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TL;DR — Radi.Cards — the first NFT eCards. We let you send eCards to your friends using crypto. It’s (crypto) winter and it’s not true that there will be nothing good come out of it. Few months back I’ve joined the Ethereum community by designing analytics for Non-Fungible Token (NFT) called with two good friends, Toby and Diego. New to the scene and being a designer, the only way to learn is “the hard way” as doses of crypto knowledge are to be taken after breakfast everyday. The world of decentralized application is not the most user-friendly place but my goal is to turn it into one. So I’ve learned, I’ve failed, I’ve succeeded and yet I’ve failed again. This is the usual cycle of life. CryptoDecks.co People in the community build things that not so many people in the world could appreciate but we do not give in to that. If we don’t succeed at first, we try harder to make our work more useful and usable and if we fail, we learn and then we get back up and try again. This is the usual cycle of life. And I know that these people are my kind of people. So I’ve made a lot of friends. Ethereum The crash Cryptocurrency prices crash. I knew about it when I was at the conference taking place in Berlin. My friends sent me a couple of screenshots of the downward slopes of the crypto prices. Some days after, stories about companies’ funds being cut and people losing their jobs are all over the place. “Growth” is the anti-thesis of this phase. I will never forget the way you made me feel. Beloved NFT ghetto I’ve always thought of the NFT projects as a some sort of a warm designer/artist ghetto corner in the crypto universe. People residing in the same ghetto tend to know each other pretty well. We may have our projects running at the same time but nonetheless we’re friends. We make some profits but not much and by much I mean Augur’s much not Apple’s much. Users interested in NFTs are more art collectors than crypto traders. Two key concepts in art are scarcity and authenticity, which we replicate digitally by issuing such “unique tokens”. People collect for various reasons. Some, to make money. But most people do it for an inner motivation — collecting is, in fact, one of the most basic human behavior. Few weeks back Toby called me up in the afternoon to talk about an idea of an NFT as a gift for this holiday season. I thought it was a good idea but it still does not make so much sense to “gift the collectible”. Why would someone buy something that one likes so much to give away. This goes against human behavior. Aren’t we all more of a hoarder, a forager, a gatherer than a giver? Then it led me thinking — what do people tend to give as a gift during this season? For sure there are Christmas gifts. But this is only limited to the Christian culture. From where I come from, where 96% of the population is Buddhist, we do not celebrate the birth of Jesus the same way as people do around here. Ours involve a commercial version of Santa Claus and a lot of walk around the shiny shopping malls. Christmas at the malls. But there is one common behavior. People from all cultures do send cards. Cards are the kind of gift that transcend cultures and religions. Although the content of each card may be subject to cultural relativity, the card itself is not. Why don’t we mint NFT as a card instead of a gift. I told Toby who didn’t need to be further convinced. Fun but good Making holiday cards with friends is for sure more fun than doing it alone at home. This NFT card project is meant to do with friends and better yet — to do it as a way to give back to the Internet community. First we talked to Diego, a full stack engineer and our co-founder from . Then our friends Andy, James and David from and Jon and Charles from . They are all in. These two projects are the top of league when it comes to aesthetic on the blockchain. Perhaps our NFT card ideas are not that bad after all. CryptoDecks KnownOrigin SuperRare More friends are joining forces few days after. Daniel a stellar designer from , Matty from MetaCartel and Chris from . Following the spirit of decentralization, our team consists of people from all over the globe from the UK, Thailand, Italy, South Africa and New Zealand. Pheme Registree In addition, we’ve partnered up with many projects in the community: Ethberlin, , , , , , metacartel, , , . Not to mention talented artists who donated their artwork to the project: 0xbull, Cristiana Vettor, XCOPY, uly128, Ophelia Fu, HEX0x6C, Stina Jones, Aktiv Protesk, Hugh D’Andrade, Hernan Wave, Stas Leontyev, laazeecat and Oficinas TK. 0xcert.org blockcities.co bounties.network blockpunk.net churchofconsensus.org opensea.io colony.io astroledger.org This is going to be fun. Our plan is to work on this project on a pro-bono fashion and to give all income after deducting gas costs to the charities which have aligned values and goals with the Ethereum community. is on the top of our list. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Earlier this year, I went to Devcon and had a chance to listen to one of the best talks in years. I first went in the room half asleep and got woken up by the guy on the stage talking about how “Code is speech” is recognized by the US government as a result of the winning case in the 9th circuit court and Appellate division. If they didn’t, encryption stronger than what a Raspberry Pi can handle would all be outlawed. This guy was in fact Cory Doctorow, whom I didn’t know back then that he was known among the cyber punk community. I got his name from Mamie from the Ethereum Foundation as I was asking for the name of the guy who talked about “Code is speech”. Cory was kind enough to later intro me to the Development Director of EFF, Aaron Jue, who gave us full support on our initiative. The buidl With a limited amount of time and resources we got down to building. Firstly the designers from our collective started to flesh out some basic wireframes and UX flows on Figma. Once we had a rough idea of the structure and flow we were after we then got down to the #BULD. BlockRocket, the guys who built KnownOrigin, got a basic ERC721 contract built and tested with a simple vue.js front end project and build pipeline going to wire it all together. We decided the first release would be as simple as possible in regards to the tech, deciding to go for a client side only webapp utilising IPFS for card images and using Infura as our access point into the network. Once we had a rough and ready working version myself, Chris, Diego, Matt, Daniel and the rest of the team got down to making it look and feel slick. What we have ended up with is a simple but effective first release or MVP where iterations can build on top of this. future Best things in (Internet) life are for free True love, friendship, compassion and sympathy are uncontestedly some of the best things in life and you never have to pay for them (for those who live by paid-for type of love or friendship, I sympathize with you). For most of us, Internet is in this category (re: best thing in life). What would our lives be like if we have to pay for all the knowledge and all the fun we can get online? Matty, in collaboration with Gio my pet cat, creates the best Ethereum meme ever titled “Catz on ETH” Free Internet is the foundation of free societies. Therefore, the best things on the Internet should be free. That’s why we knew right away that all the cards on RadiCards should be free as well. After all, it’s a deep dark crypto winter and many people have just lost their jobs. They shouldn’t be forced to donate if they don’t feel comfortable to do so. By giving RadiCards away for free, everyone can help spread the word about our fundraising effort for EFF. Also, we make sure that this will happen by borrowing the magic power of cats. Joy by the year’s end It took two weeks and a boat full of commitment from our team to design, develop and deliver RadiCards dapp. We take care that your friends and families who are crypto noobs can enjoy RadiCards as much as you do. For the first time in the NFT history [add a hero-theme song here] you can send NFT to friends by email and via chat app. Oh and we also have a feature where you can add a censorship-resistant message at the back of the card. The message will be public — but imagine for a second — that no governments, no authorities, not even us can take down your message because it will be on the blockchain. The decision is all yours. What will you say? How does it work, you may ask. First you pick your most favorite RadiCard, pay for gas,* add recipient’s email address or ETH wallet address, add censorship-resistant message and voila! You can send RadiCards to anyone without ETH wallet address but as a sender you need to have one. There would be no problem for us, technical-wise, to make an Internet standard eCard of the Web2.0 but we refuse to do so. We do believe that a small dose of education of the decentralized web is needed as we want you to know that you have a safer, more private and secure way to enjoy the Internet. CryptoKitties is one among the dapps out there that helps onboard so many new people into the decentralized web and we do hope we will be the next. So now it’s your turn. RadiCards is now live on Ethereum mainnet. All you need to do is install an ETH wallets (MetaMask, Trust wallet, Coinbase wallet, Status), get your first ETH from the exchange (Coinbase, BitStamp, Gemini, BitBay) and you are ready to rock. Have a lovely time by the year’s end and we hope to see you soon at . https://radi.cards Crypto project that plans to change the world & fight for good. Too good to be true. Written by and Lili Feyerabend James Morgan To get updates about the radiCards project, follow us on Twitter @radi_cards and soon we will be publishing more stories on Pheme.app

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SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OF MAN—continued.

The Great State

What strikes both impartial and partisan observers of the cryptocurrency market is the polarity of opinions of it. On one side, we have respectable crypto millionaires Bitcoin “ ” (I double-checked the quote). dubbing a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy. Crypto-savvy opinion leaders with “Bitcoin is the Archimedean fulcrum for a global, digital, non-state economy.” echo the sentiment Crypto zealots’ flamboyance is countered by numerous old-school investors and the general who don’t mince words defining the crypto craze in no less . “old fart” types colourful language New-wave academics don’t fall far behind with like “Bitcoin is a gambler’s fear index for rich people. […] The notion that Bitcoin is a harbinger of the democratisation of finance is complete horseshit.” statements Amid all these wordy spars on the citizenry side, governments take steps “for” or “against” that would make even the coolest heads spin. On the one hand, New Zealand crypto as the legal means of paying salaries, and El Salvador passing the Bitcoin Law Bitcoin a legal tender status in the country. adopts gives On the opposite side, we have China banning crypto altogether and India about to do the same while working on their s along with of the civilized world. CBDC the rest It’s no longer a competition. The space is beginning to resemble a mud-wrestling pit before the final gong. This may be a high time to clean up the grapplers, look them in whatever’s left of their eyes, and see who or what drives this generational, social, and political phenomenon we call cryptocurrency markets. Big Tech No doubt, Big Tech (let’s call it fintech for euphony) plays a significant role in driving the cryptocurrency markets, but since it relies heavily on discounted government options, it can hardly be considered the actual “driver” of the cryptocurrency markets. It’s the jolly (as opposed to vicious) circle that began with the 2008 crisis and hasn’t been broken since the TARP elevated QE to a systematic trait of the markets. As a result, parachute money and negative rates created the monetary surplus that had to be syphoned into something, anything. The social sector, infrastructure? Nope, that’s not how capitalism works. Luckily, the Silicone valley extended a helping hand, which once again appropriated public resources for all kinds of privatised technological experimentation. We’ve already seen something similar in the mid-20th century when then- resulting in, among other things, today’s iPhone. big tech utilised publicly-funded research for private gains Fast-forwarding to Satoshi, whose paper changed the world once and for all by throwing blockchain in the pot with the rest of the ingredients for the Web 3.0 soup – same thing. It was inevitable that DeFi would attract the kind of institutional attention : fifteen years ago, institutions for it with the money they got from the taxpayer. Now they want to cash in. that it does today paid But that’s big tech. Smaller tech is now on its own footing creating solutions for paying in crypto for groceries, building hybrid payment services for practical use in what I call the “token economy.” There are plenty of cases of technology evolving to accommodate the growing cryptocurrency landscape. The likes of PayPal and Visa have all moved to adapt their models to transact cryptocurrency in recent months. Hybrid fintech platforms have been working tirelessly on bridging the gap between digital assets and legacy banking, and many successes have lately emerged from this space. DAOs It’s appealing (to say the least) to think that DAOs are the drivers of cryptocurrency markets, especially after the infamous ConstitutionDAO escapade. By now, we know that the $45 million to buy a wasn’t enough, and the online flashmob was promptly disbanded, but that’s not the point. copy of the US Constitution The point is that we have to remember the old adage that today rings truer than ever: everything new is well forgotten old. Here is a on how similar self-rule is in ancient cultures to today’s developments in blockchain-based autonomous governance. And how persistent humanity was in implementing this governing concept through passionate volunteers, like-minded followers, and core principles (yes, often compensated handsomely) through history. 10-minute video The reason that DAOs are all the rage today, attracting more and more institutional money is simple: it works. Whether DAOs actually drive the cryptocurrency markets remains largely unanswered, but many believe that the DAO structure is the most promising for the token economy. The proof is in their treasuries: Andreessen Horowitz-backed Friends with Benefits (FWB) DAO manages more than $700 million in assets. The Gitcoin DAO is estimated to have a treasury worth more than $643 million, and the list of DAO millionaires goes on. Still, many DAOs cater to crypto newcomers, and some donate to charitable causes. The space is indeed full of scholarship programs and to various charities because cryptocurrency markets are primarily based on social proof, and projects like , founded by journalists Daisy Alioto and Kyle Chayka, crypto social clubs like and almost numberless hosts of others deliver plenty of it. multimillion-dollar donations Dirt PleasrDAO DeFi There’s another potential cryptocurrency market driver for you that’ll make your head spin. Since December 2020, DeFi’s potential has seen tremendous interest. The recent indicates that as of July 2021, 183,000 people had staked upward of 5.8 million ETH on Ethereum protocols, scoring an inflation-beating average of 6.8% APR in the process (not taking into account the underlying asset-price increase Ethereum has undergone). Consensys report At the time of writing, clocks at $85 billion of TVL (Total Value Locked) in Ethereum DeFi protocols, with the all-time high TVL topping at just under $100 billion. defipulse.com Furthermore, striving blockchains like Solana, Avax, and the Binance Smart Chain also offer DeFi solutions, each with its own token set. DeFi Llama, which aggregates TVL from larger chains, estimates current TVL in DeFi to be $175 Billion, with an ATH of over $200 Billion. These are some dizzying figures. Clearly, the DeFi world is maturing, but it’s not allowed to drink alcohol just yet. Perhaps, simplified liquidity onramps, concrete regulation, and crypto literacy will unlock the genuinely massive potential of this new technology. However, the possibility for global permissionless engagement with the market is still limited by access to capital, government resistance, and a host of other factors that are just too many to list (though putting DeFi in a driver’s seat of the crypto markets surely sounds like a lot of fun). Institutional Investors Institutions don’t drive progress, they don’t care about innovation at the brain-storming stage. They sit back and watch (it’s called “trend monitoring”); just remember what the C-level execs have been about the cryptocurrency markets five years ago. saying Over the last few years, the trends have been staggeringly indicative of crypto going mainstream. But it was the early stage adopters and miners – not the CEOs, who ploughed through every obstacle and restriction in their way to give the space enough coins to play with, and boy, did they deliver! Today after years of “trend watching” investment bankers rejoice at unparalleled opportunities to put newly created assets to work and make “ ” even hotter. hot money Or in the words of Mark Blyth, Brown University economics professor, prominent writer, and brilliant whom I never tire to quote, “…so long as other people are buying [crypto] and there are real gains to be made, why would they not do it? podcaster It tells you something fundamental about finance, which is that oftentimes finance doesn’t really care about the fundamentals, it cares about what people’s expectations are because that’s where the real money gets made.” Today “real money” is by the same people who called crypto “a fraud” a couple of years ago and have now issued their (wink-wink, J. Dimon). being made all over the place own coin The influx of institutional investment in DeFi is unprecedented by any measure, to Chainanalysis; basically, pick any player from the City of London – . according they all are after the crypto gains Governments Name one instance in history when the ruling class represented by governments would voluntarily give up the most lucrative of all possible activities – formulating and implementing monetary policy – and delegate it to the masses. Go ahead, I’ll wait. I don’t mean to draw thousand-year parallels, but it’s kind of a cool thought that China, being the inventor of fiat money, knows all the ins and outs of it. And again, if history has taught us anything, it’s that a country ruled by ignorance and pride of the elite can easily end up on the curb for hundreds of years ( ). in China’s case Or having composed itself, armed with the right ideology (right for the time, anyway) and the right economic theory, a country can soar to unimaginable heights (again, China, ). Venezuela It’s not that governments like China are banning cryptocurrencies because they necessarily expect the technology to fail. It’s that they want to lead the charge when there are trillions to be made. The Chinese government aims to unleash its own CBDC endowed with all the conveniences of crypto and none of its speculative investment traits. What a brilliant move in time for the winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022! And judging by the fact that the U.S. politicians from using e-coin while there, it’s the right one. want to ban American athletes In the U.S., the “open door” policy for any kind of money moves prevails. Investors, there are largely free to take highly leveraged positions that could lead to potentially catastrophic financial losses. Institutions continue to be free to package garbage into and sell it on the street – there’s no shortage of buyers. ABSs, CDSs, and CDOs The SEC is “signalling a robust oversight regime over the industry,” but the big wigs of the said industry what that means. All in all, former U.S. have no idea Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers put it best when he said in an interview that “the crypto industry should shed the idea that it’ll function as a “libertarian paradise” where government rules can’t be imposed.” We heard you, Larry! Conclusion Still, I believe it’s the governments of the world that drive cryptocurrency markets. All the above-mentioned players do their part, but to an astute observer, the re-centralization trend is quite apparent because it’s the government debt (mostly the US, of course) that throws more and more chips on the global crypto table. Just think that 36% of all US dollars in existence since January 2020. The inflated dollar, for example, gives the likes of Bitfinex the perfect to manipulate the price of Bitcoin and conjure up schemes as huge successes in the space. have been printed opportunity lauded It’s the inflated dollar that allows MicroStrategy to driving up its price… Oops, did I say “stock”? I meant to buy up more and more Bitcoins, of course! continue to buy back its stock There are some useful memory exercises that will convince you that governments play a key role in every single development on the crypto market. We all can still feel the heat of the battle over some articles of the Biden’t infrastructure bill that sent Bitcoin from the high of $68.000 to the current $54.000 in a fortnight. spiralling down We already know the of the moves China can put on crypto. We’ll see what India’s announcement to tighten regulation around crypto in order to pave the way for its will do to the market (let’s not forget that China + India = ⅓ of the Earth’s population). cost own CBDC It’s the governments that have to deal with cybercrime. Governments will have to deal with the redistribution of the labour force once crypto takes over and yesterday’s bank tellers and branch managers line up at the unemployment office. Governments are responsible for the value of fiat money (capital controls) and for the soundness of deposits at times of crisis. Hardcore bitcoinists often suggest that the government’s backing of the state currency is a myth and that the dollar has been bereft of value ever since Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971 (this resounding motif has reverberated throughout the space so many times, I ought to take it into quotes). However, let’s not forget that the cycle of transactions in any economy involves borrowers, lenders, and consumers, and relies on externalities that simply cannot be codified in a “trustless” environment (physicality of goods, personal relationships, existing legal structure, human resources, logistical intricacies, political machinations, the pitfalls of policy implementation and a ). great many other factors It seems that governments are gradually figuring out the many dimensions of the cryptocurrency market and are leading the creation of an infrastructure that would allow the tech behind crypto to shine in all its glory. The global financial system is ripe for eliminating the distance between the payer and the payee, lender and borrower, equity issuer and investor. Tech entrepreneurs can’t do it on their own, the crypto community is a tight group, but not in itself a force of nature. Institutions are busy seeking out money-making schemes to “maximise shareholder value.” Markets are in acute need of a rulebook and writing one has always been a government’s prerogative. Let’s hope that this time the book will truly be of the people, by the people, and for the people. First published here.

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