San Francisco
* Red skies
* World's most expensive housing
* Local govt hates tech
* Highest state tax
* Feces everywhere
* Oppressive covid mandates
* Bans plastic straws, but not crime
* Woke
Why not San Francisco? Build together.
Miami
* warm water with beaches
* salads with picanha
* roasted branzino with kimchi
* chimichurri steak with salad
* welcoming people
* affordable housing
* Latin Americans, Europeans, New Yorkers, SF, LA, Africans
* Optimism everywhere
Why not Miami? Build together
@realEstateTrent
There were lots of paper records and consequently lots of literal paperwork. They did the same jobs but with lots more paper and slower communication. An email would be a letter. A PDF would be a printed document. A database would be a filing cabinet.
Lightning Labs raised $2.5 million for critical
#Bitcoin
infrastructure. They have a working product now.
#Filecoin
raised $257 million. No product yet.
#Tezos
raised $232 million. No product yet.
#EOS
raised $185 million. No product yet.
@datepsych
High general knowledge, esp in areas that would not be expected.
The complexity of their work and hobbies. E.g. someone's a surgeon, or for fun they program microcontrollers.
Ability to create original work. New, sophisticated ideas, approaches, mental models, etc that are not
With
#Bitcoin
we can now send money
(a) to anyone in the world;
(b) at the same speed as information;
(c) whenever we want
None of these are possible with our current financial infrastructure.
Cryptocurrencies have basically captured the South Korean government. So many people own cryptocurrencies and have a positive view of it that introducing unpopular regulations is politically risky.
After seeing this bizarre crypto market, I can understand why the SEC requires startups to raise money from accredited investors (who need net worth $1M). The average crypto investor gives a new meaning to dumb money.
@CensoredMen
This is the information war:
- "palestinean" <= who even knows
- "israeli checkpoint" <= "trust me bro"
- "with disabilities" <= this is made up
- "threw rocks" <= nobody can tell what he threw
- "murdered him" <= again you can't tell
#monero
is hard forking tomorrow, and it includes a PoW change meant to invalidate ASICs which may or may not exist. It'll also invalidate botnets that cannot update infected machines. Difficulty will readjust within 24h. Results will be very interesting.
ICOs actually have a very important function that will one day be indispensable. They allow for democratic fundraising without VCs getting a large cut. Also programmability of tokens and probably other stuff. But today they're the tools of scammers and abused heavily. :/
@MrAndyNgo
My gut feeling here is that the kind of person who would tear down flyers of kidnapped ppl are also the kind of people to make up a story like this.
One of my hot takes is that in 30 years ppl are going to look back and realize that Zuckerberg's thoughts on internet censorship in 2020 was extremely forward thinking.
#BitcoinCash
is like the dysfunctional, bizarro version of
#Bitcoin
.
- A known fraud is the figurehead
- The intended form of protocol governance is by miners
- Their primary form of outreach is propaganda / brand confusion
- Their origin story is literally a conspiracy theory
@PicturesFoIder
The people who do this (listen without headphones) know they're bothering other people. They get off on some aspects of this though idk what (dominance, confrontation, etc.)
@TheAtlantic
@AKotlowitz
People just don't want to live around crime. Since the US is soft on crime, the only solution is to leave. It's not complicated.
@nikolaiker
OP has never been grocery shopping and/or cooked for themselves. Anyone who has done this knows that preprocessed "junk foods" are actually expensive per calorie. The cheapest foods are large, bulk items which includes many fruits/vegetables.
Banker: We love blockchain, just not
#bitcoin
.
You: Oh ok. So you like databases?
Banker: Not really. I just happen to have a nuanced opinion on this narrow technical subject whose primary application coincidentally poses a significant threat to my industry if it succeeds.
2017/2018 crypto valuations are pretty much popularity contests. We are still not close to a time where valuations are in line with tech. Things are going to change when professional $ flows in, meaning institutions who actually do adequate research.
@persianjewess
This was so shocking I had to look it up.
Apparently a Palestinian took a sniper rifle and deliberately aimed for the baby. He got 3 life sentences. The PA Martyr's Fund pays a stipend to families of ppl imprisoned by Israel for carrying out violence against Israelis. It has
Issues of our time (unranked):
- sugar (obesity)
- endocrine disruptors
- residential zoning
- central banking
- higher-ed tuition
- cost of healthcare
- fossil fuel carbon emissions
- pension debt
- war on drugs
Almost everything else seems downstream of these issues.
I don't think most ppl in crypto care about decentralization. Many projects are doing the bare minimum or subverting it altogether.
-
#neo
: 7 hard-coded validators
-
#iota
: centralized coordinator and checkpoints are part of security model
-
#ripple
: issues trusted validator set
@CBSNews
@JoshuaSteinman
It's a good idea but would be ruled unconstitutional in exactly 1 nanosecond once racial disparities emerge under disparate impact of the CRA.
@rmcentush
Coincidence. When the moon first formed it was _much_ closer to the Earth, and has been drifting away slowly.
Also the factors that would affect the distance between planet-moon systems are angular momentum. More angular momentum = more distance = "smaller" moon.
"Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the post office. Email didn't make the post office irrelevant but it forced the post office to focus on what it was good at and ignore what it was bad at."
SBF is the Hannibal lector of finance.
BlockFi and Voyager were insolvent. So SBF comes along and buys them at a heavy discount so he can bleed the customer funds completely dry.
Guy should get a life sentence.
#IOTA
email leaks, from CfB:
"The Coordinator is used as an extra protection measure. Particularly, it stores all transactions that reach it, this allows us to recover iotas sent to addresses with typo"
So IOTA is basically someone's private spreadsheet to modify at will. Cool.
Who not to listen to Bitcoin from:
- CEOs
- MBAs
- businessmen
- ppl who don't code
- ppl who don't get math
- economists
- traditional finance guys
- bankers
- scam artists
- technophobes
- salesmen
- pundits
- mainstream media
- YouTuber celebrities
- self-proclaimed experts
"we don't like
#Bitcoin
but we love blockchain"
This is non-sensical.
Blockchains require native tokens. You cannot separate tokens from the blockchain. There is no such thing as blockchain without Bitcoin.
@babadookspinoza
Apparently he is not basing his accusations of genocide on the population actually decreasing. He is using a new definition based on physical displacement.
@khalid390465965
@canderaid
Evidence: 5 sets of hospital records, surveillance video footage, a FB live post by the perp, body cam footage by 3 police, 10 witnesses, video confession w/ police, the weapon + DNA + fingerprints, perp manifesto, etc
Random guy: "she's innocent bc she's a kid (17)"
#IOTA
dev's open letter:
"you suggest to give... judicial immunity to [security] researchers analyzing cryptocurrency protocols. This is an interesting idea, but..."
He thinks he should be able to sue researchers whose findings he doesn't like.
@howdidwehether1
@brent_peabody
This is an information war so the only way to get the answers is to read the history yourself.
However the main point of contention is: pro-palestine ppl believe 100% of the land Israel sits on is Muslim land. Israel believes a Jewish state is necessary for the survival of Jews.
At some point start up city infrastructure will be a major category of investable businesses. They'll iterate 10x faster than existing domestic infrastructure companies bc they'll be able to experiment w/ radically new designs in start up cities.
Tech libertarians never win an election, but never lose in the market.
The path to reform municipal America is the startup city, just as the path to reform corporate America was the startup.
A recruiter just reached out to me about a confidential role. They want me to be the cornerstone technical lead and build out the product as it scales.
Translation: some team did an
#ICO
and wants someone else to build the product for them.
@MagicBelle1
There is no situation where this kind of person is safe to exist in society. He pre-meditated a kidnapping to do god knows what, and then killed his victim when she ran away. There is no reforming such a person. They are too dangerous.
The reality of good blockchain protocol engineers:
1. There are very few ppl with the skills to do this.
2. Their time & energy can't be bought.
3. They don't waste their time on projects not solving a real problem or not solving it in the right way.
The recent bull market we saw allowed for fake pumps to be incredibly successful. I think this bull run is ending, and on the way down I think we are going to see the pumps crash incredibly hard. First was
#Bitconnect
.
Psychology is a field at risk of dying imo. Neuroscience, psychiatry, and behavioral genetics have a real shot at explaining the things psychology was supposed to in the next 20 yrs. If that happens then psychology may go the way of alchemy (replaced by chemistry).
It's difficult to see the
#ethereum
block reward reduction of 33% as something other than stakeholders trying to push up the price.
It's also hard to see how a group of about a dozen people ppl voting on the change itself as binding is not a central bank.
@VinIyengar
Not even trying to pick a side but this take is clownish. You already show strong bias just by the way you have phrased your ideas (e.g. far right). Your criticism is basically that he adjusts his speech to his audience. My guy you need a therapist not Twitter.
So glad all of Europe has been building nuclear reactors these last few decades so they wouldn't be energy dependent on Russia. Imagine if they relied on Russian oil and the situation in Ukraine turned into a military conflict.
The reason econ/banking/finance people don't like
#bitcoin
is that it doesn't fit in their mental models:
- confusing classification (asset, currency, commodity)
- no cash flows
- no intrinsic value
- so volatile it either looks like a bubble or on a path to zero
Practical reasons to own some
#bitcoin
in developed countries:
1. Civil asset forfeiture.
2. Capitol controls.
3. Frozen assets.
4. Repossession.
5. Inflation.
In
#Monero
the original founders (then
#Bytecoin
) were anonymous, and after forking, the majority of the Monero core devs have been anonymous. Their value proposition is privacy, and it is mandatory. That's pretty much as cypherpunk as you can get.
"Ethereum 1.0 wouldnโt be undergoing a complete redesign unless it had major flaws. So how did we get here? And why did Bitcoin seem to fare much better?"
Unintended consequence of Bitcoin: people are starting to have conversations about what money really is. They're now thinking about how our current financial institutions work in ways they normally never would.
Base layer *must* remain immutable.
If this does not happen, it opens up security holes for the courts and legal system to creep through. It starts with "lost" coins. Then includes "stolen" coins. The devs are now performing the function of lawyers.
#Bitcoin
isn't just mathematically secure, it's thermodynamically secure.
Bitcoin's cryptography is based off of computational hardness assumptions and the complexity of brute force attacks.
We can compute the minimum energy / time needed to attack Bitcoin.
1/
The worst kinds of personalities in crypto imo are the guys who bought in super early in something like ETH or BTC, made a ton of money, and for that one reason think they are some crypto savant. They start hedge funds touting their wisdom. Many are complete idiots, to be frank.
#Ethereum
is an incredible case study in product market fit. The protocol is 3 yrs old, more than $13B has been spent and they still can't find the problem to their solution. Much easier to start with a problem than to end with one.
I think the fact that multiple Nobel prize winning economists struggle to differentiate
#bitcoin
from a Ponzi scheme is probably the best evidence you could ever expect to have that you probably shouldn't listen to economists to learn about Bitcoin.
The opinion that science should be silenced, repressed, or ignored for political or perceived moral reasons exists at the highest levels in sociology.
This same science holds promise in understanding and treating disease, especially psychiatric disorders.
When ppl suggest a decentralized Uber is possible they never consider the economics. Like they want to increase the hardware/compute needed by 100x to save ppl 25% on middleman fees when the middleman's margins are 10%.
In crypto survival of the fittest means:
1. Knowing how to spot scams.
2. Taking computer security seriously.
3. Holding your own keys.
4. Not panic selling or buying.
5. Doing your own research.
Failing this means someone makes money at your expense.
In 20 years, we are going to wonder how in the world we ever managed to live without blockchains.
A: How we manage trust before blockchains?
B: We just did it ourselves!
A: And nobody cheated the system?
B: No, everybody cheated it!
"Social scientists have done such a terrible job, it's hard to see how the field can be repaired."
On the implications of how genes explain individuality with scientific rigor. The entire field of sociology was built on the assumption that this could not be true.
@martyrmade
Here are the rules:
1. Muslim conquests were good and now they're "native" all over the ME
2. European conquests of native Americans were bad even tho the NAs were killing each other for the same territory.
3. Jews were indigenous to judea but now that they've come back 2000
Heirarchy of skill level for understanding
#bitcoin
. From low to high:
0: I have a nobel prize in economics
1: I work on Wall Street and make $1M/year
2: I have never heard of Bitcoin
3: I studied math
4: I'm a software engineer
5: I'm a cryptographer
6: I work on Bitcoin
Biggest hold-ups for understanding crypto:
- Not getting the importance of censorship-resistance
- Not getting the relationship b/t decentralization & censorship/control/security/scalability
- Thinking money must have some inherent value
I used to think it was really strange that mainstream economists were so dismissive of
#Bitcoin
.
Over time I've slowly realized the major employers of economists (finance and govt) benefit greatly from central banking and want to keep things that way.
@leekern13
My favorite opinions so far come from very woke students at elite universities, BLM, and Muslims who have very strong anti-Israel opinions but can't seem to find the issue with Hamas deliberately killing civilians.
Finding Bitcoin maximalism bc you lost $ in altcoins is pretty weak conviction. It's like saying you found religion on your deathbed.
Authentic conviction in an idea doesn't come from a place of convenience or something as inconsequential as market speculation.
In software engineering, there's a concept called technical debt. Over time the code base becomes unreadable, unmanageable, with undocumented behavior.
Pretty sure this is going to happen to most crypto projects in 5 yrs.
Bitcoin is such a low-level technology it's analogous to:
- operating systems for computers/tablets/phones
- TCP/IP for the internet
- Satellites for GPS
- 3G for mobile networks
- web servers for a website
- number theory for public key cryptography
- electricity for lighting