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TL;DR - Splitting this into subsections, may tackle each of them in finer details in further writings, but I wanted to take inventory of what’s being applied in the space industry and how web3 projects can take advantage of that. Also, this is a particular passion of mine, as I see no solarpunk future on Earth that does not depend in part on a lunarpunk future away from Earth."All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct."— Carl Sagan (the GOAT of lunarpunks)Earth’s SurfaceThe name ...

This is not just on of the most important issues of humanity, it is a lot of money on the table: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1352392678177034242 You don’t want to start off with $100 million to build a public good? Allow me to explain how everyone wins. So, right now atmospheric carbon is at 420 ppm. By mass, there’s ~895 petagrams (PgC) of atmospheric carbon, or 89,500,000,000,000,000 kilograms, or 895 billion metric tons, or 895 gigatons. So for simplicity’s sake, we’re going with g...

TL;DR - Given the cultural, historical, and current economic constraints, our ecosystem should be hardened against catastrophic collapse & takeover. Even anons have a responsibility to be forthcoming about decision-making, capital management, and asymmetric power dynamics (including tribal superiority and backchannelled speech). Speech & risk exposure should be self-sovereign and self-contained. All attempts to deprive others of the full breadth of public knowledge should be called out. Our t...

I recently saw several photographs, taken in the past few days. I won’t go into graphic detail, but let’s just say that looking at these photographs was a painful experience, that my idea of faith or trust in humanity has not grown in the process. But feelings don’t really tell the whole story. Zooming out, there’s a few contemporary trends in our timeline, which I will briefly list:EVM-based networks are collectively accumulating massive amounts of value at an accelerating pace. This is agai...

Given the vitriol around this subject in the past decade, I’ve been hesitant to elaborate on why it’s not only an inevitable development, but a necessary part of human evolution. In all honesty, I’m writing this now not to convince anyone, but to gather my thoughts about several observations and really substantiate the personal conclusion that to this point has felt unshakeable.Smartphones Is the iPod a phone? No, but by now we understand that the iPod has been a monumental precursor to a dai...