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> Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has faced a backlash since Politico reported earlier this week that he indirectly funds and wields unusually heavy influence over an important White House office tasked with advising President Joe Biden’s administration on technical and scientific issues.

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> Schmidt maintained a close relationship with Eric Lander, the former science adviser of President Joe Biden, as well as other Biden appointees; and his charity Schmidt Futures indirectly paid the salaries of two science office employees for six weeks, including that of current Chief of Staff Marc Aidnioff, now one of the most senior members of the Biden administration following Lander's resignation in February.

In addition, Schmidt Futures Chief Innovation Officer and OSTP alum Tom Kalil remained on Schmidt's payroll while working as an unpaid consultant at the science office for four months last year until he left the post following ethics complaints, Politico reports.

This would be very exciting, except for the fact that the LINK token is not needed.

>>51241315
Tell me more

I don't think Futures has anything to do with Chainlink. Steel Perlot evidently does, though

>>51241384
Seems like they have influence in White House and Eric is advisor for chainlink. If anything it’s just the right amount of separation

wow very bullish wow... can i profit now?

>Chainlink has a direct link to the white house
>-0.79%

>>51241447
Ari has testified before congress, and he is the recipient of a truly esoteric foundational fund that I won't mention. Ed Felten was Obama's White House Chief Technical Officer.

Anyone who didn't buy Link deserves the lifetime of regret. This was all laid out for them repeatedly for years, none of it is a fucking secret or a riddle, it is all easily verifiable information(Like Eric leaving Google soon after pushing the company to collaborate with the Fed on CBDC technology, to go work with Chainlink.)

>>51241384
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We are building a next-generation insights and aggregator platform for NFTs (“Bloomberg Terminal for NFTs”). With a team that has founded or worked for multi-billion-dollar businesses in the NFT/web3 space and incubated by Steel Perlot (a web3-focused fund chaired by Eric Schmidt), this company provides a rare opportunity to help build a crucial new part of the web3 and NFT ecosystem.

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Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is launching a $125mn philanthropic project to fund artificial intelligence research that solves “hard problems” in the field, including issues of bias, harm and misuse, geopolitical conflict, and scientific limitations of the technology.

The fund, known as AI2050, will be paid out over five years to individual academics, and co-chaired by Schmidt, and James Manyika, Google’s new head of technology and society, in a “personal capacity”.

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We are building a next-generation insights and aggregator platform for NFTs (“Bloomberg Terminal for NFTs”). With a team that has founded or worked for multi-billion-dollar businesses in the NFT/web3 space and incubated by Steel Perlot (a web3-focused fund chaired by Eric Schmidt), this company provides a rare opportunity to help build a crucial new part of the NFT and web3 ecosystem.

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We’re looking for an experienced senior web3/smart contract engineer to join our tech team. You have an impact on the overall company direction and growth as well as code and features. This work will be foundational in building a groundbreaking new platform in the NFT/web3 space. We have an incredibly high bar and you’ll be joining a highly talented and driven team.

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Architecting, testing, optimizing, and deploying smart contracts in the domains of NFT aggregation and financialization
Collaboratively thinking through and designing tokenomic models and off-chain computation (private mempools, etc.)
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>>51241629
i didn't realize eric left google only 2.5 years ago. I thought it was far longer. I wonder if we would have had him announced and at the last smartcon if it had been in nyc as planned.

>>51241629
>inb4 Ed Felten doesn't work for Chainlink
lYKYK

>>51241884
Redpill me more

>>51243462
I'm just speculating. I didn't realize there was such a small gap between his time at google and his time at cl. It's interesting, is all.

>>51241884
I think only a few days after Eric randomly brought up Chainlink in a podcast did the announcement of Eric’s new position at CL come

>>51243722
Yeah I remember that happening in roughly the same time frame. I'm sure there's nothing random about the timing of any of that though.

>>51241353
well you see, sergey solved the oracle problem by setting up these aggregating nodes with a BFT consensus and reputation, the whole problem is he didn't have rhe funding initially to attract node capital before they became profitable

so he did what any self-respecting crypto venture would do and launched a token out of thin air, promising it would eventually be needed for the network

the problem is, the network is running fine and profitable right now without so much as using the token except as a vehicle for payment, which can be done with any sort of currency (ETH for example).
People usually argue that LINK is an ERC 677 and carries data, but you can easily make a wrapped ETH token that does the same, and you wouldn't have weird place fluctuations for no reason

>but muh staking
staking not needed. If it was needed it wouldn't kickstart in such a useless way where only "loyal marines" get a 3% payout for doing nothing. That's just a bandage, a pacifier.

>>51243801
>place fluctuations
price fluctuations

this thread suddenly got real quiet huh

>>51243990
Discussion of these type of threads doesn’t lead to price appreciation. Been happening for 5years and the market simply doesn’t care. I think most people are too tired

>>51244012
https://youtu.be/RwkNnMrsx7Q

>>51243801
>>51243990
>this thread suddenly got real quiet huh

woah checkmate linkies, this 2017 fud again, if you can't think of reasons why chainlink would setup their agnostic network like is has done then you're not thinking hard enough

Use the eth token? what happens if something happens to Ethereum, some massive vulnerability that bricks the network forever or simply the eth chain slowly dies off and gets replaced by newer L1's? now the eth the link nodes are getting paid is worthless and there's no incentive to run nodes anymore and fucks the network

Why not just use the native tokens for all the chains to pay link nodes? Link is already on 12-16 chains, selling 12-16 different tokens on different chains to pay for server maintenance etc would be pretty pretty annoying for node operators, now look further into the future where chainlink might be on hundreds or even thousands of chains

>>51241256

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