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Contents may be true, proceed with caution - Art, technology, and freedom
Joined December 2017
There are three main avenues in digital art collecting. Each avenue's mostly filled with people driven by the same thing... but that thing is different for each avenue. We're all welcome on any path, but we should switch our lens when switching roads. Avenue E's values aren't
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governments look at fertility collapse and see a spreadsheet problem birth rate down? offer tax credits still down? subsidize childcare still down? import replacement population they cannot comprehend that the problem isn't economic we built an individualistic civilization
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@camhigby As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters,
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@niftygateway If only there had been a company who's mission was automating the preservation of such data @club_nft . O wait! There was...and people didn't see the value in...so they had to shut down.
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For those who might need assistance backing up the metadata associated with any Nifty Gateway NFTs...which will be needed in the event they don't move the metadata onchain prior to shutdown. **Simply withdrawing the NFTs from @niftygateway to your wallet may NOT preserve them**
Nifty Gateway is shutting down, and they’re negligently destroying millions of dollars of NFTs One of the first NFT marketplaces before OpenSea, their ethos was to simply copy traditional auction houses. Centralized custodial wallets, credit cards over crypto, web2 servers
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An important, and perenially underrated, aspect of "trustlessness", "passing the walkaway test" and "self-sovereignty" is protocol simplicity. Even if a protocol is super decentralized with hundreds of thousands of nodes, and it has 49% byzantine fault tolerance, and nodes fully
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Rutherford Chang: Hundreds and Thousands opens this Saturday at UCCA Beijing, China's leading contemporary art institution a retrospective of Chang's major works, curated by Philip Tinari and Aki Sassamoto. The exhibition occurs during the anniversary of Rutherford Chang's
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After reviewing the Senate Banking draft text over the last 48hrs, Coinbase unfortunately can’t support the bill as written. There are too many issues, including: - A defacto ban on tokenized equities - DeFi prohibitions, giving the government unlimited access to your financial
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Fed "independence" is a myth, a story. It is the moral cover which justifies its grotesque state-sanctioned near-monopoly power over the most important market in the world: money. The Fed is never "independent" of the banking establishment. It is of, by, and for the banks. The
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@dankrad > The only major asset that really benefits from this extreme version of self-sovereignty and trustlessness that he describes is Ether ETH being the base asset does not preclude other assets on Ethereum from accruing value. On the contrary, the value of projects built on top of
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“Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free” This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( https://t.co/1F1Fe9OQPh ), and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it
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@KristyGlas Have been adopting these little guys lately...they deserve a loving home
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