# #h4d2 > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [409]. 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/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: video, 2012-09-22 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Software tooling built around the six-needs icons. - Career works it belongs to: - Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): Blog essay proposing the escrownym: an identity lodged with escrow brokers under a legally binding... (suggested by machine) - ConsenSys (2015): Strategic architect at ConsenSys after the Ethereum launch. (suggested by machine) - Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015): ConsenSys essay on what identity is, and how to build identity people can live with: profiles kept apart,... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. (through a work suggested by machine) - 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) - Topics: Property, NFTs & real-estate transactions (22%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: H4D2 (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); Kit (1 here; 29 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); too cold (1 here; 40 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 7 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): H4D2 - Importance: core-text score 0.18 (1.00 is the top), number 386 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [275] [1 (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/275.md): close in content (cosine 0.90) - [272] Interview with Rob Knight (hexayurt vc) and Dominic Tarr... (2016): close in content (cosine 0.90) - On the same works, just before: [347] FSFI - Freyr Gunnar Ólafsson (2012); [353] [Eben Moglen clip - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/353.md); [328] [Papa Bill's Stew-Stick Jam - Marmaduke Dando - First... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/328.md) - On the same works, just after: [407] [H4D2.eu Final presentations (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/407.md); [399] [Council of Europe World Forum for Democracy... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/399.md); [395] Open Data Ireland 25 October inaugeral meeting (2012) ## 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: #h4d2, video, 2012-09-22, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [409], https://guptaoption.com/texts/409.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=0s) okay so they're in the dark board so let's just have a look at the cardboard what you need to get out of it are they actually in the dark doors oh right oh no maybe i can grab them from the bottom yeah yeah yeah doesn't i'm not sure we have icons for too cold right no maybe we don't keep them but um okay so do you want these um the kind of the setbacks yeah we don't we at this point no okay what'd you want it's not it's not a priority really no yeah because basically picking and picking an icon to represent the thing that represents the thing you want to represent if you see what i'm saying um is is a feature too far for this run okay right so right now it's basically going to be textual cool okay so in other words the ones that i've got at the moment which are they're they're they're just structural things yeah yeah the ones that make up the organization and uh exactly okay in that case those are all done as svcs fantastic yeah so and for some reason oh right i know why no i don't know why [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=150s) my friend lisa sees torrents and the effect of transformation people are just under using twitter it's a medium that has much more potential than folks are really exploiting yes it is nice having a little surveillance camera you're streaming on the internet on the where is it trying where is it it's it's streaming to youtube great because that's exactly what youtube hates more crap [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=300s) assume the world is going to be a delusion of monitoring cameras this is this is how it looks on the youtube actually i would be so much happier with cctv if they all stream to youtube yes i agree i don't that's a terrible idea well just the sheer amount of the overwhelming data at some point it would crash the whole system yeah you'd be so lucky london alone would probably yeah now fantastic systems to locate the porn that's being streamed and the fist fights and all the other stuff what it would do is it would eventually kill television people just sit there watching the real world safely mediated by a screen this is the height of narcissism is watching your own thing exactly getting a kaleidoscope it's pretty cool if we had a little more noise in it we'd get a feedback loop and it would do this the fact that there's a slight time lag really helps so um there we go we've got some nice chaotic oscillation [7:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=450s) i think what what uh i've done incorrectly is that i've decided to use this without actually using the correct version of the trap really don't want to click that button but on your machine yeah we're beginning to get seriously kind of ontological trouble here um pull in it has been pulled there's actually some stuff that i i would do once you've actually got right anyway you if you start typing something in that's already there i would have it um whole straight from the database right um sorry i will uh look at it in just a few minutes i'm trying to go right christopher the good news of the bad news oh i'd like to provide news first okay it's not alone sshn it is pinging it's just not like ssh oh right okay just push it over to myself no no you really do not want to let this one touch your server yeah look what i did for the last one who's who's your assistant well he's on he's not at the moment say it um which one is it h4d2-02 is restarted by him inadvertently and although we can think we cannot ssh [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=600s) and that's monday okay right do you have another server yeah you've got another virtual machine there somewhere yeah we've got plenty of virtual machines i'll just stick you on on uh windermere um does that make any difference for django smart but as far as i know yeah sorry i'm just uh i i really feel uncomfortable uh right so they changed it yes thank you the stock i i do like that it has a slightly sinister kind of cctv eyeball staring culture how do i get pseudo privileges to the name to user the name uh what's uh item2c [12:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=750s) oh right uh yeah of course your button your keyboard has a button to the left of control keyboard this is a stupid keyboard nonetheless so where will he install everything once when when he's online um he won't install it in his no it'll be on the server generally you know what's in var or something one usually sticks things that are web apps or web things of some sort into var cd actually he can also because we're just running it as a development environment we can run it from his home directory and then we just do just uh tilde of the name yeah no no runs on its own words okay um okay we're in his hand directory there's absolutely nothing there [15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=900s) if you issue instructions overall um executive kit set up damn it no keyboard so um you can do oh no you need to say upgrade install yeah um then we go do git clone or what um yeah get from um do i need to create a directory and you'll find probably in this browser um one of the damn it that thing's not supposed to be pointed at me he doesn't have a tab open for that okay so if you open the tab and go to github [17:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=1050s) the url just take the search and everything after it away you take over now i've just been trying to progress things smoothly yeah like you see in your two views of the uh having coded a lot capacity to scan a line and spot little things that are not quite correct it's much much more rapid than my [20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6K_-SjcLg&t=1200s) rock so i've put you on windmill your username has been a your password is the same got it and that's a real computer it's another execution it's not a virtual machine okay that's good just want to check --- End of [409] #h4d2. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [407](https://guptaoption.com/texts/407.md) H4D2.eu Final presentations (2012); the most closely related, [275](https://guptaoption.com/texts/275.md) 1 (2016); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.