# Image(110)

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [189]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/<id>.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages.

## Where this source sits

- Source: document (Web page), undated, https://web.archive.org/web/20051218205723/http://mindismoving.org/hexayurt/hexayurt_gallery/hexayurt_gallery-Pages/Image11.html. Text: document text
- How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Photo of an early hexayurt.
- Career works it belongs to:
  - Free science and engineering in the global public interest (2009): Talk deck: poverty causes a quarter to a half of 60 million deaths a year, and open source hardware gets... (suggested by machine)
  - Laziness, Impatience and Hubris (2011): Talk at c-base, Berlin: Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer applied to building, by a hackitect. (suggested by machine)
  - One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): Talk at the OHM2013 hacker camp: housing everyone at one planet's worth of consumption, and why... (suggested by machine)
  - Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism (2014): Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering outside the market, for the three billion... (suggested by machine)
  - Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success (2015): Talk at Devcon 1, the Ethereum developer conference in London, on why cypherpunk failed and Ethereum... (suggested by machine)
  - CoinDesk (2020): CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things. (suggested by machine)
- Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of:
  - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine)
  - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine)
  - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine)
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: mindismoving.org (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2003, 1 undated)
- Importance: core-text score 0.12 (1.00 is the top), number 490 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation

## Reading it

Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it.

Cite as: Image(110), document, undated, https://web.archive.org/web/20051218205723/http://mindismoving.org/hexayurt/hexayurt_gallery/hexayurt_gallery-Pages/Image11.html; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [189], https://guptaoption.com/texts/189.md.

## Passages
[passage 1](https://web.archive.org/web/20051218205723/http://mindismoving.org/hexayurt/hexayurt_gallery/hexayurt_gallery-Pages/Image11.html) 8 captures 23 Dec 2003 - 02 Feb 2006 Dec JAN Feb 30 2005 2006 2007 success fail About this capture TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20060130170545/http://mindismoving.org:80/hexayurt/hexayurt_gallery/hexayurt_gallery-Pages/Image11.html <--Previous Up Next--> Image(110)

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End of [189] Image(110). Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt.
Read next: his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.