Making sense of web3 & crypto. Introduction to key concepts and ideas. Rigorous, constructive analysis of key claims pro and con. A look at the deeper hopes and aspirations.
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@sdiehl i see we have a claims list now in the guide and we have https://web3.lifeitself.us/claims
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Happy either way - just want to know how you would like to converge.
What we want: we want to be able to create links in our "wiki" (i.e. all our markdown files) that "work" (that is resolve) both within obsidian and when deployed on website. (We might also want them to work in github but i think that is less important frankly and that removes possibility of having [[...]] which is the nicest option).
Issue:
[dao](../link/to/dao.md) in markdown does not work because webpage is /dao[[xyz]] because [[...]] does not get processed to a linkWe have tried redirect *.md but it turns out this is not possible in next.js => ❌
Best approach would really be a remark plugin that converts wiki links.
here is an effort for gatbsy which seems to do this, we can probably repurpose with a bit of effort: https://github.com/johackim/gatsby-remark-obsidian/blob/master/index.js
Currently we are configuring obsidian to replace wiki links with markdown file links
Once blog is complete we can schedule content on Twitter, FB and IG
Here's another good one -
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-its-too-early-to-get-excited-about-web3/
I wonder if it'd be valuable to have a section pointing out some of the risks on a technical/market microstructure level to traders and consumers. Perhaps this might be too far down the rabbit hole.
Examples that come to mind (Ethereum DeFi risks)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05511
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14021.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14021.pdf
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/12/29/new-research-sheds-light-on-the-front-running-bots-in-ethereums-dark-forest/
https://www.singlelunch.com/2022/01/09/an-anatomy-of-bitcoin-price-manipulation/ (highly speculative, some interesting points nonetheless)
Creating a template issue for processing and releasing deep dives.
Release
Extras
Add a "edit this page" link at the bottom of editable pages (i.e. "wiki" pages) so that a) our own team can easily edit pages b) others realize they can edit pages and some do so.
Context: All our content is here in github in markdown so people can directly correct it.
/concepts/web3 links to https://github.com/life-itself/web3/edit/main/concepts/web3.mdRufus has recorded a conversation with Cory Doctorow and shared with Comms Team via email. This should be added to our processing backlog for web3 conversations.
...
I've created a stub webinars page at https://github.com/life-itself/web3/tree/main/webinars but I'm told some coding is required to get it featured on the page.
I suggest we get one fairly polished including front matter structure e.g. https://web3.lifeitself.us/notes/are-crypto-tokens-securities and then do the rest (though can prep the markdown for the others)
FUTURE: (separate issue?)
...
Imagined frontmatter:
title:
description: # short description e.g. for use on front page or in meta
image: # image for use on front page and as page featured image
youtube: # youtube url - may not need this
date: # published date
authors: # array of strings e.g. [ 'Joe Doe', 'Jane Smith']
life-itself/web3Pull items out of Zotero and display them. A subpart / follow up to #44
This project is not developed anymore though it is maintained (and still in use). You won't be able to display entire library on your page using this library (without modifying it), it only works for "My Publications".
Web Library is actively developed and we're considering making a version that can be embedded.
For lower-level library, there is also zotero-api-client - which is what Web Library is using under the hood. It is actively developed and works in both Node and browser environment.
Be nice to have some kind of bespoke favicon and/or logo for the site.
Let’s store “structured” content for page in frontmatter e.g. image, description etc so that …
notes/neo-metallism.md./templates/template.mdEditor guide
Required for deep dive
true - this will be used to determine whether featured on Latest Releases on front pageOptional ... (to be decided if we use these - if we have them all the time we could have a standard layout for these pages)
Note standard fields:
CABO FRIO, Brazil (AP) — In April, Brazil’s federal police stormed the helipad of a boutique seaside hotel in Rio de Janeiro state, where they busted two men and a woman loading a chopper with 7 million reais ($1.3 million) in neatly packed bills.
The detainees told police they worked for G.A.S. Consulting & Technology, a cryptocurrency investment firm founded by a former waiter-turned-multimillionaire who is the central figure in what is alleged to be one of Brazil’s biggest-ever pyramid schemes.
Police say the company owned by 38-year-old Glaidson Acácio dos Santos had total transactions worth at least $7 billion ($38 billion reais) from 2015 through mid-2021 as part of a Bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme that promised investors 10% monthly returns.
In hundreds of pages of documents obtained by The Associated Press, federal and state police and prosecutors accuse dos Santos and his associates of running a sophisticated racket defrauding thousands of small-scale investors who believed they were getting rich off Bitcoin’s steep appreciation. He is now in a Rio jail awaiting trial on charges including racketeering, financial crimes and ordering the murder and attempted murder of two business competitors. He remains under investigation in the attempted murder of a third competitor.
Under each thematic category, it might make sense to sort articles by year, creating 'year' subtitles, as the articles are often contextual to a rapidly changing landscape.
YouTube component for displaying youtube videos.
See e.g. for https://web3.lifeitself.us/notes/are-crypto-tokens-securities where atm we just have the link.
What i want is:
<YouTube src='...' />
And this results in a nice responsive display via iframe or whatever - see e.g. https://www.themes.dev/blog/easily-embed-responsive-youtube-video-with-tailwind-css/
Stephen has had a conversation with Matthew Ranger that should be processed and added to the site.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19EnexwCcj-zasIzPltA_5qjBQsAnhmv5/view?usp=sharing
Looks like the latest changes to the MDX router broke subdirectories within the concepts root directory. See for example:
https://web3.lifeitself.us/concepts/ideologies/market-fundamentalism
A quick hack would be to just move all the ideologies up a folder and then this should fix it. I'm happy to do this if need be.
Here’s how crypto people define fundamental value vs how financial analysts do it.
Maybe only on certain pages (markdown pages or guide or ...)
Inspiration from eg. tailwindcss.com which has LHS table of contents for whole site and RHS for table of contents of current doc - https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation
Note tailwindcss docs is on github so we can learn from them on code side https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/tree/master/src
Migrated out of #44 we have point about needing to structure the library better and to provide inclusion criteria as per this comment of @stevesong
Sounds good to me. I am a little concerned about the sheer volume of resources and the need to sort the wheat from the chaff. For a start it would be good to agree on a set of metatags for describing the resources. More ambitious would be some consensus on the best resources for a specific topic or best introduction to issues.
Launchable and announceable website.
Sketch of home page
Mockup of home page (design): https://excalidraw.com/#room=8bc8a0afb0afc89015dc,W3jd48r8_B2llA2CZ8A33A
Bonus
Overview
Acceptance
/library landing page existsTasks
plan of content https://coggle.it/diagram/YidoEewvuAnxT9LA/t/web3-crypto-guide-toc
/guide/ page and could reuse quite a bit of about as introduction/contribute/The NFT page states:
Since multiple NFTs can be created that reference the same artwork there is n canonical guarantee of uniqueness that an NFT purchased is "authentic" and it remains unclear what "authentic" would mean regarding hyperlinks which are infinitely reproducible.```
This seems to be unaware of the paragraph immediately following, which acknowledges the source of such authenticity (by explaining the existence of NFTs which would be considered inauthentic):
Given the duplication problem above, many artists have critized NFT sales that involve plagarized versions of art whereby a pseudonymous party will "steal" or reference the work of another when deploying the smart contract allowing the third party to potentially profit off the work of another with no attribution or royalties paid to the original artist.
Announce the project and its newly released website home.
Announcement post
Sharing
Misc
Life Itself
Other places
Replace next/mdx and file based routing for markdown (wiki) content with a new content layer API based on https://github.com/contentlayerdev/contentlayer so that ...
Better markdown parsing
.mdx extensionWe get a "content layer" API that allows us to ...
/all/site/content directorypages/[...slug].jsKhalil notes
Obsidian extends basic markdown with special wiki-link syntax, transclusion and tags. As per https://obsidian.md/features
- **[[Internal links]]**
- **![[Filename]]** to embed notes and other files
remark-wiki-obsidian See https://github.com/life-itself/remark-wiki-link-plusSupports these types of links:
[[Internal link]][[Internal link|With custom text]][[Internal link#heading]][[Internal link#heading|With custom text]]🚩 NB we assume that internal links are the right path - we don't do any kind of resolution. This is important to flag (?) somewhere as default obsidian behaviour is shortest path e.g. if actual path is abc/mynote.md obsidian with just have [[mynote]]
May as well as do these even if for things other than images they won't really work.
🚩 need to think about how to do transclusion for things other than images. PDFs especially would be nice. (Other markdown docs is a bit complex as it requires an ability to pull that content ...)
![[Embed image or note path]] => (in markdown) ![[Embed note#heading]] ❌ leave for now ...Trying https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
What's weird is no twitter:title in the page etc.
Note also that this works fine https://socialsharepreview.com/?url=https://web3.lifeitself.us/
Our netlify build is often not rebuilding on content commits because they are outside the site directory (we're symlinking content files into the site directory).
Fix seems to be listed here and involves adding some netlify config:
https://answers.netlify.com/t/builds-cancelled-for-a-new-branch-due-to-no-content-change/17169/2
Put up a webinar offering.
At the moment we are not setting the page titles of any pages - it is always the same.
where{whatever the siteConfig.title is}is currentMaking Sense of Crypto and Web3`Guide | ...Ethereum | ...Are Crypto Tokens Securities? | ... ✅ done but note no ? at the endIs the choice of a "rocket" as the favicon for the site intentional? Some kind of ironic play on the "to the moon" crypto meme? Perhaps something more neutral but indicative of the multidimensionality of the issue. e.g. https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/going-all-directions-4142189.jpg
Not sure if articles in Russian language are relevant for your colletion, but this monumental piece just came out
Hopefully it will be translated by someone soon
Guide for people contributing content or managing contribution of "wiki" content (so not front page but pretty much all other pages)
/meta/guide or /meta/editing Guide is linked on this page of website: https://web3.lifeitself.us/meta/editingGuide is finished and has been reviewed by @khalilcodes. Link to guide has been added to /meta/editing.md.
What we have is essentially a bibliography. The proposal here is to adopt the Zotero reference manager as our backend storage for the bibliographic items.
The main plus point of managing as README in git(hub) is:
However, this is not necessarily optimal, especially as the bibliography grows. For example:
Zotero + a renderer (static site) would seem to address a lot of this. At a minimum using zotero and very simple rendering should be able to reproduce what we have already and allow for easier addition of new material.
Aim: have "good" items where good means:
When migrating items:
Want something like this in markdown:
Blah blah [@doe99; @smith2000; @smith2004].
To become this:
Blah blah (Doe 1999, Smith 2000, 2004).
Or, a fuller version like:
John Doe, "Frogs," *Journal of Amphibians* 44 (1999);
Susan Smith, "Flies," *Journal of Insects* (2000);
Susan Smith, "Bees," *Journal of Insects* (2004).
See pandoc for more: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-citations
🎁 Bonus: generating a reference section at the end of a document ie. list of citations. This could be something that is explicitly inserted by having a special item like [references] just like one has [toc] or maybe more MDX style <ReferencesList />
Blah blah [@doe99; @smith2000; @smith2004].Doe (1999) for short and TODO style for full. Don't need customizability and can just default to one stylegraph LR
a[Markdown file w/ citation]
b[Bibliography file with citation keys]
b2[Citation Style info]
c[Processor]
d[Output rendered file with proper citation]
a --> c
b --> c
b2 -.optional.-> c
c --> d
I love the collection of resources you have here; could I suggest an addition? https://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html Having built a decentralized consensus system using Proof-of-Work (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/945445.945451) the author has the technical knowledge to explain the design faults and limitations of permissionless blockchain systems, as well as highlighting the economic and environmental issues. This might be the single best critique of web3 and cryptocurrencies I've read.
Guide to web3 and crypto v1. https://web3.lifeitself.us/guide
https://coggle.it/diagram/YidoEewvuAnxT9LA/t/web3-crypto-guide-toc
README.md at root of repo is what people currently see arriving here. We should probably revise it given that a) we now have the main site b) it is now the contribute path for devs
Suggest:
awesome-crypto-critique or similar (easiest)
Initial version of an online home for the project (distinct from github itself!)
Bonus
All terms on this page a deadlinks
https://web3.lifeitself.us/concepts/sound-money
the contact us page seems to embed a 404 page
https://web3.lifeitself.us/contact
Context: we are using a remark-based pipeline for converting markdown => html (all inside of a nextjs react app).
We are also tending to use obsidian to edit the content in the wiki (though you can use any markdown editor you like!).
[@bernanke_essays_2004] work see eg. https://web3.lifeitself.us/concepts/gold-standard| Markdown **table** |
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