rest of the night: still sharper than during the afternoon
so what’s happening here? should i take short release before extended? should i just ditch extended until i can afford vyvanse (adderall outlawed in brazil)? because it was working better with short release throughout the day. anyway. will have to ask her.
The rapid advancements in blockchain technology have ushered in a new era of decentralized networks, with Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs) standing at the forefront of this transformation. DePINs represent a groundbreaking approach to managing and utilizing physical infrastructure by leveraging the power of decentralized networks and tokenization.
The challenge: unlocking the value of idle infrastructure
In traditional infrastructure models, vast amounts of physical assets—such as storage units, computing resources, and communication networks—often remain underutilized. This idle infrastructure represents a significant opportunity cost, as it could be leveraged to generate revenue, reduce costs, and enhance overall efficiency. However, centralized control, lack of transparency, and limited incentive structures have historically hindered the effective utilization of these resources. While rapid network expansion can be appealing, it is essential to align infrastructure growth with actual user demand.
Tokenization: The key to decentralized utilization
Tokenization is the process of representing physical assets as digital tokens on a blockchain. It offers a revolutionary solution to the problem of idle infrastructure. By tokenizing infrastructure assets, these resources can be fractionalized, traded, and monetized on decentralized platforms, improving resource allocation and creating new streams of revenue.
For example, a data center with excess storage capacity can tokenize this idle space, allowing users to purchase or lease storage directly through a decentralized marketplace. This not only optimizes the use of existing infrastructure but also democratizes access to it, enabling a broader range of participants to engage in the market.
Decentralization is at the heart of DePINs, but it can be undermined if control becomes too concentrated. Reliance on large mining pools, which centralize power in a few regions, underscores the need for DePINs to promote broad participation and prevent centralization to maintain the integrity of the network.
Koii Ocean: A new paradigm in funding DePINs
Koii has introduced the Koii Ocean platform, a groundbreaking approach to crowdfunding for projects. With 90,000 nodes in its ecosystem, it addresses a critical issue in the DePIN space: overreliance on venture capital funding, which often creates misalignment between project goals and community interests. Koii empowers builders through the principles of #crowdSource, #crowdBuild, and #crowdFund.
Key features of Koii Ocean:
Direct community investment: Koii node operators can invest directly in new projects. This ensures better alignment with long-term project goals (#crowdSource).
Comprehensive support: Koii Ocean handles all aspects of the fundraising process, including KYC and compliance. This makes it easier and more efficient for projects to launch and scale (#crowdBuild).
Democratized funding: The platform opens up investment opportunities to a broader community, moving away from the traditional VC-dominated model (#crowdFund).
The economic flywheel and innovation incentives
The success of DePINs, including those launched through Koii Ocean, is closely tied to the economic flywheel effect. Initial token incentives drive participation, which in turn increases the network’s value and attractiveness. This creates a feedback loop that further incentivizes participation and network growth.
Koii’s approach aligns individual incentives with collective outcomes, creating a self-organizing ecosystem where participants are rewarded for contributing to the network. This decentralized model not only enhances the efficiency of resource utilization but also encourages the broader adoption of DePINs by lowering barriers to entry and increasing access to infrastructure assets.
Challenges and considerations
While DePINs and platforms like Koii Ocean offer immense potential, several challenges must be addressed:
Aligning growth with demand: DePINs must develop strategies to better forecast and match infrastructure expansion with actual user demand to avoid unsustainable growth.
Preventing centralization: true decentralization is crucial, and platforms like Koii Ocean help by broadening the investor base beyond traditional VCs.
Transparency and participant-friendly models: clear communication about KYC and participation costs helps keep everyone informed, preventing any misunderstandings and ensuring the network stays stable.
Balancing speculation and utility: DePIN projects must focus on building tangible utility to prevent volatility and ensure sustainable growth.
Conclusion
The intersection of tokenization, Crypto DePIN projects with innovative platforms like Koii Ocean represents a significant shift in how we can manage and utilize infrastructure. By unlocking the value of idle resources, enabling decentralized management, and providing new funding models, these technologies are paving the way for a new era of decentralized infrastructure.
By aligning individual incentives with collective outcomes, these new models offer powerful mechanisms for driving the growth and sustainability of decentralized networks, contributing to a more equitable and efficient global infrastructure landscape.
DeFi, short for Decentralized Finance, is a movement that aims to offer financial services and products that are open to everyone, without the need for intermediaries.
Decentralized Platforms Empowering Content Creators on the Blockchain
Content creation in today’s world has become a vital part of our lives, with numerous people worldwide displaying their creativity, talent, and knowledge through different channels. However, because of the limitations of traditional content distribution, in terms of intellectual property rights and unfair revenue distribution, creators seek better means to distribute their content. Luckily,…
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a movement in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space that aims to create financial services and products that are completely decentralized. Traditional finance systems rely on intermediaries like banks, financial institutions, and financial advisors to facilitate transactions and provide services such as lending, borrowing, investing, and trading. This model is centralized, meaning that it relies on a single entity or organization to regulate and oversee the system.
In contrast, DeFi is built on blockchain technology, which allows for a fully decentralized and transparent platform. This means that transactions and services are automated and executed through smart contracts, which are self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller being directly written into lines of code. This way, anyone can access and participate in financial services without needing intermediaries, and without having to worry about fraud, security breaches or other issues that can arise with centralized systems.
DeFi offers a range of benefits over traditional finance, including lower fees, greater access, and more transparency. However, it is important to note that as a new and emerging technology, DeFi is still in the early stages of development and is not without its own challenges and limitations. For example, the underlying blockchain platform used by DeFi is still evolving, and there is a risk of security breaches and code vulnerabilities.
Overall, decentralized finance is proving to be a powerful and revolutionary force in the world of finance, and is likely to continue to grow and evolve in the coming years. While there are risks and challenges to be aware of, the prospect of a fully decentralized financial system is appealing to many, and seems poised to disrupt and revolutionize the world of finance.
Here are some top Blockchain in supply chain use cases:
Supply Chain Finance: Blockchain streamlines supply chain financing by providing secure, transparent, and automated processes for verifying transactions, reducing paperwork, and accelerating payment settlements.
Asset Tracking: Blockchain-based solutions enable real-time tracking of assets, such as containers, vehicles, and equipment, improving logistics, reducing loss, and optimizing supply chain operations.
Supplier and Vendor Management: Blockchain enhances trust and simplifies supplier and vendor management by creating a decentralized, auditable record of transactions, certifications, and compliance data.
Cold Chain Management: Blockchain provides end-to-end visibility and temperature monitoring, ensuring compliance with temperature-sensitive supply chains like pharmaceuticals and perishable goods.
Collaborative Supply Chains: Blockchain facilitates secure data sharing and collaboration among supply chain participants, enhancing coordination, efficiency, and trust in multi-party networks.
The Storm is coming sooner than expected. All financial systems controlled by the corrupt government will collapse.
This crash will be felt on a global level, and many currencies, especially the USD, will be worthless.
Fiat accounts, savings and retirement accounts, mortgage, e.t.c will crash down and wipe off from the system once this event happens, Quantum Financial System is the savior.!!!
Convert every money in your possession to digital gold & silver backed coins and move them into the QFS ledger for safety . There will be a Global Reset. All banks and fiat exchanges will be closed, and there will be a lot of uncertainty & confusion. Cash will be worthless and outdated, and all bank accounts will be closed and crash to zero .
All cabal public banks will be confiscated, and foreclosures will be frozen, as will all public and private dept(mortgage,loans, credit, and debit cards).
Avraham Eisenberg, who says he's part of a group that drained $114 million from #decentralised crypto exchange Mango Markets last week, returned $67 million to the Solana-based #DeFi hub on Saturday as he defended his actions — which some have called an exploit — as both legal and highly lucrative. Today's tweets from Eisenberg – who was accused this week of being the Mango exploiter after allegedly executing similar attacks in the past – mark the first time he has publicly acknowledged his role in the exploit. “I believe all of our actions were legal” he tweeted. Mango Markets said in a tweet that its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) community would vote in the coming days to decide how to divvy up the returned funds. Mango’s thread did not lay out a timeline for refunds but said there would be “multiple DAO votes next week.” . . Follow @stoccoin for daily posts about cryptocurrencies and stocks. NOTE: This post is not financial advice for you to buy the crypto(s) or stock(s) mentioned. Do your own research and invest at your own will if you want. This also applies to stock(s) or crypto(s), which you see in our stories. Thanks for reading folks! IGNORE THE HASHTAGS: #stoccoin #mangoMarkets #dao #hacker #crypto #stocks #stockmarket #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #btc #metaverse #nft #sensex #nifty50 #bse #nse #banknifty #usd #investments #finance https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj0kw2IPfar/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Maybe Station 19 was like an experimental cubist painting.
There were too many stories to be told and too many people trying to tell them, from too many perspectives, with too many styles…
Each viewer saw a different picture.
It was the show that tried to capture the zeitgeist and represent the under-represented. Also the show that often struggled. With the tones and textures. With representing w/o tokenizing. B/w laughing with and laughing at. B/w realism and romanticizing. B/w deliberate and arbitrary. B/w educating and entertaining. B/w what they consider profane and sacrosanct.
At times, it touched our hearts deeply. At times, it frustrated us to no end.
Not every story was given the respect, sensitivity and intricacy it was due.
One moment could lead to a profound understanding of an aspect of a lived life some of us had never known; while the next could be a moment that was beyond confounding - about an aspect of ourselves that made us feel slighted, diminished and even erased.
It had often been an exercise in empathy to find our common humanity at the intersectionality of stories. Yet, the scale of empathy often skewed too far in favor of some characters with the differing standards, narrative frames and plot armors. Ironically yet reasonably turning people off these very characters they wanted people to root for. A persistent dissonance and disconnect.
But it was also the show that didn’t shy away from the ugly, the raw, the uncomfortable and messy parts of our shared human experience. The tribulations of oppression. The perils of ambition. The tests of morality. The trials of friendship and love. That we would make mistakes, but we could also make amends. That we're not defined by our worst. That our best lives could still be in front of us despite the current struggles. That sometimes life sucks but having your people with you makes it more bearable.
I would think it an interesting journey for the diversity of people behind, on, and in front of the screen. The evolving stories, evolving characters, evolving storytellers, an evolving fandom - all amidst an evolving media landscape.
It was probably not an easy show to make. The show had a bewilderingly lack of support from abc or shondaland. Diversity seemed to be both good for promotion (when there was any) and the reason for the prejudice against it.
Just as it had not been an easy show to watch - so biased, inconsistent and self-contradictory. Like when they kept telling us about the family spirit and deep friendships yet somehow spent more time showing otherwise. Or when the writing of systemic sexism was somehow inherently sexist.
Personally, I don’t think characters belong to the writers alone. Besides the usual constraints, the characters were often adjusted back and forth to fit the plots. We’ve also learnt how network execs' dislikes, writers’ personal experiences were factored into the stories. I fully respect the writers’ artistic rights. But actors who embodied the characters for years have a unique understanding too. Viewers also have their personal takes about what were true to characters. It's ok to agree to disagree.
There had been sparks of brilliance, but often extinguished too soon. It has been confounding how the greys-verse did not capitalise on its vast potential, esp. S19. Even while both shows share a show-runner. Grey's anatomy could have lent its scale while Station 19 could have injected renewed energy back into its mothership. Both shows could have been better for it.
Although the characters have the foundation of distinct and interesting backstories, their development often did not fully utilise the narrative potential and the talents of the cast. I’m sure the crew was also competent and hardworking. But somehow some elements b/w n within the shows seemed to just cancel each other out instead of amplifying their impact. IMO 704 and 709 were a few exceptions.
But I'll always be glad S19 existed and we got a S7. I believe they had tried their best to wrap up and give closure to everyone invested in the show. I truly appreciated the hard work given the circumstances even when I personally didn't agree with some takes.
In the end, I really do want to remember it as the show with heart, the show that made us laugh and cry and the show that tried. The show that's unique - in both its merits and flaws. I’ll definitely miss the characters. One last time - 19!