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For anyone else who missed it the first time around, here's Neal Stephenson originally being keen on crypto-currency: https://www.lamina1.com/ https://www.lami

• badcppdev 4y ago
  I might be just stanning but crypto-currency is quite different to block-chains used for digital asset tracking. It's all about the fungibility of individual crypto objects.
  • EFreethought 4y ago
    "Blockchain", "web3", "NFT": These are just stalking horses to get people roped into cryptocurrency. A lot of people looked at bitcoin from the beginning, and asked what the point was, or if it would ever go anywhere. And bitcoin bros responded by telling everyone that the real game-changer wasn't bitcoin, but The Blockchain.
• jimmySixDOF 4y ago
  Which also includes Tony Parisi, a pioneer of the XR space going back to VRML. I am not sure if the article is as concrete as the headline suggests, but they did push back a conference date that was supposed to have been earlier this month and are still invitation sandboxed last I heard. There is a lot of the interop work going on for VRM avatar portability issues [1] loosely tied up with progress on glTF/USD extensions at standard setting orgs like the Metaverse Standards Forum [2] so something will happen in this area even if it's not Lamina1 who are at least well positioned. [1] https://github.com/M3-org/avatar-interop https://github.com/M3-org/avatar-interop [2] https://metaverse-standards.org/ https://metaverse-standards.org/