Nathan Workman

Ethereum Lead; Senior Legal and Protocol Analyst at Figment Inc.

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@motherpredicate @CalicoKittencat Key lesson: the king is usually the most gullible in the kingdom.

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@PhilDL616 Remember when Joe Johnson was the highest paid player in the league? #keepcashinthemchecks

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@ajcronk Legal hack: if you never say what a product is or what it does, it makes it hard for a plaintiff to win implied warranty of merchantability or fitness claims.

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@Ether_Gavin Usually, freedom of association must trump the freedom to exercise rights involving collective activities, or a slippery slope emerges. Should my right to transact be able to compel others to involuntarily enter into a transaction? Not often, but there are valid reasons at times.

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@Ether_Gavin Fully agree on the neutrality issue, but would caution against making a “right to transact” sacrosanct. No constitutional rights are absolute, even fundamental ones, and by definition, transacting is a collective activity, not an individual one. Nuance is critical on this issue.

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@motherpredicate Eventually, the network's vision for the community has to yield to the community's vision for the network if decentralization is key to its long-term success. However, I don't think decentralization is seen a key success factor for most projects, give it lip service it receives.

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@Ether_Gavin @GwartyGwart Henry Ford famously paid his factory workers an elevated wage so they could afford to buy his cars. He also financed housing projects that promoted suburban development and made the car a necessity for the general public. Public goods are often a critical part of long-term plays.

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@Ether_Gavin @GwartyGwart It takes money to make money. If you’re a fur trader in the 1700s, surveying and building safe roads in unsettled areas makes it easier to run your logistics, and it increases the number of settlers, which will become customers. It’s a virtuous circle that increases cash flow.

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@thatgerald “Objection, your honor; opposing counsel is attempting to introduce an incriminating statement as evidence that they acknowledge ended in ‘bro,’ which is a violation of the bro code while sober and not cool. Move to strike and revoke counsel’s wingman status for one week.”

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@NWBSpeedway @NASCAR The restomod look was inspired, and the amount of love and care @MarcusSMI and the SMI team put into NWBS was palpable. My family will be back, especially for concerts/festivals. Only critique: try moving vendors away from grandstand entrances; long queues blocked ingress/egress.

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@menzel_clayton @EthCC Gives a whole new meaning to rugpull. 😳

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@J_Dot_J I’m genuinely concerned that sovereign citizens are going to weaponize ChatGPT to draft 1,000+ page filings.

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@menzel_clayton @__tux If the token is “LOOSIE” I’m all in.

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@Ether_Gavin @__tux Patent protection is instructive; exclusivity should only be granted to the degree that it incentivizes innovation and enables first-movers to have an opportunity to recover their R&D costs. If it’s too extensive, it stifles innovation and incentivizes bad actors to hoard rights.

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@motherpredicate @CelestiaOrg

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@ColbyAppleG8 @PhilDL616 This was one of those magical line-blurring events that got it mega-over.

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@PhilDL616 The better argument is that “The Man” wouldn’t exist without Nia Jax.

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@Ether_Gavin Say it loud for the people in the back.