Mike Manning

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EPMD, Business as Usual

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Feels like a Reggae Sunday

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I’m excited to announce that we’re co-leading the $10M seed round in Merit Systems, which is building a new economic model for open source. Open source software is the lifeblood of the internet, but it’s poorly funded and too reliant on volunteer contributions. Merit is building a protocol that attributes and rewards contributors proportionally to the value they create. The goal is to enable code repositories to become the organizing unit for protocol networks, in the same way that companies are the organizing units for corporate networks. Merit was founded by @samrags and @rfs. As an @a16zcrypto investor and engineer, Sam developed Jolt, one of the fastest and most promising zkVMs. Similarly, Ryan excelled at Blockchain Capital as an investor and engineer. @mason, a gifted technologist and investor also from a16z, joined the Merit team to help them scale. We are excited to back the Merit team and support them with their ambitious mission.

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I'm streaming it on the app now! Love me some KEXP. Still have fond memories or tuning into Rap Attack every Sunday night in the '90s, when it was KCMU

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"Blockchains can help achieve the original ideals of the internet, helping keep it creative, open, and diverse." - @cdixon.eth https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/blockchain-ai-internet/

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Our @a16zcrypto winter reading list just dropped.📚 My contribution: "The Ends of the World" by Peter Brannen 🌋 https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/winter-reading-list-2024/

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"In 2025, blockchain alternatives will offer more choice, open source innovation, and community-controlled options. They will carry the torch of the open internet." - @cdixon.eth in WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/blockchain-open-web-user-data/

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Rooting against the Seahawks and for the US of A

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Good haul from Thrillhouse in SF today

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Taking the time to do the things I never haaaaad

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Helios is becoming a multichain light client for Ethereum. Light clients are fundamental to Ethereum scaling. A future with thousands of rollups doesn’t feel far away, and the closer we get, the more critical rollup interoperability will become. 🧵👇

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It’s marketing week at CSX! @ted is schooling our cohort on building a community

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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/

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Very interesting, sounds like it’s worth reading

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Flipping between these 2

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Magic dust is sprinkled on MLB teams that beat the Brewers in the playoffs. Every one of them made it to the World Series, and most won it. 1981 Yankees 1982 Cards (won WS) 2008 Phillies (won WS) 2011 Cards (won WS) 2018 Dodgers 2019 Nats (won WS) 2020 Dodgers (won WS) 2021 Braves (won WS) 2023 Dbacks 2024 Mets?

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Bizarre box score from yesterday. The Dodgers beat the Braves 9-0, but each team only had 4 hits https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL202409160.shtml

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It’s time to fight for the right to create. Today, @a16zcrypto, @standwithcrypto, @opensea are kickstarting the Creator Defense Fund, a legal defense fund for creators using blockchain technology to connect with fans, monetize their work, and bring creativity to the world. We’re contributing $1M and partnering with top law firms to offer legal services and consultations for artists and creators who are facing potential government action or simply want to ensure they are structuring their NFT projects in a legal and compliant manner.

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1/ CSX NY is off and running! Here’s a recap of Week: In the morning of Day 1, we dove right into finding Product Market Fit in Web3. Each CSX cohort company built their own one-size-fits-one plan to define and test their theory for achieving PMF and shared their plan with the rest of the group. ⤵️

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Korea’s president took a page from Harry Truman’s playbook in his televised address today

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