Cryptograss - Revision history

JMyles: /* Current Toolchain */

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	* [[Magent]] - an MCP Server and database for informing LLM agents about the history of bluegrass and the traditional music connectome in order to build bluegrass-related projects. Magent has a history of several thousands messages back and forth with Justin Holmes, during which it has learned about cryptograss goals and tagged important messages for later recall.		* [[Magent]] - an MCP Server and database for informing LLM agents about the history of bluegrass and the traditional music connectome in order to build bluegrass-related projects. Magent has a history of several thousands messages back and forth with Justin Holmes, during which it has learned about cryptograss goals and tagged important messages for later recall.

	* [[arthel]] - named after Arthel "Doc" Watson, arthel is a codebase with facilities for building and deploying Revealer instances, Chartifacts, and other cryptograss artifacts. arthel also has tools for end-to-end website builds, and is currently used to build justinholmes.com and cryptograss.live.		* [https://github.com/cryptograss/arthel arthel] - named after Arthel "Doc" Watson, arthel is a codebase with facilities for building and deploying Revealer instances, Chartifacts, and other cryptograss artifacts. arthel also has tools for end-to-end website builds, and is currently used to build justinholmes.com and cryptograss.live.

	* [[maybelle]] - named after Maybelle Carter, maybelle is an integration and build server which updates all cryptograss-built projects with the latest chain data from Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum. maybelle has a public frontend showing the build status of cryptograss projects.		* [[maybelle]] - named after Maybelle Carter, maybelle is an integration and build server which updates all cryptograss-built projects with the latest chain data from Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum. maybelle has a public frontend showing the build status of cryptograss projects.

JMyles: /* Current Toolchain */

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Current Toolchain

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	* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment, and to promote fitness and wellness in the bluegrass scene.		* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment, and to promote fitness and wellness in the bluegrass scene.

	* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets]] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed during the [[4masks]] sessions at [[Tunesmith Studios]], principally by Holmes, Golden, and [[Lisa Joy]]. It was then used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]] (each of which can be found at <firstname><lastname>.cryptograss.eth).		* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets]] using dice as a source of offline randomness. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed during the [[4masks]] sessions at [[Tunesmith Studios]], principally by Holmes, Golden, and [[Lisa Joy]]. It was then used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]] (each of which can be found at <firstname><lastname>.cryptograss.eth).

	* [[Magent]] - an MCP Server and database for informing LLM agents about the history of bluegrass and the traditional music connectome in order to build bluegrass-related projects. Magent has a history of several thousands messages back and forth with Justin Holmes, during which it has learned about cryptograss goals and tagged important messages for later recall.		* [[Magent]] - an MCP Server and database for informing LLM agents about the history of bluegrass and the traditional music connectome in order to build bluegrass-related projects. Magent has a history of several thousands messages back and forth with Justin Holmes, during which it has learned about cryptograss goals and tagged important messages for later recall.

JMyles: /* Current Toolchain */ more little fixes

2025-10-04T19:52:54Z

Current Toolchain: more little fixes

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	* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment, and to promote fitness and wellness in the bluegrass scene.		* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment, and to promote fitness and wellness in the bluegrass scene.

	* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed during the [[4masks]]] sessions at [[Tunesmith Studios]], principally by Holmes, Golden, and [[Lisa Joy]]. It was then used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]] (each of which can be found at <firstname><lastname>.cryptograss.eth).		* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets]] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed during the [[4masks]] sessions at [[Tunesmith Studios]], principally by Holmes, Golden, and [[Lisa Joy]]. It was then used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]] (each of which can be found at <firstname><lastname>.cryptograss.eth).

	* [[Magent]] - an MCP Server and database for informing LLM agents about the history of bluegrass and the traditional music connectome in order to build bluegrass-related projects. Magent has a history of several thousands messages back and forth with Justin Holmes, during which it has learned about cryptograss goals and tagged important messages for later recall.		* [[Magent]] - an MCP Server and database for informing LLM agents about the history of bluegrass and the traditional music connectome in order to build bluegrass-related projects. Magent has a history of several thousands messages back and forth with Justin Holmes, during which it has learned about cryptograss goals and tagged important messages for later recall.
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	* [[maybelle]] - named after Maybelle Carter, maybelle is an integration and build server which updates all cryptograss-built projects with the latest chain data from Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum. maybelle has a public frontend showing the build status of cryptograss projects.		* [[maybelle]] - named after Maybelle Carter, maybelle is an integration and build server which updates all cryptograss-built projects with the latest chain data from Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum. maybelle has a public frontend showing the build status of cryptograss projects.

	* [[hunter]] - named after Robert Hunter, hunter is a development server which includes containers for individual ~~engineers~~ to ~~use~~. Each ~~containers~~ includes an instance of Magent, an instance of VSCode Server, runtimes for cryptograss web projects, and SSH and HTTPS routing for authentication and web previews.		* [[hunter]] - named after Robert Hunter, hunter is a development server which includes containers for individual development environments, designed to be used for either learning or engineering by bluegrassers. Each container includes an instance of Magent, an instance of VSCode Server, runtimes for cryptograss web projects, and SSH and HTTPS routing for authentication and web previews.

	==Contributors==		==Contributors==

JMyles: /* Current Toolchain */

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	* [[Rabbithole Player]] - a music player designed to use Chartifacts and The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon to allow listeners to follow "rabbit holes" of particular pickers, records, shows, instrument makers, and other recording metadata.		* [[Rabbithole Player]] - a music player designed to use Chartifacts and The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon to allow listeners to follow "rabbit holes" of particular pickers, records, shows, instrument makers, and other recording metadata.

	* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment.		* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment, and to promote fitness and wellness in the bluegrass scene.

	* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed during the [[4masks]]] sessions at [[Tunesmith Studios]], principally by Holmes, Golden, and [[Lisa Joy]]. It was then used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]] (each of which can be found at <firstname><lastname>.cryptograss.eth).		* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed during the [[4masks]]] sessions at [[Tunesmith Studios]], principally by Holmes, Golden, and [[Lisa Joy]]. It was then used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]] (each of which can be found at <firstname><lastname>.cryptograss.eth).

JMyles: /* Current Toolchain */

2025-10-04T19:49:39Z

Current Toolchain

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	* [[PickiPedia]] - a wiki for both structured and unstructured knowledge about bluegrass, old time, and other traditional public domain music.		* [[PickiPedia]] - a wiki for both structured and unstructured knowledge about bluegrass, old time, and other traditional public domain music.

	* [[The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon]] - a database and query tool for examining the connections between pickers, albums, and shows in [[the traditional music connectome]].		* [[The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon]] - (named after [https://www.oracleofbacon.org/ The Oracle of Bacon], which is in turn named after [[WikiPedia:Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon\|The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon]], which is turn is named after [[Wikipedia:Six degrees of separation\|The Six Degrees of Separation]]) - a database and query tool for examining the connections between pickers, albums, and shows in [[the traditional music connectome]].

	* [[Rabbithole Player]] - a music player designed to use Chartifacts and The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon to allow listeners to follow "rabbit holes" of particular pickers, records, shows, instrument makers, and other recording metadata.		* [[Rabbithole Player]] - a music player designed to use Chartifacts and The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon to allow listeners to follow "rabbit holes" of particular pickers, records, shows, instrument makers, and other recording metadata.

JMyles at 01:59, 4 October 2025

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	* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment.		* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment.

	* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed at [[Tunesmith Studios]] and used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]].		* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed during the [[4masks]]] sessions at [[Tunesmith Studios]], principally by Holmes, Golden, and [[Lisa Joy]]. It was then used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]] (each of which can be found at <firstname><lastname>.cryptograss.eth).

	* [[Magent]] - an MCP Server and database for informing LLM agents about the history of bluegrass and the traditional music connectome in order to build bluegrass-related projects. Magent has a history of several thousands messages back and forth with Justin Holmes, during which it has learned about cryptograss goals and tagged important messages for later recall.		* [[Magent]] - an MCP Server and database for informing LLM agents about the history of bluegrass and the traditional music connectome in order to build bluegrass-related projects. Magent has a history of several thousands messages back and forth with Justin Holmes, during which it has learned about cryptograss goals and tagged important messages for later recall.

JMyles at 21:39, 3 October 2025

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	==Contributors==		==Contributors==
	Currently, the wallet which owns cryptograss.eth is custodied by [[Justin Holmes]]. API keys, deploy keys, authorized SSH keys for maybelle, and other authorization material is held jointly by Holmes, [[R.J. Partington III]], [[Skyler Golden]], and [[Jake Stargel]].		Currently, the wallet which owns cryptograss.eth is custodied by [[Justin Holmes]]. API keys, deploy keys, authorized SSH keys for maybelle, and other authorization material is held jointly by Holmes, [[R.J. Partington III]], [[Skyler Golden]], and [[Jake Stargel]]. This group has frequently discussed tokenization of authority and increasing DAO infrastructure. This topic is tentatively planned for in-person discussion at [[EthBoulder 2026]], where Holmes' band is tentatively scheduled to play.

	The following people have contributed code to cryptograss codebases (in approximate order of contribution volume):		The following people have contributed code to cryptograss codebases (in approximate order of contribution volume):

JMyles at 21:37, 3 October 2025

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	==Contributors==		==Contributors==
			Currently, the wallet which owns cryptograss.eth is custodied by [[Justin Holmes]]. API keys, deploy keys, authorized SSH keys for maybelle, and other authorization material is held jointly by Holmes, [[R.J. Partington III]], [[Skyler Golden]], and [[Jake Stargel]].

	The following people have contributed code to cryptograss codebases (in approximate order of contribution volume):		The following people have contributed code to cryptograss codebases (in approximate order of contribution volume):

JMyles at 20:36, 3 October 2025

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	* [[Rabbithole Player]] - a music player designed to use Chartifacts and The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon to allow listeners to follow "rabbit holes" of particular pickers, records, shows, instrument makers, and other recording metadata.		* [[Rabbithole Player]] - a music player designed to use Chartifacts and The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon to allow listeners to follow "rabbit holes" of particular pickers, records, shows, instrument makers, and other recording metadata.

	* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[~~Manzanita\|~~Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment.		* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] - a series of NFTs which are manually awarded to people when they submit a video of themselves performing squats to [[Tony Rice]]'s recording of [[Blue Railroad Train]] from his 1979 [[Manzanita (Tony Rice Album)\|Manzanita]] record. This tool is designed to help people gain experience handling and transferring NFTs in a low-stakes environment.

	* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed at [[Tunesmith Studios]] and used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]].		* [[Cryptograss Dice Protocol]] - a protocol to generate [[paper wallets] using dice. Designed to facilitate conversation and community while generating paper wallets in an in-person environment. The protocol was developed at [[Tunesmith Studios]] and used to generate wallets held by many bluegrassers who have cryptograss.eth domain names, including [[Maddie Denton]], [[Harry Clark]], [[Cory Walker]], [[Jake Stargel]], and [[Vickie Vaughn]].

JMyles at 20:35, 3 October 2025

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	In the following weeks, the group launched chat forums on Discord and Matrix, and held several conference calls leading up the album release. In addition to the hackathon winners, these calls were joined by [[Skyler Golden]], [[Jakub Vysoky]], and [[Jake Stargel]], the latter of whom coined the term 'cryptograss' during one of the calls.		In the following weeks, the group launched chat forums on Discord and Matrix, and held several conference calls leading up the album release. In addition to the hackathon winners, these calls were joined by [[Skyler Golden]], [[Jakub Vysoky]], and [[Jake Stargel]], the latter of whom coined the term 'cryptograss' during one of the calls.

	The Revealer contract - the group's first mainnet contract - was deployed on September 1, 2023, to 0xa812137EFf2B368d0B2880A39B609fB60c426850 on the ethereum blockchain. The contract required that 10 eth (at the time, about $38,000) be contributed in order for Vowel Sounds to be released. This goal was accomplished in almost exactly 8 days.		The Revealer contract - the group's first mainnet contract - was deployed on September 1, 2023, as <small>0xa812137EFf2B368d0B2880A39B609fB60c426850</small> on the ethereum blockchain. The contract required that 10 eth (at the time, about $38,000) be contributed in order for Vowel Sounds to be released. This goal was accomplished in almost exactly 8 days.

	Subsequently, the calls continued and attention turned toward creating other tools and making those tools available to other musicians.		Subsequently, the calls continued and attention turned toward creating other tools and making those tools available to other musicians.