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❝ ‘Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation,’ will showcase the many ways people can participate through the Internet Archive—from saving and contributing materials to exploring government records, researching history, and building new tools with our collections and APIs. ❞ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/registration-is-now-open-for-internet-archives-annual-celebration/

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In case channels are ever a thing again. I'll leave this here.

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I have officially ended the blog. This is a bit of an end of an era for me. As many of you know I began this project blogging about DeFi, under the name Thumbs Up Finance. In 2021, I would end up meeting the moment perfectly: people wanted to learn about crypto but needed non-technical writing. As someone with years of university behind me, it was easy for me to read whitepapers and docs, interview people on discord, and make explainers or tutorials. I was hired by many major projects to produce this kind of content. PoolTogether, Cryptex, Layer3, Push, Rainbow and many many more. I got myself out of debt. I was early to many protocols and ecosystems. I earned airdrops. I tested out tools and minted NFTs and wrote a thesis that the only value any NFT has is as a receipt, or better yet, a "proof-of-patronage" to an artist, charity, or project. I shared my vision of what crypto could be. On Mirror, my readers were "collecting" my articles. I made income and personal connections. Then things shifted...

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I agree completely. I think freemium is a sensible model. Especially when combined with an open source code base, optional patronage, and community-centric feedback loop.

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I ask that you not buy $thumbsup anymore. If you have any automated purchases set up, disable them. If you read my articles on Paragraph, and a prompt comes up, ignore it. I’d say that this so-called creator coin is a joke but it’s not even funny. I think what Zora did with the move to coins, and what Base and Paragraph did by following along, has poisoned digital collectibles; perhaps beyond repair. My only hope now is that the collective consciousness wipes the memory of this idiocy and returns to actually useful crypto primitives. We built something incredible, and Silicon Valley VC money shit and pissed all over it. In every place where I’m able to, from where I mint NFTs to where I post my blogs, I intend to reverse this trend. Hopefully others will make the same decision.

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Non-extractive, truly social, cooperatively-built experiences blossoming over on Bluesky https://spores.garden/

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