I was around 14-15 when I first saw the opening of Patlabor via the music video for KMFDM - Juke-Joint Jezebel. The whole concept behind that intro left an enormous impression on me. Too young to know I was too young, I suppose.
The Laconic Foundation will be flipping the switch from testnet to mainnet soon. It's a major accomplishment for the community of folks that have formed during the testnet which has been operating without issue for almost a year. Without the help and support of that community, as well as other contributors, achieving this milestone would have been impossible.
As I understand the intent of LF, those testnet participants will have their tokens unlocked first. Ideally, in the coming months token holders will vote to unlock more tokens, do small/strategic airdrops, enable IBC, set up a community fund, etc etc.
Since I can't pull ravens out of my jacket on demand, I'll be working on Laconic for the foreseeable future. If you want to buy service from the Laconic Network, or would like to provide service to the Laconic Network, contact @laconicnetwork and they will sort you out.
https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository I'm half surprised at how difficult they make this. If I delete the original remote repo and create a new one will their backend be extra clever and still resolve the orphaned hash? Seems like a coin toss.
This has been brewing for a while, but I think my notions of what is and is not risky are very far off.
I'm starting to suspect that "financialization" is more biologically mediated than I assumed in the past. Crypto is basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_diving
Taking a transparent and competitive fee for executing complex intents actually provides value to everyone else in the ecosystem, instead of something like back running which is, clearly and boringly, parasitic.