2022-05-09 – Mostly Software

Crypto litigation tracker: https://www.morrisoncohen.com/siteFiles/News/MoCo%20Cryptocurrency%20Litigation%20Tracker.pdf.
Blockchain class, berkeley+stanford (online) – https://defi-learning.org/f22
Strata is a solana tool for launching tokens.
- They have a “Dynamic Pricing Mint” which prevents bots: https://docs.strataprotocol.com/launchpad/dynamic-pricing-mint
- LBC = liquidity bootstrapping curve. Sets price over time (like for an NFT collection). Starts high. Decreases over time. Increases with every purchase: https://docs.strataprotocol.com/launchpad/lbc.
Remember NFT aggregators are a thing.
Crypto bloodbath right now, huge movement into USD. BTC 32k.
UST lost a bit of its peg, as low as <70c.
Google cloud is starting a web3 internal team.
Desktop access.
- On windows 11 -> settings -> apps -> add feature -> openssh server (the client is different). Installs to C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH.
- Start powershell as admin.
- Start services and add to autostart.
  - Get-Service sshd | Set-Service -StartupType Automatic -PassThru | Start-Service
  - Get-Service ssh-agent | Set-Service -StartupType Automatic -PassThru | Start-Service
- Open inbound firewall ssh port 22
  - New-NetFirewallRule -Name sshd -DisplayName ‘OpenSSH Server (sshd)’ -Enabled True -Direction Inbound -Protocol TCP -Action Allow -LocalPort 22
- Generated a key, added. Still couldn’t access. Gave up. Think I’m still blocked by Win11 Home edition; no rdp, maybe no remote tcp as well.
Remember my fios router has DNS as well, of course.
Learn+Earn Platforms. Coinmarketcap has one. It’s currently running a BNB series. Basically: watch videos to learn about various BNB protocols, take quizzes, earn BNB coin. https://coinmarketcap.com/earn/project/how-to-web3-on-bnb-chain
Shopify is an ecommerce platform.
- They provide the payment services, the shipping services, the website building services, etc. Go to them if you have a site and product you want to launch.
- They offer APIs, much more.
- There are many third-party extensions, or shopify apps, that can augment your online store. Could be analytics, SEO boosters, coupon programs, recommendation engines, etc. Anything a merchant might need. A plugin marketplace for online businesses built on shopify.
- Shopify controls the data flowing through all these apps. They control the api, security, permissions, etc.
- These plugins usually have a subscription model. Shopify itself has a few revenue streams, the primary being transaction fees?
- Their mcap is 45B.

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