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Ben Basche

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Husband, dada, devil’s advocate in crypto. Global head of macro @westhamgc . Prev @rainbowdotme

Ethereum and beyond

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Joined October 2012

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Ben Basche

1 year

1/ The Future of France is Now New blog post: Noncustodial finance is crypto's way across the chasm In it I break down the emerging "NoFi" meta, where we are FINALLY seeing consumer-grade applications using blockchain rails to compete with traditional finance on its own terms

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5 months

@BrendonLeslie Sure but none of them have a gayer last name than Leslie

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2 years

Polygon killed Solana

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@kenklippenstein Shart

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5 years

Anyone else use the URL bar as a way to strip out formatting before pasting stuff?

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3 months

@lionel_trolling It’s coconut season. Let her cook

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2 months

@JoePostingg she also made several verbal gaffes and nobody will care. Seems very nervous but will improve

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1 year

@thechosenberg How do you possibly admit this Lmfao

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2 months

@spectatorindex It's over for dentists and plastic surgery tourism

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5 months

@drcarlhart @YousefMunayyer @Columbia Concerned alumnus here. Wtaf

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5 years

@PeterHamby Wonderful cynical pablum as always from the sentient college admissions essay

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5 months

Balaji is Andrew Tate for people who are good at math but can’t read

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1 year

@amyklobuchar @majorityfm @MNAFLCIO

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2 months

@Polymarket The replies rn

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3 years

The Solana and AVAX community’s (particularly its leaders) willful misrepresentation of Ethereum’s scaling roadmap is pretty wild to see. Just complete disinformation pumped out every day

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Ben Basche

1 year

Reactionary fintech accounts are pissed that UPS workers are making more than their shitty trading

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Stock Market Drip💧

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2 years

I don’t give a shit if Polygon leveraged the sidechain and relentless marketing and BD into a strategic Zk play if it contributes significantly to scaling Ethereum trustlessly

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4 months

@DianneCallaha16 @thestustustudio @RashidaTlaib @POTUS Fuck Joe Biden

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3 years

@krystalball @AndrewYang Be that as it may - I really do not understand your stanning for this techno-utopian grifter whose current path will basically gut the social safety net in favor of a technocratic UBI. He isn’t on the left. He’s a prototype for capital to try to revamp neoliberalism

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10 months

@JSTOR Hey. Fuck you

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9 months

@ettingermentum I don’t get it. How is he so bulletproof

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7 years

@KermitTheFrog @NouraAyria @chrissyteigen Slay frog king

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2 years

VCchains: you’ve probably got 6-12 months left before EIP4844 vaporizes the alt-l1 thesis for good Make it count

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1 year

@kenklippenstein

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3 years

Ethereum’s true believers are much more aligned to socialism than people (including them) realize

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2 months

@EmmaVigeland Did not think we were living in this timeline

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Ben Basche

7 years

Netflix should experiment with bringing back staggered episode releases of marquee shows but instead of once a week do it every night Problem binge model is inability to carry the conversation Stranger Things s3 dropping nightly over a period of 9 nights is a cultural DDOS

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3 months

@HeidiBachram @BernieSanders Bullshit

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2 years

Ethereum is not comparable to a nation state or a nation state’s currency It’s comparable to the global economy

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2 years

Been waiting for this one for a long time and it didn’t disappoint @VitalikButerin x @TBSocialist

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Talking Politics with Vitalik Buterin (Part 1) — The Blockchain...

I interviewed Vitalik Buterin about his thoughts on the political aspects of crypto. It was a candid discussion about his book “Proof of Stake”, the evolution of Ethereum, and the dangers of the far...

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Ben Basche

1 year

I hate this Midjourney discord shit so fucking much. What an annoying form factor

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Ben Basche

3 years

Starkware is doing great work, but Polygon seems more committed to Ethereum and has a strategy specifically built around it. $MATIC getting more interesting by the day to me

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2 months

@ettingermentum Who’s Joe Biden

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@ByYourLogic Michael Che go on chapo

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@ettingermentum Been dying about this one for an hour

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@cushbomb Praise Eywa

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2 years

I honestly will never forgive society for how it handled COVID 19. Incredibly angry

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We know by now that COVID affects the brain. One Infection can do serious damage, what will happen after multiple infections ? A quick 🧵 on COVID & Your 🧠

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2 months

@umichvoter All of my boomer lib relatives love Walz lmao

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5 months

@JaredEMoskowitz You are not a serious person

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2 months

@dirtbiketeenmom Wendejo

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Ben Basche

3 years

Cracked top 100 finance apps in the US

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2 months

@ettingermentum Because that’s how Trump does in fact look at them

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3 months

Lmfaooooo

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3 years

One of Michael’s best moments. Crystal clear Michael Brooks takes a question on Israel via @YouTube

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3 years

PSA: it will come a bit of a tough surprise when it dawns on some of you that a lot of what you’re complaining about as “web2” is actually kinda just capitalism

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Ben Basche

8 months

. @0xMert_ reacts to Solana going down

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Mert reacts to Solana going down

Mert reacts to Solana Mainnet Beta going down on 6 feb and not being able to dunk on Eth people for a few days

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1 year

@TrueSlazac @jtbxl Fixed it for you

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Ben Basche

7 years

VC congratulations twitter is by leaps and bounds the most boring thing in internet history

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1 year

@EPM106 His Biden is great wtf are you talking about

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1 year

@GenePark

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Ben Basche

7 months

Everyday I wake up, more homework This isn’t an industry This is school

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2 years

@kenklippenstein Dark Lula sends his regards

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Ben Basche

6 years

We’re sending our geriatric blowhards, China sending their young and hungry. It’s over, we lost the 21st century

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6 years

This was the most circulated photo of the US-China trade talk in China today

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Ben Basche

3 years

Call me crazy but an L1 blockchain running Twitter ads is probably an anti signal

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6 months

You’re into crypto? Ok. What chain?

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Ben Basche

4 years

Apple should start telling iOS users what Facebook is up to

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Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’

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Ben Basche

11 months

Proof of inference - decentralized AI using EigenLayer

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7 years

First time this Facebook feature has brought me joy. This from @tferriss will give me chills for always. Past & future are always Now

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10 months

@cushbomb ❤️ hope you’re enjoying being daddy Cush

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2 years

@proetrie Law and order

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@TSoS_

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2 years

It’s been an awesome ride, but today is my last day at Rainbow taking a breather to finish Moby Dick, and figure out what’s next I’m looking to stay in web3, and am open to product opportunities with a great team. Will be doing some consulting / advisory work for now 🫡

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Ben Basche

5 years

Fascinating pyramid theory of communication-social from @evanspiegel Top-talent Middle-status Bottom-expression-communication Snap is most focused on the top and the bottom and so far has moved away from the middle, believes bottom is the foundation

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1 year

1/ New blost post: The Wallet-Centric Customer Experience Stack

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The Wallet-Centric Customer Experience Stack

As web3 matures, so does its infrastructure and tooling, and one of the most interesting developments lately has been the emergent stack forming around an embedded wallet of one kind or another....

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3 years

@calebsaysthings dude do not delete this, that’s what the SJWs want

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6 years

@MattLech He's such a fucking idiot it's unbearable

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2 months

@0xdoug This but to the Fed honestly tbh

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10 months

@Forever_Wario Please I’m dying

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3 years

🌈 cracking top 200 finance apps in the US

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1 year

@JoePostingg Demons gonna demon. He’s in this for the love of the game

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1 year

@john_sipher @cspan @jonstewart @DepSecDef Lmao shut the fuck up

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2 years

Polygon threw the EVM a lifeline and muddied the alt-l1 trade at the point of maximal ethereum vulnerability. Not only was the PoS chain their only option at that point, I strongly believe Ethereum’s entire story would be less credible today if not for Polygon

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Ben Basche

3 years

I have always kept one eye on crypto but over the past few months, I’ve found myself unable to look away So… I’m turning my gaze to the digital frontier and proud to announce that I’ll be joining @rainbowdotme to work on product with this amazing team 🌈

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2 years

@TrustlessState @TornadoCash His name was David Hoffman

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5 years

“Based on several LinkedIn resumes and a recent tech talk, it now seems like more than 50 engineers are working on a secretive low-code/no-code project that’s part of an effort called AWS For Everyone.”

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@nationalparke @briebriejoy Yeah yeah but we need to defend ourselves!

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11 months

We need a bald beard guy for Ethereum. Cannot let Solana open up a gap here Who’s building this

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“Solana is the fastest, most performant, most scalable, and the most cost-efficient chain out there, and will continue to be for a very long time” - @0xMert_ 💪 Learn why developers across the globe are building on Solana:

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@AutismCapital @lex_node Autist vs lawtist

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@MattGrossmann @EricLevitz Small business tyrants bringing us car dealership fascism

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@AlexThomp @mehdirhasan It’s the first sign of life, of even basic self preservation instincts, I’ve seen from the Democratic Party in 20 years

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3 years

Building an alt-L1 is a waste of time. All of these properties are possible at ethereum layer 2 and then some, without needing to bootstrap decentralization, consensus and security It’s incredible how much time and energy is being wasted on this kind of duplication

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ICYMI: Stanford researchers raise $32 million as they build a privacy-focused blockchain

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5 years

For my Yang Gang friends who don’t read: Grundrisse - Fragment on Machines

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Welcome Yang Gang, but did Andrew really say that Marx didn't anticipate technology????

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6 years

Who could have predicted that @jonathanvswan would launder talking points for the White House at the most critical and consequential moment?

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@hasanthehun This should be the number one attack message. Period.

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@NOTSeanMcCarthy The democratic leadership truly deserve the wicker man inside the bass pro shop pyramid that president MTG is going to entomb them in

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@ettingermentum Funniest person of all time

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@ryanlcooper Destroyed Greece

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@proetrie Convincing everyone their neighbors are potential threats

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@nearcyan I have a feeling that we are gonna have a privacy catastrophe at some point in next 5 years that will force people to rethink So many centralized actors sitting on so much data they should not have

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@harrisonjaime Can you please resign, or will you wait for Kamala to fire you?

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Noah Joseph Basche, 3.5kg 2:22pm SAST on May 20th 2020. Born at home in the pandemic. Hoping and praying for the world he and his brothers are inheriting

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@ettingermentum

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@BrandSanderson Ok king

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2 years

Everyone in SV is a libertarian until their bank fails

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How fucking funny is it that “blockchain + AI” might not just be a thing, but the most important thing of all time

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5 years

Old Town Road is a platform

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@Smerity @levie

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