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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

3 years

The team behind @VaxHuntersCan is single handedly ensuring Canadian vaccine distribution is ahead of schedule. Not the City, not the Province, not the Feds... a group of entrepreneurial hackers. Within 20 mins of tweeting that there are doses about to expire...

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3 years

This might go down in history as the first domino to fall. The prosperity of nations may be decided by how they approach Bitcoin in the coming decade.

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@nayibbukele

3 years

I’ve just sent the #BitcoinLaw to Congress 🇸🇻

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4 months

There are two types of Canadians. The ones who will be watching the @EdmontonOilers play for the Stanley Cup tonight. And the ones who will be anxiously waiting for the by-election results in Toronto St Paul. The overlap in this Venn diagram is small.

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@MattSpoke

6 months

Unpopular opinion… “Tax the rich” and they’ll leave the country, taking their productive investment dollars with them. #Budget2024

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@MattSpoke

6 months

I woke up this morning feeling a sense of loss. I’ve known for years that Canada wasn’t under the right leadership, but something about #Budget2024 really cemented it for me. 🇨🇦 Canada can be better than this.

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@MattSpoke

4 years

I became a dad yesterday. The beginning of a wild startup.

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@MattSpoke

3 years

I met @AnaPoilievre today at an event. Incredible to see how she’s managing to balance a young family and a demanding campaign alongside Pierre. Huge shoutout to political families who make these sacrifices everyday for our country.

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@MattSpoke

1 month

We bought this house through a corporation. It had been sitting vacant for years. We will build 46 rental units here. Jagmeet doesn’t want us to build 46 new homes.

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@theJagmeetSingh

1 month

New Democrats will introduce a bill that will cool rents by banning corporations from buying homes people can afford. Corporations have had their governments. It's the people's time.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

Cool running into @AndrewYang in NYC. We need more forward thinking leaders who understand tech and crypto to run for political office. I’m not American, but I’m definitely #YangGang

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Great time tonight with @minhokim and @Dustin_Byington at #Consensus18

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

2 months

I’m a conservative through and through, BUT the instinct of many on this side of the political spectrum on housing policy is completely wrong Single egress permissions in BC may be the best housing policy in Canada this year. And other provinces should quickly follow suit

Bruce Banman

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2 months

BC Professional Firefighters Assc. are warning David Eby & the NDP their single stairways in new apartment buildings will put families at risk of dying in fires. Eby’s message to Firefighters is loud and clear; Nobody asked for your opinion, sit down and be quiet. You can’t

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

Getting married in 2 hours... cc @jenkbrown007

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@MattSpoke

7 months

Shots fired at @fordnation ! Ontario has become an embarrassment on housing policy in Canada.

Laura Stone

@l_stone

7 months

B.C. Premier David Eby on fed housing announcement: “We think it’s critically important to tie infrastructure funding to a clear commitment to build housing.... If provinces don’t step up, if they don’t do this, the money should come to the provinces who are doing the work.”

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Collaboration is the key to moving the industry forward.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

2 years

@MarkGerretsen @janephilpott @QueensUHealth @queensu Why isn’t she your colleague anymore?

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 months

Toronto needs more housing. Its a fundamental component to building a thriving city with a functioning economy. My partners and I at Toronto Standard are building. This is an upcoming project we’re building in Toronto. 43 units, all rental, in a low rise building that we

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

I wrote a thing for @ForbesCrypto

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

Milestone hit! AVM launched, and hard fork successful.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

TechCrunch gave @Aion_Network an awesome shout-out today for the launch of our #AVM . Excited to change the pace of adoption our #web3 industry has been experiencing!

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

5 years

Aion Network introduces first blockchain virtual machine for Java developers by @ron_miller

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

27 days

Bloor Street density should look like Yonge Street density. Anything less is arbitrary NIMBYism

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

1/3 I’ve been talking a lot about transparency in #crypto recently. I’m excited to share the first #AionFoundation report, to start leading by example in an industry that is too opaque () @Aion_Network

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

Not sure when it happened, but I just noticed that I got Verified on @Twitter . Cool.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

What a day! The @OpenAppNetwork is the first public protocol to ever migrate from a pure PoW system to now including staking. Security has significantly improved today thanks to @Aion_OAN holders participating in staking. Checking in from Helsinki

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Walked by the old office where we wrote the @Aion_Network white paper in early 2017, and where Nuco used to operate. I’m amazed by how much much we’ve accomplished looking back.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

1 month

@PJforTO Less than the cost of buying the house that was there before. Don’t be an idiot.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Fun judging the results of the #AionFoundation internal team hackathon this weekend on the Aion Virtual Machine. Very cool projects, and incredible demonstration of why #AVM is well suited to replace #evm and #EWasm @Aion_Network

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

4 years

The most exciting emerging thesis coming out of crypto (in my opinion) continues to be the rise of the ownership economy. How crypto is enabling grand experiments in behavioural economics between products and users. My take: @ForbesCrypto

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

2 years

Watching @SBF_FTX interview with @fintechfrank He's obviously changing screens and reading off his computer as he's being asked questions. I think @fintechfrank actually conducted an interview with #ChatGPT #OpenAI @OpenAI

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@MattSpoke

5 months

The @CPC_HQ needs to filter out these anti-housing candidates now. None of your business what size home ppl chose to raise a family in. We need all types of housing, and a lot more of it.

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@wyatt_claypool

5 months

“Diverse housing” means smaller homes not fit to raise a family.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

7 years

That time @helloiconworld hosted us in #Seoul #flashbackfriday @Aion_Network

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

“Being called to Congress is just the tip of the Zuckerberg” . It sounds like we need an @OpenAppNetwork to solve the growing #platformproblems @nytimes @nationalpost

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Great meeting today with the Honourable @miaamormottley , Prime Minister of #Barbados . Very excited to see how seriously this country is taking the development of Blockchain systems, including @Aion_Network . Huge opportunity for BBD to be positioned as a leader in the new economy

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

#Google was the 18th search engine when it launched in 1998. How can we identify the “Ask Jeeves” of our industry? We should put more focus on vision, execution, and team, and keep in mind that open source ideas will he shared and replicated

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

Today, we announced the launch of the @OpenAppNetwork powered by @Aion_OAN . Online platforms have dramatically improved our lives, but they’ve also created unintended #platformproblems . Learn more about our POV here:

The Unintended Consequences of Platform Economies

Every year, more of our daily economic and social behavior moves onto the internet. Most of this movement is facilitated by generous…

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

Will Libra ever launch? My thoughts on @ForbesCrypto following yesterday's article by @TheBlock__ , and the news out of France.

Will Libra Ever Launch?

Facebook may be facing some fundamental challenges in its ability to establish Libra as a sufficiently decentralized cryptocurrency to convince the policymakers of the world to get out of their way...

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

If you’re at Consensus this week in New York, stop by the Aion Lounge on the 41st floor and say hi to the Team!

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@MattSpoke

6 years

Ppl are starting to show up for our @Aion_Network meetup in Cluj, Romania. Thanks to @cryptoland_tech and Centrys for helping us pull this together!

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

A few ppl in the @Aion_Network office playing @ClashRoyale using the @ClanPlayApp tournament dApp built on $Aion. Very cool experience

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

7 years

Awesome turnout at @Andela_Kenya for @Aion_Network meetup. So much opportunity in Africa for decentralized systems

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Cool launch of a new community mining pool for @Aion_Network . Check out

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

2 years

Life is good

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Thanks everyone for the great turnout and support today! What an incredible community we have. Looking forward to #aionex2019 @Aion_Network

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 months

@sweatystartup 4) your house is always clean and you don’t worry about how much it’s costing you.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

So cool to see @Aion_Network meetups being hosted globally!

BitKE

@BitcoinKE

6 years

The @Aion_Network team calling in Live from Toronto at the #AionNairobi meetup.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Very cool graphic illustration of the work happening around the @Aion_Network ecosystem. And lots more coming!

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

I’m constantly amazed by the passion of our @Aion_Network community. This plaque was built by our friends at @aionpool and has since been sent around the world visiting $aion believers from Canada to the U.S., to Sweden, Norway, Poland, Austria, U.K., and more coming!

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@MattSpoke

5 years

1/ A thread on labor, the gig economy, the unbundling of employment, and the big challenges in front of us.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

3 months

I’m excited for the next rate cut. But I’d be more excited by a Premier with a backbone on fundamental housing reforms. Cut Development Charges Increase Density Permissions Accelerate Housing Approvals Until Ford makes progress on these, I don’t really care about his opinion

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@fordnation

3 months

People in Ontario and across Canada need help. The best way to boost the economy and give people stuck with sky-high mortgage rates some relief is for the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates again tomorrow. They need to get this done.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

7 years

Great meetup at @thenailab in Nairobi, Kenya! @Aion_Network developing a great following here

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 months

@maxfawcett Is he not telling the truth though?

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

My trip to Ethiopia with @charitywater reppin’ @Aion_Network in the field

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

4 years

Looking forward to tackling the next big challenge in my life with the world’s best co-founder.... the challenge? Fatherhood

Jennifer (Brown) Spoke

@jenbrownLPE

4 years

Mat leave waiting for baby to arrive means more time for paint nights. 🎨

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 months

There’s something happening in Toronto 👀 And it’s worth celebrating! Citizen developers are a huge untapped part of solving the housing crisis. It’s time to build! #HousingCrisis

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@MattSpoke

8 months

I’ve been waiting and giving @PaulCalandra the benefit of the doubt that he needed time to ramp up as housing minister. That grace period is over. I’m a long time PC voter and member, and I’m getting embarrassed by the inaction of the PCs on housing. Ontario is unique in

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1 month

@tylermeredith Because the govt has always been such a great capital allocator… The question worth asking is “if it’s such a great deal for the GoC, why couldn’t they raise the money in the capital markets?” The likely answer is that we’re funding an inferior company with an inferior product

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

I had fun talking about crypto and @Aion_Network at #RBCDisruptors last week

#RBCDisruptors: Cryptocurrencies - Future or Folly?

Three experts shared their insights on cryptocurrencies at the #RBCDisruptors event on April 26.From left to right: RBC’s John Stackhouse, Matthew Spoke, CEO...

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Guess who I ran into on the streets of San Francisco? Our good friend and partner in #Barbados , the honourable Prime Minister @miaamormottley

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

7 months

Excited about this application. I only wish it was taller. More ppl should get a chance to live beside High Park.

blogTO

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Condo tower proposed to loom tall above High Park in Toronto

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

The history of Silicon Valley is far more interesting than its present. Walked by the garage where @HP was started in 1938

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Hanging out with @galiabenartzi from @Bancor and @BeniHakak from @LiquidAppsIO . Great week in Hong Kong

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 months

🤦‍♂️ Politician from small town Ontario thinks “no one wants to bring up a child in Toronto” These are the ppl influencing housing policy in our province…

Carolyn Whitzman

@CWhitzman

5 months

Associate Housing Minister Robert Flack: “I just want a range of choices… I just want everyone to have a detached house with a yard… no one wants to bring up a child in downtown Toronto”. @Colliers Land & Development conference.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

7 years

Great meetup in #Johannesburg for @Aion_Network with @jayclearynyc and @chocity_mpho

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

I'll speaking at @ProptechToronto on June 25th. The conference aims to bridge the gap between Toronto's dynamic real estate & tech industries. Looking forward to engaging discussions on the state of Proptech, where blockchain fits in, and the impact on the real estate industry.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

4 years

I wrote this almost 1 yr ago before starting @movesfinance . The problems I outlined are getting worse, the opportunity is getting bigger, and our vision is coming closer to reality every day. @OpenAppNetwork and @Aion_OAN will be a part of the solution.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

4 years

Another piece for @ForbesCrypto about how blockchains are building a better financial market.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

4 years

How I start my day

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 months

I find myself very frustrated and confused when I see more to like from the Ontario Liberals than from my PCs. This is the issue of our generation, and @fordnation is not stepping up to the task. #onpoli

Dr. Adil Shamji 🇨🇦

@ShamjiAdil

5 months

As @fordnation and @PaulCalandra rise for an early summer vacation, a scandal is brewing that far too few people are talking about. They made a promise to build 1.5M homes by 2031. However, Bill 185 does absolutely nothing to get us there. Was 1.5M a hoax? 🧵 (1/19) #onpoli

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4 years

Over the past month, our team has been working around the clock to get this much-needed product out to market at @getmovesapp . I couldn't be more proud of the 45 brilliant people behind the scenes who made this possible. Thanks, BlogTO for the great coverage.

blogTO

@blogTO

4 years

Toronto startup is offering loans to food couriers but critics say it's predatory #Toronto

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@MattSpoke

5 months

It’s really happening! Kudos to @BradMBradford and @oliviachow for showing leadership on this. Also, shoutout to @gordperks for calling out councillors who are being dogmatic about this in the midst of Toronto’s worst housing crisis in generations.

Matt Elliott

@GraphicMatt

5 months

Chow’s motion to adopt the new staff recommendation to allow up to 60 units in the six-storey buildings permitted on major streets CARRIES 23-1.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

The @OpenAppNetwork team is at @SlushHQ in Helsinki. Excited to talk to talk about Open Apps and #PlatformProblems

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 months

Irrelevant defence. This is horrible policy despite this. Risk capital drives productivity. Today, we killed risk capital in Canada. #Budget2024

Tyler Meredith

@tylermeredith

6 months

Repeat after me: This is very simple! “The change will not apply to any capital gains from the sale of a primary residence. Investment income earned in an RRSP or TFSA, including capital gains, also will not be taxed.” #cdnpoli #Budget2024

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

Fork! Welcome to the world @Aion_OAN staking

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

2 years

@MarkGerretsen You don’t sound quite as smart as you think you do. Glad to hear @adamchamb share some informed views on Bitcoin and crypto. Shouldn’t be too much to expect federal politicians to be informed on an area of growing importance.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Always good seeing you, Charles!

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@IOHK_Charles

6 years

Good meeting with Aion. Exciting times ahead

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Fun filming session with @MaRSDD on some of the early stories and lessons starting Nuco and @Aion_Network

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6 years

Becoming interested in Bitcoin sparked leaving a big-name job and starting a new company in a complex field. Hear about the early days of @Aion_Network from founder @MattSpoke .

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

My new favorite movie trailer! Featuring the #AVM

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 months

@parismarx Sort of irrelevant whether they leave or not. On the margin, they’ll invest less capital into the economy. That’s a negative for everyone.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

7 years

I love regrouping with my original Blockchain team from @RubixByDeloitte #circa2014 Henry Chan (ConsenSys) and Iliana Oris Valiente (Accenture)

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

3 years

@truth repping #1173

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

2 years

@nvk @bradmillscan I have a Bitcoin guarantee agreement with a friend. He bought 1 BTC. I guarantee the price for 5 yrs. If it goes down, I make him whole. If it goes up, he gives me 20%. I want to scale this experiment.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

4 years

9/ Over the coming decade, we will witness the biggest change in the labor markets we’ve experienced in a century. And we’re not ready for it. Governments barely understand this is happening, and the economic gaps for these workers is growing

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Very cool experience going through this with @ClanPlayApp on @Aion_Network

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Merry Christmas y’all!

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

I just flew 4 times on Ethiopian Airlines in the past 6 days.... crazy news today

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

In Brazil for a couple of days with Verity Group, and speaking to the country’s leading CIOs at the @ExperienceClub1 CIO summit near São Paulo

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

Learning how to adjust to WFH policy, but so far our team is killing it and productivity is stable, if not increasing! @OpenAppNetwork

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

4 years

2020 was a complicated year, but still goes down in the books as my best one on record. I married my best friend and had my first son, Nico. Biggest surprise of the year... that my son didn’t turn out looking like this Chinese face generator app predicted...

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

4 years

It turns out t-shirts tell a good story of a startup.... and there's a few missing to the left.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

3 years

Merry Christmas! From my family to yours.

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 months

Who is this CPC MP fighting against upzoning in one of Canada’s largest cities? This seems contrary to what we’re hearing from @PierrePoilievre and @ScottAAitchison #HousingCrisis

Greg McLean

@GregMcLeanYYC

6 months

Knocking on doors in Bel-Aire: concern about city's plan to rezone whole city (possibly to receive fed housing $$) & affordability (housing, inflation, food prices, interest rates, taxes). There is general view fed govt is on wrong track & it hurts people. #calgarycentre #cdnpoli

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

Awesome meeting the @OathProtocol team today in #Shanghai

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 months

Disappointing take on the change in the capital gains inclusion rate. Tombe’s analysis starts by stating that “a dollar is a dollar is a dollar”, trying to establish an argument for “fairness” in the tax treatment of income vs capital. What he misses is the obvious critique

Trevor Tombe

@trevortombe

6 months

Whether you prefer higher taxes or lower, changing the capital gains inclusion rate made good sense. A missed opportunity to lower other taxes to compensate, however. I explain in my latest for @TheHubCanada : #cdnecon #cdnpoli

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5 years

1/2 The gig economy is facing real problems that need more than misplaced legislation to be solved. The lessons learned in the #blockchain industry offer us a unique design space to address some of these issues. cont...

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

11 months

@Rae_Matt I want to be excited, but you have yet to implement your own housing action plan. And to their credit, the NDP in BC is setting the tone for housing policy in Canada. Its not too late to make Ford (and Calandra) the most pro-housing govt in Canada, but time is slipping away

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

3 years

Love to see this. Where crypto meets Canadian politics. Literally what I dream about. Shoutout to @MichelleRempel for shining a light on a topic we need to talk more about as a country. #cdnpoli #crypto #cdntech

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

9 months

@andrewaperez The WEF of today is a laughing stock compared to previous eras of international organizations. Should they be beyond criticism?

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

SO to @RedPandaMining for this incredible community video following the trip of the Aion plaque around the world to different communityn members. Still missing a trip to visit Shanghai and Barbados, and @iamyulong in London. Special SO to @yanman2477 also!

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

6 years

My intro to the #crypto world over 6 years ago. Reminiscing...

Introduction to Bitcoin

Matt Spoke discusses his introduction to Bitcoinmore :http://aion.networkhttp://twitter.com/aion_network

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Matt Spoke

@MattSpoke

5 years

It’s about that time.

Moves

@movesfinance

5 years

Hello world - we're Moves, a fintech company looking to help out #gigworkers with finances by offering low interest loans to #rideshare drivers and #foodcouriers in #Ontario starting April 6th. Join our waitlist on for $2,500 loans, or ask us anything!

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