Decrypt just published my (very fun) sit-down from early November (pre-FTX revelations).
How Tezos Was Ahead of the Proof-of-Stake Merge: Web Summit 2022 (via )
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This is really unfair. I have yet to see a better impression of Regina Bookman youtube.com/clip/UgkxK_GXG
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She’s so inauthentic. Imagine falling for this shtick. Worse than an audition for a high school play
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. is aiming to modernize vehicle titling using .
's Andrew Smith explains why they chose the Tezos blockchain: "responsible consensus algorithm ... no forking problem ... its security model."
More: coindesk.com/video/how-cali
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California DMV also plans on building consumer-facing applications, including digital wallets that hold car title NFTs. fortune.com/crypto/2023/01
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Inside Variety’s Grammys 2023 Issue cover story with :
Doja Cat’s ‘Balls to the Wall’ New Era: The Grammy Winner on Rapping More, Her Viral Fashion Looks and Being a ‘Messy Bitch’ wp.me/pc8uak-1lC3Hv
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We're stoked to be named one of the 2023 startups to watch in Founders Forum Group's CEO Forecast!
Thanks for nominating us !
(This photo was from our team's month of coworking in Paris. Learn more here: dns.news/dns-x-paris-re)
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On a slightly related note: Are there artists in the ecosystem with a graphic design background who can help me with a branding exercise for a project I'm working on?
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Most of the artists that I personally collect on Tezos platforms are women so this genuinely surprised me. But check out / / / / (...missing many more) if you'd like to help this list hit gender parity
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"Why was there only 1 woman in the top 50 highest selling Tezos artists for 2022?"
The @mownamuseum OUTRAGEOUS! Exhibition asks:
"How can we make sure we are building a fair, equitable, and inclusive Web3 ecosystem?"
Link to the full catalogue 
objkt.com/asset/KT1KFncN
objkt.com/asset/KT1KFncN
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Excited to reveal my identity as the artist behind Grail #15 for III, a Polaroid photograph from the frozen Tempelfjord on Svalbard, just a few hundred miles from the North Pole 📍🥶❄️🧊
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I politely asked a champion F1 driver what sort of car he drove on civilian roads and he suggested that it was akin to asking an astronaut which commercial airline he would fly
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Carlos Sainz has been working with Ferrari on a custom car for two years, and it has finally arrived.
• Ferrari 812 Competizione
• 830 horsepower
• 211 mph top speed
It's quite an upgrade from his current car: a Volkswagen Golf gifted by his parents for his 18th birthday.
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Support Ukraine ✊🇺🇦
10 TEZ / 7 Days / Open Edition
Collaboration with on the Putin's Ashes show at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery - 100% of proceeds to troops on the frontline in Bakhmut
The first open-edition ever on powered by
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Shepard Fairey and Pussy Riot are creating an open edition of Putin’s Ashes NFT release on to raise funds to get drones for Ukrainian Special Forces fighting with evil on the frontlines.
100% will go to buy drones.
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The California DMV is experimenting with blockchain.
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Doja Cat is really the closest thing we have to an early 2010s Lady Gaga - fearless, creative, innovative… and with actual talent to back it all up
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For what it's worth, I've guest lectured at most top business schools and would welcome any press (positive or negative) for what is usually a polite-but-boring affair. Kim K is beating everyone at marketing, again
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*joke about FTX executives getting much better at dishwashing soon*
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My hobby this winter has been collecting FTX artifacts around Miami. This is a gem.
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Almost poetically, Tezos's largest upgrade is named for the largest city in the world's largest democracy 🎯
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We are happy to announce that Mumbai, the 13th #Tezos protocol upgrade proposal, is ready!
Built by @LabosNomades, @Marigold_Dev, @trilitech, @oxheadalpha, @tarides_, @dailambda and @myfunctori.
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It's annoying in the same way that Instagram ruined posts by making that feed filled with random ads
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"You might like" has ruined Twitter for me.
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Remember when Evan Van Ness knowingly lied in his shitpost on December 29th?
That type of thing is when you know it's the holidays and you have no family that loves you.
Can't blame them though. twitter.com/evan_van_ness/
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Gaming is well positioned to bring the next wave of users to web3, and #tezos is well-positioned. A 🧵:
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One of the most maddening aspects of working on Tezos is watching other projects pat themselves on the back for achieving the same milestones ... years later. Alas.
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pardon my french,
but wasn’t this possible on objkt since the 15th century? twitter.com/foundation/sta…
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Why don't airport restaurants have luggage racks the way car rental shuttles do? Saw a woman eat it tripping over a carry on in a crowded restaurant.
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"Market downturns are a time for rebuilding and for reevaluating popular assumptions," writes Tezos cofounder .
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“It seemed absolutely crazy. The idea that an Iowa housewife, equipped with the cutting-edge medical tool known as Google Images, would make a medical discovery about a pro athlete who sees doctors and athletic trainers as part of her job?” propublica.org/article/muscul
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2 years ago, I took a chance on myself and quit my day job as a designer to pursue fine art. Today, I'm having a debut solo auction at Sotheby's.
Take the leap.
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Once I accepted that LA isn't a city as much as a series of hamlets, I started to enjoy visiting it more.
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Andrew Tate's Wikipedia page is current
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The ManU store sells training gear with the Tezos logo on it and, ngl, it looks very sharp:
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My Christmas wish: Reply to this tweet with the handle of a Tezos art NFT community member that I don't follow but should.
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Great thread. One of my favorite tweets read something like, "an entrepreneur who doesn't tell your their idea is like a comedian who doesn't tell their jokes."
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No one is going to steal your idea.
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"She said, 'finance is supposed to be the substrata of our world' ... It's not supposed to be the thing itself." -
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This was one of my favorite episodes ever
broke the Enron story & has written some of the best finance books
We discuss
- the astounding similarities between Enron & FTX
- how visionaries are just frauds who succeed
- what caused 2008
-& why history repeats itself
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Yesterday, Dec. 18th, 2022, Tezos experienced a record 627,282 transactions compared to 916,817 transactions on Ethereum (i.e. 68%). This furthers the trendline of the last 2 years that has shown #Tezos continuing to quietly and organically outpace the growth of other L1 chains.
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