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Bitcoin 2024
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XR Twitter Ice Cream Social on High-Fidelity
XR Twitter Ice Cream Social on High-Fidelity

SatoshiO Cereal at Core Scientific in Denton Texas at the Crypto for Cruz rally on freedom and energy

Yesterday SatoshiO Cereal made an appearance at the Core Scientific ($CORZ) Bitcoin mining datacenter in Denton, Texas. We were delighted to attend our first Texas Blockchain Council. Lee Bratcher (TBC), Adam Sullivan (Core Scientific) and Senator Ted Cruz speak.

Bitcoin brings everyone together. Adam spoke about Bitcoin mining and encompassing all multiple forms of compute. I feel that pragmatism is beneficial for technological as well as environmental progress.

Senator Ted Cruz said he likes Bitcoin and owns a few ASICs. Now he owns a box of SatoshiO Cereal. You can get a box here on SatoshiOCereal.com. The Senator spoke about how Bitcoin mining and HPDC (data-centers) increase grid resilience. Watch his speech below to how Bitcoin mining can prevent the grid from blacking out from high energy demand during the next heatwave or snow storm.

I believe Bitcoin mining goes a step further and increases microgrid and energy resilience off grid. Other bitcoin mining CEOs are waiting for their box of SatoshiO Cereal. Thank you for your patience. We are hashing away at the wheat mill today.

Core Scientific has a beautiful facility with a lot of Megawattage coming online. We’re going to need more substations.

For me, SatoshiO Cereal has proven to open the box, I mean door to data-center CEOs, venture capitalists, private equity, and also politicians. SatoshiO Cereal is like Bitcoin because it brings everyone together. SatoshiO Cereal brings everyone together, Metamask employees, NFT enthusiasts, Bitcoin maximalists, protocol agnostic processing minds, energy providers, red, white, blue, and orange. Regardless of partisanship we all eat food, use money in some form or another, and we all rely on energy. Cereal and Bitcoin are pragmatic. I hope to you purchase SatoshiO Cereal, it has proven easier than telling people to buy Bitcoin, or engaging in blockchain protocol partisanship. Cereal and a friendly cartoon character are right of the chasm in the diffusion of innovation (h/t Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm, and uncle Larry Chiang CEO of Duck9). For you, SatoshiO Cereal can open the door to the next level.

One thing I realized my last night in Nashville speaking with the CISO of…a distributed compute processing venture led by the CEO of Bitcoin.com…when someone refers to “crypto” as cryptograph, I just shut up and listen. We are glad Senator Cruz endorses cryptography as well. Cryptographic security is important on all levels. I feel energy and cyber security are non-partizan and bi-partizan issues. They are national security issues that effect everyone. But I’m just a cereal entrepreneur.

Thank you Jerry Rogers of Voss Alan for inviting me to this epic event. Great seeing some familiar faces from Nashville. We're building not only brand equity, but real human connection over cardboard and carbohydrates, or just good energy? ⚡

Disclaimer: I tucked my shirt in with Photoshop Beta generative AI to…appear more presentable in this photo. Original included below for authenticity.

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Bitcoin Conference 2024 Unofficial Speakers' Dinner with No Dinner

No speakers.
No dinner.
So I spoke and served breakfast and unveiled SatoshiOs to everyone.
I am a serial entrepreneur and a cereal entrepreneur.

Thank you for attending the launch of SatoshiO Cereal.
Buy it here on www.SatoshiOCereal.com

Available for hand delivery in Austin, Texas. Right now.

You save 5% when paying in Bitcoin and 10% when paying in Lightning.


Try the AR lens on Instagram @SamBrewton
Pictured: @island on X. @starbugurlar on X & IG, Mason Carter @onchaincowboy on X - thank you for your purchase.

A special thanks to:
+ Everyone who attended to see and taste the alpha product.
+ Parker Lewis for signing his book Gradually, Then Suddenly.
+ East Coast ASIC - our bitcoin mining colocation sponsor. Contact Vince
+ TASEDON node care for hosting the breakfast for dinner at the TASEDON House in Nashville.
+ Indra’s Awarehouse for the art installations, party bus, and great energy.
+ Larry Chiang for #LCRRM & #EUTWMPPM
+ Nifty Nei at PlebPrint.shop in PlebLab.com - they can print your merch and swag.


Find Vince @eastcoastasic on Telegram, Instagram, X, and EastCoastASIC.com
Find Polycarp on X, and view TASEDON’s products on CallTheOperator.org.
Visit or host an event at Indra’s Awarehouse in Austin.

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Bitcoin 2024

Go to the conference before the bull.
Nice to see mining have more of a presence.

Sharing photos of mining ventures - because they are the most transparent ventures.

Weirdly or understandably I did not take many photos.
Bitcoin - etiquette “please, no photos.”
Crypto - etiquette “please, take a photo of me.”
TradFi - etiquette “hey take a photo of ‘em and their notes”

Fortunate to have access to enterprise lounge to learn about mining and the main stage.

Thank you Bitcoin Media and Geo Iain.
Thank you to the 3 CEOs who joined me on this party bus in southern heat to ride to a place they’ve never been before in order to attend the unveiling of my new venture. More soon.

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Selling white space for information

At Austin Bitcoin Club, I sold 4 blank notebooks.

Yes, blank, empty notebooks. Each for $50.

I promised the purchaser that I’d repay them $25 per page for the first two pages they sent me pictures of.

Only one person redeemed in person. The other three I’ve had to follow up with.

Update: all three redeemed.


The value of this is building trust.

Everyone who redeemed, I feel like I can work with, and I feel that they trust me. It’s “verified” as we say.

If someone loses the notebook, or doesn’t send images after I text them weeks in a row, then prove to be more effort on all ends.
I returned every dollar per the deal where the counter party delivers (image attached). And I do it in the tranches as shown below. “Don’t return $50 for two photos. Return $25 at a time. Because if you don’t, it quickly devolves into $0 for 0.” - Uncle Larry (not an exact quote).
The tranches tied to specific transactions exist for a reason, because they are tied to specific milestones of achievement. This is all just practice.

Also, I realize fun colored notebooks are better. Monster notebooks are sold out on Amazon.

The net funds are $0, but positive verification and establishment of trust. The reward is in the form of quotes, information, sketches, and poetry we both receive.

Why empty notebooks?
See the origin story of the origin story of Calm.

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You were right, I was wrong.

You were right, I was wrong.
Bitcoin is valuable. While it is volatile, it brings is freedom and energy.

I'm sorry I was dismissive a decade and half ago.

I'm sorry. Not because I missed out on growth, but I apologize because I heard you, but I refused to be open minded.

1. You told me in Brooklyn, that it is deflationary, you drew the halving spiral in the air with your finger. You said I could mine it on my computer...but I thought it wasn't worth the electricity cost.

2. You were with with me on Wall Street at the first Bitcoin Exchange during the flash crash. You told me "You can buy it." I ignored you.

3. You mentioned it over dinner, credit card points, Bitcoin. I said "I don't want to hear it."

You were right. I was wrong. You're probably not reading this, probably not on LinkedIn. Statistically you're probably on an island. And you earned it.

This is more than about the money.

While this is about money. It's about securing property rights, immutable information, and access to energy.

You know where I grew up.

And that I still have $100 bills that people would carry in their underwear...thinking that was the only safe place to store it.

I remember when I saw a lady with black eye because the night before she was beaten by multiple people and robbed for $100 - everything she had on her.

I remember when an older kid tried to sell a younger kid a "new $10" in exchange for a $20 in the lunch line. The younger kid was smarter than that.

And you were smarter than me. Thank you for trying to get me to believe.

While "money" might be what we culturally measure ourselves by or what we think we "have." What's important is the freedom and energy. Because I believe that's all we are. We can't carry money with us beyond the grave, but freedom and energy on the other hand...

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XR Twitter Ice Cream Social on High-Fidelity

Many people have found remote interactions awkward or difficult in remote life.

We’ve all found different ways to cope. I turn closed-captions on during Hangout meetings, I can read and screenshot what I couldn’t capture otherwise.

Spatial audio also offers new options.

I finally met people who I follow on Twitter, “in-person” or in a spatial format during an ice-cream social on High-Fidelity, courtesy @EstellaTse

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WEIRDNESS of Hi-Fi

  • The navigation controls are weird

    • the rotate (WASD) rotates the world not you

      • even though it’s 2D and 3DOF (rotation) it’s awkward for your “camera” to stay stationary and have the world move, maps (like Google and Apple maps) don’t function like this

      • this is how Metaio operated (early AR system purchased by Apple)

        • rotating the world, and not the camera

        • it’s a hard concept to wrap your head around.

        • Fortunately, with SLAM we won’t have to think about this much, but it might make sense in some scenarios. Like medical imaging where it makes sense to rotate an object

      • Rotating the map (on mobile) seems to be the secondary method of rotation (primary being by rotating your body or phone)

    • the zoom seems unnatural (or inverted)

    • I mistook a beachball floating in the pool as a person - the avatars are similarly round

    • I was more likely to engage with people if they had an avatar photo and not just initials in their bubble. Some experiences like Glitch give people an avatar by default, which could make people appear more approachable

    • Your “ears” or spatial audio is fed through a cone that you can see, but the hearing is so sensitive, you get tired of walking too far away or might not want to seem awkward from walking way to far away from the group.

      • I wish there were a sensitivity control to the spatial audio

PROS of Hi-Fi

  • You’re able to notify someone if they have an audio issue.

    • on Hangouts I usually end up muting the person for everyone, to their and my embarrassment.

  • It’s spatial

    • Noclip mode is on - so you can walk through walls (or move through them like a ghost), as there aren’t physics

      • at first, I navigated to walk through a doorway, then learned you can WASD or click-drag through everything

  • It was still social

    • At the beginning, Estella “walked” around and asked everyone if they were ok, as she “wanted to be a good host.” Similar to how you might start a party IRL

  • I was able to meet multiple new groups of people, I reconnected with other mentors from the MIT Hack Reality, I caught up with the dev relations from Microsoft & Magic Leap.

    • These are individual groups of human interactions in a group setting that couldn’t happen in either the “one to many” or “cross-fire radio coms” of Zoom and Hangouts that are our current limitation of real-time remote meetings.

      • excluding breakouts because those are still controlled by the host and not natural and organic

It was a little draining maybe because that was my first time in Hi-Fi, but you wouldn’t be able to have that many conversations with that many people and allow conversations to emerge in a normal group video call.

Shout out to @estellatse and @HighFidelityXR

Give High-Fidelity a try here https://www.highfidelity.com/ and let’s figure something out better than walkie-talkies with TVs.

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Real World Use of AR & VR in Healthcare

Used in healthcare more than in industrial

It’s not the doctors it

its' the nurses

A couple doctors, several thousand nurses

How nurses are onboard

Sign for slurred speech - 

Not just demos - but applied in training

eg. CPR

Communicate the level of physical pressure needed

People usually don’t know how hard [deep?] they have to press

[the pressure can break ribs]

[collision? Hand tracking?]

Eg 2. Septic Shock

Integrating with a flow meeter 

Not just a simulated syringe - but a real syringe - HoloLens shows animation of how it affects the circulator system

@detansinn

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Developing Lumin Runtime Apps - ARIA 2020

Developing Lumin Runtime Apps for Magic Leap

  • The ability to have multiple applications open

  • Eg: A clock and a chessboard

  • Game Dev engines are designed to run one thing at one time

[Scene Based IA]

Is like a Scene Graph

The method that engineers are using

Is similar to IA that designers should use

But instead of Node - we should define what the content is

Input Events

Environment Events

Multi-user

Send the scene graph to the server

(Does that make sense?)

In theory - run everything in the cloud

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Bigger, Faster, and Out of Hand - Steve Feiner

Talk 1 

Increasing FOV in displays

BIGGER

Sometimes a bigger field of view is more important than a wider field of view

Projection on the environment is considered a Gold standard - perfect registration 

Width is the metric people use - people want wider FOV

But there are many applications when height is the issue

Eg: - walking downstairs with low vision - not a context when using a cane makes sense

FASTER

Decrease latency

The time btwn stimulus (cause) and response (effect)

  • Eg: motion to photons 

    —  Motion can be head, hands world

Most  electronics in our environment are more than 100 milliseconds delay

Some are 10 milliseconds 

Perceptible Latency (university of Toronto) 1ms-latency 2D touch screen  2013

Around 6 milliseconds is noticeable (in a random group of people - not a group selected with high reflexes - eg athletes, race car drivers, pro gamers) 

OUT OF HANDS

Context without hands

Eg Hands-free AR for vascular intervention

  • Both hands are busy with a catheter - 

  • Using Headpose & voice

[See video]

  • Scaling and rotating based on head pose

  • Increase rotation and rate of rotation by moving head away from virtual object

  • Change location by head pose

This is also important for accessibility 

Importance in many domains of not using hands at all,

Columbia Engineering

The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Presented at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Mass

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AR in Action 2020

Non-profit #AR org bringing people from around the world. They charge nothing for the booths here One reason it’s called the anti-CES.

Explicitly thinking about implications for contextual computing - next computing platform.

When Bill Gates wrote The Road Ahead He didn’t even put the word intent in there He had to add it later .

AR is harder than VR We haven’t totally figured it out in terms of enterprise and consumer


Should be a place where AR innovators can meet and connect.

All of these talks are online and free

This is the 4th annual ARIA.

There was a 5th that happened in 2017 - at Javits Center in New York City.
If you are in New York and interested in AR. If ARIA is back - skip work and attend ARIA.

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