foreign
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intellectually for quite a while that
ethereum is all about coordination and I
felt it in my bones that we have this
programmable substrate for the ability
to create with our ability to create our
shared needs and I invited Justin to do
this song with me because I want you to
feel it not just to think it ethereum is
all about coordination we are the ones
that we've been waiting for and I'm so
thrilled to be here with you today
building this new world
called coordination when we give each
other lifts
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our improving situation is our most
important gift
so this is going to sound a little weird
but lately I've been falling asleep to
the sounds of air traffic control I have
the privilege of being a native English
speaker most air traffic control is
English and I don't know if you've ever
listened to air traffic control it's a
strange thing but uh it's really quite
an impressive feat of coordination
around an extremely deadly possibility
and um it dawned on me the other day
that there are two obvious questions
that arise from this one assuming we
on a medium time scale deprecate the
monopolistic violent coordination
inherent in state imperialism how are we
going to do air traffic control
literally air traffic control is anyone
working on air traffic control on
ethereum and the other perhaps more
obvious is what are the lessons from
those existing highly coordinated
activities obviously ATC is just one
example that can inform us we don't
perhaps normally think of those as
inspiration but maybe we're kind of at a
point where
it we're strong enough that it would be
helpful
Maybe
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oh it's called coordination when we give
each other lift our improving situation
is our most important gift
all right let's bring it down a little
bit I want to talk about someone who's
been really inspirational for me and has
been foundational in their contributions
to the ethereum community they started
youth research and they created a blog
post called ethereum is a game-changing
technology way before I even discovered
green pilling or coordination technology
and their name is Virgil Griffith Virgil
has been an inspiration to many of us in
the reap protocol research side he's
been an inspiration to the ethereum
community and he's now in jail
for coordinating with the wrong people
and regardless of what you think of what
he did and why he's in jail I think that
we can all agree that Virgil is an
inspiration to all of us and so Virgil
if you're listening to this we miss you
brother thank you for seeding this
vision of ethereum as a game changing
technology and I hope that we realize
that Vision together
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for improving situation is our most
important gift
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foreign
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most of my days working on threshold
crypto and occasionally zero knowledge
proofs
and um
I have for like four years now and
during that time the solar Punk movement
and particularly an emphasis on
coordination as a part of the gravity
well of economic impact and
computational impact of ethereum has
arisen and it occurs to me that this is
a good time to remind us that The
cryptographic Primitives that come from
the ground come from the mathematics the
inherent physics of the universe are our
Birthright as Information Age beings and
they represent both a tool kit for
coordination and also a reasoning for
coordination
oh it's called coordination when we give
each other lift
our improving situation is our most
enduring gift
I guess what we're saying the tldr is
that ethereum is what we make of it so
let's coordinate it to make it something
good
thank you
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