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growing @penumbrazone via @radiantcommons || talk systems to me || happy, in general. 🇧🇴

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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
14 days
remember why you are here
@zackvoell
Zack Voell
14 days
you’re spending every waking minute onboarding washed rappers and porn stars to crypto meanwhile the tornado cash devs are rotting in a jail somewhere for writing open source code remember why we’re here
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chicxulub✴️
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@adam_chal disagree burning out is the function of not allocating time to rest and recontextualization if this was true then all the self-employed people who burn out doing something they love wouldn’t make any sense
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
proposal: we stop referring to @cosmos as 'the Cosmos Ecosystem' and start referring to it as 'the Cosmos'. that way every time something ships there, it sounds like it's being built in actual space, and all the memes can flow forth.
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
no, blockchains are not 'cities' or 'companies' or 'countries'. blockchains are *networks* with incentivized maintenance design. that should be interesting enough to you.
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
as far as dumb shit in crypto goes, having a governance proposal be modified *while voting is still active* is a core reason we're considering @terra_money governance to be essentially useless at this time.
@Figment_io
Figment
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We’ve been receiving a high volume of input concerning recent governance activity on the @terra_money blockchain, so it’s important we address our position on wider Terra governance in its current state👇🧵
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
I've pretty much had it with the misogyny leveled on web3 that it's full of 'cryptobros'
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
6 months
echoing this, note that informs the *minimum* NAM you will receive as part of the drop this means that the actual amount (after unclaimed drops) may well be higher, ;)
@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
6 months
as a reminder, the ONLY site where you can claim your @namada airdrop is at no other website is legitimate.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
1 year
i'm beyond thrilled to announce that i'm leaving my position at @Figment_io to join the @heliaxdev team in supporting the growth of the @namada multi-asset privacy protocol. the move from infrastructure support for protocols to supporting a specific protocol is strategic:
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
@wkmags @coinmaverick that looks like it would literally kill you
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
the current state of DAO operations workstreams cc: @notscottmoore @owocki
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
the reason the queer community of ct has been conspicuously silent on maricoin is because identity politics are part of what we were getting away from by entering a space where your identity is considered sovereign and private send tweet
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
the state of @gitcoinDAO impact studies
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chicxulub✴️
7 months
hey all - I wrote up an analysis of the most recent @namada Community Builders voting epoch results using @coordinape to evaluate contributions. read along for probability theory and what I think about cartels (I don't think anything about cartels).
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
we're discontinuing staking operations on @terra_money and will not be supporting terra v2 you can follow our reasoning in the following post, best of luck and diligence to those who support the new network.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
10 months
privacy is the only way we can have an honest society
@dystopiabreaker
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10 months
privacy is not only normal, it is required for a free society
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
so grow the fuck up, get better insults; this place is made up of and by the people who didn't fit into your shitty version of tech anyway.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
I don't even have to think that hard and I can that the reductive term 'bros' does not represent web3: @ebethbarnes , @eshita , @lanitrock , @chaserchapman , @cult_leader_en @ceciliasubmari1 , @jacksondame , @dystopiabreaker , @shegenerates . these people seem like 'bros' to you?
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
@dystopiabreaker the depth to which this enrages me is something that we should really figure out how to turn into an energy source
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
3 years
@jaesmail TaxDAO make it a thing
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
i will never get over how gatekept scientific publication is from the public, and just how much of a public service sc1huß was and has been to my ability to learn. it's disgusting.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
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. @hxrts is a force for good, much like the rest of the @SkipProtocol team. more energy like this in the space, please.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
bodily autonomy and privacy go hand in hand
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
my hot take is that the evm will outlast the ethereum base chain, and @EvmosOrg is going to take part in proving this.
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
"We’re living in quite a Luddite moment, as it hap­pens. Many of us are contesting the social relations surrounding our technologies: should we continue to subsidize big agriculture? Should our cities continue to be organized around cars?" @doctorow
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Nikos Roussos 🍉
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“In truth, the Luddites’ cause wasn’t the destruction of technology – no more than the Boston Tea Party’s cause was the elimination of tea.” ⁦ @doctorow
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
we should stop considering crypto from the perspective of an economy and instead consider it more deeply as an ecology of intentions that are finding their best fit within this: -what are the trophic levels, -who are the predators, -what are the resources to compete over?
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
best advice i live on a daily basis is: 'if you are overthinking, write, if you are underthinking, read, if you are caught in between, do both'
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
pretty sure the next transactional landscape for p2e is pretend-to-earn
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
this is fucking stupid for an organization that calls itself a co-operative. busting worker unions in an organization that expects itself to be collectively owned is an indication of an organization in decline imo
@doctorow
Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK
2 years
Two of @REI 's board members are on Twitter: @mattccompton and @ccarr_chris . As an REI member, I'm disgusted to learn my co-op is wasting my money on a union-busting drive. Please convey my views to your fellow board members. This is genuinely disgusting.
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
i've said before but it bears repeating, the significance of the ethereum merge is not in the technological feat alone it's the fact that thousands of people who don't know one another worked together to pull it off.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
@SpencrGreenberg speaking over the person you are speaking with
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
imma vow 'big solarpunk energy' any time I think something could help humanity's relationship to the planet going to meme our future into reality, let's do it together (🌳,🌳)
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
@BriannaWu @sobylife you're making so many crazy assumptions that people in crypto don't understand that the crash is just something that happens. we're not that stupid. the bear market is the norm, you're lucky when you make it big in the bull.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
just wanna put this out there but I hung out with the @fuellabs_ team last night and they are both very cool and smart
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
antifascist militants were shot en masse at a protest in portland last night. this is just a tweet to let you know it happened, because no one is really reporting on it.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
3 years
there are reasons I think this is a big deal unless someone comes up with a better format than IBC, it's ideal for scaling the EVM
@buchmanster
Ethan Buchman (🐝,🦇)
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4) IBC. If there's going to be many blockchains (there will), we need protocols to enable them to communicate. That's IBC. But IBC is a general purpose protocol - it can in theory even be used to define the ETH 2.0 sharding protocol (!).
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chicxulub✴️
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@VitalikButerin
vitalik.eth
2 months
Privacy in physical space is rapidly decreasing. Better privacy online is one of the few tools we have to restore a little bit of balance. Privacy is normal. Support privacy.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
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aaand @Figment_io is up and validating on another network, welcoming @gravity_bridge into both our infra and ecosystem at large! congrats to the whole team that worked on this + @DeborahSimpier and her team for a network we're so excited to be a part of
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
. @emollick really just used scientific research to tell you to touch grass
@emollick
Ethan Mollick
2 years
Nature is a surprisingly effective drug. The link between time in 🌳and physical & mental health has been shown in multiple studies & controlled experiments. No one knows all of the mechanisms of action, but 2 hours a week seems a good dose. In cities, parks seem to work, too.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
the other reason is that the project sucks
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
everyone thinks @CelestiaOrg will succeed because of the tech, but the real reason is that they have a grade-a shitposter on the team
@renelubov
Rene
3 years
light client implies the existence of dark client 👹
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chicxulub✴️
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as a reminder, the ONLY site where you can claim your @namada airdrop is at no other website is legitimate.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
3 years
decidedly pleased with my @crypto_coven take, Pistachio the Pistachio Trough
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
@jadler0 @1NDi60 aesthetic flatness: awkwardness, a degree of disrespect and plainness in the lighting, a full body shot with lots of empty space to make him look alone. while the article goes into his maintained convictions + ethics against others, it undermines his credibility with intention.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
one of my greatest laments is that i don't have enough time, brain capacity, or attention available to learn everything that i find interesting
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
3 years
Doing a quick thread about how you, a #Web2 dev, could start developing in #Web3 . Better yet, if you're a @JavaScript dev, I know how to get you there. 🧵 1/n
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
new pfp just dropped, yerrrr ty @Yamer for the upgrade old -> new
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
6 months
a bit of a ramble on the direction I think the internet might be headed. I think we'll see two things. 1. Consumer internet most people will spend their time here, but generally speaking it will lack in much social depth. I think in part this will be the realm of the creator
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
@badcryptobitch i don't think that ENS reflects ethereum
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
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it's sad that bluetooth headphones have mostly left us complacent to mediocre audio streaming quality
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
3 years
go praise my friend for launching the first proposal on @StargazeZone !
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
keeping your assets in a centralized custody solution (s/a a CEX wallet) gives you higher asset security. issue with this is not actually possessing your tokens. enter @entropydotxyz - the decentralized solution, finally out of stealth.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
none of you have any idea how much more powerful feature-constrained tech could make you by not constantly fragmenting your attention span
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
the @sommfinance team is so together that this upgrade took literally 24 minutes. big thanks to @zmanian , @jack_zampolin for pushing to get it done 😉
@zmanian
Zaki ⚛️🍷
2 years
Thank you @Figment_io for collaborating with the protocol team and other validators to bring Cellars to life
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
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it's penumbra not Penumbra
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
ok seriously, who in the @cosmos is working on improving authz functionality / integrating it into a ui i've seen people talking about it but haven't seen anything actually made.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
@matthew_d_green people seem not to get this. if your ethical position is not baked into your implementation, it is optional.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 months
"Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it."
@dystopiabreaker
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@penumbrazone @zcash in addition, you have to build a network that picks up mainstream adoption from legitimate uses, to avoid being labeled as something only “ne'er-do-wells” use. @penumbrazone is a good example of this approach: fast, usable tooling with a multi-token, bridged, asset pool that can
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
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🌕🌖🌗🌘⚫ ₊˚⊹♡⋆⭒˚༝༚༝༚ ˖°
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
3 years
the web3 urge to ignore the critics and make things
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 months
zcash is frankly the only thing that has come close to these needs, but we know now that structural and financial interoperability was another requirement
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
9 months
I'll be speaking at @CosmoverseHQ in Istanbul tomorrow, offering a primer on Namada and some fun developments to the network. I hope to see you there!
@namada
Namada
9 months
@motherpredicate , Head of Community at Heliax, will grace the conference with a session on October 2, 3:30 pm - 3:50 pm. The talk aims to recalibrate the discourse around modular privacy for the interchain.
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
yeah ok i'm in denver let's hang
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
hearing that they may use subpoenaed menstrual tracker data to figure out which women are getting abortions right now in 2022 makes me feel like there's no way this shouldn't be a top priority across the market. no one should have a right to your data without your permission.
@provenauthority
evin 🪩
2 years
Blockchains will strengthen surveillance capitalism unless we prioritize privacy. Like, immediately.
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chicxulub✴️
3 years
@danhwang88 @statelayer Yeah this is one of the reasons $SOL in particular isn't a project I'm particularly stoked on. Projects with good use cases like @cosmos and @Polkadot get me, because they make sense, price or not. All this other shit is no longer why I'm here.
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
@dystopiabreaker way to say the quiet part out loud. crypto is made up of people who didn't fit into society's boxes. an economy of dissidents.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
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peneba
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@penumbrazone
penumbra 🌘
1 month
what is the key
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
sometimes throughout the week i'll get really stressed out about work, or life, or anything. and then i eat a good meal or sleep well or run and realize that it was probably just a lack of one of those things that was stressing me out. take care of your health first, friends.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
my key point: build your ecosystems with open primitives at the core in order to encourage rapid innovation and high optionality, then make sure those primitives are maintained. (ty @Figment_io for the fleeky presentation template)
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
i'm giving this talk at 4p local / 10a EST in paris at @NebularParis . you can tune into the livestream here, i'd love to see what you think of mutualist structures existing in the @cosmos :
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
y'all ain't going to like to hear this but building web3 for secure use on mobile devices is probably the only way we'll onboard the next 1b
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
11 months
It seems to me that many in crypto have been missing the web2 market move toward PETs (privacy-enhancing technologies). W/o privacy by default, blockchain can easily be seen as surveillance tech. This can and will be used against it unless we catch up.
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chicxulub✴️
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@findmyke @daylightco feature reduction (devices doing fewer things, but very well) is absolutely a demand from users. no one needs a fridge that can read your text messages. there are many of us out there who actually want to break addiction to technology and encourage more person to person
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
@pseudotheos @vivianphung before 'digital nomads' there was a thing called 'backpacking' that we millenials used to do. and yeah, eventually you get tired, then you want to go home to the people you know and the community you want to build.
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
we care a lot about governance at @Figment_io this is careless governance.
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chicxulub✴️
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maybe a hot take but i don’t think anything on the market right now meets a real definition for digital money everyone is building structures that prop up other structures and the point of the whole thing feels completely lost 1/10
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
we're very proud to announce that @Figment_io 's Learn division is backing the creation of a new DAO to get web devs started buidling applications in Web3! follow along and take part if you're a green dev who is interested in learning more, so that we can buidl a future we want.
@TheBuilderDAO
Builder DAO
2 years
Let’s build a better internet together 🌇 As a first step, we’re creating a learning platform in collaboration with our friends at @ArweaveTeam @ceramicnetwork @Figment_io @graphprotocol @PythNetwork @solana But we can’t do this alone. Come join us!🤝
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
@NickSmithMay @doctorow @pitdog75 the fun thing is that this design language has been kicking around in Bolivia for a really long time (I'm Bolivian), but it finally has reached the stage that people are noticing. the next step is having buildings like these not having their facades built out of cheap plaster 😅
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chicxulub✴️
3 years
thing is, this is how we should be looking at pricing. what is valuable in human society? is it really technology? no. it's culture.
@packyM
Packy McCormick
3 years
Turns out this pullback was a classic flight to $PEOPLE
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chicxulub✴️
10 months
Reminder: We host weekly discussions on the nature and culture of privacy in the @namada discord. This week's call will ask the question "What is the anatomy of privacy?" You can join us at 1600UTC here:
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
that nervous feeling at the end of a long day of feeling like there's something else you should have done
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
what if staking interfaces added an option for you to donate a certain percentage of your staking returns to funding both on and off-chain public goods? would you opt in?
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chicxulub✴️
11 months
join me and others in the @namada discord next week on tuesday 1/8 at 18:00CET/12:00p/EST to discuss the question "has privacy failed?" your participation will kickstart the Private Library, a weekly discussion group focused on increasing privacy literacy
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
let's talk about how 'turbulence' applies to bear/bull markets. turbulence is a system in flux, where stable states are a return to the norm, like heating water in a pot returning to room temp. if you keep applying energy, however, sometimes you enter a new state:
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
excited about @laconicnetwork this is what actual free market mutualism can create - incentive structures around maintaining tailored state data that can then be made valuable to others as a self-sustaining public good.
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chicxulub✴️
3 years
🎊 we're hiring btw 🎊
@ForbesCrypto
Forbes Crypto
3 years
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian blockchain infrastructure and services provider Figment raised $110 million in Series C funding at a $1.4 billion valuation: by @ninabambysheva
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chicxulub✴️
1 year
@coinfessions hilarious to me that there are people out there who really thought/think that ftx counted as crypto
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chicxulub✴️
10 months
i hope you heal from the things you don't talk about
@pseudotheos
pseudo 📜🇺🇦
10 months
it’s been a rough week for me. call your family and tell them that you appreciate them, especially if it’s been a while or you’re far away from home. you only have a limited amount of time with them. recognize this and cherish it
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
if crypto is an ecology of intentions, the missing piece is a discovery mechanism for settling these intentions. people can't settle arbitrary intentions without finding or already knowing a counterparty who wants to fulfill the intention.
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
we should stop considering crypto from the perspective of an economy and instead consider it more deeply as an ecology of intentions that are finding their best fit within this: -what are the trophic levels, -who are the predators, -what are the resources to compete over?
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chicxulub✴️
2 years
some VCs get lucky in a couple of tranches and then really do tweet things like "i back three major infra projects, here's how I found my success, here's how I do it 👇 every day i drink bat blood and wake up at 2am to go scuba diving"
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chicxulub✴️
5 months
so I have three separate friends whose entire relationship with me is sending me pictures of their dog outside and me messaging back some variation of THAT IS THE BEST DOG I would change nothing about this relationship
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
10 months
weekly reminder of the @namada Private Library calls, our next one will discuss how trust factors into privacy. you can join the call in our discord at 1600UTC on 8/29 here:
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chicxulub✴️
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a good reminder that the airdrop period for @penumbrazone has been extended in adjustment to the github connection permissions having been set too high go get your $UM!
@penumbrazone
penumbra 🌘
7 days
THE VOID SUN SPEAKS. It has been noticed that the PENUMBRA airdrop claims period for has not ended. Instead - the portal for claims will remain open for 7 more days, closing on June 27th at UTC23:30.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
10 months
@namada 's mission is to ensure that account-level privacy is accessible across all networks that connect to the protocol. This ensures that we can move to a paradigm where it simply doesn't make sense not to use privacy-forward technology.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
11 months
a reminder to everyone interested in @namada : we hold weekly discussions in our discord on the nature and culture of privacy - this week's will be on the question of 'what can't exist without privacy?', tomorrow (8/8) at 4pUTC you can join us here:
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
IT'S HAPPENING!!!! as many of you know, i exclusively use @Neeva and promote it to just about everyone. as a protocol researcher, getting search engine results i'm looking for is an imperative - and this platform does just that. now they're doing web3.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
thinking about how last night at dinner @adrian_brink said that if the US collapses California would choose to join the EU
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
we're going to see a lot of stupid DAOs before we see a lot of not-stupid DAOs and if we're not careful the former might kneecap the latter
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
5 months
mindset is everything, and honey - your mindset if you haven't had enough sleep is bound to be absolute horseshit.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
do you want to make everyday citizens who might otherwise resist their tyrannical govt angry at the west? because this is how you do it.
@bantg
banteg
2 years
Slack reportedly deleted all business accounts which were paid for using Russian cards without any warning. People have lost an immense amount of work data.
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
3 years
Hello🌐! Figured I should actually introduce myself by now. I'm Pan - I write and think about things in the Web 3 space. Read along to take a journey into the ethics of a web-native civilization. Follow me to take part in building it together! 🌌
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@motherpredicate
chicxulub✴️
2 years
banning russian people's involvement from everything is a quick and easy way to lean russian sentiment in the direction of supporting pooty-boi's authoritarian tendencies.
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