Willem Schroe
@WillemSchroe
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Founder & CEO @BotanixLabs. Inventor of the Spiderchain. @HarvardHBS alum. Ex @exxonmobil. Building bitcoin infrastructure. 🇧🇪 in 🇺🇸
Manhattan, NY
Joined June 2011
sBTC just uses Bitcoin to earn bitcoin yield. There are no tokens, no inflation, no lockups. That's proper Bitcoin Finance.
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Bitcoin engineers are building what will literally become the future of global finance one commit at a time. Sideways price action or low volatility won't stop permissionless innovation and shipping code.
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It’s clear that investors want to put their bitcoin to work regardless of its price. Billions of dollars in dormant capital is being activated. Bitcoin-native finance is early.
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Yes, there are quantum developments but nothing remotely close to a breakthrough. That said, our current cryptographic solutions are not even remotely close to ready or battletested so quantum resistance work is definitely worth it. Very small risk but would have a big impact.
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31 days left in the year. Make them count. Botanix eco teams definitely will. Keep building for Bitcoin.
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Botanix simply activates bitcoin capital. It creates a financial layer on Bitcoin that's equally accessible for plebs and suits and everyone in between. Earn, save, build, and use Bitcoin on this layer. That's the future of Bitcoin Finance.
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In the last 5 years, if you had to pick one person who had the most positive impact on Bitcoin, who would you pick?
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1935: $0.15 1976: $0.75 2023: $9.00 Reminder that the money is broken.
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October was the month everything aligned on @BotanixLabs. Rabby, Lombard, AtomiqLabs, and seven others landed. The ecosystem caught fire. Here's what the network was doing: 🔸September: 968,000 transactions 🔸October: 3.3 million transactions (240% growth) 🔸Bitcoin peaked at
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Good thread to revisit:
Bitcoin has a $2 trillion+ market cap, yet barely any of it is generating yield and being utilized in DeFi. @BotanixLabs, a Bitcoin-secured EVM L2, has just launched stBTC, a Bitcoin-backed token that earns native yield from real gas fees. Here’s how it works.
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Shared some thoughts with CNBC. Big picture hasn't changed.
“Bitcoin’s brief falling under $90,000 doesn’t change the bigger picture. Historically, those periods have been the foundation for the next major [bull] run.” Botanix founder @WillemSchroe comments Bitcoin price on @CNBC. Full article here: https://t.co/soEFtGgmp6
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Quantum is like nuclear fusion. It's always just on the horizon. Fears of some bitcoin investors are overblown.
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HBS should rename to Harvard Bitcoin School
HARVARD IS BUYING BITCOIN Harvard University just revealed that they hold $442 MILLION USD of BlackRock’s IBIT Bitcoin ETF. Since the end of June, they purchased an additional 4.9 million shares, worth $318.95M in their latest 13F filing. Harvard QUADRUPLED their BTC exposure
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THE DENOMINATOR IS WORTHLESS. Yesterday the penny died. The half-penny died 168 years ago. Back then you could buy newspapers, snacks, some household items, etc. for $0.01 to $0.05. Now $1-$5 barely buys those things. They will never stop devaluing fiat. Own bitcoin.
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Looking forward to joining this Spaces tomorrow morning (10 AM ET) and talking with a few friends about what's being built on Bitcoin https://t.co/13C0psZGl3
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