I didn’t anticipate how much I’d appreciate a @Jack of fewer trades. Key to progress is class traitors: Generals warning of a military-industrial complex, product managers who narc on mendacious management, and tech leaders who violate the Silicon Valley code of the white guy — never criticize each other or your noble missions to save […]
Web3 has been a very fashionable term this year, mostly for the alt-finance cartoon characters and tech world’s ultrasophisticated twitter-thread authors. It was one of the two cheat code phrases that you could use in 2021 to bypass the critical thinking of LPs when raising your first ever fund, with the other being “metaverse”. Congrats, you now have one billion dollars to deploy because you learned the trendy words and you went to a good school, glhf.
Sans façades ni limites: ce musée virtuel porté par la blockchain illustre l'avenir d'internet
Les cerveaux derrière le musée imaginé pour héberger l'œuvre digitale de Beeple à 69 millions de dollars révèlent en exclusivité pour Slate.fr les fondations du projet qui pourrait modifier notre rapport à l'art –et l'avenir du web.
arweave is a global, permanent hard drive built on two novel technologies: the blockweave, a derivative of the blockchain, and proof of access, a custom incentivised proof of work algorithm. These innovations provide truly permanent data storage for the very first time and at a massive scale.
A couple of months ago this Dispatch might have been called ‘WTF Web3?’ Today, it should be quite a bit more informed. Still, I’m in no way any kind of specialist on the topic, just spending a bit more time exploring, which is what I’d like to share here. Just a list of thoughts and things to read.
Advancing the field of token engineering in a regenerative way. Stewarding the cultivation of resources to accelerate the creation of robustly engineered models, modular tools, standards and educational opportunities.
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...