Jeff Garzik
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Prev: early #Linux kernel, #Bitcoin Core. Now: energy/acc humanist, network plumber @hemi_xyz
Atlanta, GA, USA
Joined December 2009
Energy abundance is the root of the policy tree, the big unlocker. With energy abundance, you have factories, jobs, national security, energy security, food security, water security (desalination), GDP and so much more. With energy scarcity, you have foreign wars over scarce
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i really want to believe that NYT is trustworthy but that has become nearly impossible the whole framing of this new crypto story (yet again) relies on the (false) premise that the prior admin’s attack on crypto totally normal it wasn’t the attack was widely rebuked for years
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A top White House official says Trump plans more mineral deals — and wants Congress to protect projects from lawsuits. If there was ever a time to be invested in great mining assets and stocks based in the US, this is it.
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You’re being identified even without cookies: Incognito Mode doesn't make you invisible. Neither does your VPN. Websites don't need Cookies to track you. One method is Canvas fingerprinting How it works: The website secretly asks your browser to draw a hidden image (text +
"If I delete my cookies, advertisers can't track me." 💀
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The era of building one's own PC is coming to an end.
They are slowly phasing out consumer grade pc parts in an effort to make owning your own hardware unaffordable so that in the future you will no longer be able to self host your own content and offline AI The time for piracy is now. Start hoarding hard drives like your life
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Bitcoin’s objectivity is the benchmark. Ethereum’s speed is the advantage. Hemi combines both: a PoW × PoS design where each consensus keeps the other in check.
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"Should You Trust Your VPN Location?" Trivia: Bahamas and Somalia are completely virtual countries, from a VPN standpoint. What is a virtual country, you ask? Well... Link:
ipinfo.io
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
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SOTA Claude Code is impressive. "Goal: Optimize my code. Research similar algorithms, and study. think hard. It MUST be better than the system reference implementation. Prove it works by passing all integration tests." And... it does.
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🚨 SEC Gives DTCC, the $100T backbone of U.S. markets, OK to Tokenize Stocks on Blockchain 🚨 You will soon be withdrawing Russell 1000 equity tokens 365/24/7 to your crypto wallet in USA DTCC told Bloomberg their ultimate aspiration is to add the entire depository
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Tunnel BTC to Hemi and move hemiBTC to Ethereum via @StargateFinance to participate in our fresh pool at @CurveFinance. -1:1 directly mapped and freely withdraw-able -1.6% native yield + .6 bonus for any hemiBTC depositers -160% limited-time CRV incentives Three steps: 1)
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E.T. has the inside baseball 👇
🚨NEW: Democrats negotiating the crypto market-structure bill say they’ve accepted “significant portions” of @BankingGOP’s RFIA text, but the GOP’s December 4th offer still misses key principles Dems are seeking. Their three-page counteroffer, a copy of which was sent to me, lays
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The main reason a broad basket of stocks compounds at ~8% annually is because the supply of USD compounds at ~8% annually.
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Synthetic Bitcoin needs infrastructure that aligns with Bitcoin’s security model. That’s why @MetronomeDAO is building on Hemi. #BTC
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Whenever I hear @elonmusk talk about data centers in space, he is always talking about scaling. Space scales massively better than Earth. Consider: A permit for orbital locations for a mega constellation of 20,000 data centers requires 1 application and approval from the FCC.
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The Manhattan court just ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million ChatGPT conversations to the New York Times and other publishers. What sounds like routine discovery might actually the largest forced disclosure of private digital speech in history. Even stripped of names, this
Court Forces OpenAI to Hand Over 20 Million ChatGPT Chats https://t.co/GXbbLALg10
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PayPal made it possible to pay online w/ credit cards, because banks didn't want to cannibalise their profit margin. Stripe made it possible to receive payments online, because PayPal didn't want to cannibalise its profit margin. With stablecoins, we no longer need Stripe,
"Stripe charges a 1.5% fee for stablecoin payments, settled in USD" What happens when merchants realise they do not need Stripe to accept stablecoin payments, or any software-as-a-service vendor. If you are running a low-margin international eCommerce business (think Temu, but
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It’s time to affirm life. There are two ways to organize your values. One is around resentment – “who hurt me, who’s to blame, who needs to be taken down.” The other is around life – “what’s actually good, what’s worth building, protecting, and celebrating even in a messy
Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile. Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks: • Davos expert morality is stale and discredited. • It's also
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