With everyone talking about the Oppenheimer movie, it felt like a timely stop to drive by the Los Alamos Monument on my way from Austin to Oregon.

One thing fascinated me about the history of this place that I haven’t heard anyone talk about yet.

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In 1862 president Lincoln pass the homesteading act.

It basically allowed any male to lay claim to any 160 acres of government-surveyed land.

If they build a well and farmed the land for 5 years, the land would become theirs.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead…

For several months, I've been working with @sunnydece and others at @MessariCrypto to advance the discussion of blockchain decentralization beyond @balajis's original Nakamoto Coefficient paper.

I am so excited to finally share this!

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messari.io/report/evaluat… One of the key insights of @balajis's original paper that got lost in the echo chambers of Crypto Twitter was the idea of "essential subsystems".

In short, it referred to an area of a blockchain network for which to quantify decentralization.

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news.earn.com/quantifying-de…