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opepenception (69 opepen scenes you saw on the TL the last 2 wks)

NEW EPISODE: Discussing with Max Hillebrand how to set up Nostr as perhaps the purest way to get around social media censorhip. youtu.be/gvMmBML7X3I

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this week 🐸

Punk with rubber mask

@piv_piv 😂 legend

"At school you are taught that if you change the question, it’s cheating […] In real life problem solving, […] rewriting the question is probably the first thing you should try to do." - Rory Sutherland

@Ars0nic @Rhynotic @NedRyersonBing > anyone who never built anything shouldnt be entitled to comment on others project *imagines a tokenworks project that incentives people to finally build something in order to participate / comment*

@Rhynotic @NedRyersonBing price go up = good idea price go down = bad idea anyone who never built anything shouldnt be entitled to comment on others project 🫡

I’ve been seeing a lot of threads about the Ten Thousand Tokens launch, how the project doesn’t work, TokenWorks is for grifting, etc. and wanted to give my thoughts. I wouldn’t wish launching new ideas in the crypto space on my worst enemy, especially tokens. I truly think this is the hardest medium to work in, as every action is permanent and there will always be someone who feels wronged regardless of how above board you act. I try to act as ethical as possible both onchain and with my marketing. We don’t work with KOLs, Market Makers, or “crime” tokens. If this is what you’re looking for, there are thousands of projects that do. Every idea is a derivative, but I do try to release new ideas to the space. I’m transparent about the rules ahead of time, that way everyone is on the same playing field and can try to solve the game their own way. There’s a reason almost everything is a fork, it’s much easier to launch an idea that is proven to work than brainstorm your own. “You just abandon ideas and move onto the next to rake in fees” When an idea has reached completion, you can either take what you’ve learned and apply it to the next one or lie through your teeth about how it’s “going to change the world” or “going to last forever” which I personally refuse to do. I run the TokenWorks twitter myself just so nothing that could be considered an over-promise slips through. Again, if this is what you’re looking for, there are tons of projects out there that love their marketing. As for TTT, I still really like the idea as a novel launchpad on ETH. We’re going to keep tweaking it and see if anything catches on. Maybe we need to change the launch mechanics, maybe we need to ditch the artistic UI. The core idea of an ecosystem of holders rallying behind launches rather than PvPing feels strong to me. By design it will run as long as Ethereum does, but eventually if nothing catches on my attention will shift but we will have curated 2500-10000 new participants in the TokenWorks ecosystem that we can include in the future. TokenWorks is a playground for onchain financialized ideas, on Ethereum. The mantra has always been we need to keep iterating on new primitives to see what works, and maybe a new killer protocol will be created that is really useful (ie. The Casino on Mars). We’re trying to build coordination games in a space that is inherently zero-sum. It’s difficult. Most will fail. If you want to support us and try our ideas, thank you so much. Regardless, we’re going to keep doing what we do best: experimenting on the frontier.

@notbylght the tv show is on my list to binge at some point he and donald glover respectively doing some of the most interesting shit (AtlantaFX sets a high bar)

Vince Staples’ cinematography has scaled just like his music composition. It reminds me of the path Mac Miller was on creatively. One of the most underrated artists in the generation without a doubt in my mind.

the rare collection a collection dedicated exclusively to one-of-one works the first 10 auctions are now live reserve begins at 0.0069 eth once the first bid lands, the 3 day countdown begins link in the comment 🔽

@no_context____ gm/bm ser "beautiful mornin" *plays 'father stretch my hands'*

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the cryptoart space is currently being reorganized with new leaders and a refreshing perspective change ppl like jalil, ripe, jack, ygg, rhynotic, true builders who care about open source ethos and the underlying ideology of our space, truly deserve our support and their full flowers imagine how much more vibrant this space would be if we had these sorts of builders in the early days (ignoring that this was prohibitively expensive before various mainnet updates), if they managed to get more attention than the web2 grifters like kayvon and the sr team who polluted our space and made it mirror tradart kingmaking, living off the backs of artists with unrealistically high cuts for almost no work compared to tradart spaces these platform owners either never cared about the space or understood it and decided to leech off of it. they build in private, take, reduce their support over time while keeping fees high, create fake artists to pump their own fee return and get a side income flowing in order for this space to organically grow we need to double down on the ideology; permissionlessness, open source, the free internet long live selfless builders working in public

make cypherpunk dope again

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Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services. Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft. Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address. The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages. The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh. This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

jalil is the absolute goat - like more than you’ll ever know… the sheer volume of open source work that started with the erc721 extensions 5y ago, a whole open source minting protocol, an open source contract reader, countless other lego blocks anyone can work with, and more recently his open source work for @ethidorg not to mention the most beautiful contracts ever for @checksvv, the opepen protocol, and a complete block explorer @evmnow and now the next big thing: a networked auction house on ethereum, starting with this extracted cryptopunk v1 market fix i want everyone to know that all this should not be seen as a given. he could do incredible stuff elsewhere and make a lot more money / have a lot more stability we as a space sometimes get pretty close to losing him, which would be a huge net negative sorry boss, enough glazing but had to be said, back to work

I honestly think an unredacted copy of Huckleberry Finn inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain is a better use of sats than any single KYC withdrawal to a “hodl” wallet by a self described “pleb”.

Last Friday we published our report on the Clarity Act passing out of Senate Banking. There's a substantial risk here to all non-custodial services that everyone seems to be missing: The Clarity Act does not define what "common control" is. "Common control" is mentioned 19 times in the Committee's last draft that was marked up last Thursday. It is a term that the act uses to define whether a software or protocol is truly decentralized, or whether someone *does* hold some form of control over development/profits/etc. Most of the act exempts software that is not under "common control" (and therefore decentralized) from the most insidious regulations. We see this in Section 301, which governs the application of the Bank Secrecy Act under authority of the SEC: As newly amended, it states that *non-decentralized* financial trading protocols fall under SEC jurisdiction and act as securities intermediaries. So the measure for whether you are protected from being regulated by the SEC is the measure by which your software is decentralized – which isn't really defined, as the measure for "common control" isn't defined. We already saw what happens when there is a dispute over how much control someone has over a protocol or software over the last years in US courts. According to the Judge who presides over the criminal prosecution of Roman Storm, arguments that Tornado Cash is *not* decentralized were allowed to proceed – While the same judge threw out a case against Uniswap arguing that it *was* decentralized, and therefore Uniswap couldn't be held accountable for the actions of its users. From a decentralization perspective, it's virtually the same technology. From the POV of the law, one is treated like a criminal, while the other continues to be free to operate. To exemplify how stark in contrast these interpretations on "common control" can be, the European Central Bank recently published a paper on decentralized protocols. It finds that Uniswap is *not* decentralized. Again, the bench mark here is not custody. It is who controls the software, and by how much. Without "common control" being defined, regulation by prosecution will not end, much less will developers have any clarity on how to navigate the law. (This of course is in addition to all the other surveillance garbage that is in this bill, including the expansion of the PATRIOT Act).

I saw @graceb_art retweet this old post from @jalilwahdat and it is still a great read and very relevant today. It gives a great overview of the myriad of ways NFTs can be onchain and immutable. I'm personally digging deep into the portfolio of works of my friends both artists and collectors through my provena.art initiative, and I'm coming to terms with a lot of the nuances of this thread. One thing I find myself conflicted about is that a lot of this requires a priori knowledge, like Artblocks or Cryptopunks or even SuperRare. Artblocks points to a centralized server for their metadata and storage, yet the code is onchain and could be reconstructed if you dug into the contract. Cryptopunks, aside from v1 and v2 contracts, also has a third separate contract for all of the metadata deployed in 2021. And SuperRare v1 contract is actually an ERC20 and so there is also a SuperRare v2 contract. This is institutional knowledge that you need to know to understand what is on chain and I wonder how we can save this so that future generations will have that context and history to be able to reconstruct what happened. I'm thinking of hundreds of years from now, long after we are all dead. I imagine the most well-known projects like Cryptopunks and Artblocks will be fine, but how about everyone else? Will their work be eventually lost? @walasavagephoto replied to one of my posts with this anecdote and it has really stuck with me. "Data only lasts as long as somebody cares about it." The quote was in the context of which storage technology to use. In the end, the technology can be whatever, but what really matters is that somebody cares about that data and I think the same goes for art. Somebody has to care about the art for it to be preserved. So for now, I'm focused on my orbit of artists and collectors and how to help them preserve the art that we love. It's all I can do to be honest with myself that I'm actually doing a good job. Beyond that I think my efforts will be in vain. If you care about everything, you care about nothing. I imagine if provena.art has any modicum of success, it may feel like a "cabal" but know at this moment, it's just me doing what I think I am able to do to preserve the art that I personally care about and nothing more than that.