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[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

The banks don’t hate crypto... they hate losing control of your money.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Key to winning:

Choose to be positive and grateful. Then, just keep at it. Time is the great compounder and will do the rest.

So many people just don’t have the discipline to stay positive and grateful. Then time compounds the bitterness instead.

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

.@Consensys founder @ethereumJoseph says we are moving into a world "where essentially the entire economy is going to be tokenized."

He explains why Ethereum will thrive in that world on the @Anchorage Digital Mainstage at @consensus2026

[Prof G Markets @ProfGMarkets]

$87,686 a second
$5.26 million a minute
$315.67 million an hour
$7.58 billion a day

Happy friday

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Gold is worth $30 trillion. What is Bitcoin being a potential global requirement for cybersecurity to fend off A.I. worth?

[Toby Cunningham @sircryptotips]

Still NO Epstein list arrests.

They would rather start WW3 and start an energy crisis before arresting anyone.

Something to think about moving forward.

[Robert ₿reedlove @Breedlove22]

Too many “intellectuals” blame “the market” for problems actually caused by The State interfering with the free market process.

[Peter Schrager @PSchrags]

Fantastic ,@_willcompton . Proud seeing you command this room with your story.

[Toby Cunningham @sircryptotips]

It's Tax Day for US citizens. The last day to file your taxes is TODAY April 15

Think all of your hard earned money going towards a government that prints currency out of thin air. Makes you wonder why they even need your hard earned money when they can simply just print🤨

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

James Talarico to Joe Rogan: "The biggest divide in our politics is not left vs right — it’s top vs bottom. Billionaires are dividing us because our unity is a threat to their wealth and power."

[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

Too many people trade.

Too few people accumulate in a secular trend (especially through weakness) and allow it to compound.

There are very few rich traders but there are many, many rich people who owned assets for longer time horizons.

Zoom out. And don't fuck this up.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes.

$1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity.

One hour before the announcement.

Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time.

They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades.

Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium.

The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened.

This is not the first time.

It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves.

But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it.

Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind.

These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world.

I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here.

This isn't politics anymore.

This is a financial operation running out of the White House.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

Imagine you put $100,000 in the bank.

You think it’s sitting there, waiting for you.

It’s not.

The bank keeps a small portion and lends out the rest.

That money gets spent and deposited somewhere else.

Which gets lent out again.

And again.

So your $100,000 becomes part of hundreds of thousands of dollars moving through the system.

Everyone sees money in their account.

But it’s the same money being reused over and over.

And the bank charges interest every time it’s lent.

Now imagine you want your $100,000 back.

You can have it.

As long as not too many other people ask at the same time.

That’s not a flaw in the system.

That is the system.

[Matt Hougan @Matt_Hougan]

With stablecoins, the banks aren't worried about deposit flight. They're worried about profit flight.

These numbers are embarrassing.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

[Etherealize @Etherealize_io]

Robinhood CEO: In the future there will be no distinction between crypto and traditional finance

“I think that crypto technology has so many advantages over the traditional way we’re doing things that in the future there will be no distinction. It’s kind of how technology itself was viewed as a sector of the economy for a very long time… I think crypto will go through the same transition where we’re still thinking about it in its own bucket but eventually everything will be on-chain in some form or another and the distinction will disappear.”

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev explains why this transition is taking so long:

“I think the challenge with traditional finance — particularly on the infrastructure layer — is they have a lot of stakeholders, and if you think about where they generate the bulk of their revenue, it’s not from crypto-related initiatives. And a lot of these stakeholders, because they’re quite big, are going to be resistant and slower to adopt technologies. They’re going to be late adopters. They’re going to wait until it’s proven before adopting it, and that’s why we [Robinhood] have had to do greater vertical integration than we would normally want to do in TradFi. We acquired Bitstamp. We have our own exchange. And we have our own chain because I don’t think — to be at the frontier of crypto — you can rely on traditional infrastructure providers. I think they’ll get there eventually but it will take a very long time.”

Source: @token2049 (Oct 2025)

[Etherealize @Etherealize_io]

Erik Vorhees: “ETH is still the king, and I don’t see it being dethroned"

The founder of ShapeShift and Venice AI is asked if Ethereum was a “sustainable ecosystem.” He replies:

“I think [Ethereum] is more than sustainable. I think it is the clear winner of the smart contract innovation. It actually wasn’t the first mover in smart contracts, but it was the first one to achieve any sort of scale with smart contracts. What’s most important about Ethereum isn’t so much the first-mover advantage as much as it is the network effect it has had since it was released.”

Erik continues:

“I think both Bitcoin and Ethereum have achieved a network effect that is close to unassailable. People have gotten distracted with some of these other L1s, but if you look at metrics like where the developers are and where stablecoin volumes are, these are hard to fake metrics that are very important. They’ve always been predominantly on Ethereum. It’s not even close. I’m glad that other people tried to build L1s. The process of innovation and competition is really important. But ETH is still the king, and I don’t see it being dethroned. It has had various scaling challenges — the patchwork of L2s and the UX problems between them sucks. But I have a suspicion that Base is going to end up becoming the predominant L2 on top of the predominant L1 of ETH and that vertical is going to be very powerful and very strong. So yes, I’m always bullish on ETH in the same way I’m always bullish on Bitcoin.”

However, Erik warns that if Base loses its permissionlessness it “will flounder and deserves to die”:

“Base has designed things very well. It has gotten a lot of adoption and very quickly became the major L2 even though it was not the first mover. I think it’s gaining a network effect pretty quickly. It obviously has a very powerful corporate ally in Coinbase, and to the degree that Coinbase does not abuse that privilege, that’s a very good privilege. Abuse here means: if Coinbase tries to exert control over base such that it loses its permissionlessness, then it will flounder and deserves to die. But Coinbase has been a very good actor in this regard, and they deserve a lot of credit for demonstrating the principles of decentralization and permissionless innovation in several parts of what they do. Obviously the centralized exchange is not that, but it’s not trying to be either.”

Source: @CoinDesk (Dec 2025)

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

You can send money from the U.S. to Australia faster than I wrote this tweet, for less than a cent. Thanks crypto.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Two things nobody is now talking about: Ukraine and the Epstein Files.

[Matt Hougan @Matt_Hougan]

Imagine if the situation were reversed and stablecoins were status quo, such that everyone had their money in entities backed 1-1 with US Treasuries.

And then some guy came along and was like, "I have this new idea called fractional reserve banking..."

We would laugh him out of the room.