Our next Brighton Blockchain talk is on Thursday! Paragliding instructor @tigercox will be talking about how blockchain systems could be used in some innovative ways. It will also be streamed online for those who can't make it in person!

Ethereum

Hot take: People who say 'there are no apps' are people who aren't using apps, aren't looking for apps, and haven't even downloaded a web3-enabled wallet. They keep their crypto on a CEX and have never spent ETH in their life.

eurovision

Who else is hyped for Eurovision this year? Only 2 months to go!

Current favourites to win, according to polymarket, are Sweden -

Who else is hyped for Eurovision this year? Only 2 months to go!

Current favourites to win, according to polymarket, are Sweden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3HOMhAeQY

Football

Arsenal really love red cards, don't they?

I'm giving a talk on Thursday! If you're not in the great city of Brighton, you can join in online:

Chris Wood has more FPL points than Erling Haaland.
Let that sink in...

can't decide whether to name my firstborn 'ethereum' or 'vitalik'. 

Guess I've just got to have 2 kids.

I thought this was a really useful simplification of Vitalik's recent posts: https://x.com/evan_van_ness/status/1851499710835748939

Does anyone else know of any ELI5-style explainers of Vitalik's blog posts? Or ELI5-style ethereum resources in general

ETHEREUM ROADMAP EXPLAINER FOR THE REST OF US, part 1 

This thread will attempt to dumb down @VitalikButerin's series so that even the your average political science major like me can understand it

Let's discuss part 1, "The Merge" which happened on September 15, 2022

Why is a… https://t.co/eXePhyeVzH

Evan Van Ness 🧉

The thing I disliked the most about Erik Ten Hag was that people would refer to him by his initials - ETH - and I would think they were talking about Ethereum

Danny Welbeck, at 33 years old, is in the form of his life.

Kraken have launched a new layer 2 called 'Ink', as part of the optimism superchain.

Kraken have launched a new layer 2 called 'Ink', as part of the optimism superchain. https://optimism.mirror.xyz/drKakVebAJU874Kb3B67cHDicsyiidTfQNfieRvbbgI

Founders

We’ve just released our latest State of Crypto report.

It shares insights on key trends — like stablecoins, L2s, and AI — plus, crypto’s rise as a hot policy issue, new data on builders and users, and much more.

Here are 7 top takeaways ⬇️

1. Crypto activity and usage hit all-time highs
2. Crypto has become a key political issue ahead of the U.S. election
3. Stablecoins have found product-market fit
4. Major scaling upgrades have drastically reduced onchain transaction costs
5. DeFi remains popular — and it’s growing
6. Crypto could solve some of AI’s most pressing challenges
7. More scalable infrastructure has unlocked new onchain applications

Check out the full report: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2024/

Thomas Tuchel will become the next manager of England

Thomas Tuchel will become the next manager of England https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cr4x9p221gpo

The Superchain 🔴🔵⚪️🟡🟢⚫️

🔴 Use the Superchain, and reap the benefits 🔴

Today, @Optimism unveils Airdrop #5:

Onchain together, benefit together.

10M+ OP has been allocated to 54k+ unique addresses.

As of today, roughly 550M OP remains for future airdrops.

Just got 500 OP, yay! The most insane thing about this is it's only using 2% of the total OP allocated for airdrops.
In other words, there will be 49 more airdrops like this!

Thought this was interesting...
Countries with the highest number of FPL managers:

(Source: https://www.livefpl.net/countries)

The current favourites to win the premier league on @polymarket are: Arsenal.

The current favourites to win the premier league on @polymarket are: Arsenal.

https://polymarket.com/event/premier-league-winner-24-25/arsenal-wins-the-premier-league?tid=1727777346508

Music

Let's not forget that Camila Cabello basically invented brat summer

Let's not forget that Camila Cabello basically invented brat summer https://youtu.be/o1MbG4ZmUbQ?si=FQWkWVNVO8fwoL3j

Maybe the real store of value is the friends we made along the way

Founder of Brighton Blockchain: https://www.meetup.com/brighton-blockchain/ |
Optimism delegate: https://vote.optimism.io/delegates/milob.eth
www.milobowman.com

Milo Bowman 🎩 🇬🇧

@milob