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I have never regretted buying more bitcoin and I have always regretted not buying more bitcoin
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The IRS now allowing eligible citizens/permanent residents who didn’t file a tax return in 2019 to register for stimulus payments
@CashApp
to the rescue, offering account + routing numbers to users to receive the payments electronically and avoid waiting for a physical check
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Square $50 million
MicroStrategy $1.145 billion
Tesla $1.5 billion
Conviction and size 🔄
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say what you want about crypto, but the power of raising/sending meaningful sums of money across borders unencumbered so quickly has never been more clear
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A little personal update 🎉
Really thrilled to share I’m joining Castle Island Ventures to learn from and invest alongside the best,
@MattWalshInBos
and
@nic__carter
, two people I have respected and looked up to from my earliest days in crypto
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Thrilled to be sharing some news today - I have joined the incredible Fidelity Digital Assets team!
I am so excited to contribute to expanding the awareness & understanding of this burgeoning asset class and proud to be supporting the
@digitalassets
business as Dir. of Research
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good day to everyone except for people who compare
#Bitcoin
’s energy consumption to the energy consumption of random countries with absolutely no context
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My dad told me he’s been dollar cost averaging his bitcoin purchases over the past few months and I have literal tears of joy in my eyes rn 😭
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To revive trust in crypto, we must return to the values that united us:
— Sovereignty & control
— Transparency & accountability
— Credible neutrality & censorship resistance
Emerging from writing hibernation to articulate and explore these core properties
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web3: “we need more privacy for users”
also web3: “drop your ens in the thread below!”
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all I want for christmas is a wallet that sends me push notifications when gas prices are low
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For an industry built on “don’t trust, verify” it baffles me that we continue to blindly trust without verifying
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the total crypto market cap just passed $2.5 trillion for the first time ever
gm
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$SQ rationale:
- instrument for economic empowerment
- global monetary system
- more ubiquitous currency in the future
$MSTR rationale
- dependable store of value
- attractive investment asset
Bitcoin's success is not predicated on serving a singular purpose
Today,
@Square
announced that it has purchased $50M in bitcoin. Square believes cryptocurrency is an instrument of economic empowerment and provides a way to participate in a global monetary system, which aligns with the company’s purpose. For more, visit .
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This chart from Coinbase S-1 is worth >1000 words in articulating the 2017-2018 retail mania vs. 2020-202? institutional mania
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“If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy” Satoshi Nakamoto
We're kicking off a series that will examine perspectives driving interest in
#bitcoin
, starting with bitcoin as an aspirational store of value. Check it out 👇🏽
Introducing the first report in our Bitcoin Investment Thesis series by
@riasearch
, highlighting
#bitcoin
as an aspirational store of value. Please download and share. Thanks to the many experts and investors that contributed to this piece!
Download here:
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dad, did you rage tweet stats about bitcoin’s use of renewable energy at Elon Musk
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Rookie mistake coming to conference week in Miami after 1+ years stuck inside and expecting to make your 7am Sunday morning flight back home 🥲
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I've never had more fun professionally and a big part is that I get to work with the incredible team we've built at
@CastleIslandVC
Couldn't be more excited to announce Fund III with this crew and continue supporting the best builders in the space🤝
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Bitcoin worked at $10, at $20,000, and will continue to work at the current price.
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Today is my last day at Circle. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to build
@ResearchCircle
& am grateful for the support of my peers (now my closest friends)-the smartest, kindest & most driven people I’ve met who I owe a great deal of my personal/professional growth!
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there's no playbook for music nfts/web3 music and that's an massive barrier to entry but also an incredible opportunity for experimentation
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800k music fans made it a point to buy music ($61m worth) on Bandcamp Friday, the first Friday of every month since March 2020, because they know artists collected 100% of sales
Clear evidence there's demand from fans for avenues to more directly support their favorite artists
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imagine working in any industry that's not crypto
you can't
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get yourself a friend and colleague like
@nic__carter
have so much gratitude towards Matt, Nic, Sean, and Hunter for their mentorship and for the opportunity they’ve given me to learn, grow, and contribute alongside them to an industry for which we share a deep passion 🚀
I want to brag a bit about
@CastleIslandVC
's newest GP
@riabhutoria
At age 28 she is a full GP at an established fund. She rose through the ranks via research at Credit Suisse, Circle, and Fidelity, and now to an investment role at CIV.
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Dad: what are you up to?
Me: hanging out with a couple crypto friends
Dad: are their names bitcoin and ether?
This is all the faith my dad has in my social life
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June can't come faster 🏝️
New speaker announcement!
We are stoked to have
@riabhutoria
speak at
#Bitcoin2021
in
#Miami
!
Bhutoria is Principal at
@CastleIslandVC
!
😎🌴
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My 2020 resolutions: Use more non-custodial applications (eagerly waiting for my Casa node), continue improving my privacy and opsec, buy more bitcoin, and finally finish Dune
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While there are yet unanswered questions, Bitcoin's position is cemented, and its potential cannot be ignored.
To exhibit the extent to which this is true, we highlight notable data and developments that capture investment in and usage of the Bitcoin network in the latest:
Our Bitcoin Retrospective from
@riabhutoria
looks at several notable data and developments over the last year as we enter 2020.
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The number of addresses with at least 1 BTC has consistently been establishing new highs every 1-2 days since March 22nd
h/t
@glassnodealerts
📈
#Bitcoin
$BTC Number of Addresses holding 1+ coins just reached an ATH of 802,715.000
Previous ATH of 802,567.000 was observed on 08 April 2020
View metric:
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Compiling a list of articles and podcasts that address the unceasing criticisms against bitcoin - send me anything and everything I missed
Their arguments get weaker as our FUD fort gets stronger 💪🏻
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one of the best parts about starting a new job is inbox zero and the naive hope that it will stay that way forever
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A masterclass in addressing criticisms under pressure. Nic deserves a million standing ovations for this. The industry is incredibly lucky to have such an eloquent, educated, and level-headed champion on its side.
Well... it’s out. Thanks
@ttmygh
for hosting us and
@profplum99
for the spirited repartee
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Hester Peirce quoting Lady Macbeth in the title of an official SEC statement is why she is the GOAT
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.
@MichellePhan
's clear and simple articulation is just as exciting to me as institutional investors including bitcoin in their investor letters
Go
@trylolli
!
Beauty mogul &
@trylolli
investor
@MichellePhan
talks $BTC and her investment strategy after generating wealth while building her own cosmetics brand and community.
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In our most recent survey, 60% of the investors who believe digital assets belong in a portfolio said they should be considered alongside other alternatives
In our new report, we explore bitcoin’s role as an alternative investment and portfolio optimization tool 👇🏽
We are excited to share the second report in our Bitcoin Investment Thesis series by
@riabhutoria
.
In this piece, we explore bitcoin’s role as an uncorrelated alternative investment that may provide portfolio optimization benefits.
Please download:
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This time, instead of bridging from fiat to crypto, we bridge from crypto centralized within Coinbase to having people actually having an identity on chain.
Listen to Rowan Stone (
@RowanRK6
), Head of Onchain BD
@BuildOnBase
, talk about this and more here!
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the conversation on music NFTs/web3 is incomplete
I'm working on a podcast mini-series to address questions that require more comprehensive responses:
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I am excited to present, the one…the only…2Q19 crypto retrospective by Circle Research 🥳
We go over key developments in 2Q/3Q19 QTD, provide an update on crypto trends we’re watching, review market performance and blockchain data insights, & more.
@WilsonWithiam
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so there *was* a point to all those volcano science experiments we did in elementary school after all
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need a list of all the ladies creating/building/investing at the intersection of web3 x music. I'll start, please add:
@CallMeLatasha
@chrissy_b89
@maggielove_
@cheriehu42
@Verite
@shaileebendavid
@littleboots
@whoisbrux
@coin_artist
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since the beginning of quarantine, I've been channeling my creative energy into learning p5.js (a javascript library based on Processing used to create code/generative art) when I can
decided to finally start posting some of my experiments on twitter:
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the legal and compliance talent flowing to defi projects is underrated
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High school me predicted crypto in 2021
My first photoshop assignment in high school from the archives:
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"Severe shortages of gold bars" has pushed the spread between the CME gold futures price and the physical gold price (London) to $70/oz
"Getting gold to New York, is a heavy lift in the best of times, and, it turns out, quite tricky during a pandemic"
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Dug up this conversation in Mr. Robot S2E11, which aired in September 2016, between characters Phillip Price (CEO of E Corp) and Jack Lew (US government official) 👀
All persons and events ficticious...?
h/t for the transcript
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Bitcoin's 30-day Pearson correlation with the S&P 500 and with gold has turned negative for the first time since February 2020 👇
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Had an unreal dining experience at Kochi NYC for my bday (unreal enough to take shameless pics)
Innovative Korean dining with a secret vegetarian tasting menu based on the chef’s mood 🤤
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didn't think I'd ever use sine / cosine functions again but here we are
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Put together a short post reiterating the importance of economically significant data in assessing digital asset networks, especially because we now have the data at our fingertips (cc
@coinmetrics
)
S/o to
@intangiblecoins
,
@panekkkk
,
@natemaddrey
for their input!
Data in this industry is abundant but complicated. We revisit adjusted vs unadjusted transaction value as just one example.
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brooklyn mirage will bankrupt me this summer and I'm ok with it
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hear me out
play to play
learn to learn
create to create
curate to curate
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Before buying an NFT
1. Check where the underlying assets are stored (
@CheckMyNFT
is a cool new resource)
2. If the storage construct seems poor, reach out to the creator to see if there's a way to retroactively fix (everyone's learning in real time)
Some helpful articles 👇
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There's a new wave of investors looking at bitcoin and it seemed like a good time to formally revisit common criticisms they are wrangling with for the first time
Check out our new post "Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms"
From “bitcoin is wasteful” to “bitcoin is too volatile to be a store of value,” our Director of Research
@riabhutoria
dispels the most common bitcoin misconceptions.
Read now:
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A nuance from Paul Tudor Jones’ investor letter was the choice to subjectively weight properties in evaluating the suitability of assets as stores of value - e.g. purchasing power/trustworthiness were weighted at 30% each vs. liquidity/portability at 20% each
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it's more and more crazy to me that we only get a snapshot of a company's KPIs and financial position once a quarter
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Re-reading The Ender's Game by
@parkeralewis
in light of the events of the last few weeks
"One of the [...] principal conclusions that can be drawn is that future QE (by the Fed and globally) is a certainty and that’s really why bitcoin exists."
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PRESENTING 🥁...our brand new 1Q19 Crypto Retrospective with lots of fancy charts, tables and 101s by
@wilson_withiam
and me - check out the report and thread below 👇🏻
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Got some epic paper cuts reading The Blocksize War by
@BitMEXResearch
, but it was worth it
The account of the multi-year battle between "small blockers" and "large blockers" is a must read to appreciate why anti fragility is lauded as one of Bitcoin's core features
10/10 rec
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opsec should be a part of the onboarding process of joining any crypto company or project
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we desperately need to revive education about the importance of self custody and how to self custody again
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Bitcoin's 7-day rolling avg. active address count has been breaching levels not seen since late 2017/early 2018 👀
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We're hiring!
I've had the pleasure of working with and learning from the most brilliant minds across Fidelity during my time at
@DigitalAssets
and there's no place I'd rather be
If you love
#bitcoin
and digital assets and want to help build something great, reach out 🙂
We’re looking to hire 20+ passionate and innovative engineers to expand our enterprise-grade platform to secure, trade, and support investments in digital assets.
Learn more about our available positions from our CTO Pete Farland:
#FidelityAssociate
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Newsletters I've been reading top to bottom the last few weeks
@MartyBent
Marty's Bent
@arca
That's Our Two Satoshis
@axios
Markets
@LibertyBlitz
Liberty Blitzkrieg
@MessariCrypto
Unqualified Opinions
@jamesob
bearhaus
@EpsilonTheory
@NoelleInMadrid
Institutional Crypto
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first episode in our web3 music series with
@cheriehu42
/
@water_and_music
is out!
we cover:
—harnessing wisdom of crowds via daos
—drivers of web3 music enthusiasm
—why early music & crypto experiments failed
—lingering skepticism from fans and artists
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There are almost 85k addresses with at least $1 million in btc and almost 15 million *bitcoin* in addresses with at least $1 million in btc
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New episode with
@nickwh8te
of
@CelestiaOrg
, the first modular blockchain network, on
—specialization & modular architecture
—scaling via data availability sampling
—social consensus & unlocking sovereignty
Nick drops so much knowledge 🔥 a must hear
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me using bitcoin to rationalize dining out as an investment
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Had the honor to chat with
@bertcmiller
about MEV and Flashbots⚡️
We covered:
- The evolution of the MEV supply chain
- Responding to censorship on Ethereum
- Exclusive order flow and cross domain MEV
- Decentralizing block building with SUAVE
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