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[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@_lea_li "Freiheit ist die Freiheit zu sagen, dass zwei plus zwei vier ist. Wenn das gewährt ist, folgt alles weitere."

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I am financially censored.

All the banks closed my bank accounts for criticizing Israel and U.S. war crimes at the UN

I cannot have a bank account. I cannot have a credit or debit card. I cannot make or receive payments

I’m not a criminal. I represent people’s voice at the UN!

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

“In Iran, Germany Is Helping Dismantle International Law - Again”; my latest on Substack (link below)

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@brian_armstrong @Google Proposed two months ago by TU Berlin researchers:

https://t.co/BtByH3Pcss

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@ethereum @kleffew94 @MurrLincoln Check out this paper:

https://t.co/BtByH3OECU

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@aave Avg 3.02%

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@VIZ_Berlin Katastrophe, dass man es soweit kommen lässt. Kann man die Brücke nicht provisorisch abstützen bis eine alternative gefunden (gebaut) wurde?

[Brave @brave]

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[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@mmmite1 @paddi_hansen You are right, my message was not fully precise. I was actually referring to the GDP per capita, which is in 2023: 51.0209€ for Berlin and 48.750€ for whole Germany. Hence removing Berlin would actually lower the German GDP per capita.

see: https://t.co/EwICKJKzsf

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@MichaelAArouet How about Biontech, the company that saved the world with their Covid vaccines?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The most concerning part about this is that most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has now become

Europeans are literally blue-pilled and are mostly concerned with climate change, immigration and the Ukraine war

Nobody in Europe is thinking why increasingly everything they use is made in China running on American software

The knee jerk reaction is to proudly pass regulation against American tech

The chad reaction would be to reduce regulation so that European entrepreneurs would actually stay in Europe to build European startups increasing Europe's GDP and making Europeans richer!

I am European and I have regular conversations about this with people here, it's just not on top of mind AT ALL! While it should be because Europe's GDP is stagnant and the real innovation now happens in US and China and elsewhere, not in Europe

People in Europe do love to complain about rising cost of living and the increasing unaffordability of living, but they don't realize why. They point at foreigners/immigrants as the problem, which can't be the whole story

Other Europeans I talk to get visibly upset if I ask them about stagnant GDP numbers: "why should everything be about money?" they say in a thick German accent

The whole story is that Europe has made it very difficult for people to start a business, raise capital, innovate and get the reward for taking that risk, so why would anybody?

And for the Europeans that do, it's way easier to open a US Delaware company, raise capital in US, sell your stock or IPO in the US, because why even do that in EU, where it's too hard? The proof is in the pudding, if it was so easy in EU then why is startup funding in US $270B AUM with 330 million people vs $44B AUM with 746 million people? That's almost 14x bigger startup funding market per capita

Why doesn't EU have ANY trillion dollar companies? While US has six? Why isn't there any European company in the top 10 of largest companies? While 80% is American?

Why is Stripe, a company founded by two Irish brothers, an American company and not a European one? It could have been

Very few Europeans will agree with this post because they can't see it, if they would've seen it, we wouldn't be here in the first place!

What's the role left for Europe in the future?

Signed,
- A techno-optimist European who'd love to see Europe become wealthy again

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Wake up Europe, the digital age is bypassing you. You have no Google , Amazon, Meta, Apple. You arrogantly called SpaceX a fanciful dream and it wiped out the European Space Agency. You have no Nvidia and your response to AI has been to regulate before you have anything domestic to regulate. Your car industry is about to be wiped out by the Chinese. Your biggest economy shut down nuclear out of spite and with fraud. Your capital markets have no liquidity and your startups are drowning in bureaucracy. Your border is being attacked by Russia and your defence spending will have to triple just to be where it was with US subsidy given that part of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc is now part of the EU. Your economy has slumped from the world’s largest to way behind the US. Your pensions are paid by three times less people and cost five times as much as people live longer. Your infrastructure is a model for the world but is configured for rail over self drive. Your electricity grid needs half a trillion of investment to cope with planned capacity and replacements, for the switch to renewables, within a decade. There are bright spots such as pharma and your healthcare system is a model for what civilisation looks like it. But to afford it, you need to completely transform from the industrial to digital age, to reform your institutions and rout the sclerotic bureaucratic system.

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@swellnetworkio @eigencloud wen TGE? Q1 is over.

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@SerjKorj good job!

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@gakonst The first two digits of an IBAN are the checksum

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

He calls is sad, I call it mainstream adoption. Get ready leaving the darkWeb3 behind.

[Rune @RuneKek]

Heard today that there’s a good chance all EU national financial regulators will interpret DeFi frontends to require a MiCA license. This would make DeFi frontends on normal internet domains, as we know them today, impossible. Only fully decentralized, local, downloaded frontends or full-KYC online frontends would be possible. Sad

[awid.eth @0xAwid]

@defidave "Close" is relative.

If I remember correctly the CR was at ~95% about a year ago. -> +2.5% increase/Year.
If everything stays the same still about 1 more year to go...

[Jonas 🔴✨ @JonasSFT]

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