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ENS stories: libretto.eth
> The earliest operas, beginning in 1597 with Ottavio Rinuccini’s Dafne, set to music by Jacopo Peri, were court entertainments, and as a commemoration the words were printed in a small book, or “libretto.”
> [today] it is text of an opera, operetta, or other kind of musical theatre. It is also used, less commonly, for a musical work not intended for the stage. A libretto may be in verse or in prose; it may be specially designed for a particular composer, or it may provide raw material for several; it may be wholly original or an adaptation of an existing play or novel.
From: https://www.britannica.com/art/libretto
Pages from an 1859 libretto for Ernani, with the original Italian lyrics, English translation and musical notation for one of the arias (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libretto) 0 reply
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ENS stories: concertina.eth
Concertina is a musical instrument that resembles accordion.
It was developed independently in both England and Germany. The English version was invented in 1829 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, while Carl Friedrich Uhlig introduced the German version five years later, in 1834.
Various forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional music of Ireland, England, and South Africa, and for tango and polka music.
It has historically been a favorite instrument among people who travel often (due to its small and compact size), leading it to be a common instrument among soldiers, sailors, and cowboys. One was even brought aboard Robert Peary's 1891 expedition of the Greenland Arctic. Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented nearly 100 years after the heyday of piracy in North America.
Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOyuuAR9O-k
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During the 2021 bull run, and the boom of ENS domain prices in 2022, many blamed "domain squatters", for raising prices unreasonably. "They register domains they don't need", they said.
I always supported that domain traders are good for the ecosystem. They took a risk, when almost no one else believed in ENS (or even knew about it). Yes, *you* think everyone is interested in .eth names, but the reality is only a few thousand people in the world do.
Two years later:
- .eth domain prices are down more than 90%
- hundreds of domains expire every day, and no one renews them.
- yet, some users are still bullish and keep renewing thousands of domains
Domain traders took (and keep taking) the risk of investing in an asset that did not have sufficient demand yet, and so far most of them are deep in the red.
But they had a positive contribution to the ecosystem: The ENS DAO holds $130M in it's reserves, it wouldn't if it wasn't for them. 2 replies
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