It's "ether", not "ethereum" Common mistake: calling the currency "ethereum". The network is Ethereum, the currency is ether (ETH). Just like Bitcoin is the network and bitcoin is the currency. The smallest unit is wei - there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 wei in one ether. Gas prices are usually measured in gwei (gigawei), which sits in the middle at 1,000,000,000 wei. When you're paying transaction fees, you're paying in gwei. When you're holding value, you're holding ether.

"linguistic ghost of the British Empire"

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

Does anyone know of a good ethical framework for introducing cryptocurrencies to newcomers? I try to be as honest as possible, but never approached it systematically. how to balance enthusiasm with responsibility View quoted note →

Yesterday, I personally introduced another normie to the open blockchain (a former police officer!) For start, he choose 50/50 BTC/ETH, smart choice

If your service shutdown would "shatter lives", you've already built a manipulative institution. The dependency itself is the ethical failure. Proper infrastructure enables exit. It's forkable, interoperable, and doesn't trap users. If standing on principle means catastrophic consequences, the architecture was already authoritarian. View quoted note →

I'm trying wavlake, here's my song created using suno v4.5: Shadows Collide 🎵

Wavlake

Shadows Collide • tree 木

Play, boost, and more on Wavlake ⚡️🎵

beautiful https://neal.fun/size-of-life/ View quoted note →

chafa is really cool "With chafa, you can now view very, very reasonable approximations of pictures and animations in the comfort of your favorite terminal emulator."

Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

Turn pictures and animations into top-notch terminal graphics and ANSI art.

pinboard.in is probably the only website I've been using for over 10 years and it still looks the same :D

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Nostr needs more #piracy and #privacy

My cannabis plants love CO2 View quoted note →

@Hynek Are you still here? :-)

This is probably the best introductory article to "blockchain governance" describing surface dynamics (from Ethereum's perspective): https://web.archive.org/web/20250124192731/https://research.2077.xyz/understanding-blockchain-governance#elements-of-blockchain-governance

BTC Prague is the perfect example of what I'm talking about - it's the antithesis of what Bitcoin claims to represent. Expensive booths, overpriced drinks, VIP zones separating the "important" people from everyone else. It's just recreating the same hierarchical, commercial structures Bitcoin was supposed to route around. They push their narrative, control the conversation, and reject alternative perspectives. It's not a gathering of free people building parallel systems - it's an institution teaching people how to be institutional.

Everyone here wants censorship resistance and freedom from institutional control. Great. But what's the positive vision? Freedom to do what? Build what kind of world? Censorship resistance is infrastructure, not a destination. Without vision for what we're building on that foundation - what voluntary cooperation looks like, what replaces captured institutions - we're just optimizing for chaos, not civilization.