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Take everything you think you know about crypto and poop it in the toilet. Shout between the stalls to your neighbor to show your support for their struggle. Light a match to cover up the Taco Bell token you bought earlier. Give a congratulatory hoot when you flush and finish. This is my anti-professional crypto channel. I‘m just a a barely sane dude who fell down the cryptocurrency rabbit hole. This channel is my fumbling attempt to communicate myself outside of my own head about my journey in the crypto space.
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Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Good morning! This morning I talk about some of the basics. Like how many validators/nodes do various blockchains have? Or how centralized is the blockchain that you love? In the beginning I explain some of the basics of Bitcoin and the consensus mechanism. Then, I take a look at several blockchain explorers and check out their validator/node count.
Sources:
https://staking.harmony.one/validators/mainnet
https://explorer.ark.io/delegates
https://explorer.avax.network/validators
https://etherscan.io/nodetracker
https://solanabeach.io/validators
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Good morning! This morning I kick off the day with lots of questions about crypto mining, the climate crisis, energy usage, and the new movements such as regenerative finance that are popping up to try to work on these things. I am doing lots of research trying to figure out where I stand on all of this stuff and I don't know yet, so bear with me. Also, I found that TIME magazine is jumping into the web 3.0 game on it's website. At least is the NFT game selling their "TIME pieces".
Sources:
https://decrypt.co/90643/intel-energy-efficient-bitcoin-mining-chip
https://time.com/connect-crypto-wallet/
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Good morning! Of course I have to immediately think of what a 12 year old boy would think. I read an article that talks about AI generative art and how some people think this will turn into the "next big thing" in the NFT world. Read along with me and see if you agree.
Sources:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-generative-art-predicted-to-be-next-trend-for-nft-sector https://www.eponym.art-ai.com/
https://opensea.io/collection/eponym
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Good morning! I spend this morning talking mostly about Coinbase. I start with an overview of Coinbase and the difference between Coinbase exchange, Coinbase PRO and Coinbase Wallet. Then I get into an article I found that was retweeted by Jack Dorsey that talks about how the VC-backed coins that get listed on Coinbase have actually performed terribly against Bitcoin and Ethereum. Many people think a project has "made it" when it gets listed on Coinbase, but the author seems to prove that this is not the case. Anyway, alot of people say web 3.0 is for giving "the little man" a chance, but it actually is seeming to cause problems for the liquidity of Bitcoin, as the amount of little men that web 3.0 is actually freeing is pretty insignificant. Interesting thesis. Sorry it took a really long time to get to the point in this video
Sources:
https://startupsandecon.substack.com/p/you-dont-own-web3-a-coinbase-curse
https://pro.coinbase.com/ https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Coinbase-and-Coinbase-wallet
https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-com-vs-coinbase-5188428
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Good morning! Remember that quadratic formula you were forced to memorize in high school? It's ok, most people don't either. But finally you can start to see why it may have ben important. With our voting and funding system geared towards the rich and powerful, this little farmer's formula is the key to democratizing voting and funding of public goods and I'm going to try to mansplain it for you. Gitcoin Grants is also using this formula to help fund public goods as well.
Sources:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-quadratic-voting-shaan-ray-mba/
https://thedefiant.io/gitcoin-quadratic-funding/
https://wtfisqf.com/?grant=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&grant=10&grant=5,5&grant=10&match=1000
https://ethresear.ch/t/pairwise-coordination-subsidies-a-new-quadratic-funding-design/5553
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06421.pdf
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Good morning! This morning I play a couple of clips from Crypto Sapiens podcast in Humpty's interview with the founders of Genomes DAO. Like Ancestry.com and 23andme.com, GenomesDAO provides a service to analyze your genetic information to give you fun, useful, and interesting data about yourself through your genome data. However, unlike the other two, GenomesDAO give you a vault all your own to store and provide access to whoever you want to have that data. You can earn GENE token through the allowance of access or you can keep it all to yourself. Your data, your choice! I highly recommend going to Crypto Sapiens Podcast and listening to the whole episode yourself!
Sources:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MqYn64m0e4n1owXVkjhfw
https://nft.genomes.io/
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Good morning! This morning I start off with a thread by Leah Wald, who makes some comparisons between the bear market cycle of 2018 and the current market dip we are in. Alot of this comparison made me want to take it way back to 1993 and go back to the original reason we are all here in this crypto space. This space started because of people's desire for privacy in this digital space. As technology develops and becomes more powerful, so do the powers that govern. The cypherpunks worked hard to try to develop technology to preserve the freedoms and privacy of every individual in this digitization of reality. NFT's and the metaverse are cool and all, but what good is it if we have zero privacy or freedom. So I did a reading of The Cypherpunk Manifesto.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/LeahWald/status/1482019640960290821
https://academy.bit2me.com/en/who-is-eric-hughes/
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/
https://twitter.com/token3conomy/status/1481868075343523850/photo/1
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Good morning! This morning I decided to poke around in the Oasis. I have been hearing people mention to me that I should check out Oasis. So I decided to go ahead an give it a gander this morning and see what's up with it. Oasis features a modular style proof-of-stake blockchain that has TEE's (trusted execution environment) built in for privacy. In this increasingly surveilled metaverse that is developing around us, I am all for more privacy. I also like the modular aspect of the blockchain using Paratime layers for execution. Oasis seems to have some growing to do, but it looks good so far!
Sources:
https://docs.oasis.dev/oasis-network-primer/#scalable-private-defi
https://wormholebridge.com/
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Good morning! I tried to do a video focusing on the Boba Network, but I also ended up spending lots of time talking about the basics of layer 1's a nd layer 2's and the scalability trilemma. In the last third of the video, I actually get around to talking about OMG Network, ENYA.ai, and Boba Network. Boba seems to have a good solution and a good ecosystem.
Sources:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-integrates-with-plasma-sidechain-to-reduce-load-on-ethereum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tKyhA4QzE
https://www.enya.ai/
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Good morning! This morning I read an article that talks about French Bank Societe Generale using DeFi protocol MakerDAO to take out a $20 million loan. This may not seem like much for a bank, but the fact that a TradFi bank is using DeFi for the first time is huge. It is also the first time real world assets, such as houses are put on-chain in an official capacity. It will be interesting to see what happens after this once this seal has been broken.
Sources:
https://medium.com/bankless-dao/brick-and-mortar-banks-begin-to-build-on-chain-de0e78413fc2
https://www.societegenerale.com/en
https://coinpaprika.com/