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¡Buenos días! Visiting Argentina next month, and was just curious whether crypto is something a fair number of people use in their daily lives, e.g. for transactions and to send/receive money from abroad? Was also wondering whether USD stablecoins can be used to get pesos at the blue dollar rate?
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #197 by @mattdesl on @artblocks and in the collection of @jwpe Right: My photo of giant ferns taken in Amboró National Park, Bolivia, January 2025.
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Wrote a really long essay recently outlining some thoughts on why and how we should look at NFTs as status assets. This was inspired by 6529's New Year tweet thread on NFTs and the discourse on NFT rarity that ensued. My central thesis is that rarity is just one of many dimensions that NFTs will accrue value in the future. Instead, it is more useful to think in terms of how status competition between different market participants will lead to different types of NFTs being desired. https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/fpPPk3A81vRinrXN6XB0GGcmu8L7A4p4_4VhHDEZRqY
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Lens 126, Ring 1, Position 22 - Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Bloodrush to the head as I witness the beating heart of a novel hypersculpture—digitised flows of cryptic symbols pumped straight into its veins by the quivering, throbbing rhythm of the World Computer. 🩸
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Some thoughts on NFTs: - Framing them as status assets - Analysing how status-seeking strategies by different groups of crypto participants drive demand for NFTs in different ways https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/fpPPk3A81vRinrXN6XB0GGcmu8L7A4p4_4VhHDEZRqY
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #285 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken underwater at Cenote Nicte-Ha, Quintana Roo, Mexico, August 2024.
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CT is talking about swarms of AI agents, but here we have friends at home orchestrating swarms of cyborg insects https://mothership.sg/2025/01/spore-japan-scientists-cyborg-insect/
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #315 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of the flowery interior of Iglesia de San Lorenzo (Church of Saint Lawrence) in the town of Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, August 2024.
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #484 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: Video of me harvesting ripe coffee fruits on a finca I was volunteering at in Abejorral, Colombia, September 2024. (Sorry for disrupting the Monochrome Monday series!)
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🎄 Merry Christmas in advance! 🎄 Featuring Dulce, one of the dogs at the rescue centre my wife and I were volunteering at in Peru over the past two weeks. Gonna travel from the Andes to the Amazon tonight, and will be off the grid for a couple of days.
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #334 by @mattdesl on @artblocks in the collection of @blockbird Right: My photo taken while trekking in the Pumahuanca Valley between the town of Urubamba and Pumahuancajasa Pass (4,780m) in Peru, December 2024
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vul3V34ht677St - part of the final iterations of @qubibi's mimizu algorithm exhibited by Nguyen Wahed and launched on @highlight An early Christmas present to myself 🎄
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #275 by @mattdesl on @artblocks in the collection of @hereforthis Right: My photo of the Supertree Grove at the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, May 2017. At least twice a night, the Supertree Grove erupts into a riot of colour and sounds as the Gardens puts on a light and music show there.
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #353, with the fiery and foreboding "Volcano" palette, by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: Photo taken while walking around Hong Kong in July 2018. The rich, warm hues in the photo reflect the city’s latent energy, and perhaps foretell the unfortunate chaos that would befall it the next year.
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Left: Terraforms parcel #2512 located within the breathtaking Alto zone of the Hypercastle. Right: Me breathless after trekking up to Palomani Pass (5,200m above sea level), Ausangate mountain, Peru. Photo taken by my wife, December 2024.
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #59 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: Photo taken by me of Chefchaouen, Morocco, at nightfall, March 2016. [Note: Just made it back for #MeridianMondays in the nick of time after five days of trekking in the Peruvian Andes.]
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The online self may soon be founded upon a squad of agents manifesting simulated identities. From my latest blog post (link in quoted cast).
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"The Remarkable Life of Ibelin" is a deeply moving documentary on Netflix about the life of a World of Warcraft player. I watched it while cooped up in an overnight bus in Peru, and it spurred a lot of reflections regarding the general phenomenon of life online and my personal digital identities. Penned down some further thoughts about how I think our sense of self is likely to further fragment and be taken on weirder tangents in the future, as technologies like digital properties (aka NFTs) become enshrined and AI agents start simulating our very selves. Sharing my essay here in case there's any interest! https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/czuDG6cYCiF4SThIgC_P1EyMmABSvv3_w3Q0IAk1tXg
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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #221 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: Photo taken by me of Tbilisi, Georgia, at sunset, June 2015.
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Left: BITFRAMES #335, by @mattdesl on @highlight in support of Generative, an upcoming documentary on generative art Right: Meridian #820, also by @mattdesl but on @artblocks
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