ryangtanaka

@ryangtanaka

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My bi-annual manifesto - on art, crypto, and NFTs. "Genius Can't Be Rushed" https://teia.art/objkt/871032/

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I posted this before, but the power of "I don't know". It fuels artistic experimentation more than you think. It gets dangerous once people start thinking they know what's going on. Stay hungry, folks - stay dumb. 🤪 https://thinkjarcollective.com/articles/frank-zappa-on-the-value-of-cigar-chomping-old-guys/

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Hey folks, we just did an overhaul to teia.cafe's API this week - it's fully integrated with TEIA's local API so the feeds should be much higher quality now. Mainly - that all the tracks from from the HEN Radio days should all be in there. There's a lot of great music in there still undiscovered so I would highly recommend using the random 🎲 mode and just go through what's there. It's part of Tezos' history, after all. There's a few bugs in there that we're aware of that will get fixed soon but mainly wanted to get feedback on the quality of feed itself. Good times? We're hoping to build a lot of features on this collection of music, after all.

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I've been crypto longer than I can remember at this point but I never identified as a degen or punk - those are terms that came later. In fact, I honestly believe that people who believe in *real* decentralization are the superior class of human beings in existence right now. 💪 I've honestly annoyed a lot of people by talking that way but I'm at least confident in where I stand - and it's not really discrimination because choosing to believe in the distribution of power (and civility) is a choice, not a trait. So anyway - I'd like to see crypto people stop beating themselves up with these self-defacing slurs and believe in what they're doing more. That's what normies are waiting for - especially as the world continues to fall apart. Lead the way, weirdos - don't fall back! 🦄⚔️

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Over the next year, teia.cafe will be focusing on building features that *I* will use. Rather than trying to guess what people want, I figure it'd be better to build something I'd use anyway and if others want to use it too, so be it. This includes: - A radio app with playlisting that I can use day to day (music on #Tezos is great!). - A blogging platform that integrates text minting and copyright protections in a streamlined way. - Messaging my friends directly through their wallet using on-chain messaging. (Comments too) The app isn't quite ready yet but the smart contracts are already done so it shouldn't take too long to do. (Famous last words, but - this is for real. The bulk of the work over the last few years was that.) So close, yet so far. Web3 infra is no joke. But it's getting there. 🙏

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Hey, artists of #Tezcon - many of you asked for documentation of your works at the event itself so I took a feed of the display prior to the event with the full gallery in display, here. youtu.be/17FKHt2a4tc https://objkt.com/curations/objkt/tezcon-2025-31225d20?offset=10 #Tezos

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Chocolate covered Tezcon fortune cookies! Pretty tasty, too. 😋 Kenyon Hall, June 28th starting at 4pm! This Saturday! #Tezos

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We got almost 100 submissions for Tezcon this year - a mix of artists, sponsors, tech people and just random people who see themselves as "forward looking". The Tezos community is relatively small compared to other ecosystems but they do show up when needed. That makes all the difference in the world, really. 🔥

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Last day to submit something for #Tezcon! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnxec8CKR9Q1LD3yHUQpDMaLD1GAwgv6_-7NtXlp7cB3xajg/viewform?usp=dialog https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScW4GRgOL36iBR3f9rm2wrpbzyJn76HvayTenW9I_4pUwLPGQ/viewform #Tezos #NFTs #Web3

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It's noon over here in Seattle - I would highly recommend people submit their entries by tonight since we have our meeting Friday morning and that will likely be the cut-off point. We've gotten over 60-70 submissions so far in total - thanks for the interest! The projectors are gonna be super fun this year. 😁

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#Tezcon is almost here - a few weeks away from June 28th! Reminder that the open-calls for art/community submissions are due on the 20th, where we have our weekly meeting. Artist Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnxec8CKR9Q1LD3yHUQpDMaLD1GAwgv6_-7NtXlp7cB3xajg/viewform?usp=dialog Sponsor/Community Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScW4GRgOL36iBR3f9rm2wrpbzyJn76HvayTenW9I_4pUwLPGQ/viewform i.e. - it's probably best to submit by the 19th if you can spare the time. It's our last meeting before the actual event so things are gonna get hectic! #Tezos #Art #Music #Seattle #NFTs #Crypto

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Hey folks - after a few bug fixes, the beta version of @teiacommunity's copyright registration system is now up and running. We'll probably run it for a month or two before merging it to the main site but the preview is up and running! https://preview.teia.art/copyright Note that this is running on mainnet already so everything you do here will be permanently on-chain. Use with caution! Public listings is a feature we're working on at https://teia.cafe but technically anyone can do it now, too. The goal is to create a marketplace of IP that is neutral. The FAQ has also been updated to include the new process for v2 as well. 3-Steps: Mint/Register/Sell https://preview.teia.art/faq

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Tezcon's "Open Call for Sponsorships" Anyone doing anything on Tezos is welcome to apply! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XoD0I7jfoSFttZIbDbMk2MWI5mnGdhzSX6qVoBu3rWg/edit#responses

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@malicioussheep is leading the way for pride month again this year with the @teiacommunity! Just mint your works with the hashtag #tezospride to be automatically entered into a category of its own on the #Tezos blockchain. 🌈

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Some of the parents you meet in Tezos can be pretty intense - "These are the kinds of people I want my kids to be around!" Whoa there, nobody agreed to that kind of thing, mate. 😂 I guess trust and diligence is in short supply these days. And XTZ is probably the only place online right now where that is actually demonstrably true - people are actually using the blockchain as intended: transparency and accountability. The ones that are faking it are exactly the types of people you don't want to be around anyway. It's perfectly fine for our bubble to get smaller (at least for now) imo.

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The planning for Tezcon is going smoothly so far and everything seems to be in place - so smooth that it's making me a little anxious - what could possibly go wrong? There's no way that things will happen without complications, right? 😂

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Have you heard the good word of @teiacommunity sir/madam/person/dog/cat? If not, you will - thanks to our TEIA brochures, designed by @malicioussheep. Thanks to @mightymoss for the prints!

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Uploaded the how-to guide for TEIA's new copyright/licensing registration feature - we're making the last few changes and should be out to the public, soon. Had a few TEIA members review it so it should give a good idea of how it's going to work in practice once it's up. Once out, it will available for anyone to use! 🙂 And of course, the guide itself is minted as an NFT - as it should be! 😂 https://teia.art/objkt/869379/

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We're doing a showcase of slides of various things going on in the Tezos ecosystem at Tezcon this year and thought having a few slides about individual bakeries might be cool to have if they were interested. The slide can be basically whatever you want it to be but it'll be in rotation along with other projects and orgs on XTZ. The form is here if interested - the event is June 28th next month in Seattle, Washington. 🙂 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScW4GRgOL36iBR3f9rm2wrpbzyJn76HvayTenW9I_4pUwLPGQ/viewform

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Contrary to popular belief, I am not an alien from another planet. This week I'll be using what's left of my product management brain cells to try to explain this whole NFT utility thing to people in...plain English. If I run out of cells, I apologize in advance. 😂

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