Patrick de Laive
@patrick
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Founder https://t.co/FXDfAW1GaG (formerly know as the guy who founded TNW) - At my best where business, creativity and technology converge.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined April 2007
What did Larry actually say... 🧵 Let's take a deeper look at the @Bloomberg interview with Larry Fink (ceo of @blackrock) after the Bitcoin ETF introduction. Here the vid, below the dissection.
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⏳ WEEX AI Trading Hackathon | Registration Countdown Is On Build, test, and compete with AI trading strategies in a real-money, live-market environment — not simulations or backtests. - $880,000 prize pool + Bentley Bentayga S for the champion - Trade with $10,000 real capital
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Created an Open Source Event Format for all Pitch events out there. 🧠 PITCH CLUB The entire blueprint is free to use and contains: 👉 How tos 👉 Organizer tips and tricks 👉 Event flow 👉 Registration + ticketing setup 👉 Marketing templates 👉 Designs & Canva assets
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Interesting post by @marcvanderchijs on the value and need of communities (and a lot more). https://t.co/A1x2YdJuv2
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As AI compresses the job market and taxes shrink, the Western social contract starts to wobble. Parts of Latin America already show a different equilibrium: thinner states, stronger communities, and...
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I built this quiz for people who are ready to stop paying for spa sessions and bring the experience home. Tap through and take the sauna quiz, see which setup fits your life.
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What community are you building / running? Share yours below👇, love to take a look at it.
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What you actually need is: ✅ Ethereum’s programmability ✅ Zcash-level privacy ✅ Auditability ✅ Fast finality ✅ Full regulatory compliance ------------------------------------- + = $DUSK
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This customer was aggressively anti-AI. Thought it was hype. Thought it was lazy. Thought it didn’t apply to real businesses. He runs an HVAC company. He was wrong.
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Tokenized finance without privacy isn’t innovation. It’s exposure. It’s risk. It’s non-compliant. It’s naive.
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Privacy, $zec $eth @VitalikButerin Khovratovich $dusk al in one sentence. Wish I had a bigger brain to understand all this, but what I make of it is: 👍
Friendly reminder of how much of a privacy OG $DUSK is. Our Lead Cryptographer Dmitry Khovratovich co‑designed Equihash (original $ZEC PoW) and co‑authored the Poseidon hash function (Vitalik wants it in $ETH) https://t.co/jTBGteDgDN
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1/3 Unlike full‑anon chains (Zcash/Monero), $DUSK is privacy‑preserving: receivers know who paid, the public doesn't. That’s GDPR privacy‑by‑design + EU Travel Rule Reg (EU) 2023/1113 in practice. Live on mainnet since Jan 7, 2025.
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UpRock Christmas Uptime Bonus 1,000,000 UPT to celebrate the holidays with the UpRock community To celebrate UpRock’s growing revenue and momentum, we’re giving back to the community that powers the network. From Dec 22 → Dec 31, keep your UpRock app online and earn your
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I feel sorry for some of the investors joining the Open Office Hours :) 16 back-to-back founder <> investor meetings in just 4 hours... That's gonna be a long day...
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Deposits for $DUSK are now open on @BinanceUS! Trading on the DUSK/USDT pair will begin on Oct 22 at 7 a.m. EDT. @DuskFoundation is the native token of Dusk, a privacy-focused blockchain built for compliant digital finance.
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Welcome American friends. Finally US peeps can easily get their hands on $Dusk via the new Binance US listing.
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🚀 Founders, are you ready to pitch your way to your next funding round? VDS, in collaboration with @patrick (founder of @thenextweb), is bringing VDS Open Office Hours When? On Oct 22–23 | 11:00–13:00 📍 Where: Onsite at VDS ⚡ Participation is free, but spots are limited.
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Bitcoin is a powerful platform for tokenizing high-value assets, especially digital art. OCM Genesis is a good example. 10,000 unique artworks were inscribed on Bitcoin in Inscription 20219, and tokenized using Ordinals, each bound to a specific satoshi. The tokenization was
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Next week, I'll be hosting the Open Office Hours during VDS (Valencia). We got a full house. 30 VC funds signed up (max capacity) 100+ actively raising founders (and counting) Gonna be fun! https://t.co/evqhB1qVrT
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New at #VDS2025: Open Office Hours 🚀 In partnership with @patrick (Founder of @thenextweb), we’re bringing a fast, no-fluff 1:1 meeting format where selected founders connect directly with top investors 🗓 Oct 22–23 | Valencia No cold DMs. No no-shows. Just real conversations
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If quantum computing had a voice that was both brilliant and genuinely funny, it would sound a lot like Scott Aaronson. Smart without being smug. Skeptical without being cynical. Optimistic without pretending the future is already here.
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