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Rick Manelius

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Startup CEO at @atomicform ( #MakingArtImmortal for NFTs). Techstars All-star Mentor. MIT PhD Materials Science. Learning and sharing all things start-up life.

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Rick Manelius
16 days
Book Announcement! Save Your Startup Forget good to great. Most startups struggle to avoid going from drowning to dead. Having led multiple turnarounds in my career, I decided to write a book to help other startup founders do the same (short 🧵)
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@dougboneparth @elonmusk @RonWyden Posting a reply just to say “I was there when…”
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11 months
This @tferriss chapter by @pattonoswalt is 🔥 Underlined something in every paragraph.
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3 years
Absolutely love how @ensdomains has effectively become the gravatar of web3. Follow this article and you can set your global profile pic.
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1 year
Lost 4 in 2020 alone They still won’t speak to me even though 90% of what they claimed then is now known to be false.
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1 year
Have you lost friends or family due to differences over the Covid vaccine?
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3 years
Wyoming is legalizing DAOs while SF is busy renaming schools. The innovation centers are (slowly, but surely) shifting.
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3 years
The Wyoming DAO law is a major step forward to bridging the fiat present and our crypto future. Amazing work by @CaitlinLong_ , @GovernorGordon , and everyone in Wyoming.
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2 years
I respect Bitcoin and Ethereum, but I’m enthralled with Cosmos (both the tech and the community). This is where I’m placing my attention for the next few years (at a minimum).
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2 years
Love Eth, but what if the Eth 2 merge and sharding already happened, and we called it Cosmos?
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6 years
The recent SA-CORE-2018-004 and SA-CORE-2018-002 security advisories have sparked a lot of conversations in the Drupal community regarding all things security. IMHO, it's important to highlight several talking points to keep things in perspective.
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1 year
@agazdecki If you can train yourself to lucid dream, you can unlock a few more hours while you sleep.
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2 years
@petergyang He wants an audit from people he trusts. Also, it might help set expectations around team and company norms. I imagine there will be a few meetings to get that ball rolling.
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2 years
Crypto scams by project percentage: 90% (this is why the skeptics won't touch the space) Crypto scams by total market cap: 10% (this is why the supporters think the industry is fine)
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2 years
Love the Cosmos ecosystem, but, not going to lie… feels like a lot of growing pains. * Evmos halt * Juno prop 16, then halt * Terra implosion * No stablecoin alternatives on AMMs Lots of smart, hard working people so I know this will pass. Just a lot at once
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3 years
@dougboneparth Can you do the same to me just so I can feel something?
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2 years
Cosmos solved bridging before it was cool (and a major problem in other ecosystems).
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5 months
Rocking a @badkidsart PFP this week to see if it feels good.
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4 years
The best time to start your @RoamResearch graph was 20 months ago. The second best time is today.
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2 years
As someone that voted Democrat for like 10-15 years, I approve of this amazing song.
@ProudSocialist
Power to the People ☭🕊
2 years
Hey Democrats: FUCK YOU! A bop by @songadaymann
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3 years
We need more of this. Two people, willing to step into the arena not necessarily to convince, but to understand each other (with dignity and respect). Proud of @JeffHarryPlays , who once again inspires me to keep reaching out and searching for common humanity. 🙏🏻
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Karlyn Borysenko
3 years
I just had an AMAZING conversation with a progressive and #BlackLivesMatter activist and we didn't yell at each other or call each other names and actually found a lot of common ground. Thank you @JeffHarryPlays !!!
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11 months
NFTs are not just JPGs There's history behind (and stories beyond) the mint. Today's example: @opepenedition by @jackbutcher
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I love #Bitcoin , but we also need #Zcash to succeed because it will continue to push the envelope of Zero Knowledge Proofs/tech. Will will be the only way we will guarantee true privacy in the public chains.
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2 years
The pandemic isn’t over until we flatten the curve for suicides and drug over doses.
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1 year
Today’s 5-min morning read from @tferriss ’s book was 👌🏻 Thanks, @naval
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@Mari2025z In my neighborhood I’m looking at $25.
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4 years
We think: "when I’m successful, then I can be generous." But what if the fulfillment of generosity is its own success?
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2 years
Zcash is magic Public blockchain Private transactions Magic
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janusz
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demo of sending a shielded $ZEC transaction
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1 year
Scaring people into compliance Never a conversation about educating people about rational risk/rewards and secondary effects.
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Michael P Senger
1 year
JUST IN: New leaked messages show UK Health Minister Matt Hancock planning to “deploy the new variant” in COVID messaging to “frighten the pants out of everyone” in order to “get proper behavior change” in the public’s compliance with lockdown measures.
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Why wait?! I went ahead and just picked up 5 .eth @ensdomains for various colleagues as Christmas presents 🎁
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Rick Manelius
2 years
Any of my previous colleagues not get an @ensdomains .eth address yet? If gas fees are preventing you from plunging in, let me know. I'd love to pay it forward with a couple people.
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10 years
@levie @CIA Apparently the @CIA only follows 25 people... I don't buy that!
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3 years
@maiab @jmj I thought the same at first, but it’s the equivalent of a standard 20% recruiter fee on a 250k salary. Still, very generous to open up to the network vs a recruiter!
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2 years
What happens when you analyze the metadata of 4,000 NFTs owned by @Vince_Van_Dough ? You find a tremendous amount of variability in the storage, media type, and metadata structure. Analysis and article by @wcj111
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3 months
Arweave is hilariously undervalued. Filecoin too… but Arweave should be 5x higher.
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2 years
Did the right thing and delegated half my $juno to @JoeAbbey , who has been an absolute beast on the research and data visualization work for the community.
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4 years
The odd feeling. I had a recurring reminder to call my grandma on Fridays. It was my ritual to just check-in and say how much I loved her. Since she passed, it's feels odd to keep her in my address book. At what point do you delete a loved ones phone number?
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1 year
This is huge. Old way: bridge tokens to different chains containing different dapps. New way: allow dapps to connect to tokens and dapps on other chains. Instead of moving tokens to compute, we move compute to tokens.
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Sergey | Axelar
1 year
Great chatting with @BanklessHQ @TrustlessState @sgoldfed & @zmanian on General Message Passing between Cosmos and Ethereum. TLDR: You can build a Cosmos app chain & have @MetaMask users interact with it seamlessly from any EVM chain without bridging! [and vise versa: Cosmos
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3 years
Another fantastic article by @BanklessHQ How The Metaverse Emerges
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4 years
You can love someone and yet hold a boundary such that you're not subject to their emotional storms and mental insanities.
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Rick Manelius
4 years
Read 20+ books in 2019, and the one that challenged my worldview the most was "The Coddling of the American Mind" by @JonHaidt and @glukianoff . I'm still processing it and will likely read a 2nd or 3rd time in 2020. Highly recommended
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1 year
@tunguz Delete this
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2 years
Congrats to @ParallelNFT on their Prime Proposal! 🎉 @atomicform also ❤️ the cards. Here, the talented @sirkitree is working on some gallery views so we can show off our collections 🙌🏻🖼
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7 months
Arweave is a great example of web3 storage tech that can be used by everyone. And at 150tps, it’s getting real, sustained usage.
@warcin101
warcin (🐘⛓️,^°)
7 months
I think it's still not getting enough spotlight. Arweave consistently hits week-to-week tx volume ATHs without any issues in system throughput. The tx fees remain stable, unaffected by all of it. Pretty cool to break free from the endless loop of a fee market 🫡
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2 years
This was solid. My TL;DR * Saying YES is divergent, helping you find opportunities. * Saying NO is convergent, focusing you on the winning opportunities. Add hard work and consistency, and you convert short-term income into long-term wealth.
@SahilBloom
Sahil Bloom
2 years
Saying YES is how you create income. But saying NO is how you build wealth. How to say no more effectively:
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Rick Manelius
3 years
I'm an imperfect person trying to be better. I'm ignorant of so much, but trying to learn. I have complex and sometimes inconsistent beliefs and views of the world, and I'm trying to find a way to untangle them. I'm a work in progress, and I always will be.
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@paulg I've found that they are different use cases. Reply if I want to join the conversation with the person's community OR QT if I want to spark a conversation with my followers. I get that most people use it for more malicious reasons... but I 50/50 mix both use cases.
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@TrungTPhan Reminds me of the quote: > The most exciting sound in science is not "eureka!" but "wow that's weird". Paying attention to unexpected outcomes/mistakes can lead to game-changing outcomes.
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3 years
@Creech My original thinking around NFTs has changed greatly. But I think the podcast where @cdixon described them as a new primitive (similar in how a web page can be anything) is when it changed how I viewed them.
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Rick Manelius
2 years
Attend an open AA meeting and listen to at least 10 speakers, and you will never again question how crazy life can get before a rock bottom turn-around.
@EdLatimore
Ed Latimore
2 years
After you've seen enough shit in real life, you become a different type of gullible—and that's probably not even the right word. Like, you can believe anything you read on the internet, not because you're naive, but because you've lived or first-hand observed something similar.
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3 years
@GarretteDVF @BitcoinMagazine @MFbtc @CashApp @milessuter @jack Wait until Apple gets ahold of it. "We revolutionized investing with the new iDip functionality."
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Rick Manelius
3 years
Looks like this Tweet kicked off a 18% run for Zcash. Turns out, proof of stake is quite popular!
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2 years
Your experience with NFTs change when you see them on a 4K display. Just testing the initial @atomicform Wave, I immediately purchased another 2-3 @ParallelNFT cards.
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2 years
A great conversation starter for 1x1s. Where are you feeling on the map? Too much? Too little?
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3 years
One day you blink and wake up 40. Today is that day for me. Here's to the next decade!
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6 months
@thegarrettscott @BasedBeffJezos It’s absurd how much effort they’d expend going after him vs doing investigative journalism to go after bad guys.
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Rick Manelius
4 years
@uTobian A lot of people feel misunderstood or under appreciated. I genuinely like to learn about what makes them tick. Also believing and seeing in them what they can’t see/believe in themselves.
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One of the beautiful things about cryptography + NFTs is the ability for multiple private keys to sign and attest different properties. Love that @ParallelTCG is exploring this territory
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The more I think about it, @ArweaveEco + @irys_xyz + @chainink could serve as the base infra layer of a web3 Internet Archive / Wayback Machine. Storage + timestamping + oracle verification and boom... a true trusted history.
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Rick Manelius
3 years
Don't wait for your friends and loved ones to reach to you. Be the one that reaches out first. You'd be amazed at how much they've been waiting to share, but were just waiting for the right time. Today is the right time.
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Rick Manelius
5 years
Much love and respect to @BridgetPhetasy for sharing her powerful fight with trauma and how it allowed her to be of service for another woman in need (listen to end of this episode). Intense...
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2 years
If you’re not going to join me at @atomicform , the next best place to start a web3 career as a dev is the Cosmos ecosystem. @jack_zampolin and @zmanian et al can point you to places to plug-in/get started.
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Rick Manelius
2 years
This is such a subtle, but fantastic point. No one can stop you from transacting in the network, but participants of the network can be penalized (off chain) for transacting with you.
@TheStalwart
Joe Weisenthal
2 years
To pick up the conversation from yesterday, I don't see how Bitcoin can be censorship-resistant if users can't use the chain privately. This seems obvious to me.
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Well shit. I wasn't planning on crying today but that voice was beautiful beyond words. #humanity in a time of too much division ❤️
@petenew100
Petenew100
4 years
This is the REAL USA 🇺🇸👏🏻👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿👏🏽👏🏾👏🏻
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It's not a question of if @Onrampinvest will become a unicorn. It's just a matter of it's in 2024, 2023, or 2022. Super exciting to watch @TR401 and his team execute!
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Rick Manelius
4 years
We can disagree on fundamentals without hating each other or losing our humanity in the process.
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Rick Manelius
7 months
It's not crypto vs AI. It's crypto AND AI. Love that the @ParallelTCG team will be producing the world's first AI-powered blockbuster game.
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Bankless
7 months
Parallel Colony is bringing AI gaming onchain What does that look like? A 101 THREAD 🧵👇
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I love this so much. Onchain data is great, but it's not always connected and/or linked together. @jalil_eth is doing the hard work of ensuring the entire @jackbutcher network is documented. Love to see it!
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Hot take: Arweave market cap is under-priced by 10x. NFA. I have no bags. But I may need to buy some ahead of time (as a user) before number-go-up and my costs 10x.
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@antoniogm I kinda like having something that’s not hackable. I know people who have lost phones and went through hell recovering TFA seeds.
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3 years
@nickiclyne Airpods. Seems so stupid, but I've 5x'd my consumption of audio.
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Arweave has had inscriptions from day 1. They're called files.
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2 years
@iamDCinvestor @ensdomains @ethleaderboard The guy was a marketing beast, and it's basically been... crickets since the debacle. Marketing momentum lost.
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6 months
Broke: IPFS vs Arweave Woke: IPFS + Arweave More to come…
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Rick Manelius
1 year
Crazy seeing all these #NoCode exits on @microacquire . Some of these paydays are larger than most developers have seen in their startup careers.
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Rick Manelius
6 years
End thread. Thank you for listening.
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2 years
Any of my previous colleagues not get an @ensdomains .eth address yet? If gas fees are preventing you from plunging in, let me know. I'd love to pay it forward with a couple people.
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Rick Manelius
5 years
Overwhelmed with gratitude today while taking my daughter to the movies. Two years ago she lost nearly 100% of her hearing, but now (with hearing aids) it’s 100% back. It’s easy to take something so simple for granted ❤️🙏🏻
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Rick Manelius
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@anothercohen It's not a matter of features. It's an industry that is conservative and optimizes for reliability/accuracy/consistency over all else. You can bring alternatives to your CPA/accountant, but they'd prefer to migrate you into Quickbooks vs whatever you come with.
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Rick Manelius
4 years
The two greatest moments of joy in 2020: 1. Jan 1st: discovery we were pregnant again! ❤️❤️❤️ 2. Meeting my 2nd, beautiful daughter for the 1st time 🥰 Currently enjoying paternity time with the 3 most important people in my life.
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4 years
Not saying this is for everyone, but it works. My mom was the queen of garage sale arbitrage before the internet and made enough extra cash to make it worth it to our family.
@CJ_Johnson17th
WealthSquad Chris
4 years
Here’s how you can make a few thousand per month flipping shoes and bags (purses) The beautiful part is you’ll know how much you can expect to make BEFORE you buy the shoes. Follow me on Instagram for more videos
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@jackbutcher If you're willing. It adds to the Lore. At some point, it would be amazing if the metadata included these like music liner notes. Sure, only the die hards would look or care, but those that do...
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@antoniogm Isn't it wonderful? It'll go back to a baseline. I bet it's 5-7 years of repressed Tweets bursting out. Once people get their fix, they'll go back to being boring.
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10/Open Source. Security Advisories are not a bug, but a feature of open source. The codebase (like our community) is a shared responsibility.
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3 years
Arghhhhhhh…. Should have donated in #zcash to shield the amount we had in the war chest! 🤣
@ConstitutionDAO
ConstitutionDAO (📜, 📜)
3 years
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What if regenerating the planet had less to do with taxes and funding and more to do with incentives and coordination? If that interests you, keep an eye out on @regen_network
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Rick Manelius
7 months
I love Ed's ability to reframe things. This one is a keeper.
@EdLatimore
Ed Latimore
7 months
If you can't be brilliant, try to not be stupid. If you can't be a saint, try to not be a sinner. If you can't improve a situation, try not to make it worse. You don't need to hit home runs to win. Consistent base hits will do the trick. Just try to minimize your errors.
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Rick Manelius
4 years
Anyone else feel like they’ve aged 6 years in the last 6 months? Just me?
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Rick Manelius
2 years
It’s time for Bitcoin to become Zcash
@TheStalwart
Joe Weisenthal
2 years
NEW POST: It's Time For Bitcoin To Be Better For Laundering Money I wrote about the Canadian truckers and how if Bitcoin is actually going to fulfill its mission, the infrastructure needs to get built up so that it can't easily be surveilled.
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Rick Manelius
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Pumped about this! NFTs continue to remind me of the early days of hand coding websites with HTML files. We are just scratching the surface of what can and will be done in a world of 1 trillion NFTs (yes, we already passed 1 billion).
@atomicform
Atomic Form
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We are excited to announce that @rickmanelius will be stepping into the role of CEO of Atomic Form! We are thrilled to have him at the helm as we continue to push the boundaries of NFT hardware and software.
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Honestly this is fucking amazing. @regen_network out there basically planting seeds / running its own accelerator to help regenerate the planet. What’s not to love?
@regen_network
Regen Network
2 years
1/🚨 @RegenNetworkDev Community Funding Awards Announcement!🚨 Program Details - 🧵 ➡️88 applicants requesting over $14M in USD & REGEN Token ➡️42 funding award recipients selected ➡️$1,540,100 in cash and $REGEN distributed
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2 years
@fahdananta @seyitaylor It happens more often than you would think. At one company, over the course of ~ 50 hires, I had 2 rescind and take other offers after signing the offer letter.
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Rick Manelius
6 years
I'll admit that 4.5 years ago, I was quite skeptical of the @backdropcms fork because I didn't understand the use case. Now, I'm very impressed with what @quicksketch and @jenlampton have started, the use case they serve, and the mission they stand behind
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Rick Manelius
1 year
@alexandrosM Same wavelength
@rickmanelius
Rick Manelius
1 year
The @RobertKennedyJr presidential campaign could end tomorrow, and he will have already achieved a massive win by opening up the Overton window. Everything from here is bonus. Thank you so much, sir 🙏🏻❤️
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Rick Manelius
4 years
No matter how fancy the microwave, I only use the “add 30 seconds button.” Someone could sell a one-button microwave and I’d buy it.
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Rick Manelius
3 years
@morganhousel Damn. The confidence it takes to extrapolate a single data point like that.
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Rick Manelius
5 years
IMHO, this is one of the greatest memes in existence. I think about whenever I see one group vilify another and forget that we are all, at our core, humans with similar needs of love, belonging, significance, etc. And never forget that you're someone else's warring tribe.
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Rick Manelius
4 years
Mark Twain once said "I can last two months on a good compliment." This is why it's important to understand the 5 love languages. In doing so, going out of your way to show them how much you appreciate them (in the way they prefer to receive that message) goes a long long way.
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Rick Manelius
2 years
Do you want to have pissing contests on Twitter, or do you want to change the world?
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Rick Manelius
4 years
@uTobian Feels the same. Muscles are constantly tense and sleep has suffered.
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