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This is the alt account of Sister Hazel. Writings at https://powerlaw.systems. Building https://testnet.uvio.network.
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There is a reason why it's called war time CEO.

Founders can often lean into military principles. For instance "fast is slow" means to do that one thing right once. If you rush the wrong thing it will come back crashing down on you.

When I do something, then I want it covered and dealt with. I do not want to come back again to this one thing that we did already.

This is how you can rely on your own building-blocks as if you would stand on the shoulders of giants.
The way founders do things is sometimes neither here nor there.

When I notice that I am winging it again I try to realize what the actual upside is in the way I am going about a problem.

And maybe that was just the north star all along.
Any founders in Amsterdam end of October?

let's cook
This week I built

the backend logic for Uvio's user reputation metrics. Since this is all backend, there isn't too much to see. What you can see though is the amount of pull requests we crushed.

Some more in depth info. Uvio is information markets for everyone. The basis of Uvio's information markets is onchain reputation. We need to keep track of how right and how honest users are. Those two metrics get fed back into the system at the maximum and final stage of Claim disputes.

Uvio's information markets start out public and decentralized. As Claims may get disputed, the audience grows wider and the stakes get higher. But ultimately, if the community can just not come to consensus by itself, at the final stage, the users with the highest degree of competence and the highest degree of integrity get selected to vote on the final dispute.

If you read this far, you deserve to login to Uvio and get your signup bonus of UVX tokens on the Base testnet. Go get your reputation right, onchain.
Feedback for the new dashboard. Looks great. Really nice.

But,

it just happened to me that I scheduled my post for Sunday night, as always. And when the post got scheduled, my mouse cursor was still above the scheduling button, which turned into a publishing button. And I am not sure what happened, but I clicked again and caused the post to be published.

If your goal as a UI designer is to make it easy for users to do something easily in two clicks, then you should arrange the respective buttons in the exact same place.

If you want to prevent users from accidentally publishing scheduled posts you should not turn the "schedule" button magically into the "publish" button, because chances are a click is registered in the same place.

Priding myself in consistency, what a disaster to publish the post in advance.

Also, could you respect the choice of my system theme? The dashboard is all white and bright. I cannot dim or switch to dark mode. My eyes!
When we look back in 100 years time, I think there is a chance that prediction markets will be defined as precursor for the widely adopted use of information markets across every aspect of the economy.

What's the difference?

Prediction markets were not predicting much at all because they were facilitated by trading, which is naturally defined by MEV. The era of information markets will be defined by staking models that emphasize conviction, which in turn will be based on competence.

Our societies must surface competence and integrity in order to move forward while preventing the breakdown of the social contract. I believe that we are going to facilitate this kind of healthy progress using better information markets in the future than we have at our disposal today on an institutional level.
Talked with normies about "how Ethereum is doing"

because

"it doesn't look good".

Fast forward, bro doesn't know what a rollup is.
Wake up babe, new whitepaper just dropped.

And look, Unichain is using ETH as money. Can you believe that Kyle?

https://docs.unichain.org/whitepaper.pdf
Posted a hot take about a lot of the dApps out there. 13 hours left to stake. What's your hot take? Do you take the other side?

https://testnet.uvio.network
I am building Uvio information markets on base. Checkout testnet and get involved if you want to have skin in the game! Some highlights that we shipped the past couple of days.

* The horizontal separator became additionally an expiry indicator. Now you see at a glance how much time is left before your claim expires.
* We completely reworked the staking and voting modal to prevent several UX hickups. Now you see proper loading state for your onchain actions.

https://testnet.uvio.network
Hey guys, I get a 404 on my preview URL. Just wanted to let you know in case you need to look into that.

https://powerlaw.systems/preview/2D7JOLL54bgzr08aKnIU

Another issue I am dealing with every single week for months now is that I cannot set a future publishing date, even if my post is scheduled for this date. I always have to come back into the editor on the day of publishing in order to fix the date at which it goes out. I hope somebody can maybe improve that.
Genuine question, why is Kyle Samani saying so overconfidently that Visa prefers Solana when Visa just announced their tokenized asset platform on "Ethereum" literally yesterday?

https://investor.visa.com/news/news-details/2024/Visa-Introduces-the-Visa-Tokenized-Asset-Platform/default.aspx
Raise your hand if every day as a founder is an existential struggle.
I am building Uvio on Base to give everyone their own information market. Go and drop some Claims. @vitalik.eth is already on the menu.

https://testnet.uvio.network/claim/1727724498056612
Awesome to see that @yanowitz was on WSH talking about this industry. Crypto is violent? Good.

Hard times create strong man. Let's get this bread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6e3KCaOyYc
It's a little bit self indulgent, but for almost 7 years I am recording my own thoughts, and ever since I started writing the Powerlaw memo, I put one of my quotes at the top of every article.

My quotes on there are all highly gravitating towards mechanism design. Where all those quote appreciatooors at?
The Uvio thesis, as Yuval Noah Harari would put it.

The truth is expensive. Whereas lies are very cheap.

Uvio is an information market, where the words that people speak have consequences.

Checkout https://testnet.uvio.network and get your onboarding bonus.
There is about 3 hours left to get some skin in the game over here.

Somebody staked reputation on the Claim that it will be rainy today in Rotterdam. If you checked the weather outside you may be able to snitch some tokens.

https://testnet.uvio.network/claim/1727531480483557
THE UNITED CHAINS OF ETHEREUM
Last night I launched the Uvio testnet. On https://testnet.uvio.network you can take the other side of the bet and take my money if you think I can't pull this off.

I am calling on all founders who want to hold themselves accountable. Go create your own market and keep track of how right or how wrong you really are.
Question about link embeddings. There is a difference between rendering embeddings from Twitter and Uvio.

My question is, why is this different? Why is the Uvio description not shown in the embedding, but Twitter's is?

@horsefacts.eth @dwr.eth

https://gist.github.com/xh3b4sd/f055c8a5e4e100d6d8371f414a4fc7f4
Hey guys, I remember you had an invite code feature not too long ago. I would like to give out invite codes to start onboarding users to my app. Now I see that I have to add users by some of their personal information, like email addresses or phone numbers.

In the end, me running the app, I can see all of that stuff anyway in the dashboard once the users connected, but from a user onboarding point of view its super cumbersome and weird to ask randos on the internet for their email address, only because they would be curious to try out my app.

I feel like this is quite a barrier for entry. I do not have to build this myself, because I feel like the current allow list is a no go, because I do not want to scare away potential users. I have one shot with somebody I don't know. I am not going to waste that.

Let me know if I got this wrong or how I can get the invite code thingy right. Love Privy so far!

/cc @segall
This or similar is basically how any utility company chart looks like.

Ethereum is a utility network.

And in 50 year's time we will realize that all of us here have been the pioneers, believing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

And there is only one token fuelling it all, ETH.