Zack Guzmán
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Founder & Host @Coinage_media building onchain media @Trustless_media | Past: @YahooFinance @CNBC & @Harvard | $PLYBTN ▶️
Joined May 2011
I just had the honor and privilege of chatting with the Crypto Task Force and SEC Commissioner @HesterPeirce about a critically important topic. And truthfully, I had lost hope a while ago that this day would ever come. As recently as last year, crypto projects were being sued
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Three days before the inauguration, Trump has launched a memecoin that has since risen more than 10,000%. He did so after inviting the Crypto Industry to a black tie event in DC. Here’s my theory on $TRUMP, which is almost diabolical, but totally something Trump is capable of 🧵
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Just how bad is the crypto collapse?. My landlord friend in Dallas just asked me if I know anything about bitcoin miners:. “This bitcoin mining company defaulted, moved out, and left all their equipment behind.”. 200 Antminers 🏃🏽♂️💨
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The Wall Street Journal profiled FTX customers who might lose their deposits and led with a 25-year-old facing the loss of $800
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In a fitting tribute, DJ David Guetta gives a shoutout to George Floyd’s family, remixes MLK Jr.’s I have a dream speech, and proceeds to drop the beat.
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.@AndrewYang just reported another monster fundraising quarter - topping $16.5 million for the first time. Looks like the #YangGang is building momentum 👀. Q1 2019: $1.7 million .Q2 2019: $2.8 million .Q3 2019: $10 million.Q4 2019: $16.5 million
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EXCLUSIVE: I sat down with Terra Founder @stablekwon for his first interview since the project’s $45 billion collapse . Our 2-day conversation premieres only on the community-owned NFTV series @coinage_media. Episode 0 coming Monday.
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Roaring Kitty mockingly threatening E-trade after they weighed kicking him off the exchange by deleting their logo was actually pretty funny. "Don't make me do it. Don't make me."
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Trump's fundraising jump in 2015:.Q3 to Q4: 245% . @AndrewYang's fundraising jump in 2018:.Q2 to Q3: 257% . And now the #YangGang just notched a record fundraising haul to hit $2 million in one week:.
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There is a very important reason why the Trumps are launching $TRUMP and now $MELANIA so fast before the inauguration. And whether you love Trump or hate Trump, the fact is that waiting another day could've opened him up to Constitutional violations & impeachment (again) 🧵
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce was just tapped to run the crypto task force at the SEC and that's so insanely bullish. When I interviewed her last month, she predicted three things would happen under a pro-crypto SEC. This was the first, the others are even better for crypto🧵
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Robinhood blocked trading on GameStop and AMC so people are now turning to trade on Webull, a Chinese-owned trading platform. The "free market" is so "free" we are turning to China.
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I don't think I've ever seen this before. The New York Times just submitted a letter to the court in Sam Bankman-Fried's case about why he was fine to share Caroline Ellison's diary entries with them and why the Judge shouldn't revoke bail and detain him now:. "While the current
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Indiana just opted to fully reopen in a Stage 5 return to normalcy. Stage 5 dictates:. • Restaurants, bars, and nightclubs may operate.at FULL capacity.• Conventions, sports events, fairs, festivals and like events may resume.
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My mother called her Dallas Costco the other day to thank them for making customers wear masks . The customer service person nearly cried saying she’s been getting attacked all day though the phone and appreciated the break from dealing with #boycottcostco.
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The illustrious @ErikVoorhees delivers on why crypto matters. On why the separation of state and money matters. On why people care about Web3 way beyond “number go up”.
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Community and The Hangover star Ken Jeong just endorsed @AndrewYang for president.#YangGang 👀
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Crypto project @terra_money ( $LUNA ) has surged 50% in the last week to hit a new all-time high even with bitcoin down 5%. Its algorithmically-backed stablecoin $UST has become the largest of its kind and keeps picking up Web3 adoption as THE DeFi dollar. Why that is huge ⬇️ 1/X
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@AdamSchefter Kordell Stewart.Rex Grossman.Craig Krenzel.Chad Hutchinson.Jonathan Quinn.Kyle Orton.Brian Griese.Jay Cutler.Todd Collins.Caleb Hanie.Josh McCown.Jason Campbell.Jimmy Clausen.Matt Barkley.Brian Hoyer.Mike Glennon.Mitchell Trubisky.Chase Daniel.Nick Foles.Andy Dalton. Lord, why?.
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Imagine the mind F— . This ball was the invite of all invites in crypto. To be there would have you feeling like you made it — like you’re in Trump’s inner circle. Only for him to turn around and launch the fastest-ever memecoin to hit $15 B . And you didn’t know about it
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Trump has now shown the entire crypto world what he can do without them. All while they were together in the most exclusive room — somehow still on the outside. It shows everyone that the only inner circle that matters in crypto now is his inner circle. Think about that.
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BREAKING: @AndrewYang announces new non-profit Humanity Forward to continue the progress of solving America's 21st century issues. #YangGang lives on
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Crypto is cool cause you can go to sleep in the top 1% of the top 1% and wake up a Bernie supporter.
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Thanks to @Cardano founder @IOHK_Charles for coming on the show to chat all things $ADA.
Cordano Founder Charles Hoskinson discusses the climate impact on cryptocurrency, pivoting to sustainability, interactions with Mark Cuban and more:
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The median age of homebuyers in the US. 1981: 31 years old. 2019: 47 years old. That's insane. (via DB's Torsten Slok)
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One of the most fascinating/least understood aspects of crypto is assigning value to a project's "community". "Community" can mean a lot of things: Devs, validators, users, founding team, etc. @terra_money launching its new chain will be the largest market test on community ever.
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The CEO of the largest crypto exchange in the world didn’t know UST/LUNA too well? . It was the 3rd largest stablecoin and a top 10 project up 13,000% and had literally just passed the market cap of Binance’s own stablecoin BUSD, and @cz_binance “didn’t know it too well”?. C’mon.
I don't hold UST, never had. And I don't know it too well. Usually busy with other things, but now dragged into this.
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Sen. @CoryBooker has made his @SBF_FTX afro envy official:. "Mr. Bankman Fried I’m going to interrupt you because I’ve only got 30 seconds left and I’m offended you have a much more glorious afro than I once had.”
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Literally Snoop Dogg was there.Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary.Speaker Johnson.Vivek.Don Jr. And all these crypto industry execs. Packed in a room to kiss the ring. And they aren’t even on the inside. The end result: The biggest power play you’ve ever seen
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The reason why I focused so much on Terra was because it set out on a mission that had taken down every player before it. Still, it attracted an incredibly talented dev community who built some incredible products unrelated to what failed. For them, I hope.#TerraIsMoreThanUST.
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NEW: Actor, comedian and "Latin History for Morons" playwright @JohnLeguizamo endorses @AndrewYang for president, joining the list of other celebs to endorse Yang, including:. Dave Chapelle.Ken Jeong.Steven Yeun .& Donald Glover.#YangGang
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But right when this party is raging and attended by everyone in the Trump circle, Trump launches the $TRUMP memecoin. It immediately explodes to $15 billion. From sources there, it sounds like no advance mention was made. No one was told about it.
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Senegal knocked out of the #WorldCup on a fair play tiebreaker is brutal:.- Tied Japan in points.- Tied Japan in goal differential.- Tied Japan in goals scored.- Tied in their 2-2 draw.- Knocked out because they had 2 more yellow cards than a team that played keep away. SAD!.
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@mcuban @MMthee0ne @DanielStrobel00 @mcuban you are currently debating someone on economic policy who has “pronouns: Trump/won” in their Twitter bio. Don’t waste your time 😂.
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I’m not saying Trump just used everyone in crypto by throwing a black tie event in DC while simultaneously launching a memecoin without them, but that’s exactly what he did. This industry is his industry now, whether they are aware of it or not. Frankly, that’s extremely sad.
Crypto used to be fun. We used to have a hamster trader who outperformed Buffett by 200%. Then he died. And now the most exciting thing in crypto is a Wall Street cabal coin, the US Government aping in, and a black tie event celebrating the President at $5,000 a ticket. 1) What
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For my college graduation present in 2014 my brother gave me half a #bitcoin. He told me the one catch was that I had to hold it for at least a year and in the shuffle of becoming an adult I totally forgot about it. 7 years later, that $338 present is now worth. $22,868
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As the youngest anchor at Yahoo, I know I haven’t been in the anchor chair as long, but I have learned it’s generally considered a bold move to call a guest a “little bitch” on live TV 👀 .
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I am in shock. CNN just spent the majority of their #DemDebate halftime coverage chatting Andrew Yang. He’s also pacing for his greatest talk time for any debate this year. As a member of the media that has called out the #YangGang exclusion thus far, I think my job here’s done.
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.@terra_money set out to challenge the entire status quo of the traditional banking system. A decentralized stablecoin has never existed on UST's scale. High reward comes with high risk. It would be naive to think there aren't a lot of very powerful people who want to see it fail.
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First, the backstory: Trump is coming into office following an intensely anti-crypto administration. Trump’s inner circle has used crypto personally to make millions in short order. He’s launched multiple NFT collections over the last few years using a company called CIC Digital
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Terra founder Do Kwon proposing reseting LUNA back to 1B tokens, distributed to:. - 40% to Luna holders before the depegging event.- 40% to UST holders pro-rata at the time of the new network upgrade.- 10% to Luna holders at the final moment of the chain halt.- 10% Community Pool.
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The crypto industry is desperate for change. Companies donated HEAVILY to the Trump campaign . In fact, the crypto industry do rates more money to campaigns this year than basically any other industry in the US. So, fitting that an invite-only Crypto celebration might come about
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Mr. President, how are we going to buy American iPhones without China?. Trump:
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Keith Gill! That's his name! AKA DeepF*ckingValue AKA Roaring Kitty he sparked the whole Reddit GameStop thing and finally spoke to WSJ: . I am still surprised at just how likable he is.
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Bitcoin maxi: What’s @terra_money?. Lunatic: it’s building decentralized money. Bitcoin maxi: isn’t that Bitcoin?. Lunatic: it’s like a Bitcoin layer 2. Lunatic(s): 🌕🚀.
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Not gonna lie, seeing Trump use the words “infected” “invaded” and “conquered” here is pretty terrifying. Language that referred to human beings as an infection and instilled fear that other towns “will be” infected if the invaders are not eradicated played out once before….
Trump: Think of the words. towns that have been invaded and conquered. They've been conquered, they've been conquered. And we have a lot of towns that haven't yet been infected
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This is all happening while the Trumps are also building their DeFi project World Liberty. The platform is picking and choosing which cryptos will be winners and losers as we speak, and they can front-run as much as they want and absolutely print cash.
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Apple rolling out an interesting pricing strategy for the iPhone 12
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A year ago, Universal Basic Income was mostly a fringe idea only referenced on the national stage by @AndrewYang. But after $1200 relief checks were sent to Americans through the CARES Act, the idea is gaining steam with pilot programs across the US. READ:
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Dave Chapelle's endorsement for @AndrewYang joins other celeb endorsements coming from actors Ken Jeong, Steven Yeun and Donald Glover. (Note that unlike tonight's all-white debate, that group is totally comprised of minorities).
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Just to recap the last 50 days for #LUNAtics:. 4/5: LUNA hits all-time high of $119 (2200% 1-yr gain).4/6: Terra's shift to use BTC as UST reserve = main talk at BTC Miami.5/5: LFG reserves hit $3.5 billion.5/9: UST loses $1 peg.5/13: LUNA hits $0.🪦 . 👼.5/27: LUNA 2.0 genesis.
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If you're bullish on ethereum because of the planned network upgrades to burn ETH in transactions, you should really be paying attention to $LUNA and what @terra_money is doing . It's the same idea on an entirely different scale 🔥🔥 1/X.
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NEW: The CEO of Webull tell us the decision to join Robinhood in restricting AMC and GameStop trades came from soaring costs to settle its users trades:. "It wasn't our choice . this has to do with settlement mechanics in the market.".
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I have a Harvard Econ degree and this made my brain explode . To simplify it even further, @saylor has flipped financial markets to open Bitcoin access for bond traders. Now $MSTR is so big, it got added to NASDAQ’s 100, opening access to $BTC for more. Next up, S&P 500 🤯 🚀.
As $MSTR officially enters the NDX 100 today, here is my 1-page executive summary on the "Theory of MicroStrategy" and how to profit off of the unstoppable hyperfinancialization of finance. The trade of the decade is just getting started. Buckle up.
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Crypto is at an existential moment. I understand the desire to make quick money. I understand the excitement of thinking short-term. I understand stand why Trump, a man who has grifted in every way to make money for himself would so easily win the industry. But this ain’t it
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NEW: Terra Founder Do Kwon is now facing a maximum penalty of 130 years in prison after being extradited to the US. He appeared in US court for the first time to face extensive fraud charges that could impact all of crypto. Here's what happens next 🧵⬇️
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WOW! There are some massively high power Democrats who just broke with the Gensler/Warren/Biden alliance:. Sen. Booker (NJ).Sen. Casey (PA).Sen. Tester (MT).Sen. Rosen (NV).Sen. Peters (MI).Sen. Gillibrand (NY).Sen. Hickenlooper (CO).Sen. Luján (NM).
BREAKING: The Senate is voting on overturning the SEC’s anti-crypto rule, Staff Accounting Bulletin 121. President Biden has threatened to veto the bill if it passes. WATCH LIVE:
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I don't think I've ever seen this before. The New York Times just submitted a letter to the court in Sam Bankman-Fried's case about why he was fine to share Caroline Ellison's diary entries with them and why the Judge shouldn't revoke bail and detain him now:. "While the current
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BREAKING: FED CHAIR JAY POWELL SAYS HE WON'T LET TRUMP REMOVE HIM IF HE TRIES. REPORTER: "If he asks you to leave would you go?". POWELL: "No."
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A lot is being made about @AndrewYang's joke about knowing a bunch of doctors because he is Asian - but what about the fact that the moderators tried to cut him off just 34 seconds into the 1 minute he was supposed to be given just like every other candidate?.#YangGang #DemDebate.
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YouTuber @BingingWBabish sat down with us to explain how he went from $40,000 in debt to one of @YouTube’s most successful creators by cooking foods from famous movies and shows:. “I was taking a bet on myself and happily it paid off.”.#MondayMotivation.
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.@terra_money's UST stablecoin has officially surpassed Binance's BUSD in total market cap:. 1. Tether USDT $82 billion.2. USDC $49 billion .3. UST $17.5 billion.4. Binance BUSD $17.3 billion.
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Ethereum scaling solution #Polygon raising $450M in a Series A led by Sequoia is as impressive in SCOPE as it is in SIZE. 40 investors: Tiger, SoftBank, Galaxy, Alexis Ohanian, Kevin O’Leary. $MATIC up ~100% since my August interview w/ @sandeepnailwal ⬇️.
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Chainlink has increased more than 10,000% in the last two years as it gains steam working on hybrid digital smart contracts and interoperability. Chatting with @chainlink co-founder @SergeyNazarov today on @YahooFinance at 12ET about the progress in #DeFi .$LINK
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Sometimes I wonder if @terra_money can keep up its adoption. Then, I remember LUNA's not even tradable on Coinbase yet.
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Interesting that Andrew Yang is so far the only major Democratic candidate to congratulate Tulsi Gabbard on making the October debate, despite also being the candidate who probably would’ve benefited most from more speaking time. Another classy move being noticed by the #YangGang.
Congrats @TulsiGabbard on making the October debate! You earned it. See you in Ohio. 👍😀🇺🇸.
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We as an industry have worked too hard for too long. We’ve worked too hard to fight the narrative that everything in crypto is a scam. And I say this as someone who bought $TRUMP . But do we want to be the movement we know we can be or do we want to be Hawk Tuah girl?
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The founder of Avalanche applauding the @terra_money team and endorsing UST despite the run:. “I'm even more bearish on all copycats, and bullish on UST once the dust settles down.” 👏🏼 👏🏼.
Even fully-collateralized fiat stablecoins have depegged. Even some of the weak algo stablecoins have recovered. Some thoughts. 🧵👇.
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The #YangGang has gotten Andrew Yang's fight with MSNBC to #TellTheTruthMSNBC trending- but as I've said, the #MATH backs his claim:. Yang's speaking time trailed the avg. by the biggest margin in debates moderated by MSNBC (1 & 5). 1: -4.97 mins.2: -3.51.3: -4.7.4: -2.8.5: -5.9.
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The 2 crypto projects I remain most interested in are solving issues now on full display as the SEC threatens to sue Coinbase over stablecoin lending:. 1) @terra_money enables a non-cash backed stablecoin (up 13X in mkt cap this year). 2) @THORChain = true DeFi w/ no intermediary.
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As stocks, Bitcoin and other altcoins tank, @terra_money has surged to hit a new all-time high for 5 consecutive days. As a crypto investor, the uncoupling of correlation is incredibly exciting to see. Be bullish on projects solving real problems with the adoption to back it up.
Crypto project @terra_money ( $LUNA ) has surged 50% in the last week to hit a new all-time high even with bitcoin down 5%. Its algorithmically-backed stablecoin $UST has become the largest of its kind and keeps picking up Web3 adoption as THE DeFi dollar. Why that is huge ⬇️ 1/X
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Like this if you think @Polymarket should add odds on Do Kwon’s criminal charges getting dropped
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Alright I think the time has come to have @THORChain on my Yahoo Finance show. Most trafficked financial news site on the web seems like a good spot to #RaiseTheCaps . RT to make it happen ⚡️.
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BREAKING: BlackRock has filed to allow for in-kind redemptions from its Spot Bitcoin ETF to skip swapping into dollars altogether. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce told me that would be one of the first things she was excited to revisit . The other was $ETH ETF staking. Higher
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Politics aside, it’s tough to find a guy with more positive energy than @AndrewYang. ‘Twas an honor and a privilege to have him on today to look back on his campaign and how the #YangGang moved the country forward.
Highlight: “The energy around universal based income is growing, growing, growing,” 2020 US Presidential Candidate and Founder of Humanity Forward @AndrewYang says. “Now one of of my primary concerns … we just have to get Congress to listen to people and the economists.”
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For three months after the collapse of his crypto empire, @stablekwon turned down interview opportunities. The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal. Even Netflix docs tried. In the end, it was our tiny team @coinage_media that got the real story first:.
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.@APompliano tells us why Tesla's $1.5 billion investment in #Bitcoin is just the beginning of a larger movement by corporate America:.
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Tell me ur at the Seattle airport without telling me ur at the Seattle airport
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Crypto investor @megan_kaspar absolutely nailed her January call for ether to hit $3,400. Now, she's upping her 2021 price target to $8,000 - $10,000 before eventually hitting $100,000 in the years to come 👀.
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@AndrewYang It may not be a popular decision among the mainstream outlets to provide @AndrewYang with proper coverage, but to rectify this wrong I hereby pledge to shoutout the #YangGang each time we now talk 2020 on our show 🇺🇸.
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RUNE down 14% after @THORChain suffered a ~4,000 ETH attack ($7.8 million.) The network’s reserve ($109 million) is making users whole. Obviously better if it never happens, but in the long run network is now more secure and the transparency remains unparalleled.
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Archie isn't exactly a popular name here in the US. But it is more popular in the UK. That said, one baby name tracker has it listed as a more popular name for a dog.
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Indiana's positivity rate at last clip was 3.9%. Keep in mind that New York has held under 1% for more than a month and has STILL not yet allowed indoor dining in NYC to resume (resumes September 30). Even Florida, with a similar 5% positivity rate, kept bars at 50% occupancy
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If USDC is eating Tether's lunch in the stablecoin wars, @terra_money's $UST is eating their dinner. Year-to-date % growth in market cap:.#Tether: 221%.$USDC: 538%.$UST: 1,259%.
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NEW: Do Kwon / Terra vs. SEC off to a hot start in Manhattan court today. We already got a jury selected along with opening statements from both the SEC and defense teams (plus’s some pretty hilarious material from Judge Rakoff) . Here’s everything from Day 1 🧵
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BREAKING: The Genius Act stablecoin bill has crossed the necessary 60 votes to move forward. Huge.
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Trump on El Salvador:. "En El Salvador los asesinatos cayeron 70% y te dicen que es porque enseñaron a los asesinos a ser buenas personas, pero en realidad mandaron a todos los asesinos a Estados Unidos". Que dices, @nayibbukele? 🇸🇻
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