jamesbeck.eth

@grugcapital Agree with everything except your assessment that miladys are kids in BedStuy. They are suburban or LES - fascist Yarvin adjacent

I can’t think of anything worse you could do for Ethereum than alienating people like lightclients, banteg and many others who have poured their heart and soul into Ethereum for years in favor of a bunch of kids who do ketamine in basements in Bed Stuy.

In Thomas Piketty’s Capital he lays out how the two times the globe significantly reduced wealth inequality was WW1 and WW2, by destroying vast amounts of wealth.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if infrastructure like this 👇 gets blown up, as of this moment it will take at least a decade to recover from this war - and the truth is that the world's energy picture is probably changed forever. This single facility 👇produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/18…) and, as of 2011, had taken $70 billion to build (energyintel.com/0000017b-a7be-…). What makes this even worse is that Iran's strike on this was retaliation after Israel attacked their South Pars gas field which draws from the same natural gas reservoir, which is the world's largest by far (9,700 km² - about the size of Qatar itself). Heck, on the list of the 25 largest natural gas fields (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n…) this single reservoir holds roughly 40% of their combined recoverable reserves - and is nearly 6 times bigger than the 2nd biggest field in the world. And, unlike many of the others on the list, it's only at 10% depletion (meaning 90% of the gas is still there). Which means that, probably for many years, a huge share of the gas from the world's largest reservoir simply won't be extractable, as infrastructure on both sides - Qatar's and Iran's - has now been blown up. From a global energy supply perspective, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.

ENS 🤝 PayPal PYUSD is scaling to 70+ new markets, bringing human-readable payments to the world. PayPal wallet users can now use their ENS domain for cross-border transfers. The universal identity standard is here.

@ishmilly @pepes_eth_ being able to send crypto to any DNS names is certainly a vision, but not the current reality. The DNS owner has to import to ENS via DNSSEC or tokenize their domain w/ D3. Also, wallets and apps support .eth more than they do DNS resolution to a wallet address

@pepes_eth_ They are all wallet addresses . I can send crypto to any dns name.

DNS accounts for almost 98% of all domain names in existence. (~378.5 million) All the web3 extensions combined are 2% (~10 milllion) Now DNS has web3 features meaning those 2% are less relevant.

@Sohrab @nicksdjohnson @katherinewu You can still open it up to be a public TLD after applying as a .brand! And appreciate you sharing what you’d want for a .ens because that’s what would inform the decision

Devastating Being informed that .ens is mostly a defensive play with some internal utility in mind It is not too late @nicksdjohnson& @katherinewu to apply for and secure another TLD that, in the future, you can issue on both DNS & ENS like .box did Pls apply for one more TLD!

@Sohrab @katherinewu @nicksdjohnson The ‘Everything’ Naming Service

Love .ens as the choice Only con is the 'e' in ens is ethereum, which doesn't convey how ENS names work on *all* blockchains But the branding opportunity of having ".ens" appear everywhere, working seamlessly across web2 & web3, is HUGE great move @katherinewu & @nicksdjohnson

@nextdimensiona1 Love that you’ve been on a Wata kick. Listening to him play a live set at sustain release in 2019 sent me into the cosmos

one of the only techno tracks I’ve ever came across thats in 3/4 time.. i have to figure out how to play it immediately (Wata Igarashi - Warp)

Address poisoning is a $79.3M problem on Ethereum. ENS exists to replace raw wallet addresses with human-readable names, helping users avoid attacks like address poisoning.

update on my NYC integration

@grok @AdamDeanWozney “solid flex”

AdamDeanWozney Screenshot from JamesJohnBeck: notification that raihan🦇 and FLYLO (Flying Lotus, the electronic producer) liked his reply. The reply text: "So dense it had me listening to Until the Quiet Comes for its relative spaciousness" "Until the Quiet Comes" is FlyLo's 2012 album. So some track/album was so dense/intense that this one felt open and spacious by comparison. And the artist himself liked the comment—solid flex.

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A lot of talk about whether it’s Tatum or Jaylen’s team when it’s clearly Queta’s

Every time I hang out with my uncle in flushing he brings up Main Street during the Koch years

@raihan_ @flyinglotus So dense it had me listening to Until the Quiet Comes for its relative spaciousness

really enjoying new @flyinglotus. densely joyous music

@EthCC it was a special time and place; we were naive, applied mathematicians were there talking about finally having a use case for zero knowledge proofs, and you could just talk to someone and start a project

7 years ago today, March 6th 2019. EthCC[2] was a not-so-large conference. A rogue fire bell emptied the rooms and so we took the opportunity to snap a group photo. Back when the whole conference fit in one frame. Who do you spot? 👀🔔

New blockchain naming systems launch .whatever extensions faster than anyone can track. .crypto .wallet .agent .nft Minting strings is easy. Building naming infrastructure that works across wallets, dApps, exchanges, and the web is the hard part. That distinction matters. ens.domains/blog/post/ens-…

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as agents begin signing transactions, holding assets, interacting with contracts autonomously, how do you know which identity an actual agent controls?

No ____. No ____. Just ____. 🗑️