This presents an interesting tension. The main website is a .org, and we have .com held in reserve, and just won a $WRITE token to create a mirror.xyz subdomain. I suspect we're going to be hybrid and have use both .com and .somethingelse primaries.
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TIL... the common auction pattern on Web3 where the deadline gets extended repeatedly by late bids (kinda like overtime) is called a Coldi auction.
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It's called a Coldie auction, and afaik it was pioneered by @Coldie, who started by doing the whole thing manually
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In 2000-08, .coms were the *only* serious option, or .org if you were really a nonprofit. A .net meant you weren't savvy enough to play. In Web2, the .com hegemony began to unravel ~2010 as a few others like .io, .me, .ai, .ly began to gain alt subcultural cachet
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But the Web2 subcultural fragmentation tlds were still kinda in harmony with .com. They typically signaled a vertical orientation, but still with "dot com" basic neoliberal capitalism values/ethos. I think Web3 is signaling a fuck-you to that at an axiomatic tld level.
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Update, it's only a strict Coldie auction if you extend by 24h each late bid, because the intent is apparently global time-zone fairness. I guess the 15-minute extension model is a Coldie-like model but with other intentions (sniping defense etc)
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@withFND does not use the Coldie Method. The auction function i invented extends the bidding 24 hours for each new bid. I did this so people across the world would have equal opportunity to bid no matter what time zone they are in
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I have acquired an official Gen Z mentor. gmi.
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no problem, happy to help 
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Own = still stock thinking, the flow equivalent might be “execute” (contracts, instructions, orders) so we get rwx on global computer 🤔
All Unix metaphors then apply. chmod, chown, pipes, redirects
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web1: read
web2: read / write
web3: read / write / own twitter.com/j1mmyeth/statu…
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I suspect control rather than ownership is the core concept.
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I’m genuinely surprised by the number of people whose basic posture is “give me one real use case and convince me.” I can understand hostile rejection or just diving in to either explore or grift.
But standing around like it’s somebody’s job to win you over? That is odd.
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Simple: I don't have hours a day to spend on discord to sift the wheat from the chaff.
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That's the answer today. When there is a DAO everyone can point to as useful (an Amazon to the current dotcom bubble) that will be the answer then.
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