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@mengwong @backofthenapkin 1/ Cyber/cypher-punk operates in legal gray areas, and sometimes in the zone of civil disobedience. So the struggle of being a lawyer/cypherpunk is real, and the two identities are in tension.
2/ Many " blockchain lawyers' " work so far has consisted of trying to legitimize the tech by (a) re-centralizing it to achieve compliance or (b) publicly (& sometimes gleefully) decrying blockchain entrepreneurs' tendencies to violate laws (e.g. securities laws in ICOs).
3/ Even among the lawyers with a cypher/cyber-punk ethos who #BUIDL, I think there has been a tendency to 'not go far enough' in either honoring the radical roots/goals of blockchain technology or acknowledging the gap between legal solutions and cypher/cyber-punk ones.
Here's the tweetstorm version of my talk from @build_eth yesterday! I talked about how, from a user's perspective, dApps don't feel like normal apps. This is because of the inherent technology that makes dApps decentralized.
But dApps should feel like apps!
But dApps should feel like apps!
First, some alternative titles...
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Self-sovereign ownership is a paradigm shift in how we interact with the world. The ability to own a digital thing sans middleman is a revolution in our understanding of the digital realm. But it's _not_ easy to make that experience usable. (yet!!)
I want to talk about why Ethereum matters to me, and why it should matter to you, too.
In 2018 when most people in the world hear "Ethereum" they think of ICOs and scams and shills. That's disappointing but understandable. The true message has gotten buried.
In 2018 when most people in the world hear "Ethereum" they think of ICOs and scams and shills. That's disappointing but understandable. The true message has gotten buried.
I posit: the existing system is broken. By "system" I mean economic, political, social, take your pick. Turn on any news channel anywhere in the world for five minutes if you need evidence. The list of broken things is too lengthy to detail here but, briefly...
Most countries have for some time functioned under a tacit social contract whereby "the public" agree to be ruled by a minority elite with the understanding that the elite will protect their interests and won't rip them off too badly.
A thread on devs + daily active users (DAUs) 👇
- #Ethereum code school CryptoZombies trained 208k+ users and is growing by 30k+/mo
- Truffle has 580k dls, up 56% last 3 mo
- MetaMask has >1m users
- GitHub lists 14k $ETH-based repos and 220k commits
- 1500+ dapps are in dev
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- #Ethereum code school CryptoZombies trained 208k+ users and is growing by 30k+/mo
- Truffle has 580k dls, up 56% last 3 mo
- MetaMask has >1m users
- GitHub lists 14k $ETH-based repos and 220k commits
- 1500+ dapps are in dev
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- ETH does more tx and active addresses than BTC
- No, batching doesn't make up the dif in tx
- Of the top 100 tokens by MC, 94% are built on Ethereum
- EEA boasts 500+ members
- Brazil, Canada, Zug, Chile, Dubai, and Estonia are experimenting w/ government apps on Ethereum
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- No, batching doesn't make up the dif in tx
- Of the top 100 tokens by MC, 94% are built on Ethereum
- EEA boasts 500+ members
- Brazil, Canada, Zug, Chile, Dubai, and Estonia are experimenting w/ government apps on Ethereum
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On the topic of daily act addr (DAA):
Value transfer is a use case and those *transacting value daily* are DAUs you morons.
Fundraising with $ETH = MOE.
By DAA, Ethereum has as many or more users than BTC.
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Value transfer is a use case and those *transacting value daily* are DAUs you morons.
Fundraising with $ETH = MOE.
By DAA, Ethereum has as many or more users than BTC.
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Getting started with #walletconf -- UX discussions around wallets and crypto broadly.
First up, @tomcreighton kicking off. Where does UX come into the thinking around crypto? "What is the UX of TCP/IP?"
My question: how do you think about design when you are building lower level lego blocks vs. lego kits?
I'm thinking perhaps about open source components that have developers as the "end user".
I'm thinking perhaps about open source components that have developers as the "end user".
1/ Most problems with today’s blockchain protocols come from the issue least discussed and least questioned: the imperative to extract value from it. Removing this imperative opens up possibilities to scaling and interoperability that are entirely unlike anything we have seen
2/ think of this: the platform currency is a splinter in the body of the dApp’s economy, something you must have and transact in addition to the dApp’s token(s)
3/ the protocol’s policies (for example with respect to how transaction fees are accounted) are dictated by the commons, not a specific dApp
