⬡ Tyler

accelerating the tokenization paradigm shift 🫡 🌎 global money movement @BVNKfinance

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

This is Henry's older sister, Olivia Nowak

She called her brother her "best friend" and said they had "an unbreakable bond" in a statement following his death

Pray for her

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.

Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why.

During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.

They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.

This needs to stop.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

We need prosecutions for what happened to Henry Nowak.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

If it hadn't been for X, nobody would have heard about what police did to Henry Nowak.

Because the media was covering it up.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Police just released the bodycam footage in the killing of 18-year-old white male Henry Nowak and it CONFIRMS the police LAUGHED HIM OFF when he said he got stabbed

Straight-up says: "I've been stabbed."

COP: "Whereabouts? Don't think you have, mate!"

NOWAK: "*Groaning* I CAN'T BREATHE."

COP: "Put your hand in the cuff."

Nowak says he can't breathe again.

Then again while they just stand there.

"We have to check [if he was stabbed], don't we?"

THESE COPS ARE COMPLICIT IN THE MURDER!!

THERE SHOULD BE WORLDWIDE OUTRAGE.

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@RWAFoundation_ @RayBuckton but you already knew this 😎

[Tay 💖 @tayvano_]

They won’t.

Well.

Circle might.

Tether won’t, though. They understand the impact of their actions and risks of freezing funds. Of which there are many.

And bc they are aware of the risks, they do a lot to mitigate said risks.

Freezing innocent people’s money is BAD. Freezing a pool of commingled assets to stop one bad guy is REALLY BAD bc you do MORE HARM to MORE PEOPLE than the initial bad guy did.

This is why Tether retains control and final say over freezing assets. If you look at the court docs, it’s always emphasized that the freeze action was taken “voluntarily by Tether.”

Ask yourself why they would do that? Even when the USG is seizing those funds. Why would they CHOOSE to take on the liability when they could push it off to USG?

Well, bc, when you hurl liability at a 3rd party it only reduces the liability legally for you. And not even all that much bc you still took the action and still can be sued to shit if you got it wrong. Your defense is just “but…but…they told me to!!”

Which might be okay. But also might not be okay. Is the Singapore police telling you to freeze reduce your liability when it comes to a US citizen suing you? What about India? What about some tiny ass bought island country?

But more importantly, you simply can’t be pussying out when you’re building multi-billion dollar infrastructure. Freezing innocent people’s funds is not just a legal liability. Doing so undermines your ENTIRE FUCKING OFFERING. That’s YOU destroying YOUR brand, your reliability, your viability as global infrastructure.

Pushing that responsibility to a 3rd party doesn’t mitigate those risks—it actually increases both the likelihood of getting it wrong AND the impact.

The right way to mitigate risk is not by pretending you can’t freeze. It’s not by hurling it on courts who can’t read a block explorer.

It’s to own them, deeply understand them, and mitigate them across the stack. That includes defining what you freeze and what evidence is required. It includes having people on payroll who have the technical expertise and experience to understand this shit. It includes quickly detecting and remediating actions after they happen if a mistake was made or new information comes to light.

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@junker_jo @wotancore The second one is correct lol

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@ryjlocal This is Vivaldi, not Bach. Vivaldi 4 violin concerto.

[Lucas Star Wars Girl @LucasSWGirl]

RIP Marcia Lucas, ex wife of George Lucas and Oscar Winner for her editing of Star Wars.

She let rip on the Disney Sequels and every single word was true. They never did call her.

[Dave W @dmweisberger]

My late father was known among his family, friends and acquaintances for his "Artie-isms".

One of his favorites was "Mad is Bad"... Meaning when your opponent loses their cool, they are easier to defeat, regardless of the competition.

I could not help but smile when watching a clearly frustrated Dimon lash out at Brian Armstrong, at the same time he displayed IGNORANCE of the subject matter.

Lets be clear about some facts:

1) GENIUS is LAW. If there is no CLARITY act, then Coinbase and others WILL be able to offer rewards on HOLDING stablecoins.

2) GENIUS and CLARITY BOTH have provisions to comply with the BSA and AML more broadly. In fact, doing NOTHING, helps the criminals.

3) CLARITY would provide a path for firms to segregate client crypto holdings to protect them in a bankruptcy. Failure to pass it, creates risks for investors.

4) CLARITY has language that will HELP his bank, by making it HARDER to pass thru interest on stablecoins. THAT is why his team will ultimately cave and support it. I suspect, THAT is why he is pissed off...

[El CondeNado @elconde_nad0]

"Ojalá que nuestros hijos hereden tus ojos"

2 años después:

"¿Desea eliminar las 8.167 fotos?"

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@ViktorBunin Oopsies

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

We are so vindicated. The blockchain industry is ascendant.

This was unimaginable under the prior regime

[Paul Atkins @SECPaulSAtkins]

For too long, the SEC was at odds with new technology and innovation, pushing entrepreneurs offshore.

That era is over.

Under President Trump’s leadership, and alongside colleagues across the Admin and Congress, we are delivering much needed clarity to digital asset markets.

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@Aguy53584887 @stonetoss I’m trying to recall EU lore. How familiar was Obi-Wan with Mandalorians during this scene?

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@Aguy53584887 @stonetoss Side note. One of my favorite scenes in ep2 is when he and Obi Wan are exchanging professional pleasantries but clearing sizing eachother up before their eventual confrontation. The tension is so heavy you just feel like anything might set them off but they’re both respectful

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

Well said, I agree with this sentiment entirely.

[Jarrod Watts @jarrodwatts]

Brain dump of how I'm feeling about crypto:

1/ The value proposition of blockchains as technology feels more clear and well-adopted in the mainstream than ever.

2/ What crypto is actually useful for (payments, financial markets, RWAs) is not as exciting as what most people joined the space for.

3/ We should be proud that we're being recognized and used as superior financial rails - Ethereum, Monad, Polygon, Solana, Base, etc. all recognize this and are working to bring more assets onchain.

4/ There's still a big opportunity for crypto builders to tap into the audience of crypto-natives / crypto twitter and create fun speculative experiences for them.

5/ The most successful apps in this category have all been some variety of intellectual-gambling / money experiments that allow people to strategize in environments with asymmetric upside.

6/ The difficulty with these apps is that it's very difficult to hold people's interest over long periods of time; hence the wave of shutdowns recently.

7/ People naturally lose interest over time and want to go gamble on the new flashy thing that they feel provides more asymmetric upside. Yet, for some reason, when this inevitably happens, it's called a "slow rug" by the last remaining speculators.

8/ There's a very toxic culture on CT when this happens, which sadly prevents smart people and a lot of interesting experiments ever being launched.

9/ This is reflected in the crypto developer activity charts, which are bleeding badly - despite a massive increase in overall developer activity due to AI.

10) If you are here to work on building something crypto rails are actually useful for, (likely: speculation & financial use cases) it might feel depressing rn, but I expect this to turn around, and is likely worth sticking around for.

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@Aguy53584887 @stonetoss Ah, interesting. A business partnership cut short by an assassination contract. “I’m just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe”

Did the EU ever talk about any romantic entanglements for Jango?

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@Aguy53584887 @stonetoss Wait - he had a thing for changelings??

[⬡ Tyler @TylerSherwin]

@samuelneedham @gncgalactus Great point. He’s helping with the “call to adventure” part of the story and him having an air of mystery and keeping secrets is very on brand for the mentor figure