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@Delphi_Digital | Wordcel in Residence

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Excited to announce the full Delphi Digital DeAI Series is now unlocked. This series spans four reports, 36,500 words, and 158 graphics. I'm biased, but believe it to be the most comprehensive assessment of the space to date. A space likely to define crypto markets for the

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If you are a budding DeFi enthusiast, I have a treat. Went full anti-social mode in March to deliver 50 pages on Stablecoins Hoping this can be a good resource for the many looking to get up to speed on DeFi's largest market & how it may evolve

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REFLECTION DIGITAL - Stablecoins in Unstable Times

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@MacaesBruno I am 100% convinced the world would be a better place if we had more 36 year old PMs clubbing till 4am

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I suspect the biggest arb in crypto over the next 3 years will be western capital that can effectively source Chinese deal flow The crypto adoption story is an emerging market story more than anything (crypto is just less important if you are earning 5% on USD in your JPM

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Why I'm bullish on DeFi protocols flexing into "real world assets"... And why DeFi should make temporary ideological compromises to reach billions of users and $10s of trillions in capital... 🧵(n/10)

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1/ Why I’m bearish on real-world assets in DeFi lending protocols A 🧵

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@ASvanevik Yes broadly. But eventually, these countries will start selling US-denominated assets for USD and you get problems in the treasury market and a negative valuation spiral for all types of collateral Then fed is forced to backstop, print more, devalue dollar, and around we go

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@ByrneHobart Nothing hits quite like the prince of Egypt for the third Friday in a row

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For all the Taipei enthusiasts out there… @benthompson @joonian @Noahpinion @tszzl (Moria)

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@nic__carter Yup. Been writing about this.

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A Deflationary Asset Bubble & the One-Eyed King

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In honor of @Delphi_Digital 's Crypto x AI Month kicking off, I put together a quick teaser of the four long form DeAI reports we will be releasing in the weeks ahead. Going to be a big month.

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This Crypto x AI stack by @momir_amidzic and @bidhanxyz is the best I have found yet. Made a few edits below, but will be shamelessly be using it in our upcoming report. Additional comments welcome.

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Crypto x AI map v2 Thanks to @bidhanxyz for the review

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Looks like this year’s Google Temasek Bain: 2020 Southeast Asia Internet Economy Report is out: At full velocity: resilient & racing ahead @juliey4 @EMparadigmshift maybe you can find the next $SE in here 😎

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I am unwell and have now written 24,683 words on DeAI this summer.

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part 3 (middleware) of our 4 part crypto x ai series out now. as a reminder, part 1 (below) is free to read. Pt 1: The Tower and the Square (Overview) Pt 2: Seizing the Means of Production (Infrastructure) Pt 3: DeAI III: Composable Compute (Middleware) Pt 4: Soon (App Layer)

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$SE at $88 is a crime

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The AGI Conundrum I am honestly beginning to discount a fairly high probability AGI arrives by the end of this decade. Most people are aware of this in the odd, distant kind of way that they think about their own death. Like ya, maybe its going to happen but its far enough away

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This week's deep dive focused on comparing the current leaders in O2O Lending: @maplefinance @TrueFiDAO @goldfinch_fi Write up TLDR below 👇👇 (0/12)

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Valuing Next-Gen Lenders

Maple ($MPL), TrueFi ($TRU) & GoldFinch ($GFI) & the O2O Battle

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Successfully futarchy pilled by @mrink0 The intersection of markets, AI and governance is the formula for institutional overhaul

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my man @mrink0 with the bible on prediction markets ( @Polymarket ) and futarchy ( @MetaDAOProject )

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I am slightly biased… but, would recommend

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Pt. 1 of our AI x Crypto report is now unlocked for FREE!🔓 Will the future be ruled by colossal models from a few tech giants, or will millions of diverse open-source models thrive? A global neural network? A hivemind🌐 Read the full report NOW!👇 📘

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I have recently joined @Delphi_Digital . First deep dive is out. Big thanks to @IridiumEagle for his help on this one.

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New Crypto x AI Research Report 🚩🤖 The best read on the war between Centralized AI Companies (OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft) and OpenSource AI The modern day David vs Goliath Fantastic work @PonderingDurian / @Delphi_Digital

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I'm sorry ser, but no. I will not. Even down bad, I will not stop writing 40 page bangers on the Future of France for the budding DeFi enthusiasts ***DeFi & The Next Frontier: On-Chain to Off-chain Lending*** The future is O2O.

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REFLECTION DIGITAL - On-chain to Off-chain (O2O) Lending (May 5, 2022).pdf

REFLECTION DIGITAL - On-chain to Off-chain (O2O) Lending (May 5, 2022).pdf

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Fun pod with @VaderResearch on all things DeAI, touching on some of the takeaways from my recent Delphi DeAI series. Re #4 below, would just clarify that taking large enterprise demand from cloud incumbents will be very hard, but there are other, more cost conscious sources of

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. @PonderingDurian from Delphi Digital joins the show to talk about DeAI. Here are some takeaways: 1. Agents create a strong bond with users and thus are in a better position to monetize compared to social networks. Affiliate marketing models are expected to be an additional

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@kamikaz_ETH Disagree. Grit is under-rated and New York is surprisingly blue collar for a city of its caliber Rich layers and diversity of human experience hard to capture in any other city New York still slaps

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@Noahpinion “War on math” ends poorly. Shocking outcome.

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Perhaps cliché for CT, but always was a big fan of The Sovereign Individual. So prescient written from the perspective of the 90s @hasufl and @zhusu nailed it in the back half of this episode. Would recommend

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The Sovereign Individual - with Su Zhu and Hasu

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I used to be quite skeptical of yoga, meditation and long solo walks without a device Now I would consider them all increasingly essential I wonder what other practices / habits I’d previously dismissed which are low hanging fruit with high personal ROI

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@thasinski @tculpan @brianhioe @thejimu @OutRecording @dearclarissa @foreignersinTW @karissachen @AnushaHiking Snapped these two on the way home!

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@bgurley Last I looked, MDRs were ~50 bps. Ali & WeChat Pay essentially “blitzscaled” payments & run them at breakeven to get the networks, engagement, data to then monetize on digital financial services. No cards. Everyone in EMs now going for same playbook

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Had to do it - they are too cute. The revolution is coming to Southeast Asia #MakePenguinsFly

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Banger. Might be my favorite thread this year. @Noahpinion curious how you would respond to @PeterZeihan 's views on deglobalization and how it may impact these development stories?

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1/A thread of all my "country development" posts so far. 🇧🇩🇮🇩🇩🇴🇵🇱🇹🇷🇵🇭🇯🇲🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇰🇭🇹

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I’ve stopped writing and noticed I’m significantly less articulate in verbalizing my ideas. Writing is how I synthesize. Time to 🔥 up the notebook again :)

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As you will see, I took liberally or referenced content from: @twobitidiot @TusharJain_ @MarcRuby @ByrneHobart @Delphi_Digital @RyanWatkins_ @jonwu_ @ByrneHobart @MessariCrypto @cdixon @mariogabriele @jackchong_jc @0xkowloon @LynAldenContact @balajis @paragkhanna & more

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It’s pretty simple really. The marginal cost of intelligence is heading to zero. Buy assets.

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6/ Protocols like @maplefinance & @TrustToken building lending marketplaces, bridging financial institutions & DeFi pools Protocols like @centrifuge & @MakerDAO lending against RWA Protocols like @goldfinch_fi & @Credix_finance marrying DeFi pools & emerging market borrowers

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2 down, 2 to go. Next Up...

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The DeAI Stack Pt. II 🌐 The networks of capital and labor which underpinned the 20th century will give way to those of the 21st: networks of data and compute. After establishing a crypto AI framework in Part 1, @PonderingDurian investigates the infrastructure layer in Part 2.

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Europe is super nice. Kind of feels like where ambition goes to die.

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I'm not sure why this is surprising anymore. Building is harder than investing. Capital is abundant. Crypto democratizes investing. Only ~2% of people can build something others want to use but anyone can invest. Investing is to the 21st century as labor was to the 20th.

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More investors than builders at this point And not enough investors are builders

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@Noahpinion how disappointed were you to meet @tszzl in real life?

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I honestly think the next generation of central bankers will spend their post-grad years designing and managing complex game economies

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Currently reading Shantaram by George David Roberts which is phenomenal. Consistently struck by one simple truth: The richness of life is not reserved for those with money, but for those who pay attention

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@Delphi_Digital full alpha feed post:

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Where are the apps? We stand here now 15 years after Satoshi’s debut and the very fair question asked by most crypto-skeptics has not changed? Where. Are. The. Apps. This entire cycle – propelled by...

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I'm in tech, but low-key interested in bio. Not Phd level, more like an arm-chair Phd... dipping the toes in... basically, I'm looking for the @benthompson of bio. Does this person exist @balajis ?

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The Do Kwon / $Luna saga has all of the trapping of a Shakespearean tragedy... The tragic hero ✅ The hero's flaw ✅ The role of fate ✅ Despite the attacks you see on twitter, I think Do is essentially good... but found himself caught in a trap of his own making 👇

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This week, we valued @LidoFinance - the leading middleware helping to underpin the crypto-world's shift to PoS Quick summary below for those interested (0/10):

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Quality writing seems to be an output of 3 things: 1) Amount read before the piece 2) Amount written before the piece 3) Amount deleted after the first draft of said piece Curiosity, practice, and discipline. #3 likely the hardest

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PSA: is live; the best place to catch up with the >1000 subs enjoying meandering takes from your favorite anthropomorphic fruit Please indulge me a bit of self-hype; the pseudonymous road of aspirational relevance is long & lonely Always, Pondering

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Mapping crypto cycles (in 10 charts) 🧵

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Mom, I made a new friend.

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@ByrneHobart Self plug :)

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“It sucks less than your tweets” A ringing endorsement from bae on the below Thanks for having me @bernardleong 🙏🙏🙏

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BernardLeong.eth

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My conversation with @rawson_harvety on the past, present & future of Decentralized Finance #DeFi & the exciting trends we see in the next super crypto cycle on what's coming next via @analyseasia #podcast #podcast

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Silicon Valley seems about 10 years in front of the US and 10 years behind Peter Thiel

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Either be: A) in over your head doing what you love or B) Under-employed making sure you don’t miss the next big thing Maximum employment is the dead zone.

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@Jskybowen Unnuanced take. Even if you don't believe decentralized training can compete, there are a lot of other areas - verifiability, provenance, composability, more seamless cross border exchange - of AI x Crypto crossover

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@thasinski @tculpan @brianhioe @thejimu @OutRecording @dearclarissa @foreignersinTW @karissachen @AnushaHiking 🔥

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I wonder when we will see the emergence of “vulture DAOs”. 1) Pool Funds 2) Short a governance token 3) Go after the peg of an algo stablecoin or similar Repeat Someone is going to be the George Soros of DEFI. Wouldn’t sleep on Ken Griffin…

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It’s increasingly evident Defi protocols will do to banks what eComm platforms did to offline retailers. Sure it’ll get over-hyped, but feels like a pretty sure multi-decade bet.

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@EMparadigmshift Full deck that is reference here if people want it - it’s good.

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@FoliusVentures great report:

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Folius Ventures China Dev Report vF-EN

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Once you realize art is fundamentally about the transfer of unique human feeling, this makes a lot more sense

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We're far more interested in a chess match between grandmasters than between AIs, even though the AIs are way better. I'm noticing the same thing with video and art. Once I realize it's made by AI I lose interest, no matter how good it is. Maybe a good sign for human creators?

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No. 18) Big Tech & Central Planning - building a middle class... Algorithmically? - The evolution of software in different geo’s - Power-laws, populism & policy - digitizing pre-industrialization - Big tech’s paternalistic pivot - long-term greedy

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Big Tech & Central Planning

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Seems there's like 4 high variance areas which will dictate how big DeAI can get: Decentralized training breakthroughs: status quo relative to SOTA a la @NousResearch Web Proof Traction: breaking down web2 data siloes a la @reclaimprotocol Open source incentives: proper

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Probably my favorite new art form

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China outdoes itself again… After setting a world record with over 8,000 drones in a light show… Now they have a 10,000 drone light show.

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Curating a media diet which is informative, yet entertaining while somehow sidestepping the doom scroll / flame wars is the great challenge of our times...

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Mom, please come get me. Their doing not-QE, QE again

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Kinda miss the days when you could just drop you cash in here and get 25%

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Leaving out the 2 billion people in India + SEA seems like a sizable omission here Ryan…

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Crypto people: Curious if anyone has found good write ups or github docs breaking down token distribution allocated between team members? Most tokenomics just have overall team allocation & vesting. Keen to see anything going one layer deeper An "ETOP" pool of sorts...

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Big ups to them. As you scan through and are keen to go deeper on any particular projects, the links to the above writers / thinkers should push you to another level of granularity For any mistakes / comments, my DMs are open or can just dunk on me @Rawson_Haverty Please enjoy

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I've started a new format at Digital Reflections where each week, I dive into the investment case behind interesting crypto projects. Last week was @Filecoin ($FIL)

Filecoin: the AirBnB of Storage

Overpriced Hype or the Future of Storage?

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Dostoevsky woke up in 1869 and decided to one shot half of gen z.

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@tszzl End of History thesis (rebutting the title, not the real argument) is stale not because of the re-rise of authoritarian states but new forms of human Organization we cannot predict I find it relatively unimaginative in a world changing as fast as ours

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@fareastwitcher Exit liquidity

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This week's deep dive was on web3 social and the investment case for $DeSo TLDR below for lazy muppets :) 👇👇

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Fantastic.

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Open sourcing a community-led market map of Decentralized AI. Most market maps are static and biased. We wanted to make one that was interactive and crowdsourced. Pls submit any projects that are missing. We implemented a 3d viz using @d3js_org and a

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Hiring well is a lot like investing. Time and effort on the front end saves a lot of headaches on the backend.

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@mrjasonchoi Seems pretty inevitable there will be a divorce from fiat monetary policy at scale FPI, volt, ohm etc Let 1000 🌺a bloom. Market will decide

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Pretty massive narrative of which I’ve seen surprisingly little analysis. After Russia, China will clearly accelerate shedding US Treasury exposure. Implications are big - for inflation, yields, and debt monetization in the US

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Bruno Maçães

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The birth of the eurorenminbi

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3 years

Interesting to see crypto networks creeping into the physical world - from infra plays like @helium to consumer social like @Stepnofficial Surprisingly bullish on O2O crypto networks

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Amy Zhao

3 years

We're excited to announce an investment by Ocular - @Stepnofficial has successfully completed its IEO on @BinanceLaunchPd , which saw over $3.6bn worth of $BNB staked to gain access to $4.2mn worth of #STEPN ’s governance token $GMT. A 🧵on our thesis -

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2 years

it's probably suboptimal that half of the world's smartest people basically do nothing but place bets on what some old dude in the US says the price of money will be next week

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2 years

It would be pretty cool if my net worth would stop getting incinerated

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3 years

@zhusu Just front running every other CB…

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3 years

Biggest mistake from bears is under-estimating the speed of adoption The path to 5b users will be much faster than the internet - fast data, storage, and smart phones already ubiquitous Won’t need to wait a decade for India, LATAM, Southeast Asia this cycle All at once 📈

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Jason Choi

3 years

One of the most bullish charts in crypto

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3 years

There are 3 certainties in life: Death Taxes And a 47 year old named Elise from your old neighborhood scheming to suck your mom into a multi-level-marketing scheme.

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3 years

The ideas of 19th century economist Henry George applied to rent extraction in the 21st Century 👇👇👇

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Digital Georgism

Economic Rents & Diverting the Road to Serfdom

www.bothfleshandmore.com

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4 years

I have found intergenerational friendships to be some of my most valuable. 10+ years on either side. Wisdom from above. Disruption from below. Unfortunately, they are quite rare.

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4 months

Thoughtful rebuttal to Leopold Aschenbrenner's situational awareness from @IridiumEagle Both essays well worth the read

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2 years

Unexpectedly, some of my most shared pieces from last year were portraits of my favorite cities. No such list is complete without New York.

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3 years

@DefiNation18 A lot of bean enthusiasts out there. It has been added to the list of future projects to cover :)

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4 years

@jwangARK I would argue facebook is dramatically under-monetized

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3 years

People are literally getting paid to play video games “In-game economist” is actually a high-growth profession Millennials and gen Z are building new, digital institutions Pray for the 🐻s The 2020s are going to be dope 🙏🙏🙏

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4 years

ECommerce in LegoLand: The shifting sands of modular vs integrated stacks through space and time Riffing off: @benthompson 's Anti-Amazon Alliance - globally @bgurley 's payments & logistics as the U.S.' missing link @conniechan 's from search to discovery

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ECommerce in LegoLand

The shifting sands of modular vs. integrated stacks through time & space

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2 years

Most people agree a monopoly on violence by the state has been a very good idea But over the last 30 years (arguably 77) we’ve basically had a monopoly on violence by 1 state globally Unfortunately for many, International affairs starting to look much more Hobbesian again

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3 years

I love it when I come across an older person who is still with it and curious Breath of experience, amazing stories, but still humble and hungry to learn Goals.

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3 years

The Singapore skyline is borderline pornagraphic for neo-futurists Need. More. Solarpunk.

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4 years

I feel like “don’t be boring” is surprisingly good life advice.

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3 years

@teebee3456 I was actually reading up on bean yesterday. Next one!

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2 years

As we add researchers, figured best to put long form content under the same account @ReflectionDGTL Vince T with the latest on Solana performance issues 👇 👇 👇

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Reflection Digital

@ReflectionDGTL

2 years

Report #3 : Solana's Quest for Decongestion Can the world's fastest chain fend off the bots & restore performance? Research head Vince T. dives into the service degradation & fixes under consideration to get back on track @solana @solanalabs @KyleSamani

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2 years

1/ The vision of a completely decentralized financial system will not appear overnight In reality, we will see decades of an uncomfortable tension between national powers and the rise of networks. The information revolution brought on by the internet was foreplay.

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3 years

@mariogabriele 3 of the top 5 Southeast Asia 👀

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3 months

Great read. Vibe shift towards TEEs well underway.

@atterX_

David Attermann

4 months

1/ i've wanted to put together a comprehensive report on TEEs for a very long time - its the perfect hardware complement for web3, especially when dealing with AI unfortunately the tech has largely been ignored or rejected by crypto builders and investors b/c of the many

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3 years

@Noahpinion Georgist “digital land tax” on extractive marketplaces Most valuable real estate now in the ☁️

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