Today we discussed severe flooding in London, the rehabilitation of a river in Boston, and a climate warning from before the civil war from a female science legend. Steve Ross-Talbot also shared his blockchain energy consumption research relating to RChain, and we had a discussion about the value of NFT’s vs the art itself. Timestamps below:
0:00:00 – Intro
0:01:09 – Nora article: “Floods in London are the latest sign big cities aren’t ready for climate change” https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/26/europe…
0:09:50 – Nora article: “A Watershed Moment: How Boston’s Charles River Went From Polluted to Pristine” https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25…
0:14:15 – Darryl article: “A Woman Named Eunice Foote Documented Physics of Climate Change in 1800s” https://www.earthisland.org/journal/i…
0:16:45 – Steve Ross Talbot – RChain’s energy consumption vs other layer 1 blockchains.
0:25:51 – Darryl question: Is it possible and practical to apply attestation and attribution to validators to determine what energy source they are using?
0:32:34 – Steve Ross Talbot – demonstration of the stupidity of Proof of Work.
0:36:29 – Jim Whitescarver – inviting guests
0:38:40 – Darryl – is the NFT more valuable than the art itself?
“A Painting or an NFT of It: Which Will Be More Valuable?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/yo…
“Steve Jobs application going up for auction as both physical item and NFT”
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/…
“Damien Hirst’s $20 Million Twist on NFTs 6X Oversubscribed”
https://decrypt.co/76632/damien-hirst…
“Haute Couture goes NFT: Digitalization at the Paris Fashion Week”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/haute-…
0:42:32 – Virtual land ownership
“The Curious World of NFT Real Estate and Design”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/fa…
Earth 2.0 –
“Why Upland’s Virtual Land NFTs Are The Future Of Crypto”