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Each time I view this clip, I think of Clarke’s third law. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Reminder that in 1776, Alexander Hamilton was 21, Burr was 20, Thomas Jefferson was 33, Madison was 25, and Monroe was 18.
That this seems unfathomable today should signal something about the consensus view on ambition, risk-taking, and our expectations of the next generation.
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@Lauramaywendel
let's not forget:
"found reviews for Amazon products that began with the phrase 'As an AI language model,' a response often generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
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Web2 influencers are largely reticent to use crypto/ NFTs. That's ok - maybe even net positive. Similar to how Youtube & Instagram influencers weren't Hollywood celebrities (who already had plenty of distribution), crypto platforms allow a new, Web3-native creator class to ascend
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once read a tweet about how existential nyc ticketing systems are and it ruined refilling my metrocard forever
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a common misconception about going deep in a subject and researching it day in and day out is that its novelty will wear off. it doesn't wear off, but your perspective on novelty changes. for a novice, novelty is newness. for an expert, novelty is nuance.
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The open secret is that technically most US banks are bankrupt right now, as they're all sitting on long-duration treasuries that are underwater in a 4% interest rate environment.
Eventually everyone becomes cryptopilled: either by desire or by necessity.
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This isn't hockey stick growth anymore. This is about to be a vertical line.
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1/ Excited to officially debut
@volt_cap
Fund I with
@lmrankhan
and
@MohamedFFouda
.
We're at an inflection point in the space wrt crypto companies, and Volt Capital provides the tools and community for founders to build and scale those businesses.
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1/ Blockchain modularity: a mental model, in-depth analysis of current architectures, the market landscape, and resources to better understand this nascent but category-defining narrative:
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Investors that want to retain a competitive edge in crypto are rushing to develop frameworks to better evaluate pseudonymous founders.
I wrote an outline of what investors look for during the diligence process:
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Coining a term is powerful.
Concepts often nebulously float in people’s minds, almost undetectable, until you give them semantic weight.
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Does this seem rational to you?
Nasdaq is now higher than it was in December, 5 months ago.
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the stock market is completely divorced from the economy is completely divorced from money
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Quite the pivot from selling mirrors with “magical healing powers” to inventing the printing press
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A deep dive on america's looming fertility crisis
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one of the most powerful ways to differentiate yourself in the crypto space is to ship a product
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most people you work with in crypto now will probably be in the space for the next 10+ years.
act accordingly.
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@DasFiesel
This is a common refrain but female deaths during childbirth/infant mortality skewed avg life expectancy downward and founding fathers’ average age at death was 65 (James Monroe died at 73, Thomas Jefferson died at 83, etc)
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My mom has mainstream Arabic news on (
@AlMayadeenNews
) in our living room to track the protests in Lebanon and I just caught a clip of them talking about bitcoin to get around capital controls this is insane
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1/ Over the last couple months, the predominant emotion driving the crypto market was fear and recently that's changed to apathy.
As we reflect on the macro, below is a glimpse of what to expect when crypto markets turn apathetic, through a few different lenses:
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This story of Richard Montañez, a janitor who thought of flaming hot cheetos and later became an exec at Frito-Lay, is probably one of the best examples of grit you'll read about this weekend
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Still have about 8 hours to hit my goal of 30 million followers this year.
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It’s that time of year again:
Announcing the 2021
@tokendaily
Crypto Crystal Ball.
We asked builders and investors in the space to play industry fortune tellers for this post - here's the full compilation of their predictions 🔮
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Watching American politicians lock the United States out of the global economy in real time.
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intermittent fasting is great it's like we're all doing Ramadan together, year round in SF
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Just co-wrote a piece with
@saifedean
on what happens to bitcoin during a financial crisis (or two)
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@AAron756jk
The other 2
1. When [an expert] states that something is possible, he's almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he's very probably wrong
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
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Google maps in wartime: disclosing Russian troops’ location via traffic.
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1/ The important thing to remember is that the crypto story doesn’t end with Coinbase going public tomorrow.
This is the stake in the ground for crypto companies being built now. Even more important than a $100B market cap is the next 100m users.
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Crypto brigade out in full force today on Bloomberg and CNBC to defend our industry.
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“The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”
- Camille Paglia
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wow
@vcstarterkit
just passed 9k followers. i remember seeing the account at 200 followers and knowing it would be big. flawless execution. proud/lucky to be a seed follower.
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USD is losing its foothold as the world’s reserve currency
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Takes 30 seconds to place the call and there’s even an outline of what to say.
The bill as is impinges on some fundamental human freedoms and places the future of mining, dexes, etc in jeopardy. Needs to be amended immediately.
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In closing, consider this most important point: the current bitcoin experience is the worst it will ever be. It’s good enough today to attract 10-20 million users, but it will get so much better.
From Amazon's '99 shareholder letter "In closing, consider this most important point: the current online shopping experience is the worst it will ever be. It’s good enough today to attract 17 million customers, but it will get so much better."
It's still getting better every day
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Juul CEO, eBay CEO and WeWork CEO stepping down plus Volkswagen CEO being charged with market manipulation all within the past 24 hrs makes me feel..a little better about the actors in the crypto space?
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If this was your first crypto cycle, a reminder to save all the best performing tweets from this bull market so you can pass them off as your own in the next.
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“I couldn’t sleep last night so I took my telescope to the roof and just snapped pictures of Saturn, Jupiter, and the moon at 4am” -
@reemaamhaz
with the right idea
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German word for the sorrow felt when bitcoin surges because you can’t accumulate at lower prices anymore.
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The type of person tinkering with ham radio in the 40s was probably the same type of person tinkering with computers in the 80s is probably the same type of person tinkering with bitcoin 2010+
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Eye-opening account of what specifically changes in day-to-day life when you live in a country whose currency suddenly loses 90% of its value.
Stark contrast from the Lebanon of just two years ago which enjoyed the status of an upper middle economy.
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This is probably the most important research report we've published:
Pathways for DeFi on Bitcoin
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never watched a single episode of GoT
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‘Because the internet is an infant technology, if you can do things using a more traditional method - you probably should use the traditional method’
^ Same ethos rational actors in crypto have. Anyone forcibly applying it to everything is irresponsible
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have you ever been so blinded by your hate for tech that you forget 6th grade earth science
Hundreds of thousands of homes across California are without power. But chunks of Bay Area remain conspicuously absent from outage maps: The seats of power for nearly every major tech giant.
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Libra is live on testnet. We gave it a spin and published our findings.
We discovered regular users cannot fully replicate the Libra state machine, as their clients serve as sidecars that connect to validator nodes that actually run the network. For now.
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🔮 The 2019 Crypto Crystal Ball.
We asked builders and investors in the space to play industry fortune tellers for this post - here's the full compilation of their predictions.
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there are investors who took “Twitter will develop an open and decentralized standard for social media” and interpreted it as “my altcoins still have a chance”
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good take on Zuck hearing today:
‘I'm becoming less of a Democrat with every single tech hearing’
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absolutely this.
today i learned the full history of how government officials tried to criminalize https (+ classified encryption as a weapon). one of the biggest reasons it survived (and is now required for websites) was because ecommerce sites needed https to protect customers
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genuinely curious: when was the last time Google built a product in house that was successful?
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I grew up in Las Vegas and seeing downtown transform from a rough, rundown place to a lively spot supporting local shops, businesses, and budding entrepreneurs was really something else. Tony touched so many of our lives. He is eternal.
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Took 5 years of Spanish only to get rusty a decade later when I needed it most
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Volt Capital is hiring 👾
We're looking for a Principal Investor to join our team and help build out the future of crypto.
Learn more below
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For Mother’s Day we commissioned painter Mari Fedi to portray our family in Baalbek, Lebanon where my mom grew up.
Behind us is the Temple of Jupiter, one of the largest of the ancient Roman world. It took 3 centuries to build, and you can still see the ruins in Lebanon today.
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1/ Chatted with
@TheStalwart
about how we’re currently seeing a healthy correction in the market.
As
@Melt_Dem
pointed out in an earlier thread, data largely indicates bitcoin sellers are new market entrants that are panicking.
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“if the government can benefit, it must be kept secret
if the businesses can benefit, it must be tolerated
if the middle class can benefit, it must be licensed
if everyone can benefit, it must be taxed
if a minority can benefit, it must be criminalized” -
@Beautyon_
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will never forget this article from 6 years ago where Fidelity found that investors who performed best were the ones who forgot they had an account:
The hardest thing about stock marketing investing for most people is that generally the best thing to do is buy and then do ... nothing at all.
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This is the Elon candle.
Largest daily candle in Bitcoin history.
Low: $38,058 - High: $46,929
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if Shenzhen is actually on lockdown, this might be a bit more serious than we’ve been led to believe...
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It’s that time of year again: Announcing the 2020
@tokendaily
Crypto Crystal Ball.
We asked builders and investors in the space to play industry fortune tellers for this post - here's the full compilation of their predictions 🔮
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