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@punk6529
Aug 19, 2022 • 32 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
1/ On Solving Problems On-Chain

So, conventionally, this is about the time I'd start a podcast.

But I prefer bold experiments so I've been chasing partners and people all summer to try something that has never been done before

What is that?
2/ This fall, with the help and forebearance of the teams at @unicmetaverse and @oncyber, and the most amazing roster of guests and instructors, a team of us are going to try to run a university course 100% on-chain and in @OM100m.

What does this mean "on-chain?"
3/ What it means is that someone will be able to enroll in, attend the course, attend the lectures, graduate from the course and do it 100% with NFTs as the database of record (no centralized database).

It is hard to do!
4/ Let me get the basics out first because @unicmetaverse already tweeted them and then come back to the "what does on-chain mean"

The course is here:
unic.ac.cy/openmetaverse/…

You join via a free mint here:
mint.unic.ac.cy
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24/ Now, back to me again.

As you can see, the instructors and guests are incredible.

I can't wait to listen to all the sessions. And if we get a good group of participants, we can have great discussions

And it should be great onboarding for your NFT-curious friends
25/ The interesting and difficult part is going to be the 100% on-chain part.

My view of the open metaverse is not, in the end, only about art or even gaming.

We have to see if we can push larger aspects of our lives into decentralized spaces...
26/ And there it gets very tricky.

Companies, industries and organizations have built good information systems that work for their needs.

The on-chain versions don't exist, are confusing, are primitive, present new challenges and, day 1, are inferior
27/ So we are in vastly unchartered territory here and everyone is going to be scrambling in real-time to see if we can do it.

@rayan_oncyber is working on token-gating and support for larger multi-user groups in @OM100m
28/ @unicmetaverse is trying to to solve how to do exams on-chain.

Broadly, the direction has to be zero knowledge proofs but I have never seen this in the wild.

So if you have ideas on this, please get in touch.
29/ In general, I view this as a grand experiment for us, that we have to solve together.

We say that we can do things in a decentralized manner, time to put our actions where our mouth is and figure out if it is possible
30/ @unicmetaverse has a discord but I am a bit afraid they are not ready for what it means when we all come marching in

Anyway, here it is.
discord.gg/VYD2jmdU
31/ Also, the free mint pass to the course is a @6529er special, his reinterpretation of the @UNIC_ENG logo, along with a couple of Easter Eggs

mint.unic.ac.cy Image
32/ Also, I am still thinking about some additional guest lecturers.

I need to sleep on it for a day or two but we have some small gaps still - I am going to send some DMs and if by next week I am not fully satisfied I am going to ask for community help.

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Mar 9
1/ On How I Am Allocated

The punchline is not a surprise: almost all BTC and NFTs, and a smattering of other things

I am not sure, however, I've explained in one place why.

As always, this is highly personal and I'm not saying any of this is right for you
2/ 2013 to 2020 I was pretty much a BTC maxi

I traded some 2013 alts in Fall 2013 (Cryptsy!) and realized that:
a) I hated it
b) I was not any good at it
c) I was going to eventually lose all my money regardless of if BTC was GMI
3/ So one day cold turkey I just stopped trading, said

"OK, I have these BTC, stop looking at price, don't fomo, don't cope"

I was a medium sized BTC evangelist back them.

Despite this, most friends, colleagues, family dumped their BTC in 2014-2016
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Jan 27
1/ On Infinite Inference

I used to be a good amateur photographer. A long time ago, a friend was worried that the cycle of growth in hard drives was coming to an end.

I asked him why?

"Well, my business documents are only 5 GB or whatever - isn't my 30 GB drive enough?"
2/ I said "what about photographs?"

He showed me his phone with 3Mb photos and said "but I take 5 a day so even this is 5GB/year so ok maybe we go to 100 GB"

And I laughed and laughed and laughed.
3/ Humans can visually discern the following:

Detail: ~ 1 arcminute (1/60th of a degree)
Color Depth: 8 to 12-bit color depth per channels
Channels: 3
Frames per second: 90 to 120 for decent VR

If you want to capture and store this in 360 degree angles...
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Jan 1
1/ On So Few NFTs, So Many NFTs

Are NFTs the scarcest assets in the crypto universe?

Are NFTs an endless no-barriers-to-entry stream of good, mid and worthless tokens?

Buckle up. This is a long one. 60+
2/ A few days ago, we discussed that a necessary, but not sufficient factor, for Bitcoin’s success was its 21M hard cap on tokens.

If you have not read this thread, go ahead and read it now

3/ Today, I am going to ignore the other factors of Bitcoin’s success and focus on the scarcity aspect.

A common phrase was: “If every millionaire wanted to own a bitcoin, there are not enough bitcoins to go around"
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Dec 29, 2024
1/ On the Nature of the Token Shapes the Nature of the Holders Who Shape The Nature Of The Token.

In the short-run, anything can happen with any token.

What determines the long-run though? What determines what will happen in 5, 10, 20 years?
2/ As always, it starts with Bitcoin. What was the "nature of the token?"

At the protocol level: It was fixed, progressively mined, and had a purpose inseparable from the function of the network (rewarding miners to encourage competition / decentralization of mining)
3/ At the social level, in the beginning, it was not particularly described as a "get rich quick" scheme or even a "get rich slow" scheme.

It was described an experiment in decentralization, as an alternative to corrupted centralized systems.
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Dec 22, 2024
1/ On Living Rent-Free In Your Head

People and ideas are ferociously competing to live rent-free in your head.

For most people it is worse than that.

It is a high school rager with hundreds of people and ideas spilling beer on the sofa of your head.

Your job: face control
2/ It is impossible to live with a completely blank slate.

A functioning society is built on endless layers of abstraction on concepts and ideas.

Almost everyone, including the based contrarians, are repeating ideas that someone else propagated into their head.
3/ So let's get this out of the way first.

There will be a party in your living room of your head.

Perhaps the Buddha himself saw through the veil of ignorance, the cycle of samsara, and found nirvana, but safe to say that nobody reading this tweet has.
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Nov 12, 2024
1/ On Buying The Statue of Liberty

I did a lecture today for @giaglis's MOOC on NFTs and I got the RCSA question.

"NFTs are just a receipt, just a pointer to an image. I can download them and view them without buying them"

A classic question! Here is what I said.
2/ Imagine the Statue of Liberty.

It is very large.
It is on Liberty Island
It was a present from BFF (France)
It is owned by the Federal Government and specifically National Park Services
Anyone can look at it, whether the President of the USA or you
3/ Now, imagine the Federal Government needed to raise money fast.

It decided to sell the Statue of Liberty on the condition that it has to remain exactly as open to the public as it is now (It is both a National Monument and UNESCO World Heritage site)
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