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Tim Robinson

3 months

Over the last few months I've done a deep dive into every way L2's are working to solve liquidity fragmentation issues in Ethereum. Now I've summarized everything I've found in one post for your consumption!

How Ethereum can solve L2 liquidity fragmentation

Exploring every upgrade Chains and Wallets can make so the L2 ecosystem feels like one chain.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

How DeFi is following the AWS playbook to take over finance 🧵👇

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

8 months

Here's how easy it is to be scammed in Metamask vs Rabby: @sassal0x recently had his OP tokens stolen, primarily caused by MM showing zero info about what was happening. Rabby shows exactly what's going on and 6 (!) warnings about it being a scam.

Metamask vs Rabby interacting with a scam site

Recently Sassal had all his OP tokens stolen, as described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5jQtjgHTTU. The reasons why he got scammed are many, but a ...

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Tim Robinson

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1 year

What happens if crypto really succeeds? I don't mean a 10x or even 100x price increase, I mean if it completely takes over the world. What would that look like? 🧵👇

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

2 months

Sending $20 of ETH from Base to Optimism using @AcrossProtocol via @BungeeExchange now costs 1.7c and takes 4 seconds. Wallets can now abstract away L2's, lets make it happen! First wallet to nail the UX wins the next generation of degens.

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Tim Robinson

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1 year

@gladstein Yea that's what happens when a chain is used, people pay fees which go to validators. I know Bitcoin has been in a dry spell for a while, I'm sure people will pay to use it again someday.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

4 months

@0xMert_ Wow look at all these nodes on AWS, who knew it was so decentralized!? Photos from , thanks @superphiz for caring about user freedom, a true leader that pushes for what is right instead of giving up and declaring centralization is inevitable.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

2 months

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

4 years

I've published a new post on why I believe Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0, and why it's the best things we can do to get GDP growth back on track and ensure capitalism flourishes in the 21st century -

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

5 months

Surprised to see not a single mention of Polygons Unified Liquidity Interop layer. It's easily the most exciting fix for fragmented liquidity I've seen. (from )

pseudo (on farcaster) 📜🇺🇦

@pseudotheos

5 months

whoever abstracts away bridges entirely will make a bajillion dollars

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

DeFi is inevitable, and I'm surprised more people don't see this yet. By the end of this decade it will be obvious that this is a better way to build a financial system. Many dismissed AWS in 2010 as many technologists dismiss DeFi now. But this is coming and it's unstoppable.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 month

Hot damn this guy can sell Ethereum! If every TradFi investor heard this after the ETF goes live ETH would teleport to $100k

Taiki Maeda

@TaikiMaeda2

1 month

At the @SohnConf , @nshalek of @RibbitCapital made an investment pitch for $ETH in front of institutional investors. He discussed tokenization, DeFi, stablecoins, upcoming ETF, and ETH's potential for an emergent store of value. Here's the must watch 7 minute clip:

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

10 months

It's the @pudgypenguins 2nd birthday and @LucaNetz has been absolutely killing it in building an amazing brand. As a celebration I adopted my 2nd pudgy and well, he's too cute not to be my PFP

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

We still don't have digital cash, and no, the thing you are thinking of right now is not digital cash. Here's what digital cash means:

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

9 days

@hankgreen and Motorcycle riders have their first accident in 18 months on average.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

8 months

Met the GOAT of NFTs today. Every time I hear him speak I'm like "damn I don't own enough pudgies"

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

This killer feature is called Permissionless Composability. DeFi is financial Lego building blocks that click together, and anyone can play. A16Z gets it.

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

@pmarca

2 years

@sriramk The enormous payoff from decentralization and permissionless innovation. I cannot believe more people don't understand this. It's so obvious.

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@timjrobinson

1 year

International money transfers don't have to suck. They're still slow, inefficient, and have fairly high fees. With some technical improvements they could be almost free, instant and global. Here's how:

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

Blockchains bring us into the YouTube era. Where anyone anywhere can create something interesting and monetize it. It looks weird and zany and nothing like "real finance", exactly like YouTube in 2007 looked nothing like "real TV".

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

This all seems like hopium in the darkness of this bear market, but it is coming. I hope you're ready.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

It was because AWS made little building blocks of useful code that were compatible with each other, and continually added to them over time.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

2 months

@elonmusk @AutismCapital The signal to noise ratio on Twitter is exceptionally bad, especially in comments. Just endless memecoin / NFT spam and scams on every post.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

8 months

I have some exciting news - last week was my final week at @Balancer , and this week I'm joining @blueyard Capital as their head of crypto research! Balancer is amazing and I really enjoyed my time there, I've just been wanting to move from coding into research for a while. I

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

8 months

There are many other good wallet too. I've heard good things about @rainbowdotme , @0xFrame , @ZenGo too. I just primarily use @Rabby_io Just please stop using Metamask until they get better security, if Sassal can be scammed, you can too.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

Your financial portfolio could be all the things you love and spend time doing. Finding great things while they're still underground could be a viable career.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

AWS won big with only Amazon employees working on these building blocks, imagine how big this will be when the whole world can collaborate and contribute. We'll finally get a functional global financial system.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

2 months

I had so many conversations in Denver like this: Them: What are you bullish on? Me: Polygon - their metrics and agg layer tech are awesome Them: But it hasn't pumped? Study projects and get bullish *before* their token pumps and you'll have an easier time making it in crypto.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

In a blockchain native world everything can be financialized - every game, movie, band, toy, building, company, product. Everything!

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

Today you can invest in stocks, some ETFs, a house (which you have to buy one at a time). Maybe baseball cards, gold, or art if you're really esoteric. This is the TV era - pre-set channels, created by approved institutions, that everyone follows.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

In DeFi, services are smart contracts connected through standard APIs. Scaling, latency, and rate limiting is handled by the chain. Most smart contracts are immutable so you can depend on them to never change or break on you. Validation and authentication is handled by the chain.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

7 months

@TikTokInvestors Meanwhile in crypto - Luna, a collapsed project who's founder is in jail, is still $444M FDV

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

In a few decades owning the S&P500 will be as boomer as newspapers and TV. Zoomer finances could be completely alien to what we have today. Collecting, trading and investing in Media and Entertainment is way more fun than the S&P500 or Index funds.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

Looking to maximise your ETH returns post withdraws? Make sure you check out Rocket Pool

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

2 months

Reth, Monad and Eclipse (SVM) powered L2's are going to be killer this cycle. The data space is now available, Type 1 ZK proving is here, it's time to beef up execution speeds.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

These little pieces of financial infrastructure look like toys now, but they are assembling Voltron style to eat away at Traditional Finance exactly as AWS ate away at self managed infrastructure.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

How does this relate to DeFi? Let's look at finance - opaque systems run by different institutions with different APIs, permissioned access, custom software etc. There are huge teams of people keeping things running, validating transactions, auditing logs.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

All these pieces are ok on their own, but what made them incredible was you could control them through code. Their API's were consistent and standardized, had impeccable uptime, and few issues.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

Why did cloud computing win? It wasn't cost savings, because bare metal is cheaper. It wasn't flexibility, because you can do far more with your own machines.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

3 years

@ESYudkowsky Australia has a way to dissolve the Senate if they get gridlocked for too long ( ). What if the USA had a similar amendment but on a super-majority vote: "If over 75% of the people vote to dissolve government, all of congress is fired"

Double dissolution - Wikipedia

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

4 years

@paul_48n @ASlavitt The White House, not the USA. Vietnam has 30 active cases.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

The amount of information we have post internet isn't 10x what I was pre-internet, it's 100,000,000x

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

It started with EC2 and S3 - a server and a file store. Then they added a managed database, and messaging, and queues, and load balancers and... You get the point.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

Financial firms will attempt to resist, but they will eventually capitulate, because using small pre-built services (often for free!) is far more efficient than building the same things in house.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

10 months

@scott_lew_is The argument that "L2s don't inherit security" seems to be same one as "Bitcoin can't retain value because anyone can fork it" which I thought we got over in 2013. It's always social consensus all the way down, and some forms of social consensus are much stronger than others.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

"People should take finance more seriously" you say. Yea and people should learn politics from CSPAN, but there's a reason Breaking Points and Fox News have 100x the viewers.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

This is a huge difference from how companies previously managed infrastructure. They had to manually setup servers running different pieces of software with incompatible APIs. They had to deal with hard drives dying, network latency, breaking API changes, and scaling everything.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

4 months

Rocket Pool twitter is STILL HACKED (after 2 weeks!) despite taking all possible security precautions. Twitter security and support is so unbelievably bad. Lets all move to Farcaster, no one should be trusting Twitter as their main communications platform any more.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

3 years

@micsolana The solution is a carbon tax. If any other countries want to keep polluting add a carbon tax tariff to all trades with them. It's not that hard. Bitcoin mining will then naturally move to where it's cheapest, which will be renewables.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

2 months

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

The amount of investment opportunities and financialization in a post blockchain world won't be 10x finance today....

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

6 months

@ftlsid I have this problem and the best job I've found so far is researcher at an investment firm. You get to learn all kinds of futuristic tech in many fields and give opinions on what makes sense, and still get paid well for it.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

If anyone has a great idea they can build it using any existing pieces today. They don't need to ask permission, pay special fees or wait around for months for licenses before they can get started.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

The amount of video we have post YouTube isn't 10x TV. It's 100,000,000x

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

AWS looked at this and turned it into composable building blocks anyone could use to build complex systems that never went down.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

2 months

@AcrossProtocol @BungeeExchange Full Math for those that care: Sent 0.005 on Base Received 0.00499561 on Optimism Transaction Fee: 0.000000392328100121 ETH = $0.0014 Bridging Fee: 0.00000439 ETH = $0.016 Total Fee: 0.00000478232 ETH Total Fee USD: $0.0174

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

8 months

@thecryptojourno Thats not aid though, the government is paying them to send stuff to space

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

5 months

I did not realise this. @NeerajKA 's pinned post makes even more sense now.

Neeraj K. Agrawal

@NeerajKA

3 years

i’m sorry that your warrantless surveillance regime was built on the assumption that people would always need intermediaries to transact

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

11 months

Rocketpool Client Diversity raffle is going amazingly well but is almost over. If you're still running Geth you've got 2 days left to switch to a minority client to win a ton of prizes!

Rocket Pool Client Diversity

A one-month event promoting the health of Ethereum with rewarding poaps, a raffle entry, and bragging rights.

rplclientdiversity.com

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

3 years

Love the positivity!

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

3 years

Our first TV ad: Hope.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

3 months

@robwijers @dotkrueger Yep sure looks like it's going to infinity!

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

20 days

@amandacassatt I've never heard a single person say this. And I'm totally happy with Bitcoin staying on PoW because never hard forking is a good attribute to have.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

8 months

@amtwo_eth @punk6529 Composability and efficiency in the good case (which is 99% of the time)

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

11 months

@RuzhyoX @specialmech Censoring for more than 30 min requires all ETH in existence. Costs go up by 12.5% every block.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

If someone wants to build this, let me know, I'm keen to participate. There is no money in it, this is a public good the world needs as we digitize everything.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

3 years

@devonzuegel Obsidian - Note taking tool that can act like a Wiki with links tying notes together. It's amazingly useful to create your own personal knowledge base, to ease the burden on your brain.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

4 years

@paraschopra That communication mediums shape our thinking. Short text's and faster meme's create shallower thinking which causes people to take shortcuts, leading to thinking like a tribe/hivemind instead of more nuanced thoughts.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

8 months

I've setup a mirror of @Balancer at if anyone needs to use it while we're still getting the main site back.

Balancer

A UI that supports core Balancer protocol functionality. Explore & create pools, manage liquidity, swap tokens, get veBAL and claim incentives.

balancer.timjrobinson.eth.limo

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

3 years

@ojblanchard1 How can you tell if the young contaminated the old vs everyone simply relaxed their precautions based on their personal risk profile? Maybe older people took longer before they got bored and went outside again?

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

4 years

@numberless109 @ASlavitt @dicklp Vietnam has 30 active cases. I assume he means that.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

5 years

@Dragonikuze @nprpolitics @AndrewYang Exactly! People who are doing pretty well already will give a lot more to charity and then they'll be able to take care of those struggling in their communities.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

5 months

@moo9000 Who has been doing a good job? @0xPolygonLabs , @arbitrum , @optimism , @zksync , @Starknet , @Immutable . All have amazing BD, apps, and scaling improvements. This is what many misunderstand about Ethereum. It's a decentralized platform that secures other networks, not a company.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

4 years

@AndartkleKlein @Amal4Yang @AndrewYang All the math is at , feel free to bring specific critiques and the #YangGang will help you understand.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

7 months

@twMattt @drjasper_eth Poll needs an "I don't choose stETH" rETH has better yields in balancer, more security from being more decentralized, and is in Aave + Gravity + Balancer which is all I need in DeFi.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

8 months

@crypterotas The way rETH increases value is better tax wise because it's just capital gains when you sell vs income when you hold stETH.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

Something peculiar came out of the collapse of FTX that I have yet to see anyone talking about. Alameda created an investment glitch that allowed them to invest way more cash than they had available.

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@timjrobinson

6 months

@0xngmi If it wasn't rejected I'd assume it'd be a DDoS vector? As nodes would have to do the computation first before determining if enough gets returned

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

7 months

@RespectfulMemes Also Febuary

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

Can we prevent this in the future? Yes. Use DeFi! Use centralized exchanges like a public bathroom: deposit, make your trade, and get out. Don't linger and set up shop there. There's no reason to trust an opaque centralized institution when DeFi exists.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

One simple trick to predicting the future more accurately

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

The Biggest Flaws in Decentralized Social Media

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

5 months

@Grabotystore as seen in the funniest YouTube video of all time

Flutterbye fairy toy flies into fire O'Fortuna

I just had to edit this, it needed to be done.Original clip is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba25S_AqGRo

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

What if you lose your phone? Tough luck. If you lose your wallet your cash is gone, this is the same.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

2 years

@XCodeCarlos @BalancerLabs @bantg legal text != code implementation All TRM requests go through a lambda so users IP's aren't sent to TRM: Lambda: Everything is open source

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

10 months

The 3 most useful DeFi tools: - @Rabby_io - Rabby Wallet - 10x better than Metamask - @BungeeExchange - Aggregates all the Bridges - - Aggregates all the DEX's

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@timjrobinson

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@RespectfulMemes

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

5 months

@yugacohler Nah, ETH is obvious. Courageous is buying Cardano after it's already pumped despite doing basically nothing for years and still sits at a market cap 100x what if should be.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

11 months

@0xfoobar Rocketpools tokenomics are 2nd only to ETH. Most people still don't realise you get 142% ETH rewards running a Rocket Pool node vs solo validator AND bonus RPL rewards. But yes they do need more BD, they've needed it for years.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

6 years

- Yay a non-profit bringing Ranked Choice Voting to Seattle! If you want to see more independents in office and break the two party system, this is the way to do it.

Fix Democracy First

Working for the will of the people, not the power of money.

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@timjrobinson

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My first thought is: if you are overpaying for security and cut everyone's pay in response, the people that stick around are the ones getting paid out of band in other ways. I wonder if this would encourage more toxic MEV in order to stay profitable, as those who don't engage

DavidHoffman.eth/acc🦇🔊

@TrustlessState

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The proposed change to the $ETH issuance curve is a slam dunk It aligns with the social contracts that #Ethereum has established - Minimum Viable Issuance - Eliminating trust - Empowering individuals Protect raw ETH! I put my thoughts in the episode linked below👇👇

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

4 years

"Democracy was a reallocation of power in a time of kings. The Freedom Dividend is a reallocation of power in a time of billionaires." - @scottsantens #YangGang #IowaCaucuses

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

1 year

In honor of RPL mooning, and writing about Rocketpool and Elon Musk, it's time to change my PFP.

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Tim Robinson

@timjrobinson

10 months

@safetyth1rd Need more like @sassal0x , but he's not as popular as the grifters because he doesn't hype the shit out of everything, just explains what's up. For more in depth explainers @TaikiMaeda2 and @JustinCBram are great. Tons of good podcasts too (Bankless, Empire, Unchained)

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Tim Robinson

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3 years

@DavidOAtkins I think @AndrewYang has the right ideas. It's about showing there's a better way and better path, and doing root cause analysis. People fall into extremism when something is missing from their lives and they don't see hope for improvement.

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1 year

Why I'm doing Ship 30 for 30

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@timjrobinson

1 year

- No company - No login - No seed phrase - No address book - No account numbers - No traceability - No gatekeepers

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5 months

@sassal0x Other signs of death: - Gas fees too high (because too many people are using mainnet) - L2's are too expensive and breaking (because even they have too much usage) - Too many L2's being launched, this obviously fragments liquidity which = death

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1 year

Why Bitcoin Lightning Sucks

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4 years

@johnhhaskell @ASlavitt Vietnam has 30 active cases.

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1 year

We can build a centralized stablecoin that is: - scalable - profitable for the holding company - zero bank run risk - no risk of it being under-collateralized Here's how:

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1 year

The backing asset should be the most decentralized USD stablecoin, which is currently DAI, and it should be on a privacy L2 like Aztec network so that transactions are cheap, secure, and private.

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