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In constant awe of the modern world - I study technology & progress. BD @Anduriltech | Ex-@BlueOrigin | Ex-@ExxonMobil
Aug 29, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
1/ Crypto can create and preserve wealth, but if you fall down the rabbit hole 🕳️, you find a vast & expansive world of ideas to explore. @RyanSAdams and @TrustlessState over at @BanklessHQ have explored these deep philosophical/historical concepts - here is a 🧵 of my top 5 #5 Governance and capital have always been intimately intertwined, especially when capital is defined more expansively than money but rather as the control, influence, or power over resources. Crypto offers new tools to create novel capital instruments.

Aug 28, 2021 10 tweets 7 min read
1/ A thread 🧵on the NFT projects by Arihz (@framergence) an anonymous Brazilian computer scientist and NFT artist. His releases include 1) Framergence, 2) @pulsquares, and 3) @AvidLines. Let's dive into what makes each of these projects a top-tier NFT collection. 2/ Framergence was Arihz's debut exploring the world of fractals. Simple shapes are created along with rules for their fractal replication. It was a fair distribution with free minting during its release. A DAO formed which rallied around this project @EmergenceDAO
Aug 24, 2021 15 tweets 6 min read
1/ A thread 🧵 on one of the most innovative and exciting NFT projects Mutant Garden Seeder (MGS) by the self described artist, philosopher, coder @harmvddorpel and released through the Berlin-based platform @foliafoliafolia ImageImage 2/ Its goal is to show that even though the blockchain is immutable. It's still possible to create works of art that are transformative. In a twist of irony perhaps, these transformations, or mutations in this case, are a direct consequence of the hashes of newly formed blocks.🤯
May 27, 2021 14 tweets 4 min read
1/ I've seen a lot of confusion over EIP-1559, and what the future holds for transaction costs after its implementation. I want to illuminate the current state of affairs and dynamics by analogy. That of a giant bus terminal.

$ETH #EIP1559 #Ethereum 2/ Imagine a giant bus terminal with people who want to board a bus to get to the next stop. Buses come every 10-15 seconds. The buses have a fixed number of seats and the driver can select the people to fill all the seats.