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Audience Q2: “who herevuses crypto for expenses?” … some interesting weird patterns here, like a Mexican grandma cashing out a crypto UBI grant in pesos
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Artist gave nft buyers a choice to either burning the physical art or the nft. Bruno thinks nfts cannot correspond to a physical object. Opposite thesis to
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Outside money vs inside money. Inside money = tied to a debt obligation/promise. Gold/bitcoin prototypes of outside money.
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Bruno is beating up on Saylor idea that bitcoin’s energy use is a reality feature. He thinks it is a virtuality bug. few.
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Lunch with some EF folks. I have scored this impressive commemorative coin thingie. for merge that I have totally not earned but am keeping anyway.
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Feels like getting an Apollo 11 mission badge without doing anything for it. Will take a nap and then take on the account abstraction panel at 5.
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Ok, skipping that panel. Might watch on livestream from hotel though. Only a couple of spoons left which I have to save for a social dinner (heh almost didn’t notice the spoon theory joke there 🤣)
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2 random reflection thoughts inspired by a chat with merge orchestrator Premature ossification is the root of all evil Sufficiently delayed ossification is indistinguishable from cancer Question is how do dowse for the ossification sweet spot? 🤔
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It is both impressive and worrisome how EIP numbers are used by everybody as an arcane set of nouns that stand for hairballs of ideas. Like constitution amendment numbers except there’s way more of them. 😰
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And Day 3 wrapped with a rather intense but fun dinner from longnow roped me into, with a bunch of people from EF and Had some excellent pasta. I take back what I said before. Colombia can do great vegetarian food when it tries.
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Thought I shared at dinner: current magical/demonic vibe of zk proof subculture is like Lovecraftian horror of general relativity in the 1920s, when lines like “obtuse angles that looked acute” actually scared people. The magic vibe will dissipate and this will be boring in 30y.
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gm Late start today since I was getting my newsletter out. Indirectly inspired by the dinner gathering last night. Now to shower and once more unto the breach for the final day.
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New studio post: Scintillation Points. studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/scintillatio
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Taking a lazy day. Hung out, chatted with some folks, got lunch with other folks, now nap time till another chat at 4 and maybe a bit of the closing ceremonies.
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Guy from EFF, Kurt Osphal, doing a thing on civil liberties. I guess the closing ceremonies won’t be just song and dance.
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Moar dancing. I think the ones in white are the kids from the opening ceremony. Anyhow I guess that’s it for Devcon. Got a dinner to go to and I head back tomorrow. Then I think I have several weekends of homework to do to actually grok wtf this was all about.
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DevCon adventure wraps with a chill Japanese dinner with EF gang. Unless something crypto-ey happens on the way to the airport tomorrow morning, this live thread is a wrap. I think I’ll write a proper reflections post, and if I do I’ll link it here. But for now, gn.
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Uneventful ride to airport with no crypto elements (did have an expired credit card moment in Uber app though). Now hanging out at Juan Valdez cafe with my cafe con leche. Flight isn’t for 3h but there was not enough time to do any interesting tourism. El Dorado airport v. nice.
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