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Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers
The report investigates the true decentralization of blockchains, highlighting various forms of centralization, vulnerabilities in consensus protocols, and the implications for security and immutability in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
blog.trailofbits.comAlso, in my own research on Tewa Pueblo origins, I’ve found that imagining the community as a garden, with women as corn plants and men as clouds, was central to the emergence of an intercommunity ceremonial system that supported permanent villages and community-level specialization
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
generic, though gendered, Native.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
not ethnological,
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
Arataki (brachiating in NZ )x.cominternationalized artifact,