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  • It’s becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude
    Exceptional
  • Ethereum is a vast world, inhabited by all sorts of creatures, a place for an endless exploration, full of challenges and opportunities, where many curious consciousnesses embark on a journey of their own. Here ideas can sprout beyond imagination: people rally behind a worthy meme they own, artisans craft their masterpieces, phishers and scammers wreak havoc on both newcomers and OGs, pseudo-pharaohs look to build a pyramid of their own, rekt projects negotiate with grey hackers in real-time, LPs are quick to provide or withdraw their liquidity – which is the bloodline for ideas and value to f…
    Interface – Explore Ethereum — Interface
  • People see their friends, co-workers and relatives diving down the crypto rabbit hole and emerging days or weeks later with a new obsession, new internet friends, a bunch of new jargon and the seeming inability to talk about anything else. (There’s even a word for this — getting “cryptopilled.”) People who believe in crypto tend to really believe in it — to the point that they can appear to the outside world more like evangelists for a new religion than fans of a new technology.
    The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto - The New York Times
  • Crypto may look like a speculative casino from the outside. But that distracts many from the deeper truth: the casino is a trojan horse with a new financial system hidden inside
    The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto - The New York Times
  • is that it is terribly explained.
    The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto - The New York Times
  • Auctions without auctioneers, E-voting without tallying authorities, Gambling without casinos, Trading without brokers, Art speculation without auction houses. This is indeed the true innovation underpinning crypto and Web3.
    Why are cryptocurrencies interesting? — Patrick McCorry
  • Byzantine node: A node that will act against the interest of all other nodes. Its job is to stall progression or to confuse nodes about the final decision. They are not good cats.
    Why are cryptocurrencies interesting? — Patrick McCorry
  • the Byzantine General’s Problem, where all computers reach agreement on a single decision in the presence of malicious computers
    Why are cryptocurrencies interesting? — Patrick McCorry
  • The future isn’t multi-chain or mono-chain, it’s Superchain. Stay Optimistic, nerds.
    Introducing the OP Stack — The Optimism Collective