Glossary.
The words this archive uses, defined twice: once in a line of ours, marked as ours, and then by the people who said them on camera, quoted from the transcript and linked to the moment.
poidh · The question of the week · Querying the globe · DAO · Bitcoin Pizza Day · Ethereum · Seed phrase · Farcaster · Let’s Talk About Eth · Channel 5 · Colfax · Montbello · Germantown · Audism · Denver Unfiltered · Temazcal
poidh
In our words The bounty board at poidh.xyz. Picture it or it didn’t happen: a question goes up with money on it, people go out and film the answer.
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Has the internet made information easier?
“We’re doing these interviews for poidh, picture picture it or it didn’t happen. Uh this is a platform where individuals can put up different bounties for the community to participate in. This bounty is $100.”
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Is the truth subjective? A Nigerian answer on the internet
“It’s a platform where people can put up different challenges and questions for the community to answer.”
The question of the week
In our words One question, posted weekly with a $100 bounty; whoever films the best answers wins it, and every answer becomes part of the archive.
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Andrew Callaghan’s Carnival Tour hits Denver: fans on journalism
“We’ve been giving out 100 bucks a week for people who go out and and ask the question of the week that we’re doing on this crypto platform.”
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Frank on thirty years at Purple Haze and the art of glass
“We we put up $100 bounty each week and people around the world can submit and we ask them to go out and ask a question.”
Querying the globe
In our words The idea behind One Question: a question put to strangers in several countries at once, answered on tape.
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Documenting war from all sides
“People say you query the AI, I’m trying to get people out in the world, we give away a hundred bucks in crypto every week to people that go out and ask our questions on video, pick our favorite ones. And essentially, whoever, when we pick our question, we’re querying the globe, right?”
DAO
In our words A decentralised autonomous organisation: a group that holds and spends money by vote, on a blockchain.
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Benny and Estabon, Temple musicians turned street reporters for the day
“Any organization that governs a blockchain-based treasury through voting mechanisms, right? So that’s like a wide variety of things.”
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Benny and Estabon, Temple musicians turned street reporters for the day
“DAOs can exist for reasons other than to rug people”
Bitcoin Pizza Day
In our words May 22. The anniversary of the first real-world purchase with Bitcoin, kept as a holiday by the crypto community and by this archive.
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Kafani asks Lagos four questions about crypto and community
“Bitcoin pizza day is a famous moment in crypto history. It marks the first widely recognized real world purchase made with Bitcoin.”
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Kafani asks Lagos four questions about crypto and community
“On May 22, 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoin for two pizza in Papa John’s.”
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The $500 bounty that paid for all of this
“Every year, Bitcoin Pizza Day happens. People from around the world come together in the crypto community. We eat pizza, we vibe, we chill out, we talk about crypto, we talk about non-crypto.”
Ethereum
In our words The blockchain most of this archive’s subjects build on, and the question a lot of them were asked.
Seed phrase
In our words The words that are your wallet. Anyone who has them has your money.
Farcaster
In our words A social network built on open protocol, where apps live inside the feed.
Let’s Talk About Eth
In our words The We Them Media live show, with guests across continents.
Channel 5
In our words Andrew Callaghan’s outlet, whose Carnival tour this archive filmed in Denver, and the model a lot of the people in it name first.
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An Irish fan and an aspiring journalist
“Listens, literally, that’s it I think that’s why he gets The most interesting conversations going Is because he literally can hear”
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Immigration, independent media, subcultures
“This is definitely a case study in independent media and journalism That’s what Channel 5 is”
Colfax
In our words The avenue that runs across Denver, and the word the city uses for everything that happens on it.
Montbello
In our words A neighbourhood in northeast Denver.
Germantown
In our words The Philadelphia neighbourhood where the archive’s Philly desk films.
Audism
In our words Discrimination against deaf people. Not autism; Carol corrects it on tape.
Denver Unfiltered
In our words The Denver project: the pieces filmed while a car was in the shop.
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Immigration, independent media, subcultures
“I came out here for a crypto conference, like ETH Denver, which was like five weeks ago. And I drove out here and my car broke down and I’ve kind of been like in a pot, like in a hole. Okay. And I’ve just gotten inspired and I’ve been doing a lot of shit.”
Temazcal
In our words A Mesoamerican sweat lodge, and the knowledge that travels with it.
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