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Polygon Door

Locality: Wollongong, New South Wales

Phone: +61 410 680 303

Address: iAccelerate, Squiers Way 2500 Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Website: http://polygondoor.com.au

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25.01.2022 And while we are mining the nettime archive this discussion re cryptocurrency and it's histories is packed full of fascinating context .... The economic and political theories that shaped and motivated the early cypherpunk and cryptocurrency lists (out of which Bitcoin was born). It's a long discussion..with lots of interesting information ....I know noone has time to read anymore...but... https://nettime.org/Lists-Arch/nettime-l-1712/msg00061.html

22.01.2022 Another chair design from our CNC furniture design workshop. Looking forward to doing a test cut next week. This one is designed to click together without glue or fasteners.... whether it will actually click or bear any weight is another question entirely.

18.01.2022 https://nettime.org/Lists-Arch/nettime-l-1801/msg00049.html Bruce Sterling sets a cat among the grumpy old men with some cold hard truths for a strangely invigorated nettime mailing list - some great opinion re: social media critique, network activism, and the irrelevance of the academy here.

18.01.2022 Interesting...but I wonder if X would support the development of a decentralised network -the thing we desperately need in a world where a couple big corporations have such unfettered control over the flow of information and communication? X need not find the next Google..but rather work to make Google obsolete.

18.01.2022 This looks like fun..

16.01.2022 The mainstream media seems to think the biggest concern with blockchain is the value of Bitcoin or ether or lack of it. However one of the biggest problems with blockchain technology is it's massive energy consumption. Each Bitcoin transaction uses enough power to supply 11+ average U.S homes with power for a day.... To give you a sense of scale there were nearly 300,000 transactions in the last 24 hours (https://blockchain.info/charts) This is mainly due to the the 'proof of work' system that Bitcoin employs to incentivise distribution and processing of each new block in the chain. Of course all our data processing is using massive amounts of electricity. Google uses as much electricity as San Francisco in a year...but Google offsets its use by buying renewables that offset 100% of its energy consumption. https://www.google.com.au//google-renewable-energy-wind-so It's interesting to think through what's going on here. Where there is no central gaurantor of trust there is also noone to hold to account..(in this case for energy consumption)...something that irks me no end to admit... https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

16.01.2022 Hello World on Ethereum Blockchain http://polygondoor.com.au/hello-world-on-ethereum-blockcha/ Anyone attempting to learn and explore the Ethereum blockchain will quickly come across some difficult hurdles. The first of these is, of course, the difficulty inherent in getting one’s head around the paradigm shift that is blockchain technology. The second is that the software implementation is rather complex and the third is that the documentation is poor and constantly lags be...hind the latest developments. This article is designed to help newcomers who wish to dig past the basic concepts, and get their hands dirty by implementing some very simple distributed applications on Ethereum. We have trawled through various tutorials to try and validate which combination of development tools is the best to use in exploring and testing Ethereum distributed applications.

14.01.2022 We will be running 'Beyond Bitcoin, Exploring the Blockchain' workshop in term 4. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/beyond-bitcoin-exploring-th One of the more difficult things to clearly describe is the use case for Blockchain apps. ... In part this is because most of us are still trying to get our heads around how it works and how it might be used in the future. I think we have also been trained to think in centralised and entrepreneurial terms and patterns and so it takes a little bit of an imagineering stretch to think how smart contracts and new forms of local currency might be deployed. Today I was reintroduced to the old notion of a time bank. I was thinking that it would be pretty simple to use Ethereum to set-up a local community currency that operated as a time bank. Time spent in a community coop (or surf club, or garden) could be banked as credit for produce or services traded between members of the community. Of course this is really just bartering - but a bartering that might be more locally distributed and liquid -allowing rich interactions between organisations. Perhaps you could even have automated systems that use RFID or simple phone apps to 'hold' value or 'bank time'. Of course - on the other hand you should probably just bank time helping your community because its pays dividends well beyond any currency could....still... there is a use case... Come join us and help us come up with more...

14.01.2022 Great to see this terrific project get funded on Kickstarter..

13.01.2022 http://www.artmatr.co/. An interesting digital painting workshop/lab with some high profile tech supporters...

12.01.2022 https://the-incredible-machine.com/fairbike.html An interesting group of industrial designers working between The Internet of Things and Blockchain. I'm really intrigued by the idea of things/objects owning themselves..paying for their own upkeep...like the AI hotels in Altered Carbon..

11.01.2022 Radical blockchaining...

08.01.2022 An update after running the coinhive miner for 24hours on the CPU power of users who visit the Creative Applications site. The miner has generated 30 us cents - equivalent to a base level of Google Adsense revenue and providing a viable alternative to their user targeted advertising. There is an interesting dynamic going on here. Mainstream news has attached the Pirate Bay Torrent Site for running coinhive without declaring it. Creative Applications are openly declaring the ...experiment as a means of you paying directly- rather than via your attention to advertising from unrelated third parties. The interesting thing is that we are always paying when looking at a site, we are always using resources. The way we pay for that site, for those resources - knowingly or otherwise - has more far reaching cultural implications than we imagine as we go about our daily lives. Better to be charged a cost directly and to pay knowingly than be blindly implicated as a dumb component in a bigger machine.

08.01.2022 Coinhive is a JavaScript miner for the monero cryptocurrency. When you visit a website that has embedded the coinhive script your CPU will be used to mine coin. The site gets a share in the coins mined. Creative Applications Net - one of my long-term favourite curators of computational art are hoping they can eventually remove advertising from their site..but this is another strange loop as you pay for sites you visit by the CPU cycles they spend.

08.01.2022 Fascinating to listen to the young founder of Ethereum ... who, it turns out, is both articulate and insightful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCQP02LHjGY

07.01.2022 Beautifully crafted popup books that *are* what they *describe*...

07.01.2022 I love the understated elegance and subtle resonance of these works... Get along and see them at The Egg & Dart.

06.01.2022 This is a great article...one of the few that contains actual journalism and some real context. The best primer on blockchain and the (probably misplaced) hope ...of decentralisation I have seen with some great historical context. Would be great reading for media comms students as well. Thanks Kirsty Baxter for sharing.. See more

04.01.2022 There is something really trite in arguing screen time should be creative....as if you can stipulate that kids can only use Scratch (an MIT sponsored project) or some alternative when they are on a device that serves YouTube and Instagram...'I was just checking how to...'. - there is always an excuse for a distraction and the best distractions are, of course, completely legitimate. There is also an odd, patronising, judgement call in determining what activity is sanctioned ...Continue reading