And that's a wrap
@EFDevconnect
!!
I attended 512 events in 7 days spending an average of 110 seconds at each one.
Here's a deepdive into all my learnings 🧵
Keep an eye out for your friendly crew of Devcon helpers at the airport once you arrive!
They’ll help you order your Uber Comfort and clear any doubts!
Nos vemos pronto!
#DevconVI
Many think the Ethereum Foundation organizes all ETH events. Nope.
The only EF-organized events are Devcon & Devconnect. All others are independent. Yup, all of ‘em.
Just one more example of why the Ethereum community is amazing 🦄
Taking time off post-Devcon and repping
@ETHLatam
in one of LatAm’s most iconic places ⛰️
Maybe now is a good time to go touch some grass.
Remember to never store your assets on a custodial exchange. Trade, and move off. Not your keys not your corn, as the Incans said I think
The best way to find a job in crypto is to volunteer and just start contributing.
Interested in writing? Join the
@ethdotorg
Writers Cohort starting May 11th ✍️
Grow your knowledge and build your presence.
Don't just consume, contribute! 👇
Brother you are mistaken :) He means anyone can run a *full node* where you can download and verify the blockchain independently. Not a validating node/staking node. Full nodes are just as important, if not more important than validating nodes for network security, and it's vital
2023 New Year’s resolution:
- Travel less
- Find home base
- Settle down
2023 first 30 days:
- 4 continents
- 8 countries
- 12 cities
😵😴
But all will be worth it.
Announcements coming soon 🦄🤫
ETHDenver was fun, but what’s up with the sponsor selection? Why was Hedera invited to be a top sponsor?
Also BNB Chain, Stellar, etc
Why are we giving these projects legitimacy?
To other ETH event organizers: sponsors impact your event’s reputation. Not all money is worth it.
Gave a talk on the basics of PoS vs PoW and The Merge at
@ETHLatam
in Buenos Aires!! 🇦🇷
If you are new to the ecosystem, this talk is for you!
📺👉
Ps. Congrats to the organizers & community for such an amazing event 💪
Visited Turkey 3 weeks ago. The community was resolute on the impact crypto could be bring for their people.
Then this earthquake 😢
Now they just convinced foundations to allow crypto donations for the first time!
Lets prove them right & show the power of borderless donations
Türkiye 🇹🇷 & Syria 🇸🇾 are in a of state emergency.
If you want to contribute to the earthquake relief efforts, you can send your donations to this Ethereum address:
0xe1935271D1993434A1a59fE08f24891Dc5F398Cd
Funds will go directly to the NGO
@ahbap
Let's spread the word!🕊
"Ethereum Fire Drill" — who's down to help design and run so we can be extra prepared to recover from an actual 51% attack? IMHO we will see 51% attacks on Ethereum (and Bitcoin for that matter) in our lifetimes!
At least recovery is possible in PoS! In PoW it is not 💀
Best way to get a job in crypto? Just start contributing!
If you like languages, sign up for the
@ethdotorg
“Translatathon” and help translate content to make Ethereum even more global 🌎
Starts Thursday!
Don’t just consume. Contribute:
Disconnecting. Southward bound on the motorcycle.
Wild camping on the Bolivian salt flats. Now on Ruta 40 heading south through Argentina. Soon Chile, then Patagonia.
Final destination: Ushuaia 🏔️
For the first time I’m seeing most projects by default launch on rollups, use 4337 / smart accounts, and some even experiment with AI to improve user experience / flows.
@ETHGlobal
NYC has me optimistic we’re getting closer to the UX we need for mass adoption.
Ethereum tiene un roadmap de desarrollo previsto para los próximos 10 años. El año pasado se completó The Merge, ¿qué podemos esperar ahora?
@skylar_eth
se suma como speaker para profundizar sobre los próximos pasos de Ethereum 🚀
BTC Maxis in the replies seem distraught over ETH Salvador 2024. Meanwhile many reasonable bitcoiners came to learn, who realize Bitcoin and Ethereum both have their unique purposes.
Congrats to the ETH Salvador 2024 team. Great program with technical topics from Rollups to Zero
This photo is missing two important members
@eth_adam
and
@JBSchweitzer
who both played a huge part in the success of Devconnect IST🦄
Adding the real team photo here 👇
(ps guys you need to smile more in photos 🤣)
Thank you to all the wonderful individuals who joined Devconnect! 🦄
Our team is so happy about what this intense Ethereum week had to offer. We are incredibly proud of the many organizers, and grateful for all of you 🥹 💗
Volunteering at ethereum events is awesome.
✅ make friends from day 1
✅ great way to learn a LOT
✅ free access and swag
✅ looks great on the resume
✅ contribute to ethereum’s impact
Best way to start working full time in crypto is to just start contributing.
📢 Attention Ethereum community
Don't miss out on the chance to join our team and make a difference at Devconnect Istanbul. The deadline for volunteer applications is soon – October 1st! 🗓️
Apply here:
Volunteers are the backbone of the community! 🚀
🎉 Get ready for Devconnect Istanbul 2023! 🇹🇷
👉 Save the date: 13-19 Nov 2023
Let's gather for a week of distributed independent events, bringing together the community to dive deep into discussions and drive serious progress for Ethereum.
Read on👇
How nice that the Dencun launch happened during Day 1 of
@ETHLatam
, an event focused on a region that will really benefit from cheaper Rollup fees.
Ethereum should be globally accessible equally for all, and EIP-4844 is one big step towards that goal.
I don’t think this is an unpopular take.
IMO crypto can make the biggest positive impact in developing regions. In many ways it levels the playing field globally.
Had a blast speaking and learning at the inaugural
@SpaghettEth
with the surprisingly strong Italian Ethereum community 💪🇮🇹
Congrats
@matlepunk
@mariamagenes1
👏
Can’t wait for the next one! 🤌🍝
Fun times in Ankara 🇹🇷 for the Ready! Set! Devconnect! event with the
@odtublockchain
blockchain club. Türkiye’s student clubs continue to impress me 🫡
Nice event all! See you soon in Istanbul (the second best city in Türkiye??? 🤔😅)
¡La comunidad de Ethereum está presente en
#ETHVolcano
🌋!
Desde desarrolladores, abogados hasta entusiastas, todos estamos aquí aprendiendo y compartiendo conocimientos👏
not attending denver but am attending
@ethvolcano_
and
@ethlatam
. this is a very important year. people should not forget that we are building ethereum for the whole world not just the western world. hope to see you there 🫡
not attending denver or any travel in coming months, fully heads down. this is a very important year. people should not forget that the
#1
priority is shipping, and shipping, and shipping more.
Fun event yesterday in Adana, Türkiye. Cool to see that even in very small towns in the south, there is knowledge and big interest in crypto and ethereum.
The people of Türkiye are poised to play a big part in the creation and adoption of this next version of the internet.
Dün Adana’da Ethereum’un vizyonunu yaymaya çalıştık. Sizler için konuşmaların aklımda kalan kısımlarıyla kısa özetini çıkardım:
Ben
@EFDevconnect
’in Türkiye için ne kadar önemli olduğunu ve makus kaderimizi değiştirebilecek potansiyele sahip olduğunu anlatmaya çalıştım.
🌟 New year, new horizons! 🦄
Get ready for Devcon Southeast Asia, and join us from November 12-15 for a gathering that promises to resonate across the region.
Where exactly will we meet? 👀 Check out the blog and read about our new vision! 👇
LIVE from beautiful ISTANBUL: Women demonstrates impressive negotiation skills while purchasing flowers on the streets of Osmanbey. She even did the Walk-Away 👏👏
Take notes 📝😁
Yesterday was the Dencun upgrade, and today we're thrilled to announce the Devcon SEA venue!
Devcon is a 4-day conference, all in one venue, happening between 12-15 November. And Devcon Week will span the entire week of November 9-17 ✨👾🦄
Read more:
Congrats Ana! You're an inspiration for many.
To everyone else reading this and also wanting to land a job in crypto: Just start contributing. No permission needed!
Let's keep creating communities and education on Ethereum around the world. No need to ask 😄
💙,🧡 I am thrilled to share that I have started a new chapter in my Ethereum journey as Community Manager for the
@arbitrum
Foundation.
Thank you
@Arbitrum
Foundation and
@OffchainLabs
team, for your unwavering support.
Read the full announcement
Tron's popularity should not be dismissed. In Argentina it was notable. It really is cheap! (ofc b/c it's centralized). Ethereum mainnet won't compete on price.
But *rollups* can compete, while being cheap *and* secure. Let's elevate rollups and make Ethereum accessible for all.
The ethereum roadmap is ever-evolving:
Confused by how rollups fit? Wen 'Eth2'? What's the surge, verge, etc? How do other L1s offer cheap fees?
Gave a talk at
@EthereumRio
to make it clear:
🌟Scaling Ethereum (without shortcuts)🌟
Full talk:
Summary🧵
🚀 Devconnect September Updates 🚀
Discover the latest updates on our blog, including:
🦄 Reasons why you should attend Devconnect
🦄 A list of all events with open ticket sales and applications
🦄 All current updates
Enjoy the read!
jk this is the wrist of the AMAZING
@mr_ligi
🤩
hope you all didn't actually attend that many events and instead had some real learnings and made good progress.
thank you all for making Devconnect great 🙏
Correction: for $350/month you can have *someone else* run a node in *their* datacenter.
If you want to actually run your own Solana node, you need costly hardware + 10Gbps internet, which excludes most developing regions and most people in our world 😔
For 350$/month, you can run your own Solana node in ~5 mins
1. Go to
@latitudesh
and get the machine in the screenshot (you could actually get by with lower specs if you know what you're doing)
2. Run this open-source script
the end
If you're interested in Ethereum the protocol and have NOT yet read through the latest Ethereum Researcher AMA on Reddit ... wut u doin??
a literal gold mine of protocol alpha and info on the future of Ethereum 👇
Fui yo hace 3 días cenando con
@aroisenzvit
en Buenos Aires 🤣
Me fascinó 🤯 Más países necesitan soda así.
Un punto más para venir y vivir en Argentina 🇦🇷
Moved to Thailand in 2017
First apartment $136/mo
100% of disposable income into blue chips every month
$1.90 chicken rice pictured below
Live like this and you can make it too
EL SALVADOR 🇸🇻 is about to welcome its first ever Ethereum conference
ETH Salvador: March 9, free for all, 100% educational
Come experience the warm weather, great people, surf, volcanos, and paying for things with Bitcoin (which is... interesting 😅)
kuala lumpur is blowing my mind so far
blend of tropical forest & futurist city. has everything you need. affordable. vibe is chill. seems safe. too early to judge yet but about to fall in love
this is what i see from my window
Living in Asia while most of your contacts are in Americas & Europe is like a cheat code for achieving a nice Maker's Schedule / Managers Schedule balance
Scheduled meetings morning or at night.
Flexibility, focus, and freedom during the day.
Blobs, Blobspace, and EIP-4844 are coming to ethereum. Not sure what that means? Props to
@domothy
for creating an easy-to-understand summary on it all here:
👏👏
🎉 Many have been asking, finally we can share: we're excited to announce a location has been chosen for Devconnect!
Before we reveal where, let us first explain *why* we chose this unique place and what it offers to our global Ethereum community. Read on 👇
Those who say PoW is secured solely by “physics” and “energy” are confused.
How do you get the energy to mine PoW? You BUY it. With MONEY💰
Both PoW and PoS are Proof of ~Capital~
But PoW is just PoS with extra steps (and with economies of scale savings for the rich 🤑).
Proof of Work and Proof of Stake are both ~Proof of Capital~
Except one gives higher security, more decentralization, more censorship resistance, more economic efficiency, better attack recovery, and is *not* dependent on wasting energy…
And it’s coming to Ethereum in 10 days.
Me tomó casi una hora en traducir ese slide ahí en español pero lo logré 💪😅
Escucha el resto en español si quieres aprender más del Merge y Proof of Stake!
Lose your private key and lose access to your entire wallet is a *major* UX flaw. Right now most just lose funds, but soon it'll be your identity too.
We need Account Abstraction, Social Recovery Wallets, EIP-4337.
Secure, *self-custody* access to Ethereum needs to be easier 👇
Vitalik has been actively advocating for account abstraction for years. I believe this should indeed be a priority now. EOA self-custody is too complicated to be viable for many normie users. We need smart contract wallets with strong standards for things like social recovery.
@camiinthisthang
The answer is not to restrict foreign investment/presence. That would be worse. The answer is Georgism.
The locals are the ones making medellin more attractive to foreigners (safer, good restos, metro). But they don’t get the reward. The landlords do. Thats what needs to change
🗣️
@skylar_eth
, the head of Devcon & Devconnect at the Ethereum Foundation, will be joining us at notDEVCON on November 14th to deliver a keynote speech on the Future of the Web3 World!
🎫You can register to take part in notDEVCON at
What topics and themes should we feature at
@EFDevcon
this year?
Any cool speaker suggestions? Seeking non-ethereum people, like people with interesting ideas who would NOT normally think to speak at an Ethereum event!
let's brainstorm here
Super impressed by the
@EthPadThai
team.
First, great logo.
Second, great food.
Third, great team and awesome event
Southeast Asia is full of potential. Devs & users eager to learn. Glad to see the Ethereum ecosystem narrow in on this region.
Just the beginning.
#RoadToDevcon
Our last stop on the
#RoadToDevcon
was the
@ethpadthai
Songkran meetup in Bangkok! 🇹🇭🦄♥️
Big thanks to the organizing team and to all attendees who spend their Songkran holiday with us! 👏
I agree with Drankrad here. I think we should not be afraid of (and maybe event expect) temporary Ethereum downtime in the future while we continue improving it.
To be clear, not critiquing because Hedera was hacked (more that it was paused). Hard to foresee hacks.
But it’s not hard to see alignment with Ethereum values. Sadly those above projects just don’t seem to fit.
ETH events should elevate projects that align w/ Ethereum values.
Honestly super cool that Buenos Aires is building their digital identity system using open source tech on top of a public blockchain. Interoperability, transparency, verifiability FTW.
Really solidifying its position as my favorite city in LatAm 😍🇦🇷
Felicidades a todos 👏
Estamos muy contentos de anunciar que liberamos el código de
@Quark_ID
, el framework de confianza digital creado por el Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires junto con la comunidad de desarrolladores y expertos de Latinoamérica, bajo la licencia Apache 2.0.🌐🧵
Who is working on the version of RAI that allows ETH and *staked* ETH as collateral?
cc
@ameensol
know of anyone?
Gimme something with stability like DAI and decentralization like RAI 🙏
🥳 We're excited to share a first glimpse into the Devconnect schedule!
It's a work in progress & we'll see more events to come!
Which events do you wanna attend?
Remember, each event is independently hosted and ticketed. Ticket info soon available here:
สวัสดี! 🇹🇭 We just arrived in Thailand!
Join us next Monday, 15 April. We’ll celebrate Songkran, Thai New Year, with
@ethpadthai
at their meetup! 💦🔫
Bangkok, 1PM- 6PM
See the link to the agenda and to RSVP in next tweet.
Favorite event yet:
@ETHconomics
So much brain power, informative talks, and even a few controversial hot takes. Another great day ✅ at
@EFDevconnect
Also great excuse to whip out the flippening socks 🐬
Que increíble
@EthereumLima
Day! 🇵🇪
Awesome event, passionate (and growing!) community, incredible friends, and ofc great lomo saltado 🤤
Hasta pronto Peru!! 👏
Full video acá en español:
📺
Si eres un desarrollador en El Salvador no pierdas este curso👇 💻
Already lots of financial education around Bitcoin happening in El Salvador which is cool.
Now great to see more technical education on the next version of the internet also happening 🇸🇻 👏
¡Hey, tú! ¡Sí, tú! 🫵👀
Únete, aprende y crea en el Módulo 1 del Ethereum Developer Pack:
Introducción a Smart Contracts, impartida por
@gpablo06
, Senior Dev en
@API3DAO
-
@API3Latam
.
🗓️ 02 de septiembre
📍 Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado
👉
This is not how name systems should work. Name speculation / squatting is bad for everyone except for the squatter.
They buy a name (“bankless”) wait for others to make that name valuable (the actual Bankless team) and then they sell the name for unearned profit made possible
Lot's of chatter about Ethereum's PoS design lately. I'd suggest
@jneu_net
's awesome talk from
@ethconomics
for an introduction to tradeoffs in PoS protocol design and some of the unique ways Ethereum approaches it.
Also some things we could improve!
📺
Save the date! 🗓️
Join us on October 13th at 7 PM for Moda Palas with
@skylar_eth
. Thanks,
@get_clave
for drinks and pizza. Exciting Devconnect discussions await. Gain insights and connect with visionaries. See you at Planeth! 🚀
I should also say that I respect the work ETHDenver organizers do to pull off such a big and complex event. I know it’s not easy.
But I’m sharing this opinion publicly, because I think it’s important that other ETH event organizers think deeply when selecting their sponsors.
Looking for a small side event venue during Devconnect?
@planethco
was really nice! Good vibes, cool location, web3-focused. Probably you can DM them if interested.
Thank you to all our attendees, a special shoutout to
@skylar_eth
for the insightful talk, and a big round of applause to
@getclave
for the delicious pizza and beers! 🍻🙌
We can't wait to see you at our future gatherings. 🌟
Adopting Bitcoin and outlawing “Crypto” is like adopting e-mail and outlawing “the internet.”
Bitcoin will likely be important like email is still important today.
But the real innovation and potential was not in email and it is not in Bitcoin. The real innovation is in Crypto.
The SEC is correct to demand
@coinbase
stop trading in everything except
#Bitcoin
All 25,000 shitcoins are unregistered securities.
#ElSalvador
has already established this precedent - and it’s why nobody gets ripped off with shitcoins in
#BITCOIN
COUNTRY
🚨