Theo Beutel

@theobtl

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„this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.“ As we all now: As Governance doesn’t matter, until it does. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

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Ethereum nerds: The Protocol Berg CfP is live! Whether you're an experienced engineer, a researcher, a philosopher, or just someone with fresh ideas: Submit your talk application around networking, storage, consensus, cryptography, or infrastructure! 👇 https://cfp.protocol.berlin/protocol-berg-v2/cfp

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I love this comment of devcon

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Crypto is user innovation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S219985312300152X

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I always thought the spaceship was in Zug?

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https://warpcast.com/orishim/0xa8ae3638

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@orishim just published this piece on decentralised commerce ("DeCom") which he describes as "a movement to build credibly neutral marketplaces for real-world goods and services. DeCom aims to deliver on the cypherpunk vision of peer-to-peer commerce without a middleman. Think of it as the sharing economy reborn with composable building blocks and shared standards for an interconnected web of commerce." https://x.com/orishim/status/1882064487718777094

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Many talk about dapps but some actually do something. :) @orishim is an EF EcoDev Research Fellow and looking to talk to anyone building or just interested in decentralised marketplaces. He's looking to identify which existing apps, relevant infrastructure in place and missing pieces. Who should he talk to?

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IMV there are already many second foundations @ethglobal is a second foundation, for developer onboarding @argotorg.eth is a second foundation, for solidity / EVM / tooling Nomic Foundation is a second foundation, for devtooling / compilers @protocolguild is a second foundation, for funding core development And there are more coming online soon, and should be more in the future too. We are actively trying to help bring them into existence and funding them.

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I think we haven't always been effective at communicating subtraction, let me try here: - Ethereum is too big and too important to be supported only by one org - So the EF needs to both (1) do the most critical things that only we can do, (2) build up and empower a strong ecosystem around us who can share the burden - There are at least two parts to (2). One part is about making sure we are not getting in the way of others. People will not take action themselves to solve some problem if everyone is under the impression "Oh, it's all the EF's responsibility". Another part is very actively helping the people who *do* step up to solve a problem or build organizations that help share those burdens. We've done that with ETHGlobal, Protocol Guild, L2Beat, Nomic Foundation (hardhat developers), 0xPARC, ENS, and several others. - So "subtraction" is not just about fading into nothing. It is about creating the conditions under which the EF can be less of a dependency, and that requires helping build up others.

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The answer is 42 obviously, but another purpose of Ethereum allowing everyone to have confidence in a complex, digitised, globalised world. Rather than locking in and exploiting users, its apps put the individual first. It keeps all those background processes in check you shouldn’t need to worry about.

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A couple of days ago at the end of @gmfarcaster @nounishprof asked me: "For those of us who are Ethereum maxis and love Ethereum, what can we do to help you or the EF get their message out?" At the time I answered that you’re already doing the right thing by regularly using the products built on Ethereum. While I still believe that, now that I’ve had time to reflect, I have an additional comment Ethereum voices in the community (myself included) need to do a better job of telling Ethereum’s story In bull markets, when everyone is getting rich, the story often gets overshadowed or forgotten. But to me, Ethereum’s story is essential and it’s this: As geopolitical instability rises and trust in institutions declines, Ethereum stands out as a rare tool in the digital age. It’s apolitical, neutral, universally accessible, and can't be shut down

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Warpcast on #Farcaster, Bluesky on #ATProtocol, Mastodon on #ActivityPub: The successors of Twitter are more open, decentralised and interoperable, but ironically only within their protocols. Will Farcaster, AT Protocol and ActivityPub ever become interoperable?

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Testing @yup for cross-posting on Twitter, Farcaster (https://warpcast.com/theobtl) and Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/theobtl.bsky.social).

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I‘m a big fan of user innovation theory (von Hippel) which is closely related to Hayek‘s findings. Great read by @jasonpotts and colleague: „Toolkits facilitate decentralised innovation by enabling centralised expertise to be encoded into technical rules that are realised in the toolkit software and interfaces. This enables greater use of distributed local knowledge (Hayek, 1945).“ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S219985312300152X

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Oh no, get well soon! Also: fancy test, good to know they exist.

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1) good and affordable health care, 2) my friends being there, 3) well preserved nature (forests, hills, larger parks) in walking/cycling distance.

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This adds even more ambiguity and increases the chance of conflict within a community, when it’s hard enough to somewhat align a community in DAO contexts (seen that even within working groups and core teams). We also have language barriers, cultural diversity and rarely get the chance to build up in-person trust, so I‘m doubtful how this theory works out in practice.

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