With all the intense debate on OP_RETURN, worth mentioning that on ethereum, the major "Pectra" update has shoehorned 15 random things into the chain by decree. People are predicting some major risks and vulnerabilities from some of these updates which will be interesting to see unfold.
Can I just say, I find it incredible how climate change has been smoothly swapped out for AI as an existential financial risk for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. I was having a long talk with a friend yesterday about this. Both climate change and AI have elements of truth to them, but in the popular mind they have actually been taken further to fill the human need for apocalyptic myth-making and redemption which is as old as time.
What is Cryptosovereignty? With Erik Cason & Cody Ellingham
Erik Cason is author of Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin. Erik is a regular speaker and essayist, focussing on the social, political, and philosophical aspects of Bitcoin.
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The Waves of Meaning | Cody Ellingham
https://www.patreon.com/posts/waves-of-meaning-127326271
"In the choppy ocean of meaning-making the waves are colliding and smashing together constantly in ways that are unpredictable and profound."
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โจ Can you pull the money lever just right to control inflation? Spotted at Bank of England exhibition on money and the future of money. If you think that's crazy then you should study Bitcoin.
๐ง I am joined by Carmen Lau is a former Hong Kong District Councillor who was forced to resign by the government and later fled Hong Kong to the UK where she lives in exile.
She is a pro-democracy and freedom advocate with the Hong Kong Democracy Council and a Freedom Fellow with the Human Rights Foundation and is wanted by the Hong Kong police with a $1 million Hong Kong dollar bounty being offered for information leading to her arrest.
We talk about freedom and self-determination and importantly what it means to lose freedoms that you once had.
We also touch on China and the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party.
Photography of unplaces. Somewhere in Tokyo. Instagram does not want me to upload this image for some reason so maybe I can get some zaps here instead?