Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday.

Some photos from this weekend - really had a great time out of the city. 🌲🐴🛶🐶

"The new illiteracy of the modern world is digital dependency reinforced by corporations promising us service in exchange for sovereignty."

My wife Lauren Meadows, in her first guest post on my site, explores the fragility of our digital lives.

The chain can hold a record forever, but if the data it points to sits on a corporate server, permanence lasts exactly as long as that company does. The shutdown of POAP was the catalyst - proving that decentralization must extend beyond the ledger to the storage itself.

Her answer mirrors the American experiment: rejecting dependence to learn self-governance. Just as ordinary people once had to learn to govern themselves, today we must learn to hold our own keys, run our own nodes, and build a resilient network that no single point of failure can take down.

https://thebenmeadows.com/blog/the-new-common-sense/

"The new illiteracy of the modern world is digital dependency reinforced by corporations promising us service in exchange for sovereignty."

My wife Lauren Meadows, in her first guest post on my site, explores the fragility of our digital lives.

The chain can hold a record forever, but if the data it points to sits on a corporate server, permanence lasts exactly as long as that company does. The shutdown of POAP was the catalyst - proving that decentralization must extend beyond the ledger to the storage itself.

Her answer mirrors the American experiment: rejecting dependence to learn self-governance. Just as ordinary people once had to learn to govern themselves, today we must learn to hold our own keys, run our own nodes, and build a resilient network that no single point of failure can take down.

https://thebenmeadows.com/blog/the-new-common-sense/

POAP shut down last week. Your badges live on Gnosis Chain, but the art and metadata sat on POAP's servers, behind pointers baked into each token that nobody can change.

When the servers go dark, that layer goes with them.

So I archived it. Every event that existed at shutdown, 190,153 of them, verified byte for byte and published to IPFS.

The registry maps every event to its content address, so anyone can mirror the whole archive:

github.com/mdws-org/poap-saver

Roots, if you want to pin it yourself:

artwork
bafybeiedeqc3ycrt5elg3vp2ad2c4p6hpj6afnhysbzb4pi2rhxlhi5x3a

metadata
bafybeia7stlx5b3g7u2nv5lctjvkb7auo3x2l2t3grzuoffaxm66lau6ja