Vitalik's Bulge

Basel ~
September 01, 2022

Gm frens.

Welcome to another microdose of Unironically, Alpha where we'll make you stare at Vitalik's bulge one more time – the same bulge responsible for pumping Ethereum 6% or so this week.

Me: I don’t want to look at Vitalik’s bulge anymore
Every NFT influencer:
— AyeshaNFT.eth (@AShawThing_)
9:52 PM • Aug 30, 2022

Here's what we got cookin' this week, per usual:

4 Threads of the Week (1 Non-Crypto Thread)
New News
Memes of the week

AI Art Thread

1) Very eye-opening thread on all the different use-cases and endless possibilities using various burgeoning AI art platforms (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, etc.)

AI Art 101 🧵
27 tweets that will 🤯 your brain.
— Daniel Eckler 👨‍🚀 (@daniel_eckler)
1:10 PM • Aug 30, 2022

One need only see the sheer sorcery and wizardry going down in this AI fashion video. Truly mind-blowing, foreshadowing the inevitable cultural revolution that AI will bring about – for better or for worse, or both...

AI fashion show using dall-e to generate hundreds of outfits of the day after tomorrow. An interesting way to brainstorm costume and fashion design ideas.
Collab with @shyamagolden
@OpenAI#dalle2 #dalle#aiart
— Paul Trillo (@paultrillo)
3:58 PM • Aug 23, 2022

Avax Labs Drama

2) Summary: Emin's in deep poopoo this week.

For those wondering what this is all about -
TLDR: Allegedly, Ava Labs bought out a law firm with 1% of the AVAX supply so that the law firm stages litigations and class action law suits against competitors such as Solana and dfinity, as well as Emin's personal enemies
— Swagtimus.eth🦇🔊L2'22 (@Swagtimus)
9:49 PM • Aug 28, 2022

Simplified version:

k ive performed the necessary due diligence on avax 👍
— gainzy (@gainzy222)
10:48 PM • Aug 28, 2022

Mt. Gox Not Releasing Bitcoin Soon

3) Earlier in the week, there was speculation as to the incoming dumpage of 140K Bitcoin back to creditors from the Mt. Gox snafu back in the day. Eric Wall tries to clean up the ongoing confusion in this thread.

PSA: MtGox is *NOT* distributing 140k coins on September 15.
An announcement came out today, Aug 31, which basically just talks the start date of when you can no longer sell your claim.
I understand the language is complicated, but please read before spreading misinfo.
— Eric Wall X 🏴 (@ercwl)
10:22 PM • Aug 31, 2022

ChainlinkGod's Summary on Sergey's Twitter Talk

4) It's not every day that Sergey joins the schizo Marines on Twitter Spaces and ChainlinkGod writes a nice, succinct summary about it. Not. Every. Day.

Top takeaways from @SergeyNazarov Twitter Spaces call today with my perspectives
🧵
— ChainLinkGod.eth 🌪 (@ChainLinkGod)
9:48 PM • Aug 25, 2022

What happened to Serifs?

Sit back, relax, and read about how we've casually denigrated and deprecated the use of Serifs through recent modern history.

Where have all the serifs gone?
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor)
9:31 PM • Aug 27, 2022

New News

Biden’s ‘Cash Free’ Central Bank Digital Currency Supposedly Coming This December. Article.

Michael Saylor sued by D.C. Attorney General for tax fraud. Said he's been living in Florida since 2005 and was really living in D.C. LOL. His firm, MicroStrategy, is also being sued for “conspiring to help evade taxes”.

NEW: Today, we’re suing Michael Saylor - a billionaire tech executive who has lived in the District for more than a decade but has never paid any DC income taxes - for tax fraud.
— AG Karl A. Racine (@AGKarlRacine)
5:38 PM • Aug 31, 2022

Vitalik is coming out with his own book this month, Proof of Stake. Who's copping it?

"Proof of Stake", the (physical and digital) book compiling various writings I've made over the last ~10 years, will be out in a month!
You can get a signed digital copy and NFT here:
My share of the proceeds all goes to @gitcoin grants public goods!
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin)
2:38 AM • Aug 31, 2022

Recent crypto narratives and protocols to look out for:

• New layer 1s (Aptos, Sui, Sei Network, Canto)
• Layer 2 narratives (Optimism, Metis, Arbitrum, zkSync, Starknet)
• Dogchains (Dogechain, Shibarium)
• Free mint NFTs to 5fig value
• 5fig airdrops from interacting with testnets
Crypto is starting to look fun again 🫡🫡🫡
— Ash (💙,🧡) (@ahboyash)
3:43 PM • Aug 29, 2022

New Sergey interview on the evolution of Chainlink. DS;NS.

thanks @SergeyNazarov for coming on GREENPILLED to talk about the evolution of @chainlink
Sergey is a true visionary and i really enjoyed this one! Watch here 👇
— Ξwoki (🤖,💚) (@owocki)
3:12 PM • Sep 1, 2022

Merge confirmed September 10-20th. OK;LG.

Reminder: even though the merge is coming around Sep 10-20, the beacon chain hard fork is on Sep 6. Make sure to update your clients before then!
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin)
3:43 AM • Aug 30, 2022

Memes of the week

“All funds will go towards development”
Founders after mint:
— Madrag (@madragtrades)
11:34 PM • Aug 30, 2022

Can't believe LinkedIn is free 😂
— Jeremy Moser (@jmoserr)
5:30 PM • Aug 30, 2022

Until next time frens,

~ Basel