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I started participating in the Starbucks "Odyssey" program to get the NFT. It's kind of disappointing. They have you fill out a promo questionnaire and buy something from a store. It feels like using those websites where you watch a bunch of ads and get a meager payout at the end. Hopefully since they have the best app in physical restaurant biz they can leverage that and do something more interesting eventually.
I want to see the US government take a constructive stance towards regulating crypto, but at the same time, we need to recognize that Binance and Tether are likely fraudulent ponzis just as FTX was. Until these entities have been dismantled and the aftermath dealt with (these two entities have market cap >$100B), it's hard to see the American government embrace crypto. Luckily it looks like we won't have to wait long, but at the same time it won't be fun for anyone invested in the space.
wow, first, insta, twitter, now reddit has half of the feed taken up by "recommended" content. I guess Lens handles the matter of engaging content by letting you choose which algo to power your feed. The thing that elon was going to do at twitter once upon a time.
Coinbase disabling NFT transactions at Apple's behest is a demonstration of Apple's power. Apple will face serious regulatory and competitive pressure not just from Coinbase, but all those parties pissed at their app store monopoly if they don't reconsider their extractive strategy. Hopefully that happens sooner rather than later!
Every fifth post on my twitter feed is an ad now, and that's not including the "suggested" posts. More inclined to spend time here instead.
The Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602, marking the first joint-stock company, and the ability for people to pool capital for large scale ventures. The importance of the corporation as a social-collaboration tool is hard to overstate. It enabled much of the explosive technological innovation in the past few centuries. However, its pitfalls are largely known at this point as well, in the form of the various pitfalls of capitalism; environmental degradation, short-term planning, etc. With Web3, we see the dawn of a radically new tool for human collaboration in the form of the protocol. The protocol is a much leaner vessel for collaborative enterprise than corporations ever can be because it inverts sovereignty. An exchange can operate without owning user funds, a social network can operate without owning user profiles. Protocols that reduce the greatest amount of friction in the form of trust required will unlock the greatest amount of value and will usher in a new chapter for humanity. A beautiful time is ahead.
Pet peeves with laptop/phone reviews on Youtube. #1. Talking about whether or not it's a "fingerprint magnet". Reductive of the material experience, not an issue in itself. #2. Speaker test where they just record it playing music and offer no further context. You really can't judge sound quality by listening to someone else's recording of it on Youtube.
Big accounts asking for token recommendations on CT has got to be engagement farming. I find it hard to believe that that's a basis for finding useful information.
If you're replacing other people's ads with your own ads, that's not disruptive it's just more of the same. Apple, Brave, Roku, and many others are guilty of this. It's a fundamental misalignment of incentives. It's especially disappointing to have Brave do this since they they have a token and position themselves as a Web3 company.
Next Polygon should partner with Roblox. That would be such a flex on Minecraft and Microsoft who came out saying they wouldn't do NFTs.
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