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Mark Beylin

4 months

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the team at @BoostVC , to help scale their investments at the earliest stages into crypto, AI, and VR startups

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Just finished exiting all of my Ape related NFTs now that Yuga has revealed their true colors, I can't unsee it con artists of the highest order

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

new hire asked for a board seat while negotiating comp honestly kind of impressed

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

4 years

I went on a date this week where I told her I work in crypto and she tried to sympathize by telling me she attended Fyre Fest

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

old world model: never mix business and friendship new world model: make money online with your friends

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Mark Beylin

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2 years

I love watching people enter web3 with 0 connections and slowly find their tribe there's room for everyone on this ship, grab a seat wherever you feel comfortable

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Mark Beylin

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2 years

web3? no sorry we bought it, now it's web16z

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

the art of a good con artist is that they'll promise you something new the second you come asking them for the last thing they'll just keep adding more and more layers of complexity to distract you from what's really going on

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

instead of designing their launch properly, Yuga broke Ethereum so that they would have an excuse to launch their own L1 APE needed a new narrative after the land sale

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

It took me a long time to learn this lesson in crypto, but it is 1000% never worth it to stand by in ignorance, while you watch people you're associated with use dark manipulation techniques on unwitting people

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

ETH flippening BTC this cycle looks increasingly likely, and is going to send shockwaves across the planet

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

anyway - if you're reading this, I want to say this as plainly as possible for everyone to hear I believe that the people who run Yuga Labs are using dark manipulation techniques in service of their personal interests, and you should assume they are bad actors

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Last night when I read this tweet, I felt sick to my stomach they had revealed their hand, probably much more than even they realized, but it was much too late

Yuga Labs

@yugalabs

2 years

We're sorry for turning off the lights on Ethereum for a while. It seems abundantly clear that ApeCoin will need to migrate to its own chain in order to properly scale. We'd like to encourage the DAO to start thinking in this direction.

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Getting really tired of hearing people say “white men have done nothing but exclude black/trans/female voices from these (web3) spaces and it’s time to fight back” full stop this is bad actor manipulation grifter bullshit

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Hanlon's razor is a real bitch, because a majority of the time in life, people really are just incompetent, and aren't actually trying to be malicious but in the 1% of cases where they are manipulating, they'll ALWAYS make it appear like incompetence to cover their tracks

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

anyway, I've made the mistake before of pretending I didn't notice things, or thinking that it didn't matter as long as my own hands were clean but by standing by and doing nothing while you watch people doing scammy shit, you are implicitly perpetuating it (ie lie of omission)

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

finally, if you're curious where else I've bumped into dark manipulation techniques in crypto, you should google my resume ~

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

even after the sale, it's obvious that the land markets are opaque on purpose the traits are all wonky and hard to navigate, which lends itself to inefficient markets scammers HATE efficient markets, and will pump fog into the room as needed

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

I don't have a very big twitter following so this thread probably won't do much more than clear my conscience but I could not sit by in silence while watching as this extremely demonic monster continues to grow

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

devs: “we don’t need PMs or any non-technical contributors” also devs:

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

but at this point, I can't unsee it, and I've felt physically sick all day while I've been exiting these markets so that I can get as far away from all ape related crap as possible it felt like I was excising some dark energy

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

funny thing about the $ENS drop is that we're gonna know exactly who held and who dumped 👀👀👀

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

maybe it's my fault for not doing more research or digging deeper fwiw I'm now watching this Nicole interview from 2mo ago it's SO OBVIOUS THAT SOMETHING IS DEEPLY WRONG HERE

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

all of this is my own personal opinion; I [clearly] don't know these people very well at all; and you should DYOR and not listen to me I am not here to defame anybody or speak badly on hard work, I simply am noticing a pattern of behavior that I believe I need to speak on

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

we've now entered the timeline where everybody just perpetually has weak covid and sleeps 9h+ every night, but nobody talks about it

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

“wow you own an NFT that’s minted on the original ETH1 shard?”

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

it’s been so heartwarming to see all of the VCs who raised hundreds of millions of $ speaking up about the importance of defending user sovereignty in crypto

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

one of the worst ways that people sell themselves short in web3 is to call themselves “nontechnical” own what you know, and own what you don’t but don’t let anyone intimidate you into making yourself part of some fictitious out-group web3 is for all of us

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Small piece of advice — being a tax refugee is never worth it pay your fair share and surround yourself with the people you love; they’re worth more than whatever you’ll owe

sassal.eth/acc 🦇🔊

@sassal0x

2 years

All the crypto investors in Portugal right now

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Kind of in awe that so many of you resonated my Yuga thread I wrote it expecting it not to go anywhere; maybe I’m too much of a cynic and our space is now dominated by good hearted people feeling deeply humbled & blessed to work with all of you fine people 🤍

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

demanding tolerance while offering none is a gaslight

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

web3 folks hating bureaucracies and creating systems for themselves to become the new bureaucrats is a textbook example of the oppressed gaining freedom and immediately striving to become the new oppressors

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

I often think about the quiet genius of the @graphprotocol 's product building methodology build a centralized product first iterate until you find PMF grow and scale then decentralize it once users are hooked this playbook is going to be in business textbooks 5 years from now

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

Actual footage of @jack pretending like he doesn’t know Ethereum already exists

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

ngmi was never about making money it was about understanding what we were building, from a philosophical/political/revolutionary perspective many wealthy people are still ngmi because money can’t buy this level of understanding

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Thinking about her today 🥺

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Hypothesis: we're going to see a lot of DAOs "go private" in 2022

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

we’re out here arguing about VC capitalism in web3, while Virgil remains locked up for giving a presentation called Blockchain and Peace

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

tolerance is a two way street

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

the reason Jack hates Ethereum is that you realizing you could sell your tweets as NFTs is a gateway to you realizing your IP is valuable and you're giving it away to him for FREE

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

how it feels to finally understand how @AlchemixFi works

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

I for one am excited for Yuga to move their activities onto a new chain gotta keep Ethereum clean 🧹

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

1 month

If you're a crypto founder, I believe your first and primary goal should be selling your token, not your software. Here are my arguments for why:

The Token Is The Product

Crypto founders chronically overvalue the go-to-market of their products, and undervalue the go-to-market of their tokens.

m.mirror.xyz

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

never listen to an engineer who says that something will be ready in a week any estimate longer than 3 days will likely take double, maybe even triple the expected time and as an engineer myself, somehow even knowing this rule doesn’t help me overcome it

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

4 years

Okay it looks like I’m going to be spending a while at the airport tonight. 1 like = 1 hot take about crypto Will try to keep the spice levels appropriately high

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

all of your favorite ETH influencers have sold into stables and are now coaxing the market into thinking we're going to see another 1y+ bear probably means the opposite is going to happen

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

6 years

People keep asking me how I’m enjoying #devcon4 and all I can say is: Bear market Devcon is waaaaaaay more fun than bull Market Devcon. More introspection, more self-criticism, more iteration.

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

How many ex-consensys employees are so traumatized that they won’t even touch crypto anymore?

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

these days it feels like @bariweiss is a lighthouse in the fog of US media Unwilling to accept the evisceration of nuance, thoroughly critical of our misgivings, and doing her part to remind us of the privileges that we're so close to losing

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

Paradigm DCG a16z ConsenSys

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

as the bull market noisiness dies down, I'm excited to make better friends with everyone who sticks around a big GM to everyone who wouldn't dream of leaving crypto

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

name a more recycled startup idea than "tokenized real estate investment on the blockchain"

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

… has gone into trying to make this space more diverse, more inclusive, quite frankly not just white men joining web3 and assuming the opposite, and then wielding that assumption like it’s a weapon in order to make a point, is unnecessarily divisive

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@MarkBeylin

2 years

@TurnerNovak @juliey4 they were designed not to crumble under pressure

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

it's tragic seeing DAOs force talented people to grovel for a chance to work for them - spend time crafting detailed proposals for free - defend yourself in front of the anons - hope the vote goes in your favour the DAOs that solve this will attract the best to join their ranks

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

the problem isn't that web3 is hard, it's that we've become accustomed to tech co's treating us like 5 year olds

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

happy deplooooying, frens!

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

the biggest difference between now and 2018 is that people actually use Ethereum by choice

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

There are SO MANY of us trying to fix the diversity problem in crypto, and whose actions have shown that for years I’m all ears if people have productive suggestions for improvements But please stop inventing a war where there isn’t one

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

might have figured out a way to do NFT collateralized loans in @_anishagnihotri ’s DMs TLDR the NFTs sit in an active auction whose highest bid is essentially used as collateral

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 months

The elephant in the room at ETHDenver was @base

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

many of you seem to have forgotten that the whole point of DeFi was giving access to credit for people who barely had bank accounts, not just chasing yield from people who chronically underestimated risk there’s a whole lot of World still left to be changed, frens!

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

like this tweet if you're going to Denver✌️

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 months

On Reddit’s IPO day, here’s to that secret third guy who believed that information deserves to be free and openly accessible for all The world is a dimmer place without Aaron Swartz

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

Mila Kunis pronouncing Vitalik's name properly is a moment in time I'd like to own

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

I'm getting that iceberg-under-the-water feeling again about cool things that people are building on Ethereum

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

Everyone's talking about ownership, and everyone's talking about the metaverse, but no one seems to be asking the primary question: who owns it?

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

6 years

Ethereum excites me because we warmly welcome newcomers to our community, rather than ostracizing them for having waited or not understanding. We are going to get orders of magnitude bigger before we go mainstream, and the winning communities will be those who embrace the noobs.

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

did Vitalik steal Jack’s gf or something? idgi

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

If you’re reading this tweet and are feeling marginalized/excluded/pushed away because of your identity or not fitting in, I want you to know that your voice matters, and our community is better with you here ❤️

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

6 years

We have 16 yr olds are out here building Genomics tech on #etherum using @trufflesuite and @uport_me . @crypto_chicks hackathon killing the game!!!

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

4 years

The strange loop within the Bitcoin protocol (via difficulty adjustment) is the most beautiful algorithm I’ve ever laid eyes on. It is the reason why the Bitcoin network is a living thing, unlike any technology that preceded it.

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

1 month

Imagine fading @CryptoDickbutts

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

VCs trying to profit on the backs of creators with #bitclout is the slimiest thing I have ever seen If you want to build for creators, ENABLE and EMPOWER them. Subverting them with parasitic models which are just new versions of the old models will get you blacklisted in my book

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

5 years

ZK Snarks + DAI + Burner Wallets = the most convenient private transactions ever on . Huge strides being made at @EthereumDenver — the dev community is blooming 🌺🌻🌞

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Believe me I’m not blind to the systemic ways that marginalized groups are kept out of tech spaces like web3 but as someone who has been on the organizing side of these web3 community spaces for literally 5+ years I’ve seen first hand how much time effort and love…

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

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it’s an unpopular take but it’s sadly pretty accurate… crypto natives are unhinged thinking it’s normal to work a total of 20h per wk and travel the world ~remotely~ while deserving mid 6 fig salaries with minimal vesting schedules

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Having talked to a number of founders and CEOs recently, interesting that it’s universally agreed upon the worst people to hire are crypto natives, and the best being people from outside who built an active (healthy) interest and respect for the space. I think when you’re…

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@MarkBeylin

2 years

People seem to be missing the fact that DAOs aren't simply orgs with no managers, they're orgs whose managers are *code* immediate, impartial, and immutable

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

gm friends take some time today to reflect on how lucky you are we’ve already made it 🤍

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

4 years

7. Crypto has introduced me to some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met in my life, as well as the smartest. It’s still not clear to me why this is the case.

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 months

daily reminder that @evabeylin is my sister and that I remain hopelessly single

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

5 years

. @elonmusk “I do not respect the SEC” “But you’re abiding by the settlement, aren’t you?” “Because I respect the justice system” 👏👏👏

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Elon Musk—while fighting off tears—says that Tesla can't review his tweets because of "the First Amendment" and that he does not respect the Securities and Exchange Commission, which fined him and Tesla $40 million earlier this year.

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Mark Beylin

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2 years

Will pay .25ETH for a dune dashboard that shows # of people who haven’t transacted since purchasing an NFT for >8x current floor price

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

1 year

I refuse to use words like "soul bound" to describe non-transferrable tokens sounds like a curse

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

7 years

#Ethereum just keeps building its user base while #BTC forks away. @metamask_io is seriously playing hockey out here!!!

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

6 months

For crypto to survive, our industry as a whole needs to become more user-centric in our approach to building products. A quick thread on my experiences in product dev from the mines of dapp building over the last 7 years:

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

@WodrinP thanks m8, been writing solidity since 2016 but tbh I still feel like a newcomer all the time

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@MarkBeylin

2 years

@_Julian_MB honestly I sold before tweeting because I felt physically ill holding them and that was top priority for me I have no intention of touching anything ape related ever again; will likely burn my merch as well google me if you don't trust that I'm an honest builder & not a scammer

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

3 years

the first DAO I ever joined was Ethereum

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

2 years

Next up, we have: “The gang liquidates 3AC’s ETH short”

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

6 years

This is 2017 @CryptoKitties

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

7 months

I'm looking for the next big thing to sink my teeth into in crypto, please share & let me know if you come across any interesting roles or companies hiring for product or venture Learn more about my background on my personal site here:

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@MarkBeylin

3 years

from an end user perspective, it isn't "how do I launch a DAO", it's "how do I make money with my friends online as easily as possible", and DAOs are just the best solution

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@MarkBeylin

6 years

👏stop👏assuming👏your👏users👏are👏developers👏 Otherwise we’re never going to attract anyone to Ethereum who ISN’T a dev

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Mark Beylin

@MarkBeylin

6 years

Rewriting the #Ethereum yellow paper for a broader audience is such a great idea. Instead of writing more “what is Ethereum” guides, we should organize around one definition— the one specified in the Yellow paper.

GitHub - chronaeon/beigepaper: Rewrite of the Yellowpaper in non-Yellowpaper syntax.

Rewrite of the Yellowpaper in non-Yellowpaper syntax. - chronaeon/beigepaper

github.com

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3 years

Ethereum is a place of love and respect... unless you've spent the last 4 years running some of the most important core infrastructure for our space with minimal recognition... then we'll shit on you for your slip ups

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2 years

can someone explain how these twitter mass tagging scams work? what is even the objective here?

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3 years

the hard part about governance is that the people designing systems never imagine themselves becoming rotten

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2 years

the best way to find your tribe on twitter is to tweet things that are weird or obscure and follow every single person who interacts

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