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'Our task is to secure self-determination where we can, to hold back the coming dystopia where we cannot, and if all else fails, to accelerate its self-destruction' - Assange, Cypherpunks (2012). Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again.

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sad news regarding Tornado Cash case: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/14/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-found-guilty-of-money-laundering/

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I was on On The Other Side podcast talking my fave question: so what is Ethereum for, anyway? w/ @chase https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aIwP22UgiXkpJSLt9yFyN

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my brain trying to decide what to watch on Netflix

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how are people feeling about all the legal issues? seems like a lot has happened in a couple of months

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i like how the modern egalitarian airdrop requires that you have a huge twitter following, a significant GitHub account, governance contributions, become an astronaut, are a member of your local charity and church, solved world hunger 😀

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quality of episodes recently as insanely good

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my latest in CoinDesk about how the issuance debate is really about Ethereum governance: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/04/05/what-the-ethereum-communitys-staking-argument-is-really-about/

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it seems to me it's not really issuance that is at stake (heh), so much as people have a sense that EF-associated devs and researchers appear to have an outsized power. that they are not engaging in the appropriate level of 'rough consensus' from the wider set of stakeholders

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i'm v interested in the farcaster memecoins. for their utility, small or not (tipping, frames), but also there's a subtle trick to them. that since many people earn/ed rather than bought they are less inclined to sell. leading to scenarios like $degen

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do i know any fellow zksync fans?

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farcaster definitely attracting all the most interesting people

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are there any good movies channels?

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yes, i think very characteristic of farcaster. i think i have seen two memecoins i think have legs and they are $degen and $frame

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where can i see data/analytics about $degen ?

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thinking of @vitalik.eth post on a public goods memecoin. here is how i think a sustainable one would work: (a) launches via Farcaster in the $degen or $frame mould of channels, tipping, long-termism (b) it allocates a % of the token for RetroPGF (c) it is a governance token w/ a token + citizen house to allocate

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latest EthDublin speaker announced, Laurence E. Day https://ethdublin.io/#speakers

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a few weeks ago as I joke I asked someone to make me a podcast banner, riffing on Bankless, called Bonkless. and they did. then today it turns out the real Bankless had to actually use Bonkless to get around a regulation 😀

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