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This is why we need solutions to fragmentation on Ethereum. Infinite gardens don't have walls.
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The unity of Ethereum doesn’t preclude healthy competition within it. In fact this makes it stronger. Just as an infinite garden can contain many ecosystems, both living in symbiosis and also - at times - fighting for resources.
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Ethereum’s strength lies in its unity: the fact that any contract can call any other; any application can benefit from the liquidity and the users of the entire platform; any contribution to the infinite garden is for the garden as a whole — not a silo within it.
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Ethereum is an alternative to the tyranny of opaque, centralized control -- and thereby offers a path toward stronger institutions, more power and choice in the hands of the people, and greater protections for people’s freedom to speak and to transact.
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App stores impose stringent requirements on developers, restricting what apps users can access. These types of restrictions can offer users a more curated set of options - but keep developers from building freely & gate users from accessing experiences they might desire.
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The same is true of other digital ecosystems beyond the world of finance.
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The experience of sending money from one bank to another, let alone from one country to another, commands high costs and frictions because each financial ecosystem has walls and barriers erected around it.
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The walled gardens of legacy financial and digital rails prevent people from accessing the experiences they demand or desire.
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Blockchains offer users, developers, and platform providers the opposite of walled gardens: open platforms for innovating, interacting, and transacting.
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A “walled garden” refers to a digital ecosystem designed to keep developers and users contained within.
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The image of “the infinite garden” is apt for describing Ethereum - a provocative foil to the “walled gardens” of the Old Internet.
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In discussing the infinite garden of Ethereum, Aya imagined an organically growing ecosystem, evolving through different seasons, with a broad biodiversity of participating creatures.
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3 years ago, at EthCC [4], @ayamiya described Ethereum as an infinite garden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWzCMqyyDDI
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Why do we need solutions to fragmentation on Ethereum? Because infinite gardens have no walls.
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Anyway, I convinced my company @EspressoSys to host the first of many happy hours at the Interval next Thursday night. If you are working in crypto in the Bay Area you should come. Hit "Request to Join" and we will approve 👇 https://lu.ma/hcspiaww
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Of course it is no coincidence because it is thanks to the work of the Long Now Foundation. https://longnow.org/
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I won't give away all the secrets of this place here. You should go check it out for yourself. But it has always felt so fitting to me that this place exists in San Francisco - the heart of so much technological change and transformation.
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Behind the bar is a piece of electronic visual art designed by Brian Eno. Its layers of colors and patterns is constantly changing - and programmed such that it should never show the same image twice in thousands of years.
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In the Japanese tradition of "bottle keep" patrons purchase an entire bottle of spirit that will be kept at the bar for them to drink on subsequent visits. At the interval, these bottles hang in round jars from the ceiling.
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Construction of The Interval has been funded by a community of over 1,200 individual supporters - including via its Bottle Keep initiative.
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