I got involved with the Ergo cryptocurrency back in 2021. There was a lot to learn. Initially, I used Reddit. A few months in, I had a question that I needed to use Telegram to resolve. In cryptocurrencies, most of the discussion happens in Telegram and/or Discord. I became active on Telegram. I spent a … Continue reading Brief Note Regarding cafebedouin.org in 2024
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Matt Levine’s The Crypto Story
"There was a moment not so long ago when I thought, “What if I’ve had this crypto thing all wrong?” I’m a doubting normie who, if I’m being honest, hasn’t always understood this alternate universe that’s been percolating and expanding for more than a decade now. If you’re a disciple, this new dimension is the … Continue reading Matt Levine’s The Crypto Story
Coin of My Realm: Meaning
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1577353047667154944 I've been thinking on this tweet a bit lately. How do we determine what is the coin of our realm? What is important to us? I wanted to expand on this tweet. Isn't really "what others offer" is a question of what we value in ourselves, and in other people? Lets leave aside the … Continue reading Coin of My Realm: Meaning
PoE: Proof of Effort
https://twitter.com/NautilusWallet/status/1555606379599052801 I really liked this idea of Proof of Effort, a riff off Proof of Work and Proof of Stake consensus mechanism in cryptocurrencies. Strikes me as a variation of RTFM. People are more inclined to help once you have shown you have tried to solve your own problems.
Scam World
"Despite growing out of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin has led to the creation of a faster, leaner and crueler crisis of its own, an unregulated hellscape where the elites have found yet another way to get rich off of the backs of regular people’s money. Whatever “noble” goals Bitcoin and cryptocurrency allegedly has or … Continue reading Scam World
The 2022 State of Crypto Report
"While it’s hard to know the exact number of web3 users, we can reason about the scale of the movement. We estimate there are somewhere between seven million and 50 million active Ethereum users today, based on various on-chain metrics. (See slide 54.) Analogizing to the early commercial internet, that puts us somewhere circa 1995 … Continue reading The 2022 State of Crypto Report
Artists Sell Feelings?
"People buy things for how things will make them feel. Desires for status, connection, and emotion. At its core, we sell feelings."-Radia. "An artist’s guide to surviving NFTs." mirror.xyz/radia.eth. March 12, 2022 What is art? Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, raise an interesting aspect about answering this question. If we think about making art as a process, the … Continue reading Artists Sell Feelings?
Energy Production, Cryptocurrencies & Hidden Agendas
How many times have you read something like this, “Bitcoin uses as much electricity as Malaysia or Sweden or Denmark or Chile….”. What a bore. Have you ever wondered, however, why the comparison is to countries? Why don’t they ever tell you what would seem to be a more natural comparison which is how much … Continue reading Energy Production, Cryptocurrencies & Hidden Agendas
Vitalik Buterin on Rebellion as an Organizing Principle
Stable Anchors & Financial Dominance
"The less dominant the U.S. economy is, the less the dollar can function as a stable anchor for the global financial system. It was still intact in 2008-10, when a global financial crisis sent capital flooding to the safe haven of U.S. government bonds. But in recent years, people have begun to question whether Bretton … Continue reading Stable Anchors & Financial Dominance
Why Ergo?
Ergo is different from other blockchains. It is focused on providing a decentralized, open, permissionless, and secure platform for contractual money that is usable by ordinary people to pursue their common good over the long term. It is designed to be resilient in the face of different economic environments and competing interests, allows individuals to … Continue reading Why Ergo?
Mining the Ergo Cryptocurrency in the ergo.getblok.io Pool
Mining Ergo as part of the ergo.getblok.io mining pool is easy, particularly on Windows. If you already have a Ergo wallet, it can be set-up on a computer with a GPU video card compatible with mining Ergo in less than 5 minutes. For Ergo, you need a card with a minimum of 4GB of RAM, … Continue reading Mining the Ergo Cryptocurrency in the ergo.getblok.io Pool
Conceal Network
"Conceal Network is a secure peer-to-peer privacy framework empowering individuals and organizations to anonymously communicate and interact financially in a decentralized and censorship resistant environment."-https://conceal.network/
A Crash Course on Crypto Economics in 1 Hour by Natasha Che
https://twitter.com/RealNatashaChe/status/1448419168986882050 A newer one with a focus on stablecoins and fiat. https://twitter.com/RealNatashaChe/status/1459974459935264770 The whole series is worth a read if you have any interest in cryptocurrencies. Tascha also has a newsletter.
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