the helm as we continue to push the boundaries of NFT hardware and software.
Honestly this is fucking amazing.
@regen_network
out there basically planting seeds / running its own accelerator to help regenerate the planet.
What’s not to love?
1/🚨
@RegenNetworkDev
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@fahdananta
@seyitaylor
It happens more often than you would think. At one company, over the course of ~ 50 hires, I had 2 rescind and take other offers after signing the offer letter.
I'll admit that 4.5 years ago, I was quite skeptical of the
@backdropcms
fork because I didn't understand the use case. Now, I'm very impressed with what
@quicksketch
and
@jenlampton
have started, the use case they serve, and the mission they stand behind
The
@RobertKennedyJr
presidential campaign could end tomorrow, and he will have already achieved a massive win by opening up the Overton window.
Everything from here is bonus.
Thank you so much, sir 🙏🏻❤️
IMHO, this is one of the greatest memes in existence.
I think about whenever I see one group vilify another and forget that we are all, at our core, humans with similar needs of love, belonging, significance, etc.
And never forget that you're someone else's warring tribe.
Mark Twain once said "I can last two months on a good compliment."
This is why it's important to understand the 5 love languages. In doing so, going out of your way to show them how much you appreciate them (in the way they prefer to receive that message) goes a long long way.