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Thoughts on the tradeoffs of complexity and community building:

Nick Szabo has criticized Ethereum’s complexity using the concept of an “argument surface”. Similar to an attack surface, the argument surface expands with the number of that people can spend time quibbling over. This can bog down a community, and/or open it up to capture. "Governance minimization" requires reducing the argument surface. 
https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1068960876416258049

Bro has one coffee and suddenly he's VC casting.

Bro has one coffee and suddenly he's VC casting. https://warpcast.com/maurelian.eth/0x236aba00

Base

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This is one of the historically common justifications of sports - that it's an opportunity for pure tribalism and craziness and entertainment that acts as an outlet for those energies, draining them away from pursuits where they might do more damage if they interfere. The challenge of course is that this is unstable: enough people are inherently more interested in things that "actually matter"

Memes

Its impressive how mature $DOG army is. $DOG is a memecoin but we dont need a 100% pump to show up and be happy about $DOG. We just know that things will happen and this is inevitable

New way to encode a profile picture dropped:

https://x.com/Ethan_smith_20/status/1801493585155526675

320 bits is basically a hash. Small enough to go on chain for every user.

I find it insane that Telegram has become the de-facto messenger app for crypto people.

Everyone connects there, and very important sensitive topics are discussed.

Keep in mind: Telegram IS NOT end to end encrypted by default.

Telegram employees can read what you are saying.

Ethereum

I donated to the Protocol Guild.

We talked about keeping ethereum research & development credibly neutral.

The foundation is one actor. PG is another. With a 4 year vesting contract paying 170+ people it's a no-brainer

Let's walk the walk and not just talk the talk: https://dune.com/protocolguild/protocol-guild

Frames are based. 

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artist, idiot, shillosopher · 
@ART101NFT  founder · @w0wn3r0
 progenitor · @opensea employee

Frames are based. 

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Quite cringe to see literally everyone celebrating a decision some American government agency made on a tradfi instrument that will allow more retail users get exposure to ETH.

Yes it is a win for legitimacy.

But, I wish the same enthusiasm was shown about any of the actual uses of crypto we promise to the world.

I've had people ask me if ETH in the ETFs would also be "automatically staked" and thus perpetuating the dangerous notion of staking as being a risk free enterprise.

The approved ETFs are all spot, meaning that the ETH inflows there will not be staked at all. Source:

I've had people ask me if ETH in the ETFs would also be "automatically staked" and thus perpetuating the dangerous notion of staking as being a risk free enterprise.

The approved ETFs are all spot, meaning that the ETH inflows there will not be staked at all. Source: https://www.sec.gov/files/tm/lk87adfs99.pdf

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Zora

*continues to pray Zora adds collection display to profiles and metadata filters to collection and token pages*

Would make Zora the most useful creator tool by miles.

Honestly Zora should just hire @usersteen.eth if they know what’s good for them

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

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