Corfu
Beautiful country, so hot but very green, presume they must have a rainy season which keeps all the trees and plants fresh and colourful.
What is Web 3.0
Interesting 30 min talk from Juan Benet, founder and CEO of Protocol Labs, developer of the IPFS and Filecoin protocols, about what Web 3.0 is & where its going. Web 1.0 – Read only, Static Web 2.0 – Read/Write, Interactive Web 3.0 – Read/Write, Trust, Verifiable A couple of my favorite quotes: “With each new…
PaddyFlower
PaddyPower are one of worst bookies when it comes to winning, win a few hundred quid a few times over a couple of weeks and your account will get limited. Betfair and Paddy merged a few years ago and the Paddy Power rot it seems spreading.
Lean
Only a couple of chapters in but really enjoying Eric Ries’s The Learn Startup
Solid gold
Just reading the daily rip, Stocktwits daily newsletter, as they say, you learn something new everyday. Space Rocks vs. Bitcoin A recent NASA story has reignited the classic Bitcoin question – just what are bitcoins underlying fundamentals? The comparison to gold is how most people respond, but did most people know there was a solid…
Lionesses
Tonight at 20:00, the Lionesses are playing their world cup semi final against the tournament favorites, the USA. Looking at the odds on Betfair, USA are strong favorites to win the whole thing: I havn’t really watched much of the tournament but I will make the time to watch tonight’s, English football seems to have…
Macro tailwinds for Bitcoin
At the Bitcoin 2019 conference last week in San Francisco, Brendan Bernstein did a talk on why we should be HODL’ing bitcoin. “BTC doesn’t need a maximalist ideology. People will buy bitcoin to escape autocratic regimes”
John
Went to see Rob Gilbert last night, very funny, I feel like I need to meet John. Who would have thought a very good comedian suffers with lack of confidence & being shy, no matter what we see, everyone’s going through something. He was so open & honest about everything he’s going through, making a…
The state of AI in 2019
Confetti
Never really thought about confetti and how its produced. Who knew there were confetti farms, well I know there’s at least one, near Pershore, Worcestershire. They open their fields to the public a few days a year when they are in full bloom, & they look stunning. This is the last weekend you can see…
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