First time returning to Hotel Monaco in Denver since our Honeymoon 20 years ago.
- 9:08pm Flight got pushed back to 10:08p at 6:22p.
- Delayed heading to airport, and flight restored to original 9:08p departure at 7:25p.
- Quickly departed to airport, and 12 min from house realized we didn’t have passports.
- Return back home for passports, depart for airport with ETA of 8:07p.
- Got to airport and parked strategically to get to gate fastest, North security closed. Detoured to South security.
- TSA Pre closed. So many CLEAR passengers.
- Clear security at 8:28p. Very fast walk to F12.
- Walked directly onto plane on our boarding group.
Phew.
My Gnosis Chain home validator is spending the next day or so getting synced. The Dappnode Home i732 was relatively easy to get setup.
We finished the unofficial last day of summer with a nice bike ride around the lakes, dinner at Punch Pizza, and ice cream cones at Bread & Pickle. What a great day!
We had a great time at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival today. It was our first time back since the pandemic. It was nice to be there. Labor Day is always our preferred day to go.
Signed "Proof of Stake" by Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is releasing a new book called Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains. This is going to be launched right around the same time that Ethereum makes the transition to proof-of-stake. Buterin is donating all of the proceeds from the book to support open-source public good through Gitcoin Grants. I’m a fan of Gitcoin Grants and have participated in multiple Grant Rounds. I already pre-ordered a copy of the book.
Vitalik is doing a very interesting thing with the ebook though. You can make a donation of any amount and get a copy of the ebook. In return you get a non-transferrable NFT and when the book is published you get a digitally signed copy with your NFT in it. I’m in!
PS: The book itself is also published under a Creative Commons license, another organization that I have been a longtime supporter of. I publish my website and newsletter under Creative Commons as well
This bat has been flying around our cabin for the last two days. Seems odd to see a bat in full daylight flying around but I guess it isn’t that abnormal. 🦇
Dairy Queen stop at the halfway mark of today’s family bike ride.
With Labor Day and some additional travel, I decided to extend the Weekly Thing summer break for two more weeks. Issue 226 will resume on September 17th!
