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what we do in this life echoes in eternity @standardcrypto
Sloan's Lake
Joined February 2015
For over a year, I've been wondering - can we improve Bitcoin's settlement assurances and stabilize Nakamoto consensus? And how will new opcodes and new fees impact miner economics and, more critically, network stability? We explore this and more in Pooling in OP_CAT's World
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mountains and diverse geographies are nice
Humans congregate around tectonic anomalies like moths around a lightbulb
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NEW @gwartygwart pod: Launching @monad w/ @keoneHD & @intern "It's not acceptable for us to just get to mainnet and then stop working" - Keone says the team is focused on success beyond just launch. Brought to you by @ellipsis_labs
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A person I have known for more than ten years, who I consider trustworthy, is convinced the cryptocurrency economy will shortly experience a systemic risk. I don’t know anything concrete, but if I were exposed, I would be concerned.
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A few heretical predictions for the next decade of crypto. https://t.co/ulrk3Lt1Cg
standardcrypto.vc
Crypto sits in a strange place: adored and despised, well-studied yet misunderstood. We put forth a few end of 2025 Predictions on where we think Bitcoin et al are headed in the next 10+ years.
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Six months ago today, Steak n Shake launched its burger-to-bitcoin transformation when we started accepting bitcoin payments. We then created the Bitcoin Steakburger, and after that, stack 'n sats, in tandem with the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Now we are pursuing the expansion of
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This is (somewhat) only natural. Incumbents have distribution, revenue and users to protect. eg Meta rev was $51.24bn Q3 2025. These startups are gunning for this revenue and incumbents are spending CAPEX higher than startups valuations to protect it. Investors backing xAI,
combined revenue here is like $2B
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pow for liveness, pos for finality. heat for network sustainability without issuance
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this and privacy is the feature, innit?
For over a year, I've been wondering - can we improve Bitcoin's settlement assurances and stabilize Nakamoto consensus? And how will new opcodes and new fees impact miner economics and, more critically, network stability? We explore this and more in Pooling in OP_CAT's World
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We are on the cusp of so many great things being built in and on Bitcoin.
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Mises on prices and pricing in the market economy. There is much to learn here. Read it carefully. (From Human Action, p. 526.)
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Sign of the times. "Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy" - Carl Menger https://t.co/8DJXt5S8Ou
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A historic end to U.S. penny production as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent strikes the final coin Wednesday. Rising costs make each penny cost about 4 cents to produce.
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I'm a single issue voter, I want the warm lights back. Streetlights are too blue. Headlights are too bright. It's a crime against nature and God. We need to demand 2800K or below color balance for all outdoor lights. Some cities regulate 3000k max, that's still too damn blue.
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