It's Crusade Week on GoN, where we talk about @gadikian haltin' chains for haltins' sake, soaked UK PMs, the money in AI, the challenges of 13,000 nodes on @initiaFDN, Consensus 2024 and more.

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Show Links:

• today I stopped @archwayHQ from making blocks - twitter
• Initia App - initia.xyz
• Init-AI - initia.xyz
• Things can only get wetter: Sunak soaked as he announces election to Labour song - standard.co.uk

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It's cleanup week on GoN as we ban some long-discussed topics, discuss the best & worst Star Wars, the best John Williams score, fatburg(h)s, and meme coins on and off the blockchain.

Headed to Consensus 2024? Reach out!

Show Links

• GameStop’s 'Roaring Kitty' surge doesn’t mean meme stock rally has legs - yahoo
• Cosmos governance claims 3 lives - mintscan
• Ripple and Peersyst to Leverage evmOS for XRPL EVM Sidechain Development
• Fatburg - wikipedia
• Putting Fatberg on Display - museumoflondon
• Movietime
  • Brick - imdb
  • Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi - imdb
  • Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker - imdb
  • Highlander - imdb
  • The Creator - imdb
  • Rogue Heroes - imdb
  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  • The Asteroid Field - John Williams - youtube

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Less than a month to Consensus 2024, and we talk about the meeting of the squad, the importance of networking, and fuck all else. We complain about distributed networks that are centrally controlled, and the pros and cons of large token holders (looking at you, foundations).

Show Links

• LocalMonero to shut down P2P exchange after seven years of operation - theblock
• SEC’s Gary Gensler gets irked being asked about crypto - cointelegraph
• FTX crypto fraud victims to get their money back — plus interest - techcrunch
• UK to Introduce New Stablecoin and Crypto Laws by July - blockchain.news

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In this deep-dive episode, we talk about the @Injective Validator Miracle, the provider's struggle in delivering SLAs in fast-moving software (poor us), CZ's coming summer vacation plans and updates in 17/8 from the basement.

Show Links

• Injective snapshots without those pesky errors checks - highstakes.ch
• Napoleon - imdb
• Peak Hollywood - youtube
• Watch Arena now! - youtube

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The crew welcomes @0xSenCom from @WhiteWhaleDefi! Back after the break, we chat about the past & future of White Whale, Stargaze rejecting Stride's request for $1.8M USD, and debating if every movie can sync up to Dark Side of the Moon.

Show Links

• whitewhale.money
• Migaloo Ecosystem - migaloo.zone
• Sync Floyd - Apple podcasts
• Mall Cop II - imdb
• #267. stSTARS / STARS POL for Cosmos DeFi Applications - mintscan

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The crew talks skinny tires at the Arenberg at Paris-Roubaix, the Grayscale Bitcoin exodus, Coinbase winning...something, the SEC going after Uniswap, and all the SLOTH.

Show Links

• Rallycross - wikipedia
• Berenstain Bears - wikipedia
• GTBC - schwab
• Scaling Yourself • Scott Hanselman - youtube
• Dune 3 Confirmed - independent
• Movietime
  • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - imdb
  • Past Lives - imdb
  • Widows - imdb

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usurper, schultzie, and nullmames look at their keyboards to talk @dYdX liquidity pairs, the possibility of @Uniswap v3 on @Sei, and Thelma & Louise'ing servers across the Yabba...

And Jake Hartnell urges you to vote YES on 895! Or else.

Show Links

• Deploy Uniswap v3 on Sei - uniswap.org
• DefiLlama.com
• Signaling Proposal: Permissioned CosmWasm - mintscan
• Origination of $YAWP - twitter
• Noble partners with Frax - twitter
• Operators on Lido - lido.fi

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the-frey, schultzie, and nullmames trash their NVMes in real time, talk SBF jail time, remember January 6, and talk decentralization theater

Show Links

• Celsius seeks to claw back $2B in customer withdrawals - cointelegraph
• Signaling Proposal: Permissioned CosmWasm - mintscan

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