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Thrilled to announce that @a16z crypto is making a significant investment in the @dfinity network. We are excited to be partnering with @dominic_w and team. @cdxion and I wrote a blogpost that walks through why we're excited about the team and project: a16zcrypto.com/2018/08/dfinit…
Looks like I misspelled Chris's handle while in my half-awake state this morning. Should be @cdixon :)
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Four years ago on new years eve, I set out to build for myself a robust habit of habit engineering. Looking back, doing this has been very transformative for me.

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1/ I was originally inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. He used to keep a sort of spreadsheet with a row for each day of the week and a column for each habit he was working on. In each cell he would mark whether or not he succeeded for that day/habit.
2/ Over the years, my version of Franklin's spreadsheet has evolved into a kind of personal "life operating system" that I call walrOS. It looks like this:
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0/ Here's an optimistic view of crypto at a time when sentiment about the space is at one of its low lows. This was my "crypto from the ground up" presentation at our @a16z summit last month (:

1/ Throughout history, the kinds of things we have relied on to build trust have evolved significantly. We started as nomadic hunter gatherers, basing our trust on things like facial expressions and body language. This model of trust was Social.
2/ Over the millennia that have followed, human institutions have come along and have helped us scale trust from the very local, where everyone knows one another intimately, to the nearly global, where everyone is a stranger. Let's call this model of trust Institutional.
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So apparently, H.G. Wells conceived in 1938 of a decentralized, universally accessible, Permanent World Encyclopedia that he called the World Brain. That was 30 years before the first glimmers of the Internet, let alone Wikipedia and now cryptonetworks 🤯

cc @juanbenet
> This foreshadows a real intellectual unification of our race. The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual.
> This new all-human cerebrum need not be concentrated in any one single place. It need not be vulnerable as a human head or a human heart is vulnerable. It can be reproduced exactly and fully [...] wherever seems to afford an insurance against danger and interruption.
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#crypto: Updated total market cap logarithmic regression. #cryptocurrency Market cap currently underperforming the predicted price by 47%. Even if the market tests new lows (likely), this metric is signaling that it's time to pay attention. 1/
Note: MC is not always the best metric for valuation purposes. Also, most altcoins/ico's have not yet survived an extended bear market. Missing this critical validation period, this serves more as a tool to observe where the market is in its current price cycle 2/
If this can happen to Deutsche bank imagine what can happen in this young market. Numerous coins may not retest all-time highs. It's still unclear how that will affect the predictive ability of the model for total MC in aggregate. Survival of the fittest at play. 3/
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Day 13 of the Bates v Post Office trial at court 26 of the High Court Rolls Building has just begun. This walk to work this morning through Inner Temple was rather lovely, but now: let’s get down to business [cracks knuckles]
Mr Patrick Green QC for the claimants is on his feet.

PG "The reality is no one expected the Post Office to terminate on 3 months notice without cause.” #postofficetrial

Nothing in this thread is a direct quote unless it is in direct quotes.
PG talking about that in terms of NTC switchover and evidence from Brian Trotter about the reality of that contractual situation as played out. Some SPMRs were not allowed to give 3 months notice - they had to stay on until a replacement could be found.
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0/ Investors breathed easier today as the price of large-cap digital assets like #bitcoin [ $BTC ] and #ether [ $ETH ] managed to hold steady.

Whilst many were glued to the charts, I was trawling through the interwebs for the latest from the world of #crypto. You're welcome 😉
1/ 📣 Fresh from launching v1.1.3 of its #mainnet, @NULSservice [ $NULS ] detailed the design architecture of NULS 2.0 in the below 23-page paper.

Allows #NULS to be more than just the underlying infrastructure of the #blockchain. Many more uses to come! nuls.io/api/v1/downloa…
2/ ⛏️ @UbiqSmart [ $UBQ ] has successfully hard-forked to #Ubqhash.

Having done so, Ubiq is now decoupled from #Ethash and, thus, is no longer vulnerable to rental hash attacks. This marks the first time an #Ethereum fork has forked to a PoW mining algorithm.
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0/ Coming in HOT today with a thread devoted to a bunch of #crypto- and #blockchain-related events that took place over the past 24 hours or so. Here we go!
1/ ⛽️ I wasn't joking about that 'hot' thing, for @GetGitcoin have introduced Gas Price Heatmaps (gitcoin.co/gas/heatmap).

Assess the price vs. speed tradeoff vis-à-vis @ethereum gas. Super useful!

Built by @FrederikBolding. It's a visual representation of @ETHGasStation data.
2/ 🆕 Asia's top full-suite digital asset trading firm, @QCPCapital, became the first #OTC trading desk to set up a 'Space' on @AirSwap [ $AST ].

Launched last month, Spaces enable unique environments geared to support connections among groups that trade.
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0/ Such a full-on 24 hours for the #crypto/#blockchain space! When is it not?

Too much to take in? Fear not, I've got you covered, and have put together a thread of 24 events - one for each hour? (🤷‍♂️) - that caught my eye. Let's go!
1/ 🤝 @FantomFDN [ $FTM ] partnered with @Danfoss, a multi-billion-dollar #energy/#IoT manufacturer & service provider.

The Denmark-headquartered company will work w/ #Fantom to "explore the possibilities of accelerating the development of the microgrid." medium.com/fantomfoundati…
2/ 🆕 The @AERGO_io team published the mother of all blog posts. And why not! For it unveiled both the AERGO Chain Alpha & the AERGO pre-testnet.

Click through for more on their consensus algorithm (i.e., BFT-dPOS), Client SDK, and what's next for #AERGO. medium.com/aergo/releasin…
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Crypto moves of July & August are something to laugh about and make market participants throw everything but technicals & momentum out the window.
1st rally on fakenews about an ETF that won't happen
2nd crash on an ETF rejection that was no surprise
3rd crash on an ETF postponement that was no news
4th rally on failure to tank on ETF rejections that were no news

All very rational. #crypto
Should replace there "was not news" by "should have been no news". The market's inability to process information efficiently is one of the key points.
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