In this video I explain how Ethereum can serve as the foundation for a parallel society/civilization, and how instead of trying to fix our broken systems and institutions we should build a new parallel system and migrate over to that. I also talk about how the myth of Prometheus can serve as a guide as we navigate the 21st century.

The Lightning Network cannot scale Bitcoin to mass adoption. Payment channel technology, like Lightning, requires management via the L1. So that means users must make L1 transactions in order to manage their L2 channels. Therefore the L2 is bottlenecked by the L1. Therefore Lightning cannot actually handle global/mass adoption.

An intro to blockchain scaling. I explain sidechains, parallel execution, block size / gas limit, sharding, and the importance of having users run full nodes — and the risks that Solana (and other fast monolithic chains) take in their scaling approach.

An introduction to a visual model that I've developed to understand Ethereum, and the whole crypto space, at an intuitive level.

In this video I talk about Aion, the precession of the equinoxes, and how the turning of our celestial clock may give us hints about how to move forward into the new age of Aquarius. Specifically I talk about our information landscape, or "Matrix", and how our current Matrix is starting to break. I also present some rough ideas for how we can both escape from, and also build a new Matrix on top of our World Computer ie. Ethereum.

In this video I explain how Merkle trees work, how bitmaps work, and how to combine these data structures to implement an efficient airdrop distribution for an ERC20 token. I first explain things at a high-level using the digram, then I show how we can implement it all in solidity.

I talk about how we each have a model of reality, that is a bit like a personal "Matrix", and how much of that model is made of language. Manipulations are made to our language partially to manipulate our models of reality, and thus control us. I then talk about how we might some day upgrade our language to something more concrete, which is an idea McKenna spoke of (which he allegedly got from the machine elves).

In this video I explain smart contracts. I start by explaining how they fit into, and interact with, the world state. I also explain how account and contract addresses are derived. Then I talk about bytecode and function selectors. I also touch on contract constructors and the ABI. Then I talk about function visibility and contract storage. Finally I explain Turing-completeness and why this feature is so important for smart contracs, and why Turing-completeness is essential to the World Computer vision.

In this video I cover a ton of GPT4's capabilities, as well as the OpenAI app store, Wolfram Alpha integration and so on. We also look at advancements being made in autonomy, multi-agent AI simulations, and efficiency. Then we think about how these autonomous AI agents might integrate with the world economy, and I explain why I think they will gravitate toward systems like Ethereum.

A complete explanation of EIP-1559 (the fee burn). Video recommended!