Milo Bowman (@milob) • Hey
Founder of Brighton Blockchain https://www.meetup.com/brighton-blockchain/
Optimism delegate: https://vote.optimism.io/delegates/milob.eth
Passionate abou
Publications
- Who's watching Eurovision this year? 🇪🇺
Current predicted rankings (from bookmakers and polymarket):
1. Croatia
2. Israel
3. Switzerland
4. Ukraine
5. Ireland
6. France
7. Italy
8. Finland
9. Greece
10. UK
- Sure, tech is nice. But does your token have a theme tune composed by Hans Zimmer? https://youtu.be/4lblmnZfugM
- Go find your nearest cherry blossom tree RIGHT NOW!
They are beautiful!!!
- Why ETH?
I've said before that ETH is a great investment, but why?
TLDR: ETH is outperforming the market.
https://mirror.xyz/milob.eth/ZhgC22EPgmQP88z1JHWfvE1Wj_jzgLpvcibZFpVREtE
- Welcome to lens, @lens/weiz_eth ! 🌱
- They say everyone has a book in them. After these Sora AI videos, I’m starting to think that everyone might also have a film in them.
- Why is Bitcoin Maximalism such a boomer thing
I swear it's just 50+ year old weird uncles
- It's official: Kylian Mbappe will join Real Madrid this summer https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68346321
- This is really interesting. Makes me wonder more about what exactly goes into 'reputation'.
Also makes me feel like a black mirror episode where everyone is glued to their score, trying to improve their reputation 😂
- From now we support non-authenticated **Farcaster Frames** on @lens/hey 😉
Here is an example: https://pokeframe.joepetrich.com/
- My main issue with lens right now:
Large parts are unusable 😠
- After creating some confusion about how I 'went to Iceland yesterday', I was able to show @Pilar that it is in fact the name of a supermarket in the UK 😂
- Bankless questions ETH's future, guaranteed bottom signal
- Well the market has shown its hand over the last half an hour... This is the ETH/BTC bottom.
- Things I'm watching for in 2024 https://mirror.xyz/milob.eth/qqRu_pMSBWG-OZfL5cZNPbfpQ6WwX4WBRqX2fSXT1N8
- Went to an event called 'Paint your inner drag queen' 💁♀️💅
- AI generated pic of me... I think it looks pretty good!
- Merry Christmas, lens 💚
- My 70 year old parents love to send me newspaper clippings whenever crypto is in the news 😂.
This time, nothing happened - other than crypto continuing to exist.
The headline: 'Why Crypto Refuses To Die' (worth zooming in and reading to understand public perception).
- What's the best part of a hotel breakfast? 🤤
- Gitcoin grants are a great way to contribute to public goods. Your 'donation' is really **voting power** of a larger pool of money. A few dollars goes a long way! https://grants.gitcoin.co/ @lens/gitcoin
- ETH just printed a +12.22% god candle; the biggest 1-day increase since a year ago.
Feels good.
- 3 reasons why I installed a viewing dome in my miniature farm desk:
1. To feel closer to nature 🏕️
2. To feel more powerful as I look down on the tiny animals.
3. To pretend to be a low-budget version of the Las Vegas sphere.
- New personal best!
You’ve got to play Lensbird, a cooler version of Flappybird where you can play with your LensFrens! I challenge you to beat my high score of 36! 🎮🤩 @thefriendly.lens #Lens #Web3 #GamingCommunity
https://lensbird.friendly.live
- I just voted "No Action" on "GOOSE 2023 cycle: Lido DAO goals for 2024 and 2024-2026" https://snapshot.org/#/lido-snapshot.eth/proposal/0x0fa423280ce2bcc2596901d81322716ad440c7581658030a7d21784c2661d81c #Snapshot
Ultimately, I don't believe that making Lido as Ethereum-aligned as possible is an adequate solution to monopolisation.
- Staying sane is hard when crypto is down and you're depending on it to go up. It's easy to retreat into a comforting bubble of supporting beliefs, that obscures reality. An alternative: Meet local people, make friends, and find strength from your connections with others instead.
- Oh, hey!
- Visiting the Booth Museum of Natural History.
(I'm the one on the left)
- Delighted to join the 10k club and top 5 on #Lensjump ! I only lost because I had to blink😫! @thefriendly.lens
- All of Olivia Rodrigo's new album is great, but this is a personal highlight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkAezOlnwtk
- Beach day with @pilar.lens 🥰
- Market feels like it's bottoming. Again. Eth is at $1625 and people are acting like that's a normal price?!?
- Onchain summer is the most fun I've had in a while! And it looks like it's really paying off for base 👀 https://l2beat.com/scaling/activity
- Prediction for 2025: the word 'onchain' will enter the dictionary.
- Brighton Pride was chaotic... Torrential rain, freezing wind, in the middle of Storm Antoni, but god's wrath hasn't stopped the LGBTQ+ community before, this time is no different! We showed up and celebrated regardless! P.S. my nipple says hi
- Coinbase ($COIN) shares have completed what looks to me like a perfect breakout & pullback move amidst a potential short squeeze, and I think this could be a great buying opportunity.
The most recent data on Jul 14th showed that there were 35.5m shares short, which is a whopping 19.88% of the supply. With this recent move above resistance, I'm sure those shorts should be looking to exit. Time will tell if that can be absorbed by the normal (high) volume without hugely effecting the price, but the sheer volume of shorts (I'll say again, nearly 20% of the supply) suggests otherwise to me. I'd expect a huge rally over the next few weeks.
Furthermore, coinbase is still soooooooooooo undervalued imo; *$20.8b market cap* with $5.5b cash on hand, $92b worth of crypto traded this QUARTER and $128b of crypto assets in custody (that's 11% of the total crypto market cap on coinbase). The whole company is worth more than $20.8b... I reckon it's the target of anti-crypto tradfi people who see it as a collapsing house of cards and easy short. But they're wrong! I've been watching this for a while, and it all seems to be moving like clockwork so far.
Potential catalyst: Base launches August 9th! Big news, it's already picking up a lot of steam, and I can easily see it becoming a huge l2.
- How do I get more leverage?
I want to go all in on web3. And I already am financially, with the little money I have, but what else can I do to double down? I have time to spare...
- How do I get more leverage?
I want to go all in on web3. And I already am financially, with the little money I have, but what else can I do to double down? I have time to spare...
- **On Increasing Returns**
Every cycle, there is a coin that is speculated to replace ethereum, and is often better in many ways.
Every cycle, that coin gains a lot of traction, attention, and value.
But it is wrong to think that if something is better, it will compete with others and win out eventually. That’s how traditional markets work, but it doesn’t happen in new and emerging technologies.
In technology, **good things don’t win; big things win**. That which is big gets bigger, that which is good doesn’t.
It's called 'increasing returns'. It’s why 5 big tech companies control nearly everything, it's why tech exhibits properties that lead to monopolisation (lovingly labelled 'network effects'), and it's why web3 is necessary; these characteristics aren't going away, and are anti-competitive/harmful. Monopolistic platforms need to have tokenised distributed ownership and encourage internal competition in the absence of external competition. We'd be much better off for it.
Here's an article from 1996 laying it all out, I highly recommend reading it.
https://hbr.org/1996/07/increasing-returns-and-the-new-world-of-business
- The Threads algorithm is so interesting.
- Can't choose to see things from *only* people you follow.
- Forced to see things people you follow reply to
- Can't choose to see *everything* they post
- Can't choose *anything* really
It's what worked very well for tiktok; letting an algorithm do all the work. Right now, the results seem mixed; some irrelevant things, some great things.
Mostly, the experience of following instagram people seems to give the effect of 'who the hell are all of you' 😅
- Thinking about composability
- I'm in my 'selling everything I own to buy more ETH' era
- Another great meetup in Brighton. Our crypto community is growing larger every day! 🚀 https://www.meetup.com/brighton-blockchain/
- Eurovision is one of my favourite nights of the year. The costumes, the dancing, the national embarrassment… I love it. Who's going to win this year?
My vote is on Loreen and Sweden 🇸🇪
- In ETH we believe
- A great report from a16z about the state of crypto in 2023: https://a16zcrypto.com/content/article/state-of-crypto-report-2023/
We're still so early.
- I found a newspaper clipping in my room, published at the exact top of the bull market
- A beautiful shot of the Brighton pavilion at night. I'm blessed to live in such a cool city ❤️
#UK (Source: https://www.michaelstevenharris.com/)