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indy investor & fan of crypto, ethereum, NFTs, AI, AR/VR. posts not expert opinions or advice. +

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this is the MOST IMPORTANT POST you will ever read on L2s and how they creative MASSIVE value for Ethereum and ETH through relatively inexpensive security from L1: 1) Ethereum makes it cheap for L2s to settle on L1 through blobs in EIP-4844 2) L2 developers work to create highlyโ€ฆ
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i need to reflect on this further, but perhaps we shouldn't have trusted ten kids in their 20s all F'ing each other in a $200M orgy house in the Bahamas with our money on an unregulated exchange
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@iamDCinvestor
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ETH will never go below $80 again
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tbh, being old (over 40) and making it in crypto is a bigger flex than being young (under 30)
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this truly might be the most unexpected moment of my life a grandmaster of rap who i've vibed to since middle school, retweeting my rap about NFTs ๐Ÿคฏ
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i'm genuinely curious how SBF's parents are going to go back to Stanford after all of this to try and teach a bunch of 2L's about corporate tax compliance, the social psychology of compliance and fraud, and the limits of moral responsibility for corporate leaders
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i am not conspiratorially minded, but the fact that SBF is still on the loose and shit posting on twitter, after committing massive financial crime, and we see softball media coverage of the event, and Kevin O'Leary saying he might work with him again WTF IS HAPPENING???
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@MKBHD @StephenCurry30 respectfully, the correct answer is actually ignore all YouTuber crypto advice like 95% of it tbh but yes, there is a tremendous amount of noise on crypto twitter as well but also a ton of alpha if you can parse it
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iโ€™ll make this simple: if you are in the US, ONLY use Coinbase, Gemini, or Kraken that does not mean they are infallible or couldnโ€™t have issues, but they are regulated, and they are conservative if it were me, i basically wouldnโ€™t trust anyone else to any meaningful degree
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@iamDCinvestor
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@stablekwon your eternal legacy will be blowing up a $40bn protocol, destroying a multitude of lives, and your immensely cocky rhetoric + hubris you will be a case study in business schools alongside Elizabeth Holmes time for you to leave crypto, forever
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imo @jack โ€œmaximallyโ€ doubling down against Ethereum will become one of the biggest miscalculations in web history there is a huge opp for social networks and other websites ready to embrace Ethereum Web3, not lightning wallets linked to your account which no one cares about
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READ THIS, ALL THE WAY THROUGH, IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST OR SECOND CYCLE, OR IF YOU JUST NEED A REFRESHER: time is a flat circle i got a lot of flack last cycle from some people when i was buying DeFi tokens and then NFTs, asking why i'd "waste my ETH" on them simultaneously,โ€ฆ
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sold my remaining BTC for ETH today
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pay all Ethereum core devs a minimum of $350K+ per year. more for senior devs a rounding error for the size of the @ethereum hoard stop the BS on why they need to work for nothing and get it done so that they can take care of their families and feel good about their work
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@RepMaxineWaters @SBF_FTX Maxine, what are you doing? you sound obsequious, and i don't believe you understand how bad this looks (especially given your previous friendly relations with SBF) subpoena @SBF_FTX and demand that he appear before Congress to explain what happened
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1 year
can someone tell the Dems that SBF has no more money to give them, and that by not throwing the book at him and appearing obsequious, they will only draw negative attention to themselves as being possibly complicit in one of the biggest financial frauds of our times?
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friendly reminder that known, lying fraudsters/scammers such as SBF, Zhu, Davies, Do Kwon, Mashinsky, etc. are all free, gallivanting around the world, living opulently, while Alexey Pertsev sits in jail and is charged with money laundering for writing a permissionless app
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NEW: Dutch prosecutors announced @TornadoCash dev Alexey Pertsev faces money laundering charges for writing code for the crypto mixer, three months after he was first arrested and jailed. @jackschickler reports.
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btw, a brand as careful as Yuga with marketing doesnโ€™t just casually suggest creating an alt-L1 in a tweet after a poorly designed mint shit show 100% planned, since the APE drop itself
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dinner pro-tip: only discuss crypto if they ask first
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imo literally the easiest play from this point in this cycle is to buy some promising assets on Base and wait for 100 million existing customers to login to their Coinbase account and try the Coinbase Smart Wallet with ETH directly from their account on Base
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@iamDCinvestor
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Ethereum is so decentralized that we canโ€™t even agree on how to pronounce ETH
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only going to say this once: trying to cancel ENS, one of the most useful web3 protocols, because you disagree with the religious/social beliefs of one participant, is the definition of throwing the baby out with the bath water ENS is WAY bigger than any one participant
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dear @coinbase today, i unstaked all of the ETH i had staked with you since the first day you offered it as a service. i kept it there to earn passive yield, but also to support your work for the crypto industry (which i greatly value) but i can't ignore the risks of whatโ€ฆ
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if you were from the crypto class of 2020/2021 and are still here in 14 months, then i might from that point onward consider you legit the great filter
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it is critically important that we do not allow web3 to make the same mistakes which allowed web2 to be 100% controlled by ~5 centralized corporations if we don't, then web3 will not be an improvement. it will be a yoke to control us further that is why decentralization matters
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put another way: we are seriously fucked if one dev can click on a phishing link and compromise almost every meaningful app's front-end in the ecosystem read that sentence again and again until we internalize how absurd and unacceptable this is
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change my mind: cardano is the longest con in all of crypto history
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you made it, congrats you're a real one
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if you were from the crypto class of 2020/2021 and are still here in 14 months, then i might from that point onward consider you legit the great filter
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@ilyasut bruh, you and the rest of the board got some โ€˜splaining to do on why you did what you did you wonโ€™t be successful at reuniting anything until that is done, and in detail
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@iamDCinvestor
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i didn't see it a year ago, but i can see it very clearly now: #NFTs will cement $ETH dominance that's it, that's the tweet
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look, we raised $47M from donors across the world in 5 days to buy a piece of paper, one which articulated the foundations of modern democracy even though we did not win, this is the beginning of a new era the era of the DAO and it will not be put back in the bottle now
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@iamDCinvestor
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held from $50, to $420, to $130, to $1400, to $80, to $300, to $90, to $4000+, etc. there is nothing left that the market can do to me at this point which i haven't already endured multiple times
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the most dangerous place to be in crypto is to dabble and "know a little bit" if this is you, just buy some ETH and BTC and hold it. check the balance once a year otherwise, commit yourself to a multi-year learning process, with at least 1-2 hours of research daily
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this is apparently what the @doodles team doesn't want you to see replies hidden in <10 minutes so sad. not sure anyone has EVER hidden one of my replies to their tweets before judging from this, i think Flow is going to be a FANTASTIC fit for Doodles best of luck ๐Ÿ˜˜
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@iamDCinvestor
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theory: the CIA runs all popular VPN services
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Blackrock wallet getting dusted with Tornado ETH lmao man this kind of shit is exactly what the early Internet felt like
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jack thinks he's 5 years ahead of the crypto landscape he will soon realize he is 5 years behind can't wait for him to realize it's impossible to build these systems on Bitcoin in a way that is more decentralized than Ethereum still, thx for boosting awareness around web3 ๐Ÿ˜˜
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if you still think $ETH is an "alt," you're ngmi
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so is LUNA still gonna flip ETH or nah?
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it is absolutely remarkable that Ethereum has never stopped producing blocks in 6 years of operation
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btw, almost all of my normie friends who said they would DCA during a bear market haven't started yet lol
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hey SBF, fuck you signed, all of us
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the kids slinging monkey jpegs on-chain actually understood and embodied decentralization better than the traders who kept 100% on-exchange
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the brands really gonna kill "wagmi," "gm," and "fren," innit?
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accumulating a long-term position in ETH under $2K, while everyone and their mother hates on it will be looked back upon as one of the easiest and best risk-adjusted plays of all time within 1-2 years bookmark this tweet
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people selling fiat, to buy ETH, to buy NFTs, to earn more ETH, to keep it and use it in DeFi, and buy even more NFTs, (etc.) you are participating in the bootstrapping of the new global metaverse economy, and $ETH is its currency
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a lot of bad vibes right now. morale feels as low as it has been in a while making it even more incredible that we are nowhere close to the cycle lows and well above levels we saw for almost all of last year in a challenging risk environment with high rates no less
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if you're a 9-fig millionaire or a billionaire with $50M+ of fine art asset exposure, locked up in a freeport in Switzerland, for assets you'll never see in person or take delivery of, do you think it's a big leap to buy NFTs instead? because i don't think it will be tbh
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i just withdrew 5 ETH from @coinbase and deposited it to @base borrowed $3350 USDC against it via @aave it took less than one or two minutes and it only cost me $0.13 in fees
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raise your hand if you remember Microsoft Encarta, and how absolutely mind-blowing this CD-based product was after a lifetime of using World Book and Britannica to learn stuff and yes, i was one of those people who read the encyclopedia for fun ๐Ÿค“
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i'm not surprised to see OG rappers embrace Ethereum and NFTs tbh as a group (dating back to the 80s/early 90s), they have always been more forward thinking, open-minded, and counter-culture than most they fought for everything they got
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@iamDCinvestor
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the wealthiest people iโ€™ve seen in the space tend to be the savvy long-term holders, not the active traders go figure
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with so much drama in the N-F-Ts it's kinda hard being @CozomoMedici but he somehow some way keep buyin' up slick ass jpegs like every day
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we can all rest easy knowing that the Constitution is safely in the hands of Ken Griffin, billionaire CEO of hedge fund Citadel, which has been fined for front-running customers, rather than a DAO comprised of 17,000+ crypto enthusiasts focused on promoting economic freedom ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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i am done building identities & brands which corporations can buy and sell without paying me, and for me to be expected to go along with the ride because my identity is attached to them from now on, will only feature art by independent artists and CC0 pfps on this account
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i only write like 2 blog posts a year (at current pace) i just wrote one probably something important happening "AI is here, and there's nothing you can do to stop it" a primer for making it
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no, BTC is not going to $1M in 90 days, but: - the media will pick it up on Monday and won't shutup about it because the number is big - they'll all be talking about Bitcoin and crypto - they'll all interview Balaji - and then they'll do it again in 90 days /the end
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since diving deep into Ethereum in 2016, iโ€™ve let one mantra guide me above all else in the crypto space: follow the organic cultures and invest in them they are more experimental, resilient, and unstoppable
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the only follow i've ever commented on, and the only one i ever will
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@iamDCinvestor
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crypto either survives as a decentralization-first movement, or crypto dies and if crypto dies, we will eventually find our civilization in a surveil-and-control morass on private CBDCs, inevitably abused, from which we may not escape for centuries this is not hyperbole
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i learned ~10 years ago that i am my own worst enemy when it comes to investing. almost everyone is, but very few people realize it i started building (and retaining) more serious wealth once i realized this a few realizations which helped me: 1) ignore comparing yourself toโ€ฆ
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Vitalik putting everyone back on mission with what is probably the most important crypto manifesto in some time comprehend the stakes, understand what is being built, and catalyze around this vision permissionless, not aimless
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there's a guy who thinks he owns my e-mail address has been signing up for stuff with it for years i get hotel and flight confirmations, everything i have no way to contact him to tell him to stop so every time he books a flight, i change his seat to be next to the bathroom
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3 years of hell for every 1 year of euphoria man i'm tired AF
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text from family thanks so much SBF
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about to do my biggest ETH buy in a while wish me luck ๐Ÿ€
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where is the best place to order tweets as coffee mugs? want to get a few of these printed up for some friends
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how did FTX do a big raise a year ago without the top VCs checking proof of reserves, assets/liabilities, etc. Theranos investor mindset with zero due diligence? seems wild tbh
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Imagine having the opportunity to buy $BTC at $550 in 2016, before people understood it as digital gold, but not doing it. Now imagine being able to buy $ETH at $550 today, before people understand it as the world's most important programmable reserve asset, but not doing it.
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i know people irl who are not on this site with 6-to-7 fig crypto portfolios they have no idea what the narrative of the week is. they don't know what monolithic or modular mean. some own some NFTs, but most don't. the only memecoin they've ever heard of is DOGE all they'veโ€ฆ
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if you sold the news, i'm sorry but this is going to be the most insane cycle in crypto history by an extremely wide margin all you have to do right now is not midcurve yourself with 1000 over-engineered reasons on why it won't be
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people keep asking me who else i think is bad for the space tbh, a lot have been flushed, but at least one is left: Multicoin Capital the most slippery, least ethical big name VC left in crypto imo
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how long until rappers start making songs about CryptoPunks, Autoglyphs, Ringers, Fidenzas, etc.? i suspect not too much longer
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Can you see the #DeFi stack emerging on #Ethereum ? ๐Ÿ‘€ base money: $ETH stablecoins: $DAI $USDC borrow & lend: $AAVE $COMP $MKR exchange: $UNI $SUSHI yield: $YFI $ALPHA derivatives: $SNX risk mgmt: $SFI insurance: $NXM oracles: $LINK ...and MANY others. It's coming together.
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imo @coinbase went from slightly flailing with the FTX-fake- game-of-attention-competition last cycle to firing on absolutely every cylinder this cycle moving on-chain, FAST- to the point where Base will be a pre-eminent L2 and likely a technology leader which should keepโ€ฆ
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imagine showing up to a public park as a big corporation, then inviting 100x more people than the park can accommodate, encouraging them to dump garbage all over it, then gaslighting and implying that the park sucks and you need a new park sounds like a dick move, eh?
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how do you in good conscience lend out $8B in customer deposits to your own failing hedge fund? all while LARPing about how youโ€™re a white knight here to save other firms who over-levered and try to regulate crypto into a FTX permissioned/gated casino? absolutely shocking
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the woke online identity movement will be obsoleted by metaverse identities one day race, gender, pronouns, etc. will all matter a lot less i don't know what race or gender most of you are, and frankly, i don't care i'm more interested in your ideas & experiences
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how is the CCP giving their citizens an ETH ETF before the US, which prides itself on having the freest markets in the world?? sad. pathetic. Gary Gensler is a disgrace
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@RepMaxineWaters @SBF_FTX the time for Twitter invitations is over you, other Congressional leaders, and regulators have a job to do SBF is suspected of high financial crimes and is living the high life in the Bahamas, receiving lax invitations to talk to you while appearing on morning shows
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Bitcoin was created as an FU to the trad financial system hilarious that some of its loudest proponents now cast aspersions on other tokens under the guise of US securities regulations how pathetic not the community i observed in 2013 when I first bought BTC, not even close
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a lot of you are younger than i am, so let me just tell you this: if you want to stay dynamic, you have to work at it it helps to be curious, but that's not enough it's very easy to become comfortable and let your brain stop accepting new info for emerging situations fight it
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crypto dumping on the news the banks they are supposed to replace may be insolvent ๐Ÿซก
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crypto is one of those markets where you come in new and you're totally clueless then you learn a little and think you're a genius (<- many are here right now) then you realize you were totally wrong and don't know shit then you start learning for real
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brands flaunting their .eth @ensdomains like i remember them flaunting new .com web address back in the early 1990s wild to see it
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i am not and never have been a FTX customer, but from now on i will boycott any product, service, or personality sponsored by them we are not aligned, and they are not good for the decentralized space enough is enough
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hi @Ledger , itโ€™s concerning your software & hardware wallets will soon be capable of sending a private key across the internet for opt-in sharded backup wtf are you guys doing? this is going in the wrong direction fast i would recommend no one upgrade to such firmware
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thankfully, you will never, ever see anything like this at an Ethereum conference
@titodurriz
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โ€œFUCK ELON, WE'RE NOT SELLING!โ€ โ€” @maxkeiser @ #Bitcoin Miami 2021๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ’Ž
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imagine panic selling everything because of the 15th covid variant
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if Satoshi was known, would they have tried to arrest him?
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i just found out 99% of Rollercoaster Tycoon (released in 1999) was written in x86 Assembly language that is completely insane to me ๐Ÿคฏ
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@terra_money please include a full accounting of what was done with the BTC reserves, step by step after they were sent from the on-chain LFG wallet, ideally with independently audited records we know what happened to the $40bn in the protocol, but have no idea for the $2bn in BTC
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BTC actually top ticked last time at $69K so mathematically, this time has to be $420K
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hear me out: @LFG_org created by @terra_money & @stablekwon to acquire a huge sum of BTC with LUNA they couldnโ€™t sell purpose was never to save the peg, but to give them (or others) an exit parachute in the event of protocol failure conspiracy? release data asap & prove wrong
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I canโ€™t think of anyone more hypocritical than Elizabeth Warren literally in the pocket of big banks, while prosecuting a fake war in the name of consumer protection, to create an illiberal surveillance state Are the people of Massachusetts brain damaged??
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i realize many people canโ€™t afford to do, but if you have the means, and are deeply invested in the future of crypto, consider getting some NFTs from key, historic sets while you still have the chance if iโ€™m right, this opportunity is going to flee away very quickly from here
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i'm extremely bullish on the intersection of NFTs, DeFi, and DAOs
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why is every behavioral economist on the planet not studying the hell out of every token and NFT drop on Ethereum? there is no other place in the world so many economic games / experiments are being conducted in real time, often with huge sums on the line
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when coins go up, crypto people get rich when crypto people get rich, they eventually buy jpegs
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you donโ€™t realize it yet, but many NFTs are actually artist social tokens
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the worst thing about modern life is many have been psyop'ed into continually thinking the world is ending all while living in the most prosperous time in human history with the highest average standard of living being perpetually terrified is a terrible way to live your life
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