casi18

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by casi18 5y ago
http://www.adjoint.io/ is the company hes not selling me anything, but hes selling to companys who have a choice of the stuff hes making or the stuff others are making as FOSS, and the stuff other people are making is being
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by casi18 5y ago
his company makes the closed source financial infrastructure for digitising cash for multinational corporations, that is made useless by crypto becoming popular. of course he doesnt mention this when writing hit pieces on crypto culture. h
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by casi18 5y ago
you can make something up at the speed of thought. refuting it takes time and effort. peer-reviewing even longer.
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by casi18 5y ago
lol maybe today on a friday afternoon i do haha :) but in general the conversations are getting exhausting and distracting. I feel like it is at a point where we will just keep building the things we find useful for ourselves and our commun
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by casi18 5y ago
> "People need to be paid to do the work". Clearly, they don't. im really not sure what you are arguing for here? It seems you just really dont want a person to give someone else money and that have exchange/relations
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by casi18 5y ago
As I mentioned to others, remember the saying "90% of everything is shit" and make some time for the 10% maybe being legitimate, maybe having something worthwhile that is attracting all the attention. Most people I know making art
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by casi18 5y ago
> I have every single game ever made for every console generation from 1978 through 2002. This cost me next to nothing I think you are confusing the cost of production of these things, and the cost to you personally. There is a cost (ma
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by casi18 5y ago
Retroactive sales have long been the way most art (and most stuff in general) is funded. Art is made and then sold, then the artist can keep making things. Someone makes them then sells them then they can keep making more. There is also the
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by casi18 5y ago
People need to be paid to do the work, so they can eat and pay rent. We dont actually live in a post scarcity star trek world. So we find a way that people can be paid yet the information and content can remain free to everyone. It seems li
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by casi18 5y ago
> "Information doesn't want to be free anymore" “Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive....That tension will not go away” - Stuart Brand Think about the whole quote and NFTs will make more se
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by casi18 5y ago
fwiw lsd is very cheap compared to other drugs/medicines. i can get enough for a year for $30. (ten tabs as $3 a tab, 150/250u == ten strips per tab, 100 microdoses spread over the year, about twice a week).
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by casi18 5y ago
> I am aware of the existence of Layer 2 solutions, but I'm not too sure that by making a somewhat complicated layering solution to solve scalability concerns on the network that it can achieve mass long-term adoption. the base lay
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by casi18 5y ago
yes, im a big supporter of thing like proofofhumanity ubi, also $400m was donated from crypto to the india covid relief fund over the past 6 months. These initiatives are great and happy to share any you have. This week, on the back of cons
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by casi18 5y ago
fine, i cant be bothered with hn anymore. so you can say ok its discord and twitter. but crypto is fun. people will keep having fun. we can ignore that and write it off as has been the case for the past ten years, or we can recognise 10% of
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by casi18 5y ago
Not anonymous, team is very public. because of US law this is the practical way of actually doing it, the alternative seems to be not doing it and thatd be boring. theres been long discussions for days in the discord, if people have suggest
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by casi18 5y ago
from his blog: >No, the crypto bit absolutely doesn’t do anything useful None of this would have happened without 'the crypto bit'. People are just annoyed that crypto is happening and theyve been betting against it. they were
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by casi18 5y ago
its fun. and it demos how these tools can be used for rapid mass coordination.
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by casi18 5y ago
show me how this would have happened without crypto. in less than a week going from being a joke in a group chat to a registered organisation with $25m funding and a clear mission statement to take something from private ownership into publ
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by casi18 5y ago
it has previously been in a private collection, and without constitutiondao would end up in another private collection. the intention of the dao is clear, display it in a public museum with free entry. and yes, from a joke last friday to li
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by casi18 5y ago
Lots of daos have forums and token voting where you voice opinion, and also have 'rage quit' functions where you can exit and take your share of the dao bank balance with you. They're also often open source so can be forked i
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by casi18 5y ago
it'll be interesting to see if constitutiondao raise enough funds to buy the constitution this week (one of the eleven first editions). i think that is an interesting example of something going from private ownership to being owned by
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by casi18 5y ago
or https://ipfs.io/
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by casi18 5y ago
iirc: originally brave embedded metamask but with their own branding, metamask then changed their license so that other companies couldn't do that without paying a license fee, so the brave version stayed on the older version without t
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by casi18 5y ago
buy other assets, which then "increase in value" compared to $ prices and then you get charged on capital gains.
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by casi18 5y ago
sure, if that works for you then you dont need it. its useful for the co-ops i work with. allows easy group ownership of repos and also basically gives us a group bank account and voting system all at once. like instant community group infr
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by casi18 5y ago
you can deploy your own contracts, no-one can stop you.
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by casi18 5y ago
being paid for your work is greed? because art has no value? you want artists to suffer, is that it? I think it is wonderful this person is making money with their art.
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by casi18 5y ago
maybe we dont want a society that is based upon threats of violence. maybe thats the problem. (3,3)
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by casi18 5y ago
Plenty of people in art and music i know who are very happy with nfts. Theres thousands of people on https://beta.catalog.works/ https://foundation.app/ https://zora.co/ We also get royalti
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by casi18 5y ago
I mean for one, a patreon staff member who doesnt like you for some reason cant just ban your nft account. That seems like a pretty good starting point.

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