Crypto Hoplite

[Murad 💹🧲 @MustStopMurad]

Now that we are all Bitcoin Maximalists, we need to take it to the next step and get rid of the confusion surrounding the monetary evolution of Bitcoin:

[Kevin Pham @_Kevin_Pham]

MAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY FOUNDERS ANONYMOUS AGAIN.

[Andreas (aantonop Team) @aantonop]

Bitcoin Q&A: Hardware wallets and attack surface https://t.co/89KHWvMYPo

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

The news allows you to dedicate massive amounts of energy and attention to things you probably cannot impact while the things you can impact go unaddressed.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Those rent-seeking academics committing anachronistic fallacy don't seem to realize that, like science and everything else, moral values experience PROGRESS.

By definition the past will be less developed than the present. This, everyone outside of "classics" shmepartments knows

[Naval @naval]

@akashstronaut @chrispymn I have no free time because I have no unfree time.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

We strive to avoid hard things so we turn to shortcuts. When we run out of shortcuts, we're left with no choice but to do the hard thing we wanted to avoid in the first place. Much easier and faster to just stop avoiding hard things and face them.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

The Ten Commandments of Logic

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

@NeerajT4 Neither was Bitcoin, but a series of fortunate governance events (disappearance of Satoshi, slide into irrelevance of Bitcoin Foundation, failure of various fork movements by hierarchical org leaders) made it much more resilient vs. centralization. Anti-hierarchy immune system.

[Andrew Ruiz @then_there_was]

“We should expect to see the emergence of a new kind of autodidact/thinker/entrepreneur/businessperson/leader who has acquired most of their knowledge through self-exploration.”

— Sean Parker, The Education of Millionaires

[Ryan Shea @ryaneshea]

One day a decentralized social network will emerge that is as pervasive as email

A network of apps will be connected by a simple social networking protocol (SSNP)

...just as email exists as a network of apps connected by the SMTP protocol (Gmail, Outlook, etc)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Never ever criticize anyone (say a politician) for doing something that you would be silent about if someone else did it.

You would be insulting your audience, insulting truth, insulting the medium you are using, insulting ethics.

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

The easiest way to appear smart is to know your own sphere of competence very well and to avoid making declarative statements outside of it.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Reminder: The US dollar remains the currency of choice for drug dealers, money launderers, terrorists, and criminals around the world.

[Piotr Stojanow @piotrstojanow]

True for storing/sharing files. It doesn't have to apply to storing value.

There is a higher tolerance for inconvenience when loss aversion/censorship is at play.

Great for Bitcoin. Not so for needlessly decentralised projects

Necessity should be the mother of decentralization

[John Backus @backus]

p2p file sharing history is littered w/ predictions that a new **unstoppable and totally decentralized** protocol will takeover.

It never happened. Users always flocked to the least decentralized system possible.

Big lesson for today's blockchain and decentralization ecosystems

[Emperor Lord Medici @cryptodemedici]

The crowd agreeing with you is not a good sign. You have to be ahead of it which demands the crowd not agreeing and often attacking your beliefs.

[Marc Bevand @zorinaq]

A savings account should be called a losings account:
3% inflation
2% interest
➡️your savings lose 1% of their purchasing power every year

[Ruben Seoane @rseoane_]

Great Quora post on the Elon Musk scandal, finally some good-proper reporting here:
https://t.co/vpQml8q8DQ

[Ryan Shea @ryaneshea]

The next time you see a decentralized app with a raw UX, remember how Twitter got its start.

Look out for new capabilities these dapps unlock and look for existing capabilities they bring to those without them today.

https://t.co/K0RNcVJCqM