Thomas

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If we’re really desperate for our own network state, there’s always Bir Tawil, a 2,060 km2 speck of rugged desert so inhospitable that neither neighboring Egypt nor Sudan want it, making it the only land on earth not claimed by any government https://maps.app.goo.gl/4wo233UzJ5f8rSHr7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil

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We often talk about the risks of AI personas usurping real humans in the media. But the reverse is also true and doesn’t get enough attention. In Venezuela, AI-generated TV anchors are being used by journalists to remain anonymous (and thus, safe from arbitrary arrests) while delivering news that are critical of the government. AI can be a powerful force for good for anons around the world https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/18/americas/venezuela-retweets-ai-news-maduro-intl-latam/index.html

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In a twist of cosmic irony, the Svalbard seed repository built in Norway in 2008 to preserve crop seeds from climate change flooded because… the surrounding permafrost melted due to climate change. Thankfully the seeds seem to be ok for now. But with the Arctic warming four times faster than the global average, I don’t know that we can say the same of our planet https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arctic-seed-vault-shows-the-flawed-logic-of-climate-adaptation/

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And now Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies are also exploding. Hezbollah about to go low-tech for a while. Paper and very carefully sourced pencils https://edition.cnn.com/webview/world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-explode-hezbollah-israel-09-18-24-intl-hnk

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Paraphrasing @vitalik.eth just now at TOKEN2049 Singapore: Transaction fees have historically been the roadblock to actual crypto adoption, ahead of UX. The cost of transactions killed off the early and earnest efforts to use either BTC or ETH for day-to-day payments. In places like Argentina, people use crypto but have moved to doing Binance-to-Binance transfers, which are free but also centralized and custodial, which defeats the purpose. However, L2s now offer sub-cent transactions, opening up a new era for payments. Wallet UX is also getting better (e.g., Daimo) but TradFi payment rails have kept up with usability improvements of their own (Venmo, SEPA, etc.). Crypto can bypass the int’l politics that are the main limiting factor in cross-border TradFi payments. Crypto is ultimately digital concrete — blockchains are robust, permanent structures. With digital concrete, we can build digital castles in the sky. [Personal note: I love the fresh idea of ETH as digital concrete rather than digital oil]

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Israel presumably conducting a long-burn supply chain attack to plant explosives into hundreds of pagers later used by Hezbollah members is absolutely wild. Equally wild is anyone still using pagers in 2024 https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl

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I think I'll do my remaining neurons a favor and skip day 2 of TOKEN2049

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“I’m not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens” Fireside chat between @ted and @dwr.eth at FarCon Asia

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New Besu released (24.9.1) Note the breaking change — you won’t be able to downgrade to <24.5.1 after this https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/releases/tag/24.9.1

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Tempted to pick up their badge and cosplay

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This is the most Australian thing ever https://warpcast.com/eulerlagrange.eth/0x18c0fd94

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A friendly reminder that it has historically taken ~20 years for inventions to diffuse into mass-market innovations. Ethereum’s invention of programmable money and smart contracts is barely ten years old. The roadmap is finally starting to click into place, and Pectra(s) next year will be a leap forward with AA, Verkle trees, based rollups, etc. The next ten years will see gradual architecture ossification and rapid adoption along the S-curve. Drivers for that adoption will include real-world asset tokenization, an explosion in stablecoin usage for payments and remittance, TradFi using DeFi rails for loans and investments, and a trustless marketplace of autonomous agents capable of transacting through their own on-chain identity. Forget about today’s shitcoins, ETHBTC ratio, Gary Gensler, and all that transient noise. Zoom out and the future is both bright and obvious. Ten years from now, we will be writing “in retrospect, it was inevitable”. You’re not bullish enough about Ethereum, anon

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If you are in Singapore 🇸🇬 during crypto week (16–23 Sept. 2024) and want to meet up other Farcaster users (both visiting and residents), DM me and I'll send you the link to our Singapore group chat. We'll use it to coordinate informal meetups for kopi (coffee) throughout the week

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I’d love to see more vampire attacks on X and/or Reddit. Does anyone here have the ability to create a bot that summarizes the last r/ethfinance daily discussion and posts it here? Or summarize daily the contributions from the twenty or so most prolific Ethereum casters on X? I don’t want to just link to content on Reddit or X, I want that content to be brought here, initially with bots if needed https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xbf4d1f11

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The Wright brothers' first flight covered 120 feet (37 m). The length of a Boeing 747–8 is twice that (249 feet / 76 m). Yet, a person could have witnessed the Kitty Hawk in 1903 and later flown on the first B747 in 1968, all within one lifetime. And their kid could now fly 50,357,612 feet (15,349,000 m) on a Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900ULR operating the SIN-JFK route. We've come a long way, baby

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You and I may have different passports, but we are both citizens of time

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Bring cheese (long form articles you found interesting) and let’s make Farcaster grate again!

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I found keeping track a bit overwhelming, so here's a full (?) list of events this coming week: - https://lu.ma/token2049 (all side events to TOKEN2049) - https://ethereumsingapore.com

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Shouldn't this moderation help text in channel settings be updated now that the power badge is gone?

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I am unable to unfavorite (not unfollow) a channel on either web or mobile. Halp?

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