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6 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Another day
Another opportunity to

SEIZE THE MEMES OF PRODUCTION!
Humans and ideas are in a constant environment of memetic competition.

And the winning memes determine what type of society you are in. Think about the vast range of societal approaches today and in the past.

It is just one meme winning more or less than another
"freedom"
"family values"
"sexual revolution"
"human rights"
"states rights"
"God"
"fairness"
"piety"
"social equity"
"social cohesion"

are all memes, encoded short-hand concepts.

they rule everything around us
It is easier to see at a distance

Lèse-majesté (insulting the King, who was often asserted to be divine, which was often severely punished) is obviously just a completely made up idea, like a kid's game.

But everything is like that, it is all made up
this does not mean that memes, shared myths, rules aren't important, they are. society works better with them.

but the first step of enlightenment is realizing they are made up, they are tools and they may be more or less fit for purpose in any time.

seize them.

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More from @punk6529

1 Jan
1/ On how to make it in crypto as a normal person.

There is one rule only: SURVIVE!
2/ Survival means four decisions:

a) Should you invest?
b) How much you invest?
c) In what should you invest?
d) Are you levered?

All of these are hugely personal, relate to your view of the world, your financial situation and, most of all, your psychology
3/ The purpose of this thread is not convince people who are not invested in crypto to invest in crypto.

Nor is it to convince you to invest more in crypto.

On average, anon, I am trying to get you to invest *less* in crypto so you can survive over the long-run
Read 56 tweets
17 Dec 21
1/ On NFT Rights Delegation

This is a shorter thread, but I want to flag the topic so we start finding solutions because the longer we wait, the worse the problem will get.

We need to be able to segregate and delegate rights associated with NFTs.

Let me explain
2/ We previously discussed best practices in security.

At the high-end, where the 6529 Museum now operates, this means a gnosis multi-sig wallet kept cold (with even the keys broken up, distributed globally, not easily accessible)

3/ This is a wonderful setup for security, but a nightmare for composability because it is a huge pain in the rear to get the wallet active and even if you have it active, engaging with new/unknown contracts puts the whole wallet at risk
Read 13 tweets
9 Dec 21
1/ On 4156

Today, and in the coming days and months, we will get to see the outcome to a question that I have pondered since I first followed 4156 (a long time ago)

I have very warm feelings for this ape. But are these feelings for the ape or for the voice behind it?
2/ I see this ape and I think "provenance, not copyright";

Oddly, I see this ape and still think "punk maxi"

Now that the voice and the image have split, that the identity has split, what will I feel?
3/ I think, in my mind, the twitter account and the voice is still 4156.

I think if I am referring to this voice in a few weeks, I will still say "4156", not "the artist formerly known as 4156".

This part is quite clear to me (at least today)
Read 13 tweets
8 Dec 21
1/ There is some strange effect in crypto haters that turns even the most ardent capitalists into aspiring members of the young communists club.

I was reminded of this with these quotes about the metaverse from an Oct FT article
2/ "This isn’t about building a decentralised paradise where everyone can prosper and live in harmony; this is about making a small group of people rich."

I disagree with the substance of the statement, but this coming from the FT is just chef's kiss
3/ FT is short for Financial Times, a newspaper focused largely on financial markets, plus a few lifestyle pages relating to spending habits of very rich people.

The average FT reader is, in fact, striving to make "a small group of people, themselves included, rich"
Read 6 tweets
4 Dec 21
1/ On NFT Photography 1/1s vs Print 1/1s

I have had a lot of photographers discuss this with me in DMs and there is a discussion online today.

Since there a lot of dimensions to this question, I am going to lay out my overall views here
2/ I am going to cover:
a) the legal position
b) old v new photographs
c) my view
d) what I think others will think
3/ The legal position is crystal-clear. In absence of another agreement, the photographer has the right to issue an NFT 1/1, a print 1/1, a coffee mug, a t-shirt and so on, from the same image.

They retain the copyright.
Read 27 tweets
21 Nov 21
Time to live on the edge a bit.

We have 17 Gradient owners (great) and this is taking too long (not great)

For the very first time, going to send 4 Gradients live simultaneously 🤯

Gradient #89 is live (#90 is staying in-house for now)

opensea.io/assets/0x0c58e…
As is Gradient #11 (#10 is staying in-house for now)

opensea.io/assets/0x0c58e…
As is Gradient #88

opensea.io/assets/0x0c58e…
Read 5 tweets

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