RIP to the anarchist we didn't deserve, but the one we need right now.

RIP to the anarchist we didn't deserve, but the one we need right now. 

https://artreview.com/james-c-scott-much-referenced-anarchist-thinker-1936-2024/

The amount of vapid back-and-forth paperwork for banking in South Africa is truly astounding, and so far in my experience, it can all be easily forged by someone with a laptop and some free time -- it's security through bureaucratic friction, and a reminder that even with current bad UX, web3 is going to absolutely annihilate the legacy systems once it really gets going. Keep building folks, I want out of this hard place between human and software object.

programming

There's a fascinating analogy between coding in python using hyper-optimized vectorized libraries (numpy, cupy, torch...), and living in Singapore.

In python, whatever you're not vectorizing takes the longest, even if it's utterly trivial. Literally picking merkle branches out of a pre-built tree is taking me longer than an entire fast fourier transform.

In Singapore, whatever you get from international brands (as opposed to eg. hawker centers) is the most expensive, even if it's utterly trivial. I've literally had meals where the starbucks green tea I had right after a hawker center meal cost more than the meal.

Also Singapore wasn't compiled into a running process the same way a lot of other countries were. They had to interpret themselves into one, and it shows

Ethereum

It was on this day, 8 years ago that I was woken up by @thegrifft's call telling me that our creation, the DAO, was being drained.

That started the most stressful summer of my life, with hacking, forking, counter-hacking.

For better or for worse that summer changed ethereum forever.

I remember sitting at Thu Kar Yeik tea shop downtown Yangon, sipping tea and refreshing etherscan to watch a bank robbery happen in real time. It was very hard to explain to passing friends what was so interesting about what I was looking at, but it was fun to try.

I can't believe my bank uses SMS to confirm my identity for wire transfers. 

Even my 2001 Rav4 has passkey 2fa enabled (90s anti-theft tech is pretty fun; I've also got a huge bolt that runs through the gearbox).

europoooooor

humpty

I selected 'crypto' as an interest because I thought it was a kind of self-identity tag that I could add in case people looking in searches might stumble upon my tweet...er, cast. 

What have I done? 🙀

Protocol Narrative Specialist.  🟢🔴⚫ alignment. Chaotic good at my best, chaotic neutral by default. 

Mgkbr

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