2024-06-10: Horse, On, Climbing Back
(If you work at FF/FFDW 🄽 links will send you to a local, editable page in the Filecoin Foundation Notion. If you are in the Filecoin ecosystem, you may be able to join the #monologue-danny Slack channel where I answer questions, take meeting bookings, talk to myself and the other voices in my head. In the glorious decentralized ocap-enabled future, such data-hoardings will be a thing of the past, but we live for now in a fallen ACL world.)
Working on:
Negotiations
Two hour, intense meeting with one of the groups seeking a positive resolution in the STFIL 🄽 case. They wanted us to do a bunch of things that I don’t think we’re really able to do, but we’re all determined to find ways to get a better result. If I pause for a moment, my frustration and outrage with what the Chinese authorities did really begins to grow: arbitrary or wrongful state power is orders of magnitude more disempowering and damaging than almost anything else that I deal with, whether that’s the annoyances of working in a decentralized environment, or ordinary people with bad attitudes or motivations — even, I have to say, in my context, people with a great deal of other societal or financial power.
Talking to the SEC
Lunch with Commissioner Hester M. Pierce 🄽 of the SEC. Mostly we talked about DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure) 🄽, especially how to create efficient access to storage and compute without it being a chokepoint (or a single point of failure). Avichal Garg 🄽 and I talked a bit about the Fat torso 🄽 of storage markets (how there’s a lot of independent data centers and storage outside of the big tech companies, despite the appearance of complete market dominance), and Alex Gajewski 🄽 and Evan Conrad 🄽 of SF Compute 🄽 talked about creating a spot market for GPUs.
Applying to the Protocol Labs Dev Guild!
The PL Developers Guild 🄽 is an initiative to encourage open source contributors. It had kind of an insane deadline — I found about it on Thursday, and the official deadline is today -- but if you're interesting in exploring how to contribute to libp2p 🄽, IPFS 🄽 , and getting a little FIL in return, the organizers said they will take stragglers. I sent in an application myself, so perhaps you can join me in being a guinea pig, or wait until October when the next cohort will be recruited.
Thinking about:
Unison — it’s a programming language (and development paradigm) that has immutable content-addressing wired in. A post where they lay out where they’re going in the next year or so. I connect this heavily to Brooklyn Zelenka 🄽 and co’s work on the IPVM 🄽 (is this still a thing? Must check.), Val Town and similar. Only even more ambitious!
Link du jour:
- Georgism in Space — How can you have a land tax, when you haven’t got any land?