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The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . JOHN CARTER COMES TO EARTH PRELUDE - JOHN CARTER COMES TO EARTH Shea had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention for the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective—a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win. Shea had gone to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at the dishonored head of my defeated king. While thus profitably employed I heard the east door of the living-room open and someone enter. I thought it was Shea returning to speak with me on some matter of tomorrow's work; but when I raised my eyes to the doorway that connects the two rooms I saw framed there the figure of a bronzed giant, his otherwise naked body trapped with a jewel-encrusted harness from which there hung at one side an ornate short-sword and at the other a pistol of strange pattern. The black hair, the steel-gray eyes, brave and smiling, the noble features—I recognized them at once, and leaping to my feet I advanced with outstretched hand. "John Carter!" I cried. "You?" "None other, my son," he replied, taking my hand in one of his and placing the other upon my shoulder. "And what are you doing here?" I asked. "It has been long years since you revisited Earth, and never before in the trappings of Mars. Lord! but it is good to see you—and not a day older in appearance than when you trotted me on your knee in my babyhood. How do you explain it, John Carter, Warlord of Mars, or do you try to explain it?" "Why attempt to explain the inexplicable?" he replied. "As I have told you before, I am a very old man. I do not know how old I am. I recall no childhood; but recollect only having been always as you see me now and as you saw me first when you were five years old. You, yourself, have aged, though not as much as most men in a corresponding number of years, which may be accounted for by the fact that the same blood runs in our veins; but I have not aged at all. I have discussed the question with a noted Martian scientist, a friend of mine; but his theories are still only theories. However, I am content with the fact—I never age, and I love life and the vigor of youth. "And now as to your natural question as to what brings me to Earth again and in this, to earthly eyes, strange habiliment. We may thank Kar Komak, the bowman of Lothar. It was he who gave me the idea upon which I have been experimenting until at last I have achieved success. As you know I have long possessed the power to cross the void in spirit, but never before have I been able to impart to inanimate things a similar power. Now, however, you see me for the first time precisely as my Martian fellows see me—you see the very short-sword that has tasted the blood of many a savage foeman; the harness with the devices of Helium and the insignia of my rank; the pistol that was presented to me by Tars Tarkas, Jeddak of Thark. "Aside from seeing you, which is my principal reason for being here, and satisfying myself that I can transport inanimate things from Mars to Earth, and therefore animate things if I so desire, I have no purpose. Earth is not for me. My every interest is upon Barsoom—my wife, my children, my work; all are there. I will spend a quiet evening with you and then back to the world I love even better than I love life." As he spoke he dropped into the chair upon the opposite side of the chess table. "You spoke of children," I said. "Have you more than Carthoris?" "A daughter," he replied, "only a little younger than Carthoris, and, barring one, the fairest thing that ever breathed the thin air of dying Mars. Only Dejah Thoris, her mother, could be more beautiful than Tara of Helium." For a moment he fingered the chessmen idly. "We have a game on Mars similar to chess," he said, "very similar. And there is a race there that plays it grimly with men and naked swords. We call the game jetan. It is played on a board like yours, except that there are a hundred squares and we use twenty pieces on each side. I never see it played without thinking of Tara of Helium and what befell her among the chessmen of Barsoom. Would you like to hear her story?" I said that I would and so he told it to me, and now I shall try to re-tell it for you as nearly in the words of The Warlord of Mars as I can recall them, but in the third person. If there be inconsistencies and errors, let the blame fall not upon John Carter, but rather upon my faulty memory, where it belongs. It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1998). The Chessmen of Mars. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1153/pg1153-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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JOHN CARTER COMES TO EARTH

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . FOREWORD FOREWORD To the Reader of this Work: In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest. My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the civil war. I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack. He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world. We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod. He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man. His features were regular and clear cut, his hair black and closely cropped, while his eyes were of a steel gray, reflecting a strong and loyal character, filled with fire and initiative. His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type. His horsemanship, especially after hounds, was a marvel and delight even in that country of magnificent horsemen. I have often heard my father caution him against his wild recklessness, but he would only laugh, and say that the tumble that killed him would be from the back of a horse yet unfoaled. When the war broke out he left us, nor did I see him again for some fifteen or sixteen years. When he returned it was without warning, and I was much surprised to note that he had not aged apparently a moment, nor had he changed in any other outward way. He was, when others were with him, the same genial, happy fellow we had known of old, but when he thought himself alone I have seen him sit for hours gazing off into space, his face set in a look of wistful longing and hopeless misery; and at night he would sit thus looking up into the heavens, at what I did not know until I read his manuscript years afterward. He told us that he had been prospecting and mining in Arizona part of the time since the war; and that he had been very successful was evidenced by the unlimited amount of money with which he was supplied. As to the details of his life during these years he was very reticent, in fact he would not talk of them at all. He remained with us for about a year and then went to New York, where he purchased a little place on the Hudson, where I visited him once a year on the occasions of my trips to the New York market—my father and I owning and operating a string of general stores throughout Virginia at that time. Captain Carter had a small but beautiful cottage, situated on a bluff overlooking the river, and during one of my last visits, in the winter of 1885, I observed he was much occupied in writing, I presume now, upon this manuscript. He told me at this time that if anything should happen to him he wished me to take charge of his estate, and he gave me a key to a compartment in the safe which stood in his study, telling me I would find his will there and some personal instructions which he had me pledge myself to carry out with absolute fidelity. After I had retired for the night I have seen him from my window standing in the moonlight on the brink of the bluff overlooking the Hudson with his arms stretched out to the heavens as though in appeal. I thought at the time that he was praying, although I never understood that he was in the strict sense of the term a religious man. Several months after I had returned home from my last visit, the first of March, 1886, I think, I received a telegram from him asking me to come to him at once. I had always been his favorite among the younger generation of Carters and so I hastened to comply with his demand. I arrived at the little station, about a mile from his grounds, on the morning of March 4, 1886, and when I asked the livery man to drive me out to Captain Carter’s he replied that if I was a friend of the Captain’s he had some very bad news for me; the Captain had been found dead shortly after daylight that very morning by the watchman attached to an adjoining property. For some reason this news did not surprise me, but I hurried out to his place as quickly as possible, so that I could take charge of the body and of his affairs. I found the watchman who had discovered him, together with the local police chief and several townspeople, assembled in his little study. The watchman related the few details connected with the finding of the body, which he said had been still warm when he came upon it. It lay, he said, stretched full length in the snow with the arms outstretched above the head toward the edge of the bluff, and when he showed me the spot it flashed upon me that it was the identical one where I had seen him on those other nights, with his arms raised in supplication to the skies. There were no marks of violence on the body, and with the aid of a local physician the coroner’s jury quickly reached a decision of death from heart failure. Left alone in the study, I opened the safe and withdrew the contents of the drawer in which he had told me I would find my instructions. They were in part peculiar indeed, but I have followed them to each last detail as faithfully as I was able. He directed that I remove his body to Virginia without embalming, and that he be laid in an open coffin within a tomb which he previously had had constructed and which, as I later learned, was well ventilated. The instructions impressed upon me that I must personally see that this was carried out just as he directed, even in secrecy if necessary. His property was left in such a way that I was to receive the entire income for twenty-five years, when the principal was to become mine. His further instructions related to this manuscript which I was to retain sealed and unread, just as I found it, for eleven years; nor was I to divulge its contents until twenty-one years after his death. A strange feature about the tomb, where his body still lies, is that the massive door is equipped with a single, huge gold-plated spring lock which can be opened only from the inside. Yours very sincerely, Edgar Rice Burroughs. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1993). A Princess of Mars. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/62/pg62-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html .

My First Recollection of Captain Carter is of the Few Months he Spent at my Father’s Home

The master mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . JOHN CARTER JOHN CARTER Half an hour before the evening meal we carried Xaxa and Sag Or down the spiral runway and placed them in the base of the Great Tur and Gor Hajus and I took our places on the upper platform behind the eyes and voice of the idol. Valla Dia, Dar Tarus and Hovan Du remained in the royal apartments. Our plans were well formulated. There was no one between the door at the rear of the Great Tur and the flier that lay ready on the roof in the event that we were forced to flee through any miscarriage of our mad scheme. The minutes dragged slowly by and darkness fell. The time was approaching. We heard the doors of the temple open and beyond we saw the great corridor brilliantly lighted. It was empty except for two priests who stood hesitating nervously in the doorway. Finally one of them mustered up sufficient courage to enter and switch on the lights. More bravely now they advanced and prostrated themselves before the altar of the Great Tur. When they arose and looked up into the face of the idol I could not resist the temptation to turn those huge eyes until they had rolled completely about the interior of the chamber and rested again upon the priests; but I did not speak and I think the effect of the awful silence in the presence of the living god was more impressive than would words have been. The two priests simply collapsed. They slid to the floor and lay there trembling, moaning and supplicating Tur to have mercy on them, nor did they rise before the first of the worshippers arrived. Thereafter the temple filled rapidly and I could see the word of Tur had been well and thoroughly disseminated. They came as they had before; but there were more this time, and they ranged upon either side of the central aisle and there they waited, their eyes divided between the doorway and the god. About the time that I thought the next scene was about to be enacted I let Tur’s eyes travel over the assemblage that they might be keyed to the proper pitch for what was to follow. They reacted precisely as had the priests, falling upon the floor and moaning and supplicating; and there they remained until the sounds of bugles announced the coming of the Jeddara. Then they rose unsteadily to their feet. The great doors swung open and there was the carpet and the slaves behind it. As they rolled it down towards the altar the bugles sounded louder and the head of the royal procession came into view. I had ordered it thus to permit of greater pageantry than was possible when the doors opened immediately upon the head of the procession. My plan permitted the audience to see the royal retinue advancing down the long corridor and the effect was splendid. First came the double rank of nobles and behind these the chariot drawn by the two banths, bearing the litter upon which reclined Valla Dia. Behind her walked Dar Tarus, but all within that room thought they were looking upon the Jeddara Xaxa and her favorite, Sag Or. Hovan Du walked behind Sag Or and following came the fifty young men and the fifty maidens. The chariot halted before the altar and Valla Dia descended and knelt and the voices that had been chanting the praises of Xaxa were stilled as the beautiful creature extended her hands towards the Great Tur and looked up into his face. “We are ready, Master!” she cried. “Speak! We await the word of Tur!” A gasp arose from the kneeling assemblage, a gasp that ended in a sob. I felt that they were pretty well worked up and that everything ought to go off without a hitch. I placed the speaking-tube to my lips. “I am Tur!” I thundered and the people trembled. “I come to pass judgment on the men of Phundahl. As you receive my word so shall you prosper or so shall you perish. The sins of the people may be atoned by two who have sinned most in my sight.” I let the eyes of Tur rove about over the audience and then brought them to rest upon Valla Dia. “Xaxa, are you ready to atone for your sins and for the sins of your people?” Valla Dia bowed her beautiful head. “Thy will is law, Master!” she replied. “And Sag Or,” I continued, “you have sinned. Are you prepared to pay?” “As Tur shall require,” said Dar Tarus. “Then it is my will,” I boomed, “that Xaxa and Sag Or shall give back to those from whom they stole them, the beautiful bodies they now wear; that he from whom Sag Or took this body shall become Jeddak of Phundahl and High Priest of Tur; and that she from whom Xaxa stole her body shall be returned in pomp to her native country. I have spoken. Let any who would revolt against my word speak now or for ever hold his peace.” There was no objection voiced. I had felt pretty certain that there would not be. I doubt if any god ever looked down upon a more subdued and chastened flock. As I had talked, Gor Hajus had descended to the base of the idol and removed the bonds from the feet and legs of Xaxa and Sag Or. “Extinguish the lights!” I commanded. A trembling priest did my bidding. Valla Dia and Dar Tarus were standing side by side before the altar when the lights went out. In the next minute they and Gor Hajus must have worked fast, for when I heard a low whistle from the interior of the idol’s base, the prearranged signal that Gor Hajus had finished his work, and ordered the lights on again, there stood Xaxa and Sag Or where Valla Dia and Dar Tarus had been, and the latter were nowhere in sight. I think the dramatic effect of that transformation upon the people there was the most stupendous thing I have ever seen. There was no cord or gag upon either Xaxa or Sag Or, nothing to indicate that they had been brought hither by force—no one about who might have so brought them. The illusion was perfect—it was a gesture of omnipotence that simply staggered the intellect. But I wasn’t through. “You have heard Xaxa renounce her throne,” I said, “and Sag Or submit to the judgment of Tur.” “I have not renounced my throne!” cried Xaxa. “It is all a——” “Silence!” I thundered. “Prepare to greet the new Jeddak, Dar Tarus of Phundahl!” I turned my eyes towards the great doors and the eyes of the assemblage followed mine. They swung open and there stood Dar Tarus, resplendent in the trappings of Hora San, the long dead Jeddak and high priest, whose bones we had robbed in the base of the idol an hour earlier. How Dar Tarus had managed to make the change so quickly is beyond me, but he had done it and the effect was colossal. He looked every inch a Jeddak as he moved with slow dignity up the wide aisle along the blue and gold and white carpet. Xaxa turned purple with rage. “Impostor!” she shrieked. “Seize him! Kill him!” and she ran forward to meet him as though she would slay him with her bare hands. “Take her away,” said Dar Tarus in a quiet voice, and at that Xaxa fell foaming to the floor. She shrieked and gasped and then lay still—a wicked old woman dead of apoplexy. And when Sag Or saw her lying there he must have been the first to realize that she was dead and that there was now no one to protect him from the hatreds that are leveled always at the person of a ruler’s favorite. He looked wildly about for an instant and then threw himself at the feet of Dar Tarus. “You promised to protect me!” he cried. “None shall harm you,” replied Dar Tarus. “Go your way and live in peace.” Then he turned his eyes upward towards the face of the Great Tur. “What is thy will, Master?” he cried. “Dar Tarus, thy servant, awaits thy commands!” I permitted an impressive silence before I replied. “Let the priests of Tur, the lesser nobles and a certain number of the Jeddak’s Guard go forth into the city and spread the word of Tur among the people that they may know that Tur smiles again upon Phundahl and that they have a new Jeddak who stands high in the favor of Tur. Let the higher nobles attend presently in the chambers that were Xaxa’s and do honor to Valla Dia in whose perfect body their Jeddara once ruled them, and effect the necessary arrangements for her proper return to Duhor, her native city. There also will they find two who have served Tur well and these shall be accorded the hospitality and friendship of every Phundahlian—Gor Hajus of Toonol and Vad Varo of Jasoom. Go! and when the last has gone let the temple be darkened. I, Tur, have spoken!” Valla Dia had gone directly to the apartments of the former Jeddara and the moment that the lights were extinguished Gor Hajus and I joined her. She could not wait to hear the outcome of our ruse, and when I assured her that there had been no hitch the tears came to her eyes for very joy. “You have accomplished the impossible, my chieftain,” she murmured, “and already can I see the hills of Duhor and the towers of my native city. Ah, Vad Varo, I had not dreamed that life might again hold for me such happy prospects. I owe you life and more than life.” We were interrupted by the coming of Dar Tarus, and with him were Hovan Du and a number of the higher nobles. The latter received us pleasantly, though I think they were mystified as to just how we were linked with the service of their god; nor, I am sure, did one of them ever learn. They were frankly delighted to be rid of Xaxa; and while they could not understand Tur’s purpose in elevating a former warrior of the Guard to the throne, yet they were content if it served to relieve them from the wrath of their god, now a very real and terrible god, since the miracles that had been performed in the temple. That Dar Tarus had been of a noble family relieved them of embarrassment, and I noted that they treated him with great respect. I was positive that they would continue to treat him so, for he was also high priest and for the first time in a hundred years he would bring to the Great Tur in the royal Temple the voice of god, for Hovan Du had agreed to take service with Dar Tarus, and Gor Hajus as well, so that there would never be lacking a tongue wherewith Tur might speak. I foresaw great possibilities for the reign of Dar Tarus, Jeddak of Phundahl. At the meeting held in the apartments of Xaxa it was decided that Valla Dia should rest two days in Phundahl while a small fleet was preparing to transport her to Duhor. Dar Tarus assigned Xaxa’s apartments for her use and gave her slaves from different cities to attend upon her, all of whom were to be freed and returned with Valla Dia to her native land. It was almost dawn before we sought our sleeping silks and furs and the sun was high before we awoke. Gor Hajus and I breakfasted with Valla Dia, outside whose door we had spread our beds that we might not leave her unprotected for a moment that it was not necessary. We had scarce finished our meal when a messenger came from Dar Tarus summoning us to the audience chamber, where we found some of the higher officers of the court gathered about the throne upon which Dar Tarus sat, looking every inch an emperor. He greeted us kindly, rising and descending from his dais to receive Valla Dia and escort her to one of the benches he had placed beside the throne for her and for me. “There is one,” he said to me, “who has come to Phundahl over night and now begs audience of the Jeddak—one whom I thought you might like to meet again,” and he signed to one of his attendants to admit the petitioner; and when the doors at the opposite end of the room opened I saw Ras Thavas standing there. He did not recognize me or Valla Dia or Gor Hajus until he was almost at the foot of the throne, and when he did he looked puzzled and glanced again quickly at Dar Tarus. “Ras Thavas of the Tower of Thavas, Toonol,” announced an officer. “What would Ras Thavas of the Jeddak of Phundahl?” asked Dar Tarus. “I came seeking audience of Xaxa,” replied Ras Thavas, “not knowing of her death or your accession until this very morning; but I see Sag Or upon Xaxa’s throne and beside him one whom I thought was Xaxa, though they tell me Xaxa is dead, and another who was my assistant at Thavas and one who is the Assassin of Toonol, and I am confused, Jeddak, and do not know whether I be among friends or foes.” “Speak as though Xaxa still sat upon the throne of Phundahl,” Dar Tarus told him, “for though I am Dar Tarus, whom you wronged, and not Sag Or, yet need you have no fear in the court of Phundahl.” “Then let me tell you that Vobis Kan, Jeddak of Toonol, learning that Gor Hajus had escaped me, swore that I had set him free to assassinate him, and he sent warriors who took my island and would have imprisoned me had I not been warned in time to escape; and I came hither to Xaxa to beg her to send warriors to drive the men of Toonol from my island and restore it to me that I may carry on my scientific labors.” Dar Tarus turned to me. “Vad Varo, of all others you are most familiar with the work of Ras Thavas. Would you see him again restored to his island and his laboratory?” “Only on condition that he devote his great skill to the amelioration of human suffering,” I replied, “and no longer prostitute it to the foul purposes of greed and sin.” This led to a discussion which lasted for hours, the results of which were of far-reaching significance. Ras Thavas agreed to all that I required and Dar Tarus commissioned Gor Hajus to head an army against Toonol. But these matters, while of vast interest to those most directly concerned, have no direct bearing upon the story of my adventures upon Barsoom, as I had no part in them, since upon the second day I boarded a flier with Valla Dia and, escorted by a Phundahlian fleet, set out towards Duhor. Dar Tarus accompanied us for a short distance. When the fleet was stopped at the shore of the great marsh he bade us farewell, and was about to step to the deck of his own ship and return to Phundahl when a shout arose from the deck of one of the other ships and word was soon passed that a lookout had sighted what appeared to be a great fleet far to the south-west. Nor was it long before it became plainly visible to us all and equally plain that it was headed for Phundahl. Dar Tarus told me then that as much as he regretted it, there seemed nothing to do but return at once to his capital with the entire fleet, since he could not spare a single ship or man if this proved an enemy fleet, nor could Valla Dia or I interpose any objection; and so we turned about and sped as rapidly as the slow ships of Phundahl permitted back towards the city. The stranger fleet had sighted us at about the same time that we had sighted it, and we saw it change its course and bear down upon us; and as it came nearer it fell into single file and prepared to encircle us. I was standing at Dar Tarus’ side when the colors of the approaching fleet became distinguishable and we first learned that it was from Helium. “Signal and ask if they come in peace,” directed Dar Tarus. “We seek word with Xaxa, Jeddara of Phundahl,” came the reply. “The question of peace or war will be hers to decide.” “Tell them that Xaxa is dead and that I, Dar Tarus, Jeddak of Phundahl, will receive the commander of Helium’s fleet in peace upon the deck of this ship, or that I will receive him in war with all my guns. I, Dar Tarus, have spoken!” From the bow of a great ship of Helium there broke the flag of truce and when Dar Tarus’ ship answered it in kind the other drew near and presently we could see the men of Helium upon her decks. Slowly the great flier came alongside our smaller ship and when the two had been made fast a party of officers boarded us. They were fine looking men, and at their head was one whom I recognized immediately though I never before had laid eyes upon him. I think he was the most impressive figure I have ever seen as he advanced slowly across the deck towards us—John Carter, Prince of Helium, Warlord of Barsoom. “Dar Tarus,” he said, “John Carter greets you and in peace, though it had been different, I think, had Xaxa still reigned.” “You came to war upon Xaxa?” asked Dar Tarus. “We came to right a wrong,” replied the Warlord. “But from what we know of Xaxa that could have been done only by force.” “What wrong has Phundahl done Helium?” demanded Dar Tarus. “The wrong was against one of your own people—even against you in person.” “I do not understand,” said Dar Tarus. “There is one aboard my ship who may be able to explain to you, Dar Tarus,” replied John Carter, with a smile. He turned and spoke to one of his aides in a whisper, and the man saluted and returned to the deck of his own ship. “You shall see with your own eyes, Dar Tarus.” Suddenly his eyes narrowed. “This is indeed Dar Tarus who was a warrior of the Jeddara’s Guard and supposedly assassinated by her command?” “It is,” replied Dar Tarus. “I must be certain,” said the Warlord. “There is no question about it, John Carter,” I spoke up in English. His eyes went wide, and when they fell upon me and he noted my lighter skin, from which the dye was wearing away, he stepped forward and held out his hand. “A countryman?” he asked. “Yes, an American,” I replied. “I was almost surprised,” he said. “Yet why should I be? I have crossed—there is no reason why others should not. And you have accomplished it! You must come to Helium with me and tell me all about it.” Further conversation was interrupted by the return of the aide, who brought a young woman with him. At sight of her Dar Tarus uttered a cry of joy and sprang forward, and I did not need to be told that this was Kara Vasa. There is little more to tell that might not bore you in the telling—of how John Carter himself took Valla Dia and me to Duhor after attending the nuptials of Dar Tarus and Kara Vasa; and of the great surprise that awaited me in Duhor, where I learned for the first time that Kor San, Jeddak of Duhor, was the father of Valla Dia; and of the honors and the great riches that he heaped upon me when Valla Dia and I were wed. John Carter was present at the wedding and we initiated upon Barsoom a good old American custom, for the Warlord acted as best man; and then he insisted that we follow that up with a honeymoon and bore us off to Helium, where I am writing this. Even now it seems like a dream that I can look out of my window and see the scarlet and the yellow towers of the twin cities of Helium; that I have met, and see daily, Cathoris, Thuvia of Ptarth, Tara of Helium, Gahan of Gathol and that peerless creature, Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars. Though to me, beautiful as she is, there is another even more beautiful—Valla Dia, Princess of Duhor—Mrs. Ulysses Paxton. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Edgar Rice Burroughs (2023). The master mind of Mars. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69703/pg69703-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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JOHN CARTER

Fresh off a victory against the Cat Cartel, these Canines are ready to pounce on the blockchain. Now, are you in? The Cartel doesn't take too lightly to people who are out... In the NFT world, animals have always ruled supreme. Whether it be Bored Apes, Cool Cats, Raccoons, or Sewer Rats, NFT pfp art notably rules the community. In such a crowded space, it’s vital for new incoming projects to consistently one-up and better one another in order to achieve a notable space in the community. is a new breed of ERC-721 tokens ready to take over the Blockchain. Minting at 0.05ETH, these canines are being released on the at 2PM EDT. The Canine Cartel 24th August 2021 The Canine Cartel does away with cutesy fluff, leave your Stoner Cats, Pudgy Penguins, and Punkbabies at home - this is an NFT project for the big dogs. The Canine Cartel was born in a fierce fight between the cats and the dogs of Sinaloa, Mexico. The cats were known for ruling everything with an iron paw. A hound couldn’t sell a spliff to a rat without being scratched and slashed by a crazy feline. Everything changed when a mean motherfucker by the name El Doge came along. El Doge was the leader the band of mutts needed to take back control of the streets. Pack by pack, he rallied the Dobermans, the Huskies, the Pitbulls and the rest of ‘em. Now, there are 10,000 unique canines ready to live and die for the cartel. Not your standard 10,000 degen project, the Cartel offers a unique service where to prove your loyalty, your canine can visit the official tattoo parlour. This will burn the NFT and a new Canine with a Cartel tattoo will be returned to you. Why not get a matching one? Looking at their , you can see that they’re one of only a few communities that have charitable donations guaranteed from the offset and clearly visible for the community to see. At just 10% of the sale, the cartel will donate 10ETH to dog shelters in a cartel decided-upon location. Beyond that, a cartel wallet will be set up where members can vote on what to do with the funds. roadmap The Cartel is rumbling with activity and is planning a fiesta for its members, when it’s safe to do so, everyone in the cartel will be welcome to a wild rager to celebrate victory against the cat cartel. Until then, everyone hangs out in the , otherwise known as their Discord server. Cigar Lounge There’s also The Pound. Though you might find that mutts don’t like to talk about The Pound, what goes on at The Pound, stays at the pound. If something needs settling, take it to The Pound. The rules of The Pound are simple; Do not talk about The Pound. Owning a Canine makes you part of the cartel. But, be warned, they’re a ride-or-die crew. Getting in is simple, getting out won’t be good for your health. If you wanted a standard NFT collectible project, you’ve come to the wrong place loco cabrón.

The Canine Cartel: How Much Is That Tattooed Dog NFT In The Window?

Level One: Runtime, Transparency & Security In this mini-series we look at today’s centralized gaming models, also touching on how the emergence of blockchain technology is giving gaming a boost into a world of new opportunities for both gamers and developers, all through the power of decentralization. We’re also going to take a peek at how Cartesi holds the cheat codes that can enable the decentralized gaming industry to level-up in 2021 and beyond! As graphics quickly improve, gaming experiences are becoming ever-immersive and, with the global pandemic trapping most of the world’s population indoors, the gaming industry has continued its growth year-over-year. With the worldwide gaming market , rocketing up from just over $70 billion in 2012, the gaming industry has seen rapid technical advances in recent years. forecasted to be worth just over $200 billion in 2023 Today’s most popular games such as Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto, and Fortnite, see millions of people around the globe play alongside each other inside virtual worlds for hours on end, building, driving, fighting and exploring vast hyper-realistic landscapes. But these games (and in fact the vast majority of games on the market) share something in common; they all run on centralized servers, , from in-game commands to online store purchases. processing gargantuan amounts of data every second With centralized gaming models, all game-related data is stored on servers that are fully controlled by the game developers or administrators, with the data including everything from user account information to all of the events and in-game assets they collect on their virtual travels. This presents several issues, as not only does this data being held on centralized servers mean that the , but that the aforementioned is all at risk of being stolen or even lost forever should the servers get damaged or shut down by the game developers themselves. players themselves never actually own their own data or the in-game items they spend countless hours earning These are serious issues that need to be addressed before the gaming industry can progress to its next stage of evolution and below we take a look at them in more detail. Level One: Runtime, Transparency & Security Security Several incidents in recent years have highlighted how dangerous keeping data, whether from gaming platforms or from a variety of other industries, stored in one centralized location can be. for the hugely popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) Steam game Rust, destroying all user’s saved data; this was one of the worst incidents in recent years, with around 3.6 million websites across 464,000 distinct domains also taken offline as a result of the fire. A catastrophic fire in France recently took down 25 EU servers Fires are not the only incidents that can damage centralized servers though. Exploits and hacks have become more commonplace in recent years within the gaming world, with even the biggest game developers and publishers targeted. Last year it was discovered that may have allowed hackers to remotely crash games and even take control over third-party game servers. critical flaws in a core networking library powering Valve's online gaming functionality Hackers have been able to acquire the personal details of countless gamers over the years, with popular games such as the MMORPG CS:GO falling victim to such attacks (thankfully the most recent was perpetrated by a white-hat hacking group ). With full control over the user’s system, hackers are able to steal passwords, banking information and more. Secret Club and highlighted exploits that have now been addressed How Can Blockchain Technology Solve This? Publishers and their developers building decentralized games on blockchain platforms can massively improve upon (and essentially rid of) vulnerabilities prevalent within current centralized gaming systems. Games can use blockchains to decentralize data and execution across multiple locations; even if a hacker does manage to gain access to one or a few of the blockchain validator nodes, the system remains resilient as a majority of validators can preserve the correct history and state of the game. Transparency Let’s face it, we’ve all cheated at monopoly once in our lives but in the online gaming world, fair gameplay is a very serious topic. With gaming tournaments now regularly offering the world’s best gamers , the stakes are high and coordinated cheating has become . millions of dollars in rewards a big problem in the gaming industry in recent years Most centralized online games use one of two communication models: client-server and peer-to-peer. Both of these architectures are open to manipulation and can be rigged by players with cheat codes negatively impacting gamers' experiences around the world, but also posing a big challenge for game developers and publishers. If cheating continues to be a problem, gamers following the rules may eventually get tired of bad actors and leave for other platforms, lowering game traffic and shrinking company revenues. How Can Blockchain Technology Make Gaming More Transparent? The distributed nature of games hosted on blockchain platforms makes them near impossible to hack, as they run on distributed servers. With a single point of failure as seen in centralized models, games can be modified and cheats can disrupt and ruin gamers’ experiences; with blockchain-based games, manipulation of game mechanics can only be executed if a network of voters rules in favour of the change, ensuring fairness. As the stakes in gaming get higher, provability becomes more and more important. The immutability of blockchain technology and smart contracts makes cheating basically impossible, with verifiable data etched into the blockchain and uneditable forever. This can help massively when attempting to verify gamer credentials and in-game actions. and it’s what is needed if the professional gaming industry in particular is to continue growing. Provably fair gameplay is becoming increasingly important Besides eliminating hacking risks, building games with decentralized models takes the ownership and decision-making power from the game developer and central game servers. Arbitrary rule updates can frustrate gamers and depreciate their in-game assets; decentralizing the decision-making process puts the power back at the hands of the gamers and other stakeholders. This in itself is a topic worth talking about in more detail, and we will look deeper into the opportunities for gamers to have more decision-making power, true ownership of their in-game items, as well as the verifiable scarcity of items and achievements that comes with decentralized gaming in part two of this mini-series! Runtime Earlier this month millions of Sony PlayStation fans were presented with error codes that prevented them from accessing online features when the . Centralized games are in theory able to be shut down at any time, anywhere, by the developers, publishers or by outside attacks such as DDoS attacks ( ). Sony Playstation Network went down that have been occurring a lot in popular games such as Apex Legends Players currently have very little control over what happens to their coveted in-game items or game saves that they may have worked for untold hours to have got to - if a game shuts down or is out of action for a period of time, they must simply sit on their hands and wait until the servers come back online. Gaming on Blockchain = No Downtime Decentralized gaming models, however, can run autonomously and are unstoppable, no server maintenance costs or backups required. With no centralized servers, damage or outages at one location simply mean that power is diverted to another location, meaning that players can enjoy 24/7 uptime. But… and there is a BIG But , there are still major limitations that prevent decentralized gaming from reaching its full potential. Tight computational limits and limited storage on-chain make for big barriers that have prevented game publishers and developers fully diving into decentralized gaming models; large computational tasks are very expensive, many popular blockchains are extremely inefficient, and they also suffer from other inefficiencies such as low throughput, a high propagation delay, and long latency to finality. As Cartesi CEO Erick highlighted in a past article Then there’s also the issue of accessibility and a lack of support for OS and mainstream software components or stacks. Game developers have for several years used familiar tools and programs to create the amazing games we all love to play today; , but blockchain platforms do not currently support these or in fact any of the software stacks, engines, and libraries that are so integral to a game developer’s programming toolkit. C++ and Java are two of the most popular languages utilized to build many of today’s games Up until now, publishers and game developers have sacrificed decentralization for better accessibility, higher throughput, programmability and more computational power. Blockchain still has a way to go if we are to play our favourite real-time 3d shooters on a decentralized platform, but at Cartesi we are making important and exciting steps toward opening up a universe of opportunity for developers wanting to build decentralized games. Cartesi: The Decentralized Gaming Power-Up is a second layer system that moves complex computation off-chain while preserving the security guarantees of the blockchain. The Cartesi Machine, a custom virtual machine that emulates a RISC-V microprocessor, runs an embedded Linux distribution and is capable of booting a real OS. Why is this such a big step forward for the gaming industry? Cartesi Cartesi brings Linux infrastructure to blockchain applications, giving developers access to the stacks, libraries, and tools that they’re accustomed to using with mainstream operating systems but within a decentralized environment. For the gaming industry, this is huge as it opens up avenues not previously accessible for developers; they can now can utilize 30 years of open-source software evolution algonside the enormous computational power underneath Cartesi’s engine. “I expect people to be able to create much more interesting games with Cartesi that weren't conceivable before on blockchains” says Cartesi CEO Erick de Moura. “A whole universe of turn-based multiplayer indie games or even completely decentralized RPGs can now be built with the access and tools Cartesi provides game developers.” , but the strong security guarantees of the blockchain are still maintained. We’re offering the best of both worlds to game developers and publishers; all of the decentralization that blockchain technology offers, but with tens of thousands more computation capacity and the convenience closer to what exists for centralized games when it comes to programming. Game logic processing is performed off-chain with Cartesi Make sure you lookout for the next two articles in this mini-series to learn more about what Cartesi brings to the table for the future of gaming! Ready for Level Two? In next week’s article, we explore how DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) can give gamers a voice and a vote on the future development of their favourite games, as well as how the emergence of NFTs is bringing about an evolution in open in-game economies, allowing for different entities and players to bring liquidity to the gaming world. Check out what we are doing at and say hello to us on ! Cartesi.io Twitter

Unlocking the Next Level of Decentralized Gaming with Cartesi Pt. 1

has been nominated for a 2020 Noonie in the Merlin is a content writer from New Zealand that's been living in Germany for the past 15 years. Let's learn more about him below! Merlin Carter from Germany Technology category. 1.  Which 2020 Noonie have you been nominated for? Hacker Noon Contributor of the Year - CLOUD COMPUTING 2. Tell us a bit about yourself. I'm an in-house writer at Project A Ventures in Berlin. I work there part-time and spend the other part tinkering with various art projects. I'm originally from New Zealand but have lived in Germany for 15 years. 3. Tell us about the things you make / write / manage / build. I mostly write about what our developers get up to. They're too busy to write so I do it for them. Project A provides operational support for our portfolio companies, so our devs are always out and about helping various startups scale their operations. That's why I tend to write about DevOps and cloud computing. 4. What are you most excited about right now? RunwayML. I love it. 5. What are you worried about right now? Everything. I'm always worried. It's my natural state. 6. What's the most useful advice you've ever given somebody? "Mate, worry about that shit later. Focus on the what you need to get done today." 7. How has the pandemic changed your life and/or career? I love working from home but sometimes it's not healthy. I keep falling asleep on the couch. I'm allowed to work in the office now, but I have to force myself to make the commute. So my self-discipline has been challenged like never before. 8. If we gave you $10 million to invest in one thing right now, where would you put it? I would create a clone of "Whisk" (https://clickhole.com/amazing-watch-how-this-one-startup-is-changing-the-way-1825126164/) except it would be dudes dressed as Popeye, and they would put you in an adult-sized pram waiting outside your front door. 9. What's an opinion you have that most people don't agree with? WhatsApp voice messages are pointless and annoying as hell. 10. Which apps can't you live without? Apps that allow me to listen to things. Like Audible, Spotify and SoundCloud. 11. What are you currently learning? How to do 3D compositing on live action footage (because Art) Make somebody’s day and nominate them to be recognized in the Internet’s most independent and community-driven awards: NOONIES.TECH . Most importantly, don't forget to and help him win the award for ! vote for Merlin Hacker Noon Contributor of the Year - CLOUD COMPUTING

"Focus on the what you need to get done today" - Merlin Carter, 2020 Noonie Nominee

Bitcoin Bear Market Diary Volume 9 with Nic Carter

Not without an ample dose of skepticism, 2018 can indeed be referred to as the year of the stablecoin. Amid against Tether, and yet high demand for stable cryptocurrency as a means of settlement, a growing cohort of stable coin solutions were rolled out to the market. These appear to be the stablecoins that enjoy most credibility among crypto exchanges today: Paxos Standard , Gemini , Circle , Carbon , TrustToken’s . Yet, it’s safe to say that none of the above products is truly decentralized, essentially being more of a token with the right to claim a fiat USD equivalent stored in a centralized storage (most often on a bank account). total backlash PAX GUSD USDC CUSD TUSD What it means is that the use of those coins is linked to the same array of difficulties as those of conventional fiat money, i.e. while their value is guaranteed by the emittent, their use is most often than not accompanied by complicated , with the risk of bank accounts being suspended due to the coins considered as ‘illegally acquired’. Hence, the use of the majority of stablecoins is completely irrational in financial services of , or the ‘free Internet’, since it implies a significant amount of risks. It’s safe to suggest that in a perfect world a stable means of payment for Web3 should be emitted by the community, with its value regardless of actions of the third parties. KYC/AML procedures Web 3.0. Today it seems that the only stable coin that is securely emitted in a decentralized manner is MakerDAO’s DAI. It is also one of the most popular in Ethereum ecosystem. What is it that makes DAI so unique generating an explosive amount of community trust? Here we will touch upon the core mechanics of MakerDAO emission system, and shed some light on how you as a Ethereum user can benefit from that today. #DeFi apps In essence, at the core of MakerDAo product is the mechanics of emission of a stable means of payment (i.e. money) deployed as a number of smart contracts in Ethereum network. In principle, the scheme of emission is akin to that of money emission secured by gold, with ETH taking the place of gold here. A specific amount of ETH is sent to a smart contract that generates a stable token (DAI), and then sends it to the user. DAIs created in this manner become the debt outstanding to MakerDAO (that in itself becomes a decentralized emission system) secured by the collateral — in exact same manner as traditional fiat money is essentially debt outstanding to a central bank. However, in contrast to traditional central banks, with DAI any user can create new decentralized money without any obstacle. At the same time, due to complete automation of MakerDAO system by design, it’s impossible to create money not secured by ETH, and the system is completely transparent to monitor. MakerDAO concept — how does a decentralized stable coin operate? An elephant in the room is how would DAI actually secure the stability of DAI exchange rate of $1? The concept of excessive consumption comes into play here. When emitting DAI, the secured collateral should be no less than %166, i.e. the debt in the amount of 100 DAI should be emitted to each $166. The emission made by an individual user becomes a CDP, or a collateralized debt position, each of which can be monitored on a . When ETH price drops, provided that the index of position coverage drops below 150%, the position will start to liquidate. And the collateral asset, i.e. ETH, is sold at the discount for DAI that are used to cover the debt. The recent drop in ETH price from $200 to $86 over a short time span resulted in the mass close up of the debt positions due to the insufficient coverage ratio, yet DAI exchange rate stuck to ~$1.00, which confirms the high level of system stability. dedicated web-page More so, the community trust in DAI is extremely high. According to the latest data points, the system has accumulated enormous amount of 1.7 million of ETH, or USD 255 million, as the collateral (which makes up >1.5% of all the ETH existing at the moment). More than 70 million DAI has been generated so far, which equals to ~$70 million of stable coins, with the total of collateral coverage amounting to 370%. Many dApps are also integrating DAI to provide their users with the option to make settlements in stable currency. There is another token used in MakerDAO system — a Maker token — designated to give a voting right, when managing percentage stakes (since DAI emission is akin to the emission of conventional money with its borrowing rate), and used to pay off the borrowing rate. Paying off the percentage for the emission of DAI in MKR token is a unique economic precedent in itself. This mechanics allows to avoid a typical concern with fiat money, when the debt of the central bank exceeds the amount of issued money. DAI emission system overrides this concern completely. How you can use DAI and MakerDAO to your advantage right now The use of MakerDAO emission mechanism can prove interesting for the purpose of crediting with ETH collateral, or receiving a decentralized credit leverage. Hence, having ETH 100 ($15,000), one can generate up to $9,000 in DAI that later can be spent to purchase some extra ETH. DAI emission system can also become an accessible credit solution. With ETH as collateral, it will be possible to create a certain amount of DAI that will be reimbursed later from the future proceeds. With the interest rate of 2.5%, and the absence of banking commissions, MakerDAO might look like a decent alternative to a bank collateral credit line. Is DAI to become a viable alternative to the ‘banking cartel’ of stable coins? Despite the technological innovation, durable lines of codes tested by the array of events at the crypto market, and respect of crypto enthusiasts, mass adoption of any decentralized financial product is no easy task. First off, since all of DAI are created under the ETH collateral, the total amount of DAI is restricted. If 10% of all the ETH is used as collateral, with the exchange rate of $150, only $939 mln DAI can be created. Of course, once ETH returns to the peak of its $1000 price, this amount will surge, yet it will still be insignificant on a global scale. The second issue is liquidity and accessibility for sale-purchase. However, despite the recent l , DAI is traded mostly against . At the same time, it’s apparent that mass adoption of DAI, the entry and exit points into fiat are very much needed, since the majority of DAI use cases (like payments and crediting) would eventually require the exit to fiat. Yet, there is not so many options to sale-purchase DAI for fiat currencies — there are only two exchanges that have those trade pairs at the moment. One of them is Ethfinex, yet it cannot boast the most convenient ways to deposit and withdraw funds. The other one is EXMO, who recently announced and MKR and introduced fiat pair to USD. Oddly enough, there are no more instances of DAI against fiat with non-zero liquidity at the market currently. isting of DAI and MKR on Coinbase ETH support for DAI This is partially due to the fact that the majority of larger exchanges for apparent reasons would be way more interested in cooperating with institutional players rather than decentralized (i.e. completely independent) system of electronic cash flow. Therefore, despite some apparent advantages of DAI for an average user, such as transparency and independence of the third parties and all sorts of middle men, the competition with the banking cartels will be exceptionally strong. Still, DAI has apparently created a niche of its own that is bound to expand gradually, with restriction of total volume of issued coins and liquidity influx being the major factor contributing to its adoption in Web 3.0 ecosystem. Fast forward to today and we’ve witnessed the growing excitement in the space, with more than $70 million US dollars created in MakerDAO ecosystem, compared to only ~$3 million of the last year. Knowing that the cryptomarket has historically shown interest to vacant means of payment, we can only guess how many DAI will be generated and subsequently used one year from now.

DAI — a decentralized opposition to the ‘banking cartel’ of stablecoins accumulates 1.7

Questioning the Obsession with Blockchains and On-Chain Governance with Nic Carter

are More Scarce Than You May Expect Legitimate Online Trading Groups Go ahead and Google “Crypto Trading Group” and scroll through the first page or two of results. I’ll wait… Unless something has changed between the time of this writing and the time you are reading this, you will encounter lots of groups that claim to be THE definitive trading forum or signal group out there (despite there being literally thousands of them). A handful of these groups have actually proven to be fairly successful for their legions of followers, while many more of these groups… not so much. The dangerous implication made by many trading “groups” is that there are awaiting you as soon as you join their prestigious community. But the mentioning of heavy risk is nowhere to be mentioned, and any investment group that claims money will be made “guaranteed” is flat out lying unless they’re trading some good ol’ risk free bonds. cryptocurrency guaranteed profits Many of these groups are “paid only” trading signal groups that charge fees in the vicinity of 0.05 to 0.1 BTC (which currently translates to $350-$700) on a per month basis or for a lifetime subscription. However, if you search hard enough, there are free alternatives out there you may uncover, such as , which offers honest advice and discussion in a tight-knit community. The group operates with the expectation that its users share an ethical compass of fairness and positive treatment toward each other. Users receive “strikes” for violating their set of rules, and can easily be removed from the Discord group entirely with frequent disruptions and diversions from the normally insightful conversations that happen. Crypto Cartel I was blown away by the amount of deep discussion, open mindedness, and out of the box thinking that the users in this community demonstrate to have. I will elaborate more about their forum later in this article. With the , where users can trade automatically while away from their computers using our index funds or their own set custom allocations, we share a similar outlook on cryptocurrency and how to share information and better comprehend what is happening in the markets. This is precisely why I feel and other genuinely ethical trading groups on other platforms (such as Facebook’s Crypto Coin Trader, Cryptocurrency Investing, Investing, Cryptogasmic Group, and Crypto Trading Signals) deserve more praise and attention in the crypto community. Level Exchange Crypto Cartel Blockchain Unfortunately, many wannabe crypto groups are actually deceptive black holes of zero-depth conversation with little to offer other than a means to put each other down for poor trading strategies and lack of understanding. When choosing which groups to spend your time lurking on or contributing to, there is a fine line between legitimate rational discussion versus meme-filled nothingness and lambo/moon emojis. As I have discussed in a about market manipulation, these meme-filled options can be nothing more than groups that are disguised as platforms for legitimate and insightful discussion. The success of the members in these groups greatly depends on how early they enter the positions that are suggested to them, and how accurate the organizers of these groups are. previous article pump and dump As long as organizers of these groups come up with a large enough following with substantial capital, they will virtually always make a nice profit because they are the first ones to buy the pumped up coin they chose, and the first to sell it off. These selloffs by the organizers typically initiate the beginning of the fall from its peak. The vast majority of the members of these groups tend to lose money themselves as a result, and the sad thing is that they’ll often blame themselves for simply not hitting that “sell” button a second earlier. But in reality, there is nothing these users could have done differently. These scam groups are intended to use unknowing traders’ funding to pump up prices, and their ability to leave with a profit is completely irrelevant in the minds of the organizers. According to William Suberg at CoinTelegraph, there was a total of made by trading groups through the means of market manipulation in . Considering the nature in which the groups made their profits, it can be argued that the practices of these groups (eg. pumping and dumping coins) were extremely unethical and harmful to the healthy growth of the crypto markets. $825 million the first half of 2018 alone What we imagine crypto trading signal group headquarters and their associated investment advisors may look like. What crypto trading signal groups probably actually look like… with even more cool and unnecessary masks. Because of the amount of toxic groups that exist purely to steal your hard earned money, a lot of legitimate ones, such as , mistakenly get labeled as pump and dump groups and scammers. Crypto Cartel The truth of the matter is that many of these groups pose as trading signal groups when, in fact, . There is a facade behind many of these faceless online organizations that falsely resemble organizations backed by advanced research teams which monitor the up-to-the-minute fundamentals and technological advances of many of these coins currently using blockchain technology. But the truth of the matter is that most of them exist simply to gather as many crypto traders as possible, then collectively inflate the price of a typically under-the-radar coin until the organizers decide that it’s time to sell and collect profits on the price jumps they created. they are the trading signals and the Honest Discussion Spaces Crypto Cartel I spoke with Joe Zabbia, the founder and one of eight staff members for the Discord group, “ ”. With a large following on Twitter ( ), he offers insights on both his own platform and for the community to help educate them with techniques and strategies he has picked up through his years of trading experience. Our team here at has spoken with Joe about the community he has helped to build, and he is elated to be a key cog in such an active community. He summarizes as: Crypto Cartel @joezabb Crypto Cartel Lvl.co Crypto Cartel “The largest Free Crypto community with the main aim of providing educational content and a place where you can share trades and ideas with like minded people awaits you.” With more than 17,000 members and growing every day, the Discord group certainly is a powerhouse for active, real-time cryptocurrency discussion. Although there are generic cryptocurrency Facebook groups out there with higher followings, they tend to stray away from serious topics and tend to stick to sharing article content and mainstream crypto news. In the case of , the conversation goes much deeper with talks of support lines being broken, leveraging strategies, and in-depth perspectives on signs of forming bull flags. Joe goes on to describe their group as, Crypto Cartel “A community where everyone can interact with some of the best traders on “Crypto Twitter and the Bitmex leaderboard.” Captain Cartel and Sir Level are part of the “good guys” in Crypto to create a more honest and unbiased platform to understand and trade cryptocurrency. Their only agendas are working to create free active communities of insightful traders who can feed of each other’s knowledge for a safe and free space to ask questions. The group contains six distinct sections to chat, all with their own purpose and associated group of channels with discussions ranging from serious technical analysis to more lighthearted and fun: This group contains any discussion involving the operations of the site and general crypto discussion. The channels consist of: PUBLIC CHANNELS : #announcements — From competitions to AMA interviews, Crypto Cartel announces the latest here. #welcome-rules — When first joining the community, this channel is a good one to visit to go over rules and guidelines for what it takes to be an accepted and valued member of the Discord group. #official-reflinks — If you need a referral link for an external site and want to give back to the community that offers so much free crypto education advice, they have links for all sorts of different cryptocurrency sources. They will receive a small amount of revenue that the external site receives from signing you up! #general — Anything related to the markets and the broad cryptocurrency world can be discussed publicly here. #public-crypto-trading — Regarding actual trading advice, questions, and other insights you’d like to discuss, this channel discusses it all in depth. #off-topic — Tired of looking at charts with manually drawn rectangles? Want to talk about your favorite childhood authors or favorite celebrities to get your mind off of the eight month bear market? Say no more. #bot-spam — A quick way to get updated prices by simply saying the word “Mex”, and Bitcoin’s price on Bitmex will automatically and immediately be responded right back to you. is known for their active competitions, which measure which members from their highly competitive trading community are making the best returns off of their individual strategies. COMPETITION : Crypto Cartel #competition-discussion — Focuses on the general competition happenings. — #competition-updates Anything related to lead changes, new happenings, and other aspects that alternate the competitions. #competition-trades — Specific notable trades that are relevant to the competitions currently under way. A place to freely learn about cryptocurrency trading, ranging from topics about risk vs. return, to futures trading, to heavy technical analysis. CLASSROOM : #classroom — The main area to discuss topics that are currently being taught by experts (often including the moderators themselves) to new users in the cryptocurrency space. The conversations are quite engaging and often taught with humor to keep things light and not overwhelm the audience. #classroom-discussion — A channel to go over aspects of cryptocurrency that were taught in #classroom, and ask follow-up questions and offer feedback to videos and material that users engaged with. #newbie-questions — No such thing as a dumb question in this channel. Even the most basic questions like “how can I buy and sell on Coinbase Pro” will be taken seriously and answered without beratement. For those who have been frequent participants in discussions and have displayed a solid history of conduct, this area provides more advanced discussions that pertains to users who contribute often and have extra experience on their side: MEMBER’S AREA : Crypto Cartel #btc-charts — Looking at Bitcoin’s chart can be lonely, complicated, and incredibly uninteresting. But it gets significantly better when you can discuss it with other experts who have their own perspectives on targets, entries, and stops. #btc-discussion — Whatever is happening with Bitcoin today, it will likely be covered to some extent in this channel by the opportunistic and seemingly never asleep members here. #altcoin-charts — These volatile charts can be tricky to track, but here will be some very advanced looks into the price movements for any altcoin you can think of. #altcoin-discussion — There are thousands upon thousands of altcoins out there, and one person can only track so many of them at a time. But when you have a few thousand members discussing the latest news on the hottest alt, you’re likely not going to miss much. #traditional-markets — Even though Crypto Cartel is for discussions on crypto, there is always an opportunity to discuss stocks, equity, and bonds among other avid traders here. #knowledge-base — This channel is a great way to share resources on how to simply succeed in life, find books and articles related to things you are interested in, and open up doors in crypto and other ventures. #Members-Voice — Chat live with other members in this channel any time if typing on the keyboard gets a bit too tedious. This group contains any discussion involving the operations of the site and general crypto discussion. The channels consist of: VOICE : #General — For members and non-members alike, this area is to talk in real-time with other users in the Crypto Cartel community. #AFK — If you’re in the midst of a good discussion, but can no longer chat on your keyboard, keep the conversation going on your mic while you’re “away from keyboard”. This group is for anything non-crypto or non-trading related. With like-minded members inevitably becoming friends with one another and forming relationships, this channel discusses other topics that may not be appropriate for the main channels, such as music, gaming, sports, and the gym. OFF TOPIC : There are more than a few benefits to being part of an active cryptocurrency trading group. In addition to being in touch with an active community that gives an overall look at sentiment on various coins, they can also provide you with tools needed to become a more successful trader. 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It is clear that blockchain is the technology of the future. And now it’s not only about cryptocurrencies. Everyone can create any decentralized on the blockchain which will be not subordinate to any organization, whether it is commercial or state. Only computer algorithm that embedded in blockchain can control this technology. applications Blockchain frameworks were invented to speed up and simplify the process of developing blockchain-based apps. A framework is a soft that provides generic functionality. Developers can make selective changes in it to get the desired app. So it turns out that framework is a kind of ‘dummy’ which helps ‘cut out’ any final product. Now remember 2015 year when 42 largest banks joined to each other to create a blockchain framework called . Later several more banks joined to them and total number of firms entering the consortium became more than 200. The purpose of this project is the creation of a blockchain framework specifically for the banking, financial and insurance spheres. R3 Corda It was conceived that this framework will create new non-existent earlier blockchains for business purposes. As you see any corporation can make its own blockchain with any properties for its needs. At first glance it sounds good, but in fact this banking cartel lost sight of key property of the blockchain — decentralization. Due to its decentralization blockchain is very vulnerable to “ ”, which means that some attacker who takes control over more than 50% of the processing capacity of the network will be able to change any information stored in the blockchain. 51% Attack At the moment the bitcoin network hashrate is 35.8 million THash/s, high-end bitcoin miner from has a computational speed of 14 THash/s at a price of $700 which makes the cost of hacking the bitcoin network about $ 1.8 billion. But actually you can not buy such number of miners anywhere. The maximum numbers that produce factories counted by thousands or more than tens thousands but you need 2.5 million devices. Bitmain In addition as popularity of bitcoin is increasing this amount may be up to 10x larger. All this count suggests that bitcoin is very strongly protected from 51% attack. And now a question — how will blockchain built on the Corda framework by R3 be protected? The answer is — in no way. I doubt that Corporation X will invest $ 2 billion to protect its own blockchain. But progress doesn’t stand still and now the Hyperledger, Corda and others are replaced by . This is a new generation blockchain framework. Instead of creating a new blockchain Hashbon works as a virtual blockchain using top of several already existing reliable blockchains — bitcoin, litecoin, dash, monero, zcash. Hashbon In addition to protection from 51% attack this approach offers the number of advantages. In particular Hashbon selects the necessary livechain with the least commission right now. It helps avoid the “Cryptokitties Effect”. Remember how such has blocked the work of Ethereum for a long time, which made impossible to upload new smart contracts to the network. epidemic of Cryptokitties I want to wish a good luck to a small but strong startup “ ” from the Eastern Europe in its struggle against the banking cartel. Hashbon

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Fans of the major motion picture, “John Carter” by Disney and Pixar maestro Andrew Stanton ( ), will know that the movie was based on the wildly popular first book of the series by creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, . Finding Nemo, Wall-E Barsoom Tarzan A Princess of Mars In the book, as well as the movie, John Carter, a Virginia veteran of the Civil War, is traveling in the Arizona desert when he unexpectedly gets transported to Mars, where he meets the incomparable Princess of Mars, Deja Thoris. This storyline is science fiction, so obviously, I couldn’t have really met Deja Thoris in the Arizona desert, could I? Actually I did (though technically it was in Utah and I didn’t actually know her name was Deja Thoris at the time; she just told me she was a princess of Mars)! Deja Thoris, the Princess of Mars, in the 2012 movie John Carter (Lynn Collins) The Movie and Background of John Carter and Edgar Rice Burroughs Before I get into that story, it’s been 6 years since John Carter was released, so why am I writing about this now? I recently came across a book by Michael Sellers about the movie, “ ”. John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood: The True Story of What Went Wrong with Disney’s John Carter and Why Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Original Superhero Isn’t Dead yet There were a lot of things I didn’t know about Edgar Rice Burroughs and the history of the movie in the book, which is worth a read if you are into that kind of stuff. It goes into (in some cases, rather excruciating) detail about this stuff, but here are some highlights: A Princess of Mars was written and released in 1912, almost exactly 100 years before the movie, in serialized form. Many attempts were made to bring the John Carter of Mars series onto the screen, including a possible animated version in the 1930s. Edgar Rice Burroughs was probably the best-selling author of the first half of the twentieth century, and served as an inspiration for film-makers and writers ranging from Arthur C. Clarke to George Lucas to James Cameron. Flash Gordon and almost every other major science fiction project borrowed from the Mars series. Some, like George Lucas, liberally borrowed words and themes for Star Wars. James Cameron admitted to being inspired by A Princess of Mars for Avatar (a war veteran is transplanted to another planet and falls in love with an alien princess — sounds familiar?). Flash Gordon was basically a rip-off of Burroughs work. Did Disney Blunder? The book goes through many of the blunders that Disney made which contributed to John Carter being referred to as a $250 million flop, starting with the fateful decision to change the name of the movie from “J_ohn Carter of Mars_” to “ ” in 2011 John Carter a terrible teaser trailer on Good Morning America that spent more time showing Times Square than Mars. a 30 second Super Bowl ad which cost $3.5 million but was completely bewildering, and terrible trailers that didn’t give audiences enough information about the movie A complete lack of engagement of social media Although the film is now used as an example of a ballooning budget, an inexperienced director, and bad marketing, the movie itself wasn’t bad, and had many millions of fans (including outside the US; it had the biggest opening of any movie in Russia until that time). Fans mounted a campaign to get Disney to make the planned sequels, but alas this was not to be (though perhaps there may be ways to do these after all, check out my , How Blockchain Could Kill Both Netflix and Cable and message me if you want to know more). article I personally liked the movie a lot, and became a fan of Burroughs Mars and Venus series after seeing the movie. I felt it was successful in transporting the audience to another world full of aliens and technology and heroism and heartbreak and love. Sitting here on Jarsoom, I wanted to see more of Barsoom!. The Time I Met the Princess of Mars in the Desert OK now that I’ve talked about Hollywood, let’s get back to the story that prompted me to write this post in the first place — How I Met while wandering the Arizona desert. A Princess of Mars A few years ago (it must’ve been 2010), I took a solo trip to the Arizona/Utah desert. I wanted to take some time off and see Monument Valley and many other places that I hadn’t seen in that region. I flew into Phoenix, rented a car and decided for my first stop to drive north to Lake Powell, which stretches between southern Utah and Northern Arizona. It was one of the places where Planet of the Apes was filmed, and I wanted to see the “alien-looking landscape”. I drove to a small, luxurious resort at the edge of Lake Powell and enjoyed a few hours of sunshine, sitting on a chaise lounge on the shores of the lake. I figured I’d stay at the resort but for some reason it was sold out. Before heading back to the nearby po-dunk town to find a hotel room, I decided to have dinner at the restaurant. Rather uncharacteristically, I saw there was a bar and I decided I wanted to sit there. I say uncharacteristically because I never sit at bars, not for drinking or for dinner, but something told me to sit there. As I surveyed the bar for a place to sit, I noticed that there was a group of people at one end of the bar chatting away as if they knew each other and were there for a conference or something. What was odd about it was that there was a woman sitting alone on the other side of the bar, and it seemed like they and others in the restaurant were respectfully giving her space. This struck me as a little odd, though I couldn’t figure out why. She was sitting there politely chatting with the bartender, whom she seemed to know, probably ordering her dinner. She had dark hair, looked like she was in her 30s, probably a few years younger than me at the time, and was wearing a strange outfit. I couldn’t quite pinpoint what exactly was odd about her outfit, since she had a jacket on and it was covering up most of it, but her legs looked odd. I was hungry and sat down a few seats away from her and ordered some dinner. Here I noticed that she seemed to have on pantyhose that had weird red marks on her legs, which only added to the sense of weirdnes. As I ordered, somehow we struck up a conversation about her food, which was a light salad, and her outfit. This was also odd, as I don’t think I’ve ever struck up a conversation with any woman at a bar in my life. I think we somehow were joking how she wished she could have some of my burger and fries (rather than the salad she was eating). I asked her why she couldn’t, and she started telling me about herself and her outfit. She revealed that she was there filming a science fiction movie, and she had scenes where she was scantily clad, and was thus on a very special diet so she looked good on screen. As a big fan of science fiction and having done some indie film production, this sounded interesting. Of course, I assumed it was some small indie sci fi film so I wanted to know more. She mentioned it was based on a series of very popular science fiction novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and it was set on Mars. She was supposed to be an alien princess, she explained, and that was why she had the weird red marks on her legs and arms, which she showed me. I didn’t know much about the Burroughs series at the time, which was odd because I could’ve bet you that I knew more about Star Wars or Star Trek than your average sci fi geek, and definitely more than your average moviegoer. Mars I asked her name, and she said it was Lynn Collins. I had to admit i’d never heard of her. She then, very nicely I might add, tried to convince me that this was no low budget indie project, that Andrew Stanton from Pixar was directing (which I found even more odd since I knew him only as an animation film director), and that she was a well known actress, and this was her big leading role. She took on an amused tone explaining (almost pleading) that she was a well known movie star. “Well, I’ve been in a lot of big films, you know,” she said. “Like what?” I asked, since I knew most sci fi / action movies well and didn’t remember seeing her. “Like Wolverine, “ she answered as she looked at my hamburger and fries. It turns out she was Hugh Jackmans’ girlfriend in that movie, and I vaguely remembered the character. Wow, that was a very big budget movie, I remember thinking. Then we talked about women’s roles in science fiction films, and how there weren’t that many great roles. Somewhere along the way, I mentioned that I was an investor and producer in an indie sci fi project adapting another well-known sci fi/fantasy writer’s novels, and that we were looking for a lead actress. She graciously gave me the name and contact info of her agent. She didn’t seem offended that I didn’t know about her or . In fact, I got the sense that she was a little bored and as the lead actress, people were kind of treating her with kid gloves, so it was nice to have a normal conversation (if you can call it that!) with someone that wasn’t part of the film crew. John Carter of Mars It was getting dark out and she said that she had to head back to her room and read for the next day, and that they were filming early because of the light. I decided it was time for me to head back to town as well, so I said my goodbyes to Lynn, told her I’d contact her agent and send along a copy of the sci fi novels we were adapting, if she had any interest, and of course, I’d keep an eye out for this movie of hers that I’d never heard of, set on Mars, which I was still under the impression was a low budget indie film. When I went back to my car, I realized I no longer had my car keys in my pocket. I went back to the bar, but neither the keys nor the actress was there, and frantically went to the front desk to see if they had found my keys and to make some calls (my cell phone didn’t work). To make a long story short, I coudn’t find my car keys, and the rental company said they would have to tow the car 120 miles to either Flagstaff, AZ or St. George, UT, but it couldn’t be done tonight. I called a taxi to take me to a nearby motel and spent the night there. What a crazy ending to a crazy day! The next morning I came back to the resort and saw a group of Germans at the lakeshore who had found a set of keys in the beach, which turned out to be my car keys. I thanked them profusely, and decided I’d had enough of Lake Powell and Mars. The bar and the resort seemed pretty deserted — I guess the team was out filming for the day, and went on with the rest of my desert adventures, but those are tales for another post. I had a great rest of the trip, and almost forgot about the incident over the next year as I hunkered down in my latest startup. Two years later, in 2012, as I watched the big budget John Carter of Mars (now renamed just John Carter), I remembered the incident with my car, and the actress i’d met in the desert. It was her! There she was, on screen with the strange red tattoos on her legs and arms, in full Deja Thoris costume, the Princess of Mars, I’d met in the Arizona Desert!

The Time I Met a Princess of Mars in the Arizona Desert (think “John Carter”)

Note: this article has been updated as of 2018-Nov-12. See the section titled “Updates” at the end of this article for more. Recently at my job we ran into a problem: we needed to generate some of the possible combinations of a set of questions and answers, but we only needed a small subset of these combinations. Plus, we needed this subset to be distributed randomly across the range of possibilities (while maintaining an even spread). This way, we could generate a strong model of our data after running some statistics based on our combinations. Sure, we could just generate all possible combinations and use a built-in library to randomly select some of the possible combinations. This is a good solution when your range of possible combinations is relatively small (less than 1,000,000; give or take). But what about when you have possible combinations? Yes, this is how many possible combinations existed for our small set of questions and answers. 197,074,944 If you would like to skip to the actual implementation, feel free to scroll down to the section: Solution With Python How NOT to Approach the Problem One of the first things I tried doing was using Python’s library to generate all of the combinations at once and then select a random subset from that list. The nice thing about is that it will generate these combinations . The not-so-nice thing is that it will generate all 197,074,944 combinations , which means that in a blink of an eye I watched my RAM consumption go from ~2GB to my machine’s maximum in about 5 seconds. After that, the script kept trying to use paged memory to keep building these combinations and I had to do a hard reset to bring my machine back to life. itertools itertools really fast really fast Clearly, this approach isn’t going to work for such a large set of combinations. We needed to find a method that would avoid filling up memory space while maintaining reasonable performance. Enter: the Lazy Cartesian Product After spending hours researching the topic, I finally came across this excellent article: . The author does an amazing job explaining some of the theory as well as an implementation in JavaScript. http://phrogz.net/lazy-cartesian-product TL;DR: You can find any combination of a Cartesian Product at index without needing to calculate every single combination. n With this algorithm, you can now virtually eliminate the issue of memory space, maintain roughly performance when calculating an entry, and only worry about disk space if storing combinations. O(1) Plus, we can now find our subset of entries without needing to calculate all possible combinations. Solution with Python Using the psuedocode from the link above, the resulting Python code is below: Here is an example showing off how the code functions: If we run this in a terminal, we’ll get these results: $ python example.py[1, 'foo', 'z', 'three'][2, 'bar', 'y', 'three'][4, 'bar', 'y', 'two']$ End Result At my work, we wrapped this in a script so that we could generate a random subset of about 1,000,000 records (out of the 197,074,944 possible combinations) and save the combinations to a file. When it was all said and done, the script only took about 10 seconds to complete on my machine (most likely due to file I/O). .csv Ultimately, this algorithm can be implemented in any other language as necessary. For my work, I also wrote the algorithm with C# for a desktop application, and I can imagine something written in C/Rust would yield even higher-performing results. Updates Upon further inspection, when the amount of generated combinations starts growing the current code above begins to fail. The short version is: the way Python performs floating-point division causes the algorithm to fail when trying to calculate the index of the next element to select. Thanks to a solution has been found using the package : woudsma bigfloat If you find that your results aren’t correct, I highly recommend using this excellent fork of the code. For further discussion see the responses below which detail these discoveries in full.

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Virtual Event Connects Participants with Grant Funding Opportunities and Industry Leaders SI3, an organization championing women and non-binary individuals in the Web3 space, has announced its inaugural "Granting Access" event on August 1, 2024. The virtual gathering will connect participants with grant funding opportunities at major blockchain and protocol organizations and features representatives from Gitcoin, LUKSO, ThankArb, Push Protocol, and Unlock Protocol. "Granting Access" is designed to foster financial inclusion and access for underrepresented groups within the Web3 ecosystem. The event will kick off with a keynote presentation by Kara Howard, Co-Creator of SI3 and the Si Her Co-Active, who emphasized the importance of unifying and accelerating the growth of women in Web3. "We are thrilled to host Granting Access, an event that aligns with our mission to drive financial inclusion and access for women and non-binary individuals in the Web3 ecosystem," said Howard. "We hope to foster a more equitable and diverse Web3 landscape by bringing together leaders and grant programs." Panel discussions will feature Elizabeth Cusma (EducationDAO), Mashal Waqar (Octant), and Reena Shtedle (Founding Member, Cosmos Cartel), moderated by Ksenia Stark (Co-Founder, ⅄Oᒋ⅋NOISՈᖵNOϽ and Partner Growth, SI3) delving into strategies for equity and financial inclusion in the space. The sessions will provide attendees with a unique opportunity to engage directly with representatives from leading blockchain and protocol organizations. Participants are set to learn about various grant programs, funding priorities, and application processes, gaining valuable insights into securing financial support for their Web3 projects and initiatives. FIXX: Building a More Inclusive Web3 Future The "Granting Access" event is just one facet of SI3's broader mission to empower women and non-binary individuals in Web3. Their flagship initiative, FIXX (Financial Inclusion XX Chromosome), is a comprehensive program providing education, mentorship, and community-building opportunities. FIXX's upcoming program, starting in September 2024, will feature monthly sessions on personal values, unconscious bias, diversity in marketing, DEI strategies, advocacy, and impact tracking. By equipping participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in the Web3 landscape, FIXX is helping to build a more inclusive and equitable future for all. A Call to Action SI3's "Granting Access" event and the FIXX initiative represent a significant step forward in fostering diversity and inclusion within the Web3 community. "I'm excited about this event because it’s a chance to push for more recognition of women in web3 and learn from others. I believe that equity and financial inclusion are key to real progress and innovation," Mathilde DV, Grants Program Lead at Gitcoin, said. As the decentralized technology landscape continues to evolve, it is essential to ensure that opportunities are accessible to everyone, regardless of gender or background. After all, DEI isn’t a “nice to have” or a cause driven by ethical and moral issues - diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams contribute to financial success by fostering innovative, engaged, and productive workforces that create products and services that work for and resonate with a broader range of consumers and investors. Despite DEI layoffs at major corporations such as Microsoft, the momentum is building, and the message is clear: a more diverse and equitable Web3 is not just an aspiration but a necessity for the industry's continued success. Interested participants can register for Granting Access via Unlock. Virtual Event Connects Participants with Grant Funding Opportunities and Industry Leaders Virtual Event Connects Participants with Grant Funding Opportunities and Industry Leaders SI3 , an organization championing women and non-binary individuals in the Web3 space, has announced its inaugural "Granting Access" event on August 1, 2024. The virtual gathering will connect participants with grant funding opportunities at major blockchain and protocol organizations and features representatives from Gitcoin , LUKSO , ThankArb , Push Protocol , and Unlock Protocol . SI3 Gitcoin LUKSO ThankArb Push Protocol Unlock Protocol " Granting Access " is designed to foster financial inclusion and access for underrepresented groups within the Web3 ecosystem. The event will kick off with a keynote presentation by Kara Howard, Co-Creator of SI3 and the Si Her Co-Active, who emphasized the importance of unifying and accelerating the growth of women in Web3. Granting Access "We are thrilled to host Granting Access, an event that aligns with our mission to drive financial inclusion and access for women and non-binary individuals in the Web3 ecosystem," said Howard. "We hope to foster a more equitable and diverse Web3 landscape by bringing together leaders and grant programs." Panel discussions will feature Elizabeth Cusma ( EducationDAO ), Mashal Waqar ( Octant ), and Reena Shtedle (Founding Member, Cosmos Cartel ), moderated by Ksenia Stark (Co-Founder, ⅄Oᒋ⅋NOISՈᖵNOϽ and Partner Growth, SI3) delving into strategies for equity and financial inclusion in the space. EducationDAO Octant Cosmos Cartel ⅄Oᒋ⅋NOISՈᖵNOϽ The sessions will provide attendees with a unique opportunity to engage directly with representatives from leading blockchain and protocol organizations. 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A Call to Action A Call to Action SI3's "Granting Access" event and the FIXX initiative represent a significant step forward in fostering diversity and inclusion within the Web3 community. "I'm excited about this event because it’s a chance to push for more recognition of women in web3 and learn from others. I believe that equity and financial inclusion are key to real progress and innovation," Mathilde DV, Grants Program Lead at Gitcoin, said. As the decentralized technology landscape continues to evolve, it is essential to ensure that opportunities are accessible to everyone, regardless of gender or background. After all, DEI isn’t a “nice to have” or a cause driven by ethical and moral issues - diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams contribute to financial success by fostering innovative, engaged, and productive workforces that create products and services that work for and resonate with a broader range of consumers and investors. Despite DEI layoffs at major corporations such as Microsoft , the momentum is building, and the message is clear: a more diverse and equitable Web3 is not just an aspiration but a necessity for the industry's continued success. Interested participants can register for Granting Access via Unlock . DEI layoffs at major corporations such as Microsoft register for Granting Access via Unlock

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