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last week has been slow because everyone (including us!) took some time off for Christmas. That being said, we managed to curate some really good content!
BTW thanks to Lens for supporting us by buying a Kiwi ad to promote their holiday hackathon.
And thanks to our authors and curators who shared this week's links:
kualta.eth, lens/armog, macbudkowski.eth, timdaub.eth, cerv1.eth, mishaderidder.eth, zinkk.eth, pedrovilela.eth, pierrepauze.eth, profkaterina.eth, lilping.eth, simplifiedprivacy.eth, pfedprog.eth, 0xCC23...,
Discussions
Trump camp divided in bitter fight over immigration policy (5 comments)
Peteris Erins confesses that he barely uses web3 (3 comments)
News
Trump appoints Bo Hines to head crypto council
GnosisDAO votes if they should acquire Headquarters (HQ.xyz)
Chamath says that SpaceX uses stablecoins
Folklore pauses
Essays, Posts & Talks
Kualta shares their thoughts on Memetic Culture
Porter read every 1990s Cypherpunk email and presents the most interesting ones
Nicola Greco and Alex Obadia share the Quantum Punks Manifesto
Paul Dylan-Ennis says that if we want crypto to succeed, we’ve got to give X the boot
Stani compares ETH and stablecoins as the medium of exchange and economic currency
0xQuit explains why they exited all their validators
Spore explains their evolutionary Hunger Games for AI
Luigi Mangione's Manifesto
Redphone shares their 69 Theses: Predictions, lessons and longs for 2025
Jeff Bezos speech from 1998
Credit card innovation from 1985
Ed Newton-Rex spent a week in VR and says it finally works
Ben Ersing looks at Santa through the lens of a meme
Dashboards & reports
Flashbots report on the State of Wallets 2024
0xAntidote analyzes how generalist VCs dropped the ball on crypto
TechCrunch lists badly handled data breaches of 2024
Products
Launch: Blockscan Wrapped
Found: HQ.xyz - onchain business account
Found: zkemail
For devs
Stani shares his ideas for the Lens Holiday Hackathon
InterPlanetary CID Mapping
Sakana AI: Automating the Search for Artificial Life
Art
Hans Ulrich Obrist on AI, video games, and rethinking the Art world in 2025
Beeple's three futuristic sculptures
Botto's Synthetic Histories period recap
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