Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:13:48 GMT 2022-06-22T09:13:48Z <div>I had a honor to close the zeroth edition of the CryptoCastle Symposium with the 50 min talk hidden behind the cryptic title "A talk which never took place". Talk's abstract accessible at <a href="https://cryptocastlesymposium.com/">Symposium's web-site</a> is as follows:</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em>Spiced with citations from Fermat, Herbert, Stephenson &amp; Simmons, &ldquo;a talk which never took place&rdquo; will take You on a curved ride through different narratives and narratives-within-narratives, both fictional, mathematical &amp; spiritual as well as the one we all live and share. In Prologue, first 11 years of the crypto-finance movement will be recapitulated from a particular perspective of an early anti-adopter. The &ldquo;first talk which never took place&rdquo; entitled &ldquo;Coinz, Religion, Power&rdquo; the BTC movement will be thematized by means of terminology and methodology of religious studies. Subsequently, Your attention will be attracted to the &ldquo;Achiless heel&rdquo; of all secp256k1-based currencies (including BTC, ETH &amp; DOGE) a so-called Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem. After an even more eyebrow-raising intervention &ldquo;23 reasons why a BTC maximalist stance is not a symptom of lucid intelligence&rdquo;, the talk will gradually get into more groovy &amp; funky modus by introducing the solarpunk movement as a natural descendant of now somewhat senior cy(b|ph)er- punk movements. At last but not least, the Epilogue will establish a necessary association between responsible actors of the crypto- transformation and the community of Equity Lords, as known from the seminal work of nanopunk literature.</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Apart the off-the-record part of the talk addressing the topic of Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem, the majority of the talk's presentation is acessible <a href="https://wizzion.com/NULL">here</a></div> Info