Jullian Duran Profile
Jullian Duran

@jullian0701

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Product Lead @ MARA | Contributor @ Anduro | Harvard+Tsinghua | 🇪🇨 🇺🇸 (Views are my own)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined December 2022
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@jullian0701
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1 month
MARA technology spans mining and next-gen hardware, in addition to a much needed sidechain platform for supercharging Bitcoin adoption. Innovation at its finest, and more in the pipeline.
@MarathonDH
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2PIC by MARA offers extreme power density, energy efficiency, and unprecedented overclocking capabilities for your #bitcoin mining operations. Learn more:
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@jullian0701
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hasn’t even totally launched and we’re flooded with inbound. Long live degens
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I gave a talk in HK recently about Anduro. Takeaway: we’re multichain. Starting with a UTXO chain and an EVM chain, but sky’s the limit for others. MOVE, SVM, you name it. Have a better one in mind? Reach out!
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6 institutional pilots incoming for RWAs, payments, DePIN, & loyalty on our pre-launch Bitcoin sidechain, ALYS. Ramping up hiring to accommodate more in the pipeline!
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I had some of the best convos in Hong Kong last week at Bitcoin Asia and @Ordinals_Asia . We take western enthusiasm for EVM as the standard, but the East is orange pilled hard.
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1 year
I am at Breakfast with Builders - @ETHDubaiConf by @thedapplist
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Gonna be showcasing some early use cases on Anduro sidechains at Bitcoin Asia! Checkout my talk next Friday at 11AM
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ZK on Bitcoin sounds great but needs a testnet if it’s ever to gain meaningful consensus change traction. Better to do that on a UTXO, Bitcoin-like sidechain backed by a top Nasdaq company…oh wait
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The key to unlocking crypto payments is localization. Bad tech and poor design can still hit a flywheel as long as the fees, latency, and withdrawal availability beat existing rails. Not hard to do when competing against dinosaur TradFi in emerging markets.
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Lo lindo de Bitcoin es el interés orgánico. No encuentras eso con las comunidades farsantes de otros blockchains. El caso 'bear'? Ninguno.
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Bitcoin loyalty apps - anyone building? reach out anduro @mara .com
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$400M in remittances flow annually from Mexico to Guatemala. Everyone talks about the U.S.-Mexico corridor, but the real opportunity for Bitcoin lies in reinventing payment flows across parts of the world that big fintechs overlook.
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@DocumentingBTC Such a half baked conclusion. We don’t just need ‘some’ renewables, we need a seismic shift in our energy sources. That only happens if we cut energy usage dramatically. Bitcoin doesn’t do that, ergo there’s still a debate
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@cryptowoetoe Agree, zoom out and spot the correlation fallacy. Kinda like this one!
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I’m bullish on the crypto scene in Kazakhstan. It’s currently dominated by Binance but you’ve got 20 million highly motivated Bitcoiners here just waiting for a localized app. Reach out if you want to help build one.
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Game-changing and we're just getting started.
@MarathonDH
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Today, we’re announcing Anduro: a multi-chain, layer-two network on #Bitcoin .
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Bitcoin’s price hike isn’t just news for traders, it’s a lasting shift in the mindset of global normies. This is Bitcoin’s chance to be taken seriously and we can’t squander it by leaving adoption in the hands of ETFs.
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1 year
@DocumentingBTC Yea and it gains / loses value faster than your frontend can render
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1 year
@WatcherGuru But crypto still gets the bad wrap because of Bitcoins energy unfriendliness … gotta spread this word!
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Imagine what will happen to the Bitcoin price when markets price in vibrant L2 app communities
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@kadena_io Would love to know more about the on/off ramping solutions you guys have for emerging markets?
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@CK_Cryptoklepto Mostly retail/inscriptions teams, I’m betting institutions will come into Anduro, our L2
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Some people are asking for a simple Anduro pitch. We're extending the functionality of Bitcoin to enable next-gen blockchain apps. Bitcoin is an incredible assetl; I'm here to make it an even more vibrant ecosystem.
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1 year
Recently posted a question on stablecoins to a few subreddits, came to realize there’s a lot of crypto education lacking globally. It won’t get fixed through building fancy tech. You need boots on the ground, meet the skeptics face to face
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People talk about cracking new crypto markets, be it Japan or LatAm. It’s more a question of identifying and adapting to how things are done. Outsiders are bound to slide into irrelevance.
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1 year
@BTC_Archive @StockmoneyL Correlation doesn’t equal causation, be careful for advice like this
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1 year
@woof_work Does Woof have plans to expand into paying in crypto for totally non-crypto work? Just curious
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1 year
@BitcoinMagazine This is crypto innovation that people should be boasting about! Not scammy algo trading graphs
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1 year
@WatcherGuru Crypto cowboy in the wild
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Excited to share that I'll be joining the stage at the Bitcoin Renaissance Summit on February 29, 2024, to dive into the latest on Bitcoin staking, its ecosystem, L2 innovations, and beyond. 🚀 Catch me at Bitcoin Renaissance, reserve your spot now:
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@AlexMendieta74 @TK_HelpDesk @airlines33475 Thanks for mentioning, @TurkishAirlines actually managed to pull off a feat of incompetence with me in a span of just 7 days. Lost bags, stranded in a random airport, left alone to rude border guards, and no food or lodging! Worst of all, no comms. #NeverFlyTurkishAirlines
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1 year
@WhaleChart You mean the 30 people I see daily saying Bitcoin is gonna hit 40K were lying? No way!
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1 year
@jantopicecuador @teleamazonasec De acuerdo @jantopicecuador , soy un economista de Harvard (y guayaquileño) en las etapas iniciales de lanzar una aplicación para colectar denuncias criminales de forma decentralizada, utilizando blockchain para guardar la data y administrar incentivos financieros. Conversemos?
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1 year
@binance Rewards in BUSD? Isn’t that literally going under? Should keep your website (and offers) up to date
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1 year
@BlancaLopezC_ @aquilesalvarez @metroviagye @alcaldiagye Soy un economista de Harvard, guayaquileño, y emprendedor de tecnología aquí en los eeuu. Me gustaría ayudarles con digitizer ciertos aspectos de gobernanza - hay alguien en su equipo con el que podría conversar?
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Let’s color Paris Blockchain Week orange? Why stop at Bitcoin Denver
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1 year
@binance This is a recipe for a liquidity crisis
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1 year
Came across #Biconomy ‘s account abstraction SDK last week, some powerful stuff to be built on it!
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1 year
@FFVV1211 I recently had an idea to create a building passport (info locked in NFTs) that would serve as a single source of truth for construction companies, real estate, & property owners. IRL utility but didn’t get it off the ground :/
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Bullish
@alexeiZamyatin
Alexei Zamyatin | Hiring
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It's a #Bitcoin L2 It's an #Ethereum L2 It's a Hybrid L2 ...and it's launching at the Bitcoin Halving #HybridL2 @build_on_bob
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@binance @cz_binance And hook them with scammy ads about making 2X returns on principal? Seems like this insight went off course in practice
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@pmullr Real footage of centralized crypto exchanges in 2023 (ahem, Binance)
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1 year
@arvanaghi Guess that justifies the 100+ user interviews I did this week. Worth it!
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1 year
@BitcoinMagazine This meme has a laughable dose of nonsense. Economists at the fed are some of the most brilliant minds, saved us from multiple recessions. I’m a web3 founder, but come on this comparison is bogus
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@jullian0701
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Se supone que LatAm require crypto mas que el G20. Aún así, veo los eventos más grandes organizados en los EEUU/EU. Cambiemos eso
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1 year
@cz_binance Meaning regulatory evasion becomes more cunning? Strange that this is the approach often taken
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1 year
@WhaleChart 99% of the world doesn’t even know there are other options. We have to make it easier & intuitive to break away from Binance & others
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If crypto is a casino, Bitcoin is the Monte Carlo. Why settle for second best?
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1 year
@CoinMarketCap Getting in on stablecoin yield and ignoring trading fads entirely
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1 year
@rovercrc Why is everyone so crazy about spikes / dips in prices. Everything regresses to the mean. Wouldn’t it be smarter to focus on honest DeFi yield?
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1 year
@binance DYOR and meanwhile peddles scammy APYs. Disingenuous
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The entire institutional RWA value prop depends on Bitcoin. No one is going to tokenize $50B in bank deposits on some flashy, hype chain
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1 year
@SatoshiFlipper Zoom out and consider shoddy volatility trading is a recipe for financial ruin
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1 year
@_OrgChaos @0xMert_ 100% agree and I’m looking to change that
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@domodata Not to mention prompted convos of new narratives & use cases. Some refreshing apps to come I’m sure
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Come out to Fairground Austin! Learn about Anduro & why this MARA-incubated sidechain effort will boost Bitcoin adoption
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1 year
@ugcvenus Agreed... I'm building an app to take on Upwork so people can get paid in USD from anywhere. We're in beta, lmk if interested!
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@justinsuntron So pumped for this! Hoping that money is spread across Asia given how international a market HK is
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1 year
@cameron Agreed, and I think Kazakhstan’s market & regulations make it exactly the right candidate
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1 year
@Eljaboom Tweets like this explain why mainstream think crypto is a scam
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1 year
Not sure why everyone is so crazy about building for traditionally lucrative markets. The future of DeFi is in the developing world. No signs of a bear market here!
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If Bitcoin had half the app experimentation of other ecosystems, we’d smoothly get to 100K
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1 year
@WhaleChart China tried to ban and still plenty of crypto activity there. G20 has half the enforcement power. Definitely a concern for B2B businesses, but that’s why the future is retail imo
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1 year
@danheld Only way to beat that arrogance is in numbers, and our industry isn’t doing enough to scale globally. Hope 2023 is different!
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@jespow I’m a DeFi entrepreneur and 100% agree. More needs to be brought to light about these centralized exchanges. And get ready world, Binance is next
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@Filecoin @amazon I hope! But it’s all about getting the crypto skeptics onboard. Too much unnecessary hesitancy at anything with the word blockchain in it
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@aeyakovenko Someone can create an engaging loyalty program built upon NFTs to ensure security / no double counting. It’s a marketers dream come true
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@SatoshiFlipper People interested in gaining upside in the short term are equally as foolish. My hesitation with this perspective is it’s often pitched to lure people in to make money quick, ironically
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@Upwork At the end of the day, even minor postings generate 100+ proposals. It’s impossible to navigate through it all. I just look at rating and the top 5 on the list. No time
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1 year
@CryptoKaleo So are context-less scams
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1 year
@_khanhamzah @arbitrum Nothing is dead (or alive, for that matter) till mainstream is on web3. It’s still so niche, the race hasn’t begun
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@build_on_bob A boon for both the future of blockchain adoption and the security of mainchain Bitcoin
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DeSoc would scale best on Bitcoin. Not in terms of infra (yet) but in terms of engagement. And isn’t engagement everything?
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@0xMert_ @ottrfinance @TipLinkOfficial @circle @solanapay @elusivprivacy @sphere_labs @helio_pay @candypayfun @beamodotco @crossmint @saydialect @Decaf_so @LightProtocol @hey_wallet Briefly looking through these, UIs are still not mainstream enough. Crypto being sold as a feature when it should just be a technical footnote. Visa will reign supreme till we realize that
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EVM/SOL crowds use random tokens to incentivize behavior, a growing space called DePIN. When’s Bitcoin gonna catch up?
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@jsteevenmacias @mariu10755199 @BlancaLopezC_ @aquilesalvarez @metroviagye @alcaldiagye Gracias @jsteevenmacias . Lastima la gente que se esmera en ver el lado negativo de una propuesta que solo escribí con buenas intenciones de ayudar mejorar una ciudad que tanto amamos, algunos de cerca y otros como yo de lejos.
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@_khanhamzah Building a retail defi app (on polygon) for mainstream in Central Asia - any interest in supporting the emerging market search for PMF?
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@jullian0701
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If a Bitcoin ETF approval kills Bitcoin, that’s purely a product of bad UX. There’s plenty of time, but not enough attention, to fix that
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@bergealex4 @Liquid_BTC @MarathonDH @build_on_bob @alexeiZamyatin Difference w Liquid is merge mining. Txn fees flow to miners protecting mainchain proof of work. Collective shares fees w miners because that’s part of their founding charter + reason for existing. More trustless/programmatic approaches to the latter are in development.
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@mariu10755199 @jsteevenmacias @BlancaLopezC_ @aquilesalvarez @metroviagye @alcaldiagye Hermano, haz el favor de calmarte. Haz un search del nombre Jullian Duran en LinkedIn. Verás lo equivocado que estás.
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@SatoshiFlipper Highly dependent on *what* you’re patient for, but so long as it actually adds value to the world - agreed
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1 year
@rektcapital No context, no justification. This is speculation pure and simple. Buyer beware
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1 year
@Upwork I also love low, fair fees - someone should beat intermediaries via a stablecoin transfer service. Anything above 1% if absurd
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@jeronymod @DocumentingBTC “As we have never actually come across alien life, we have never been able to chart any other civilisation on this scale”, BBC > you write so angrily & dogmatic but refer to a historical precedent, not a verifiable projection. Read up on it. And chill.
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@WatcherGuru Again? Most performant in what world …
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@LilMoonLambo OR you can buy it because it powers a revolutionary network that can remake emerging market finance. Why not sell crypto for its capabilities instead of speculation?
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@WhaleChart I trust them as much as I trust FTX today
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@justinsuntron I think it’s less about the chain functionality/token, more about the users/builders. Too much needless speculation, no wonder governments are skeptical
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@crypto_bitlord7 The most explicit get-rich-quick scam I’ve seen. At least you’re being transparent
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@crypto_bitlord7 Exactly why our industry is in a bear market - needless speculation
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