#60: The Short-Sightedness of Web3 and Blockchain, Anonymity & Original Ideas of Where We Could Go

A conversation with an anonymous guest on how new technologies can help promote positive moral behavior, blockchain and crypto concepts, digital art and NFTs, the convenience of centralization, online identity, impostor syndrome, the ever-newbie, and lots more.

Favorite quotes

• “Writing code is talking to computers, but you also have to talk to people through your code.”
• “How do we figure out, in a digital age, what is good and what should we aim for as a civilization, as a society?”
• “Information is the resolution of uncertainty.” —Claude Shannon, 1948

Books

• Collected Papers from Claude E. Shannon
• The Information by James Gleick
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Links & Terms

• DeFi (decentralized finance)
• Web3
• Escrow smart contracts
• InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
• Candy Machine
• Arweave permanent storage
• Genesis Go
• JavaScript, Rust & C++
• Pair programming
• Nifty Gateway & Foundation.app
• MetaMask & Exodus (wallets)
• Coinbase, Kraken & Gemini (exchanges)
• BIP39 (Bitcoin Improvement Protocol)
• Curiosity Stream - “YouTube for nerds”
• The Coding Train with Daniel Shiffman
• Ruby on Rails
• Keras & TensorFlow
• PlayXO.com
• SushiSwap, PancakeSwap & Abracadabra
• Glitch
• Ruby on Rails
• Anchor for Solana

Learning resources

• How to Mint an NFT on Solana Using Candy Machine
• Solana tutorials by Henry-E
• Solana tutorials by Doug Anderson
• Solana development guide with React, Anchor, Rust & Phantom by Nadir Dabit
• Ethereum & Solana tutorials by Brian Friel
• A normal person explains cryptocurrency
• Starting with Solana, Part 1
• Starting with Solana, Part 4 - A Todo List with Rewards

People mentioned

• Henry-E
• Brian Friel
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