There are now 5 billion pieces of data stored permanently onchain with Arweave.

320 more are being added every second.

Arweave is now the second most utilized public ledger. Only Solana processes more transactions.

See you at 100 billion 🫡

If you have a Y Combinator interview coming up, I want to help you talk to your users so you can nail it.

We'll populate a database with customer interviews together and then I'll give you a full report about what we learned using some new Divinate sauce.

It'll save you a…

It’s not a huge conceptual leap to imagine running a website to be deemed money transmission by an overzealous prosecutor with an axe to grind if transmission doesn’t require control and can be passive broadcasting. That’s a huge first amendment problem for the government if…

The initial apps of many groundbreaking tech have been games because we naturally gravitate towards entertainment as a means to explore and understand new concepts as humans. FOCGs are fertile grounds for pioneering mechanisms that will be adopted more broadly in the near future.…

Sunflower City minting now
basepaint.xyz/mint

I have a couple more BasePaint brushes to give out.

Tag your favorite artist friend (or yourself!), link to your artwork and I'll pick a few winners for a 200px brush in 24 hours.

Iwata, talking about learning to lead people after taking over Hal Laboratory when it was in distress...

'...Management depends on your ability to minimize your own personal agenda.'

GM! Instead of working on my other project yesterday I procrastinated by creating this free OE containing all my BasePaint contributions to Day #261: Minimalism.

Enjoy 🔊 👇

zora.co/collect/base:0…

The IRS thinks this is a broker

I wish I was kidding.

They made that case yesterday in the court filing against Roman Storm the tornado cash developer.

Callaghan is one of the most entertaining and thoughtful documentary film maker working today imo. Vice at it's high points in 2006 is Channel 5 all the time.

This was a really good, sad, interesting watch.

youtu.be/bRGrKJofDaw?si…

Of course there are real differences between the parties on plenty of things, but when both parties are unapologetically committed to 'warrantless spying on everyone, all the time, forever' people can be forgiven for finding those other differences less important in the long term

people keep reposting this graph without mentioning that the cause is 100% understood, eliding the extremely important context of reduced SO2 emissions, in order to induce panic

carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-l…

Anyone have a good starting place re: onchain art, specifically animated SVGs and ASCII?

Have an idea for a project, want to educate myself.