
😌 Mental Wellness Week w/ Decentraland Friends! ✌️ - January 25, 2024 WIP
Namaste 🕊️Hello there! The WIP offers you a serene Thursday greeting on this Mental Wellness week… as serene as our rowdy crew can muster, anyway. 📣 This week was Mental Wellness Week in Decentraland, and our friends cooked up some amazing virtual venues and experiences! From meditative monkeys to silicon sages, there was no shortage of meditative mindfulness from meditative monkeys to enforced embraces! 🧘Not an Apple commercial! 🍎And a huge shout out to the amazing Bay Backner for coordi...

😌 Mental Wellness Week w/ Decentraland Friends! ✌️ - January 25, 2024 WIP
Namaste 🕊️Hello there! The WIP offers you a serene Thursday greeting on this Mental Wellness week… as serene as our rowdy crew can muster, anyway. 📣 This week was Mental Wellness Week in Decentraland, and our friends cooked up some amazing virtual venues and experiences! From meditative monkeys to silicon sages, there was no shortage of meditative mindfulness from meditative monkeys to enforced embraces! 🧘Not an Apple commercial! 🍎And a huge shout out to the amazing Bay Backner for coordi...

You’re Thinking About the Metaverse Wrong 🧠🤖🕜
You're Thinking About the Metaverse Wrong I should have invested in Minecraft. I had one of the first 10,000 Minecraft accounts back in 2009. Zombies didn't attack, and sponge blocks didn't work, but flying around the map gave a sense that this game style could be huge. The forums agreed. Everyone thought it would be THE thing by the end of the year. But it wasn't. Fanfare died down. In 2011, many folks said Minecraft was a niche, dying game. But the developers kept buildi...

You’re Thinking About the Metaverse Wrong 🧠🤖🕜
You're Thinking About the Metaverse Wrong I should have invested in Minecraft. I had one of the first 10,000 Minecraft accounts back in 2009. Zombies didn't attack, and sponge blocks didn't work, but flying around the map gave a sense that this game style could be huge. The forums agreed. Everyone thought it would be THE thing by the end of the year. But it wasn't. Fanfare died down. In 2011, many folks said Minecraft was a niche, dying game. But the developers kept buildi...
How The Blob Saves Ethereum - EIP-4844’s Rollup Rodeo
My wife was just starting to take Ethereum seriously when I told her about scaling. She mistook me saying “sharding” for “sharting,” and I lost a year’s worth of concept legitimization. Needless to say, “proto-dank sharding” had her rolling with laughter. Anyways, EIP-4484. Let’s start with the TL;DR version.TL;DREIP-4484 creates “blobs” that attach to Ethereum’s existing blocks. These blobs are purpose-built for Layer 2 rollups and give them some guaranteed, predetermined place to store thei...
How The Blob Saves Ethereum - EIP-4844’s Rollup Rodeo
My wife was just starting to take Ethereum seriously when I told her about scaling. She mistook me saying “sharding” for “sharting,” and I lost a year’s worth of concept legitimization. Needless to say, “proto-dank sharding” had her rolling with laughter. Anyways, EIP-4484. Let’s start with the TL;DR version.TL;DREIP-4484 creates “blobs” that attach to Ethereum’s existing blocks. These blobs are purpose-built for Layer 2 rollups and give them some guaranteed, predetermined place to store thei...