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Gould not only was ingenious enough to think of the experiment but he also bothered to do it, because he was not seduced by the good-design assumption. It is a fine tightrope we are walking, however, because I suspect that Gould—like von Frisch before him, in his color research—had enough of the good-design assumption in his head to believe that his remarkable experiment had a respectable chance of success and was therefore worth spending time and effort on.
River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins
The NFT ecosystem took first took off in 2017 with the launch of pioneering collectibles projects like CryptoPunks and CryptoKitties, and since then the space has bloomed toward a variety of new use cases and industries.
Guide to NFTs: How to Create & Collect the Next Wave of Digital Assets
blockonomi.com
Ethereum: Adoption of fragmented L2 solutions may make composability more difficult, as execution happens in L2, settles on L1, and then goes back to another L2 for another part of the transaction. Ideally, one or two L2 solutions emerge victorious, but a world in which there are a number of L2s may strengthen Ethereum’s network effect while weakening the product experience.
Own the Internet
notboring.co
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