┻┳ Mark McCracken

biker, skiier, poker player, tree climber, futures trader, and shadowy super-coder

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@internet_Paul Bullion is a great investment, and you can use bricks of it to build the walls in your bunker. Win-win!

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

I literally do not respond to these.

[6529 @punk6529]

15/ A short detour to highlight the worst DM of all time

"Can I ask you a question?"

This is utterly pointless because if the answer is going to be "no", then it would be "no" anyway and if it is going to be "yes" you wasted a cycle

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@lukedelphi @DegenSpartan Yep I still remember the first "wtf are you looking at" from my wife. Now she probably follows him herself.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

Can confirm every word of this description is accurate. Latency scaling and throughput scaling are fundamentally different processes, each with their own divergent goals and skills.

[Brett Harrison @BrettHarrison]

1/ It's not widely understood outside the industry how prolific software developers need to be at successful trading firms and quant hedge funds.

The tech involved, comments on developing software at Jane Street, and differing approaches to software between finance and big tech:

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@0x_Osprey Yo uhh hmmm

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@foldfinance your Developer Overview page, linked in your documentation at https://t.co/aedIqhJ21n is a 404.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@elonmusk @SpaceXStarlink maybe instead of buying Twitter you should buy some senators like Dish Networks has

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

This just in: @DegenSpartan admits to being 0xSifu.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@thealphacoffee headed back to Colorado repping the brand.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@EFJavaScript Eager beyond words!

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@etherscan sers wen Harmony? Save us from the absolute pile of dogshit that is the official block explorer.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

Pump it, @loomdart

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@iblamenfts @loomdart 0xde67b3a60b584ff90f73cf8220292f78847bc332

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

I interpreted the extreme umbrage with which he took my opinion ("you, sir, are the fucking problem with TradFi. Jesus." - apparently that was mean? idk), as equivalent to the guy who cuts you off in traffic and then gets all road-ragey when you honk your horn.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

Once had a "401(k) retention specialist" with TD Ameritrade Retirement (I think) get all up in my face when I expressed to him that his company and his job title were two of the biggest problems with TradFi.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

They try to convince you that you should stay. If that doesn't work, they start throwing hoops up for you to jump through. They get a bonus every time a former employee gives up and leaves their funds in the 401(k) instead of moving them elsewhere.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@end0xiii We're fucking doomed. Generational top signal.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

@bitcoinpanda69 Good luck finding fooo's exit liquidity. We're roooting for fooo.

[┻┳ Mark McCracken @MarkDesade]

If only there were some way to take financial control away from huge banks and hand it over to individuals. We could call it... Decentralized Fianance (DeFi for you normies out there).

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Over the last 30 years, the biggest banks have gotten even bigger — putting our entire financial system at risk. The bank merger process is fundamentally broken and it's time to end the rubber stamping by regulators. I'm glad the @FDICgov Board is exercising its authority.