Ricky Tan

@ricky

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Have to go and explain to my wife that the ugly phone collecting dust in the corner just received $800 worth of penguin-themed magic internet money.

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4. Parity Client Back in 2016/17 there were not a lot of decent ETH wallet solutions out there. Metamask, MyEtherWallet and the Parity client were pretty much the only solutions in order of feature set. The Parity client was most advanced but also a total nightmare to sync. One cool feature is that you could time transactions or contract calls to be executed at specific block numbers, to if you wanted to get lucky with an ICO this is what you used.

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3. Shapeshift imo an incredibly underrated part of crypto history. Erik Voorhees' p2p exchange, where you could swap any of the top 50 (or so) cryptocurrencies. No account needed, no KYC, just transfer BTC to address Y and receive ETH on address X. This techcrunch article about a $1.6M fundraise in 2016 is also amazing (https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/08/shapeshift-a-cool-cryptocurrency-converter-clinches-1-6-million-in-cash/)

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2. Etherdelta With a UI that was Winamp x Bloomberg, EtherDelta is without a doubt the OG Decentralized Exchange. Liquidity was so bad and bid-offers so wide you could drive a truck through them. But it was the only venue where you could trade a lot of the ERC-20 ICO coins in 2017, so everyone used it. RIP OG

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A walk down crypto trench memory lane 1. The Poloniex Trollbox Pre-Binance, Poloniex (aka "Polo") was one of the OG exchanges that listed all the Bitcoin forks and PoW sh*tcoins. The live Trollbox provided a great read of the market, you just had to accept being called a r****d every other msg.

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Seeing pictures of the Interstellar IMAX rerelease in the US gives me massive FOMO. 10 years ago, I saw it during the premier in 70mm at the BFI IMAX in London. This single shot of the Endurance spacecraft as a tiny speck with Saturn as backdrop made it the single best movie experience I've ever been to.

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If you care about tech and privacy in Europe: The European Commission was caught red-handed by its own supervising agency for illegal political microtargeting on X/Twitter. The EC violated the very privacy rules they've been threatening Elon and other tech companies with..Total 🤡-show https://noyb.eu/en/political-microtargeting-eu-commission-illegal

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ngl Grok 2 + Aurora is really good

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In the end we are all Tifosi's

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FT dropping more bangers today https://www.ft.com/content/8533f856-57f1-4765-a3dc-d866543092be

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Not sure if I'm more excited about 100k BTC or that after a multi-year quest I finally found an original release poster for NeXT computer signed by Paul Rand from 1988. imo the best tech branding of all time

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Yeah definitely in the "then you win" phase

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Having lived in London myself, the Barbican is a typical "hate it or love it" discussion topic. The fact that many of the Coruscant shots in Andor were filmed there makes me love it even more lol. https://x.com/DesigningFilm/status/1707860720694771725

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Join the /andor channel! Since joining Warpcast 2 years ago, it's been my screengrabs and comments about the greatness of Andor that have been getting most love. If you're a fan and can't wait for the next season, join the resistance!

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Come join /andor !

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I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I made my mind a sunless place. I share my dreams with ghosts.

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Damned if you ship, damned if you don’t

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