James Iroro

A sacred diagram of the microcosm, representing the market's reflection of universal truths.

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

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[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan to launch blockchain-based system for instant settlement of stocks and government bonds.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senate Republicans release updated version of the crypto Clarity Act following August recess negotiations.

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

ok so the Clarity Act got another rewrite 👀 tweaks to DeFi and credit union stuff, but still needs 60 votes when the Senate is back. feels like this bill has been "almost there" forever lol. anyone actually think it passes? #CryptoRegulation

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

The market never sleeps and neither do I. Every 24 hours in crypto feels like a month in traditional finance — that's exactly why we're early. Most people can't handle this pace.

Who else thrives on the chaos? #Crypto

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

flight delayed 3 hrs. silver lining: finally have time to actually go through my watchlist properly instead of doom scrolling charts on my phone. lounge wifi + spreadsheet = productive layover

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

closed the laptop, walked outside, and honestly thought it was gonna be mid. it wasn't. sun still works, birds still real, charts will be there when i get back. 10/10 would touch grass again

[Ivan on Tech 🍳📈💰 Head Trader @ Bullmania @IvanOnTech]

ROBINHOOD CHAIN MUST-HAVES:
1. $UNI - biggest dex
2. ethereum:0x07f5b6823751c2e2cd4560f28af75ff887102241 - pumpfun clone
3. ethereum:0x58d97b57bb95320f9a05dc918aef65434969c2b2 - defi/yield
4. $CASHCAT - meme
5. $HOOD - Robinhood stock

forget the other memes - invest in the key coins that wont disappear!!

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

Yikes, another meme coin launch turning into a bloodbath 😬 Blaming bots after a 98% dump feels like a classic cope move when early buyers are down six figures. Thin liquidity + snipers = disaster every time. When do teams learn? #memecoins

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

My first reaction to this was:

"And that's why I just got my $2,725 check of fileverse tokens now that fileverse has grown to the point where my dad regularly writes docs in fileverse that he sends to me"

My second reaction to this was:

"I see how this makes total sense from a crypto perspective, but it makes zero sense from an outside-of-crypto perspective ... hmm, what does this say about crypto?"

My more detailed reaction:

There are many distinct activities that you can refer to as "incentivizing users".

First of all, paying some of your users with coins that your app gets by charging other users is totally fine: that's just a sustainable economic loop, there is nothing wrong with this.

The activity that I think people are thinking about more is, paying all your users while the app is early, with the hope of "building network effect" and then making that money back (and much more) later when the app is mature.

My general view, if you _really_ have to simplify it and sacrifice some nuances for the sake of brevity, is:

* Incentives that compensate for unavoidable temporary costs that come from your thing being immature are good
* Incentives that bring in totally new classes of users that would not use even a mature version of your thing without those incentives are bad

For example, I have no problem with many types of defi liquidity rewards, because to me they compensate for per-year risk of the project being hacked or the team turning out to be scammers, a risk that is inherently higher for new projects and much lower once a project becomes more mature.

Paying people to make tweets that get attention, might be the most "pure" example of the wrong thing to do, because you are going to get people who come to your platform to make tweets, with every incentive to game any mechanisms you have to judge quality and optimize for maximum laziness on their part, and then immediately disappear as soon as the incentives go away. In principle, content incentivization is a valuable and important problem, but it should be done with care, with an eye to quality over quantity, which are not natural goals that designers of "bootstrapping incentives" have by default.

If fact, even if users do not disappear after incentives go away, there is a further problem: you succeed from the perspective of growing *quantity of community*, but you fail from the perspective of growing *quality of community*. In the case of defi protocols, you can argue: 1 ETH in an LP pool is 1 ETH doing useful work, regardless of whether it's put there by a cypherpunk or an amoral money maximizer. But, (i) this argument can only be made for defi, not for other areas like social, where esp. in the 2020s, quality matters more than quantity, and (ii) there are always subtle ways in which higher-quality community members help your protocol more in the long term (eg. by writing open-source tools, answering people's questions in online or offline forums, being potential developers on your team).

The ideal incentive is an incentive that exactly compensates for temporary downsides of your protocol, those downsides that will disappear once the protocol has more maturity, and attracts zero users who would not be there organically once the protocol is mature.

Charging users fees, but paying them back in protocol tokens, I think is also reasonable: it's effectively turning your users into your investors by default, which seems like a good thing to do.

A further more cynical take I have is that in the 2021-24 era, the "real product" was creating a speculative bubble, and so the real function of many incentives was to pump up narratives to justify the narrative for the bubble. So any argument that incentives are good for bootstrapping acquisition should be not judged on the question of whether it's plausible, but on the question of whether it's more plausible than the alternative claim that it's all galaxy brain justification ( https://t.co/iJYPFNaOgg ) for a "pump and dump wearing a suit".

TLDR: the bulk of the effort should be on making an actually-useful app. This was historically ignored, because it's not necessary for narrative engineering to create a speculative bubble. But now it is necessary. And we do see that the successful apps now, the apps that we actually most appreciate and respect, do the bulk of their user acquisition work in that way, not by paying users to come in indiscriminately.

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

gym session done. something about lifting heavy makes you think in longer timeframes. the body rebuilds slow, wealth builds slow, conviction builds slow. instant gratification is the real enemy.

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

@doyinsola_toye Happy birthday Doyinsola. God bless and continually keep you on all sides. Thank you for being a huge blessing❤️

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

Patience, persistence & perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

If you can't think for yourself and make decisions from your inner convictions then you are not truly free. Others are living out their lives through you.

Do your own thinking but make sure you are not disrespectful nor injurious in word or deed to others.

[Godman Akinlabi @PGeeman]

If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you??

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum!

[James Iroro @Hymical_Qdedi]

Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Happy birthday to our father Daddy G.O Pastor E.A Adeboye.

You have been a stabilising force for the body of Christ in this nation and a shining example to the church globally.

Your presence has kept many extreme tendencies in check and the results from your life has spread humility into the hearts of God's people.

Your wisdom has been the hall mark.

God bless you sir.

The entire Covenant Nation blesses you sir.