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Jan 31 7 tweets 4 min read
1/ design is going digital!

acquired marula #002 - a physical chair and its digital twin, which lives in a metaverse landscape

designed by @StudioAkha, customized by me

only 150 marulas will exist

opensea.io/assets/0x495f9…
2/ there are 3 types of marulas - limited, rare, and ultra rare

the finishes and the location of the NFT goes from earth, space to other galaxies depending on the rarity

i'm excited about the intersection of design, NFTs, and new studio models for creators
3/ furniture is an interesting design space that hasn't seen much innovation

diego faivre created a collection called 'minute manufacturing' where each piece was priced per minute in 'diego coins'

production time was the asset, not the end product

thediegoscopy.com
4/ with 'marula madness', @StudioAkha is extending this model into design as an asset

by selling the design as an NFT that entitles the bearer to redeem for a physical item, the economics of building and selling a collection start to evolve and open up new avenues
5/ by selling design that can be redeemed for product, creatives and designers can bring their ideas to life without needing to encumber themselves with costly loans or difficult clients who limit their vision

more novel, collaborative models for co-creation emerge
6/ there are furniture NFTs, but the intersection of physical x digital is more compelling

design is for everyone, not only high end collectors

as we curate our physical and digital spaces, continuity will blur the edges of where these end and begin

nymag.com/strategist/art…
7/ you can get your very own marula here: opensea.io/collection/mar…

i'm excited to showcase my custom marula next to my incredible @niallashley_ painting (which i also own as an NFT)

foundation.app/@niall/foundat…

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More from @Melt_Dem

Jan 28
1/ dear @ewarren @katieporteroc @RashidaTlaib @SenatorHassan and signers of the "letter to cryptominers"

your letter, while admirable in intention, contains numerous factual inaccuracies around bitcoin mining, its ESG footprint, and impact on local energy grid

brief thread...
2/ the carbon emitted by electricity providers supplying the Bitcoin mining network are inconsequential.

at 0.08 % of global CO2e emissions, removing the entire mining network from global demand would not amount to anything more than a rounding error
3/ china's move to curtail bitcoin mining has been a huge boon for america's mining industry, and with it, has created thousands of jobs, revitalized dozens of communities, and generated billions of dollars in public and private market value here in america
Read 10 tweets
Jan 26
1/ excited to announce the launch of two new @CoinSharesCo ETPs - @Polkadot and @tezos

both ETPs have 0 management fees and give staking rewards to holders - 5% on $DOT and 3% on $XTZ

coinshares.com/news/coinshare…
2/ as blockchain protocols offer incentives to participate in securing the network, fundamental questions emerge around how long term holders of these assets participate in network inflation

at CoinShares, we have been building crypto financial products for the last seven years
3/ we recently invested in @StakingRewards alongside our friends at @DCGco and @GalaxyDigitalHQ to help advance investor access and education to all things staking

we are also investors in @BlockdaemonHQ, a key partner in our staking footprint!
Read 4 tweets
Dec 13, 2021
1/ new research from @CoinSharesCo @jbutterfill on quantum compute as a threat to bitcoin's security model

tl;dr - scary in theory, exceptionally unlikely in practice. also, the entire financial services / internet economy would be FUBAR.

read on 👇
coinshares.com/research/bitco…
2/ cracking encryption is HARD. 128-bit encryption has 340 undecillion (36 zeros) variants. that's... a lot.

context - a computer that could test 1 trillion keys per second would take 10.79 quintillion years to crack it, which is 785 million times the age of the universe 🪐💫👩‍🚀
3/ Bitcoin uses SHA-256 cryptography for mining, and for public key obfuscation in the transaction process, and it should therefore be secure in a post-quantum world
Read 7 tweets
Dec 9, 2021
1/ so you want to work in crypto?

excited to share a new @Pallet_HQ job board ft my amazing portfolio companies - over 150 roles from across 2 dozen companies in the space, and roles ranging across functions from engineering to HR to BD

meltem-jobs.pallet.xyz/jobs
2/ companies include @BlockdaemonHQ @CasaHODL @chia_project @edgeandnode @fold_app @MessariCrypto @zapper_fi and many more!

if you're a portfolio company, just ping me and i'll send you the link to easily add your open roles or link your careers page.
3/ finding a new role can be tough

the @Pallet_HQ team has done an amazing job and makes it really easy for job searchers to browse across the industry and all of the different platforms and sites.

they've also been so incredibly kind and helpful 🥰 thank you team!
Read 5 tweets
Nov 29, 2021
1/ a few thoughts on current sentiment re: bitcoin

i see a lot of talk about a coming 🐻 bear 🐻 market, but let's look at data to help clarify where things might be headed through the end of Q4 and into Q1

sentiment -> demand -> market structure -> flows
2/ sentiment has been mixed - lots of positive news and catalysts but also the looming threat of max regulatory pain in the US and Europe

however, there is now significant support for a bitcoin allocation from macro investors and institutions
3/ demand - we track weekly investment flows via our @CoinSharesCo report

in the last 11 weeks, we've seen $2.7B of inflows into bitcoin ETPs alone. demand continues unabated, and w $5.5T of dry powder on the sidelines, there's plenty of capacity

medium.com/coinshares/vol…
Read 7 tweets
Nov 21, 2021
1/ excited to add 3 of @refikanadol's "machine hallucinations" to my collection

this series of algorithmic AI paintings uses image data from MoMA's collection

i'm fascinated by @GreatDismal's sprawl trilogy, esp the 3rd book, mona lisa overdrive

let's talk sci fi x art ImageImageImage
2/ in mona lisa overdrive, an art dealer hunts for the mysterious creator of "cornell boxes"

she finds they're made by wintermute, a now defunct AI, connected to a robotic arm, living in space orbit assembling objects from the abandoned home of the family who built the AI
3/ the art and music world has long maintained creativity is one of the last domains where humanity is uniquely capable in ways a machine is not

but, with art like Refik's, we must ask - can an AI pass an aesthetic turing test?

i think the answer is "yes"
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