Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth)

* helped launch ethereum * launched the first Ethereum Wallet and Web3 Browser. * coded one of the first ERC20 tokens, DAO, token sale and NFT (ENS!) contracts, and they were used as templates in the Ethereum home. * spent 2 years promoting ENS as a primary means of login

Did YOU want to watch CCTV's AI Martial Arts cartoon about the Straits of Hormuz crisis? Complete with fighting Persian Cats? Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!🥷😼🦅

@Cardoso AliExpress fica me mostrando anúncios de robôs humanoides. Aparentemente por meros R$200 mil você já pode comprar seu próprio Optimus chinês.

A melhor estratégia de marketing dos últimos tempos é colocar a foto de um produto esquisito, sem explicações. A curiosidade faz a gente clicar pra descobrir que catzo é isso. Por exemplo: esse da imagem está aqui: amzn.to/3NIZrMW

@austinhill Maybe you’re not wrong! 🤷‍♂️

Misread this post as “Mathinfuencers” Realized it’s during point 2 about the revealing clothes and I realized either I misread or am following all the wrong math influencer 😂

Manfluencers are literally the male version of OF girls: * their primary market is lonely man * they get clout through videos of themselves in revealing clothes doing things the viewer wishes he was doing himself * the “hot” content is in paid private channels * they sell the fantasy that if you paid enough you could actually get close to them - but that’s not really going to happen

@hudsonjameson This looks less effective than trucking a bunch of fish up the hill.

This is how an Ethereum transaction travels across the mempool.

@dimabuterin Smartest people I know aren’t rational actors either. In fact they’re usually the craziest among us!

@avsa We definitely are not rational and that's usually missed by the smartest people.

The guy who invented the seatbelt was very happy—so happy that he gave away the patents for everyone, for free. “It would save lives,” they thought, because seatbelts—they had the science to back it up—seatbelts save lives. Even if the chance of getting in an accident was small, the chance of not dying in one was very high if you were wearing a seatbelt. Given that the inconvenience of wearing a seatbelt was very small and nobody wanted to die, the rational choice was obvious: everyone would be using seatbelts. Of course, this is not what happened. Turns out people are not rational. They think, “That’s not going to happen to me. I don’t want to be using this thing.” Even a small price of inconvenience was too big of a price for a lot of people. So legislators got involved. They changed the equation. Now seatbelt use was mandatory—you had to use the seatbelt; otherwise, you had to pay a fee. People did respond better. Turns out that a big chance of paying a fine is a bigger incentive than a tiny chance of dying. It’s not rational, but it worked. But it wasn’t enough. People were still dying a lot due to lack of seatbelts. Engineers went at it again. They tried, they tried—they invented an automatic seatbelt that would buckle you up as soon as you got in the car. People hated it. They would jump scared when it turned on it, always. And then one guy had an idea: let’s just nag them. Let’s just beep them. Let’s just beep and tell them, “Seatbelt’s not on.” Beep. “Seatbelt’s not on.” Beep. A small price, just an inconvenience, a little beep—beep, an annoyance. Everyone started wearing seatbelts again. It became the norm. It became normal. Not the risk of life, not the risk of a fine, but just to avoid a little beeping noise. People are not rational.

@resilience_me The “stress” of being told to wear seatbelt is nowhere near the death rates of not using seatbelts.

a lot of times rules enforced coercively just causes increase base line stress which in the long term causes cardiovascular disease, and that's the number one killer, or more fundamentally it causes executive dysfunction from submission to coercion, which is in itself not that great for health or evaluating risk rationally (besides the cardiovascular disease). free will is probably the number one bests thing for a long healthy happy life, and any recommendation against it, probably a lie disguised as compassion. the illusion of increase in rationality from imposing it coercively, hides the complete loss of rational thinking. i think Ethereum was one of the best things to happen to free will, a good start. good job by you and the others who made that happen.

Every cautionary tale about not trying to do too much is eventually won over by better engineering. We have better wings than Icarus, taller skyscrapers than Babel, larger boats than the titanic.

@TheCapHimself Any tld could use ens as infrastructure, not all ens names need to be .ens.

My semi-hot take on ENS and TLDs is this: ENS should apply for a TLD string that clearly communicates "identity" (think .id), enable registrations across all blockchains, and expand beyond the Ethereum ecosystem. (I know .id is taken - using it as an example in this post). ENS can become an 'Everything' Name Service with .eth as a premium domain/identifier for Ethereum-aligned ecosystems, and another TLD (.id) for everyone else, while the protocol remains the same. This is what we wanted to do with @namespace_eth, but unfortunately, we had to give up on the idea for a number of reasons - mainly too much overhead for a small team with a limited budget.. and raising external funding would push us toward a purely profit-driven path, which would compromise the work we do for ENS right now. However, I still believe that operating TLDs through ENS as the core Web3 (domain) naming infrastructure is how we solve the biggest problem - universal resolution! This is how we move from “what’s your address?” to “what’s your username?”, where that username holds *all* your crypto addresses across *all* chains. This is a huge barrier to global mass adoption. Most teams today are solving this UX challenge through chain abstraction, PayFi apps tie wallets to phone numbers, or siloed usernames stored in databases - while ENS-powered domain/username could be universally used, applied, and accepted on every chain, wallet, and app. And the greatest part is - all these TLDs would still use ENS protocol as the underlying 'identity/profile' standard that everyone plugs into and abides by. With or without our own TLD, there should be an active and dedicated effort to collaborate with existing TLD owners in the blockchain space (and beyond) to communicate the value proposition ENS could bring, and invite them to claim their TLD's ownership in ENS and build on top of it. Their domains would inherit everything .eth has today - all properties, functionality, all ENSIPs for programmability, 1,000+ partnerships and integration support that ENS has, and continuous innovation we do (like the fact that ENS domains are becoming AI agent identities, etc.), and most importantly, we solve the universal resolution standard. The alternative would be - they start from scratch? There are many blockchain companies applying to run their own TLDs, which I generally think is a good thing. However, they'll soon realize that operating a universally accepted naming service is a lot harder than it looks... without a dedicated team, ecosystem builders, and without further fragmenting the space and creating more walled gardens (even if ICANN-compliant). ENS has far too strong network effects; it can be the distribution layer for TLDs entering Web3 rather than a competitor, offering access to its 1,000+ integrations network to tap into and helping solve the cold start problem. One domain (any TLD) → resolves everywhere. Universal naming/identity layer. But anyway, this post makes me extremely happy. It hits all the right points. Kudos to @aurbelis and the ENS Labs team. Excellent work!

@ensdomains But importantly: ens didn’t create these collisions. We didn’t sell dot crypto dot chain and a lot of the other dot inventions out there.

Naming on the internet is changing. But the rules governing it haven’t caught up. ENS Labs just submitted a public comment to ICANN on “name collisions,” and it highlights a deeper issue with how naming is still being approached. Here’s why it matters. ↓

@vintagemapstore I’m curious what is the event considered a “battle” in central Brazil from 1914 onwards.

Battles of the Planet since 2500 BC to 2015 AD, Every known Battlefield. Work by Nodegoat.

@loshmi Except for the fact it was not their money to invest. If the investors of your high risk high return tech fund VC do not know they are investors of a VC fund then that money isn’t yours.

maturing is realizing that FTX was one of the best investors in crypto industry: > $500M in Anthropic would now be worth roughly $30.4B > $1B in Solana would now be worth roughly $5.1B > $648M in Robinhood would be $5.7B > $100M in Sui would be $1.2B > $1.15B in Genesis Digital Assets would be $3.5B > $700M in SpaceX via K5 would be $3B did some estimates and their total portfolio would be up from $4.7B to $52.5B which is a $47.8B in rise absolutely nuts

@_OKJ__ This what happens when a cleric rolls a 1 when attempting to cast a conversion spell.

This reminds me of a fascinating story I read,of when in the 1970s Daniel Everett,a linguist and Christian went to the Amazon jungle to convert a tribe called the piraha people to Christianity and completely failed for one crazy reason 😂😂 When Daniel Everett arrived with his wife and kids at the remote Pirahã village in the Amazon, His mission was clear…learn their language,translate the New Testament,and convert this isolated hunter gatherer group to Christianity. What he encountered instead was one of the most radical cultural and linguistic worldviews ever documented 😂. From his experience,Everett eventually formalized what he called the “Immediacy of Experience Principle”. What this means in essence is the Pirahã culture and grammar strongly constrain what can be meaningfully discussed or believed…to them,knowledge must be anchored in direct,personal observation or at most in the recent testimony of living people you know. Things that happened long ago,that no one alive has seen,or that exist only in abstract or supernatural realms fall into the category of what they called xibipío (“gone out of experience”). They don’t deny it outrightly.. to them, such things simply carry no weight and are not worth serious talk. This principle shapes everything for them… and is why they have No creation myths or origin storis , No numbers beyond rough quantities like “a few” or “many.” , No recursive embedding in grammar (you can’t easily say “kelvin’s brother’s house” … you say two separate sentences). Their Stories and discourse stay tethered to the here and now. Now Christian theology, by contrast, is built on precisely the kind of claims the Pirahã worldview filters out…A distant creation,Miracles and events from thousands of years ago, A savior no living person has met, Salvation and afterlife described in ancient texts. Everett tried …He told them the story of Jesus..his birth,teachings,death,and resurrection. The Pirahã listened politely,then asked the questions their language and culture demanded… “Have you met this man?” “Did you see him?” “Did your father see him?” When Everett admitted he had not , that these events happened 2,000 years earlier and were known only through a book,the conversation effectively ended 😂. “That’s interesting,” some of them would say, treating the Gospel the same way they treated any other distant tale…as something outside lived experience, therefore irrelevant to how they live and what they believe. Notice It wasn’t hostile rejection(like the one you’d get from the people of the sentinel islands in India). It was epistemological incompatibility. The theology couldn’t even gain traction because their entire system of knowledge validation rejected second hand ancient testimony. Everett kept trying for years. He failed to produce a usable Bible translation. Meanwhile, living among people who were profoundly content, generous, and empirically grounded …with no concept of sin, eternal punishment, or a distant deity. By 1982 he himself started havinv serious doubts about his beliefs and by 1985 he had quietly become an atheist. The man who had come to convert the Pirahã had instead been “converted” by their way of seeing reality.😅 As Everett later wrote and said in interviews, the deepest challenge wasn’t an argument against Christianity. It was living inside a culture where the very criteria for what counts as real knowledge made supernatural historical claims feel as weightless as yesterday’s dream. The Pirahã didn’t need to debate theology. Their language and worldview simply had no slot for it and, in the process, they helped a missionary lose his faith without ever raising their voices.😂 Makes you wonder, what would a Christian say the fate of these people is? Eternal torment? We can all see how that would be problematic. Would they somehow make heaven and get judged by how they live their lives? But That would make the whole Christian message irrelevant. 🙂

incredible seeing the SEC cite @ensdomains as a premiere example of a legitimate digital tool using blockchain technology 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I look forward when NASA finishes their astronaut twin experiment and announces which of the two brothers has been doing placebo space flights all their life.

@VictorTaelin That’s not how any of that works. A healthy relationship is not about seeking for blame or taking stands nor figuring out who’s right. It’s about growing together, supporting each other, helping each other grow.

@IntegralAnswers Sorry probably seems interesting but I couldn’t concentrate because of the severed fingers in your trail nut mix.

Brazil nuts are incredibly nutritious. But eating too many can actually make you sick. Why? Because they contain one of the highest natural concentrations of selenium found in any food. Let’s look at the science. 🧵

We also spent the last 20 years protecting every website from robots and we’ll spend the next 10 making sure every website is accessible by one.

We spent the last 30 years converting every desk job into a computer job. Now we’ll spend the next 10 years eliminating every computer job with AI.