I recently had the pleasure of working on one of these barely configurable Internet modem/router devices that comes with the contract from your friendly ISP. The goal was to configure a proper WLAN access point that I attached via Ethernet. To perform the necessary configuration I had to connect to the device via Ethernet as well. My only available computer was a Windows 10 Tablet without a dedicated Ethernet port. Luckily I remembered my old Apple USB Ethernet Adapter that I had laying around somewhere.

In the beginning of August 2021 1729 raised an interesting task: “Build a censorship-resistant inflation dashboard” 1. Soon Matthew Fontana from Steamr pitched in another USD 50K if one were to use their tech in addition to Chainlink. This brings the total potential reward to a total of 150k USD in $DATA and $LINK. I came up with the idea to individually capture price points using a simple smartphone app similar to what Premise is doing - in a decentralized manner, whithout relying on one entity.

During the Covid-19 pandemic I developed an interest in magic. The show kind of magic. Naturally I became especially interested in combining magic and programming. What I noticed was that most magic apps are only available on iOS. I asked Marc Kerstein, a well known app magician and programmer, about that. TL,DR: He only has personal capacity to develop on iOS Android has a piracy problem Due to the small amount of potential users the apps are expensive.

1729.com asked to review the 2021 predictions for the crypto space compiled by Soona Amhaz. The collected predictions are mostly interesting and made by even more interesting people. However I believe that most of them have little more than entertainment value due to the lack of accurately defined target conditions. For example it is unclear how one would assess the following statements as fulfilled: “Bitcoin continues to cross the chasm, deepening its institutional adoption along the “digital gold” narrative.