Yoni

[6529 @punk6529]

27/ Let me give you a preview of where we are headed

[6529 @punk6529]

24/ The same is true for BAYC, for squiggles, for cool cats, for wassies, for toadz.

NFTs are a combination of identity and social organization, with zero membership criteria, fully global, composable.

Anyone can make a product for punks to opt-in to

[6529 @punk6529]

23/ The 10,000 punks are a open publicly-readable, but pseudonymous, database of people who most strongly believe certain things about crypto, about NFTs and about the future

Think about that
Then think about that again
Then think about that again until your jaw hits the floor

[6529 @punk6529]

12/ What do I yearn for?

That our children and grandchildren will remain free.

That they will remain sovereign beings.

That we don't sleepwalk into a panopticon society controlled by a handful of people with "God view" of a big data, machine-learning enabled system.

[6529 @punk6529]

11/ “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

- Antoine de St Exupery (1900 - 1944)

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

To be clear, I could care less whether anyone or everyone deletes their Facebook account. What I object to is politicians whipping up a moral panic to create spurious authority to control newsfeed settings — ie, the power to control the flow of information.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

For anyone who actually uses social networks, the idea that Facebook is “addictive” is laughable. My own usage has fallen off to near zero. A much stronger case could be made against Twitter or TikTok but those targets aren’t as politically attractive.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The newsfeed disintermediated traditional media. That’s why it’s become the focal point for politicians and media who want to control free speech.

[Chris Burniske @cburniske]

Over the years I've watched $BTC maxis get more and more bitter over the successful experimentation around them that they rejected at an early stage.

I fear $ETH maxis could walk the same path 🧵

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

@angela_walch No. Much like p2p torrent network success doesn't (and in practice didn't?) mean intellectual property abolition.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

@tayvano_ @JYSquall NFTs.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

@elonmusk X AE A-12 don't hurt me...

[Balaji @balajis]

@avlok @dwr Crypto vs traditional angel/VC

1) You may now have both a coin table and a cap table
2) You may now have multiple possible exit events, in the form of coin liquidations — not just one-time M&A
3) You are often investing in things that aren’t companies at all

[gfodor.id @gfodor]

I've completely flipped from where I was a few years ago: any 'metaverse' project that doesn't have crypto as a core pillar is a dead end.

[Balaji @balajis]

Most cloud-based services have trust assumptions embedded in them.

In a serious total cyberwar between the US & PRC, or even non-state actors, all these services become targets.

Private keys then become like fallout shelters. Protect against *their* bad government, not yours.

[Balaji @balajis]

We are just entering the stage of social networks with conscious network nationalism.

Where citizens of social networks recruit citizens from other networks, and battle rival networks economically in ever more organized ways.

[Balaji @balajis]

We expect the winner of a big popularity contest to be a brilliant general, a savvy budgeter, a visionary leader. What we actually get is more like an actor.

[Balaji @balajis]

A post by @scholars_stage reminded me of this quote.

I am a bit skeptical of his proposed project though — namely reading 13 books to know why the US failed. The state failed in Afghanistan because it fails at everything, especially physical things. https://t.co/0Bht7hJ1lt

[Balaji @balajis]

A non-obvious aspect of crypto is that it enables automated accounting, and therefore much more complex models for economic alignment.

[Andrew Reed @andrew__reed]

Two projects, both started in 2003:

1. the Van Ness Bus Lane
2. Tesla