The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
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Looks like the options thing is happening already!
See also: various people thinking through and building different versions of the idea in the thread: https://t.co/gFNEvCbHct
Though I do strongly urge that if any of these get on mainnet quickly, we formally verify it first. I hope @vyperlang and/or https://t.co/OMFlWRqJda folks ( @Fricoben) can help!
(Also, now is a good time to be thinking about robustness-optimized oracles)
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for any bitcoin maxi shitting on zcash, let me remind you of the transaction (block 74638) that created 184,467,440,737.09551616 BTC due to an overflow bug. zcash has one of the best security & cryptography people. what happened is some serious shit, there is no going back and probably we will never know if it was exploited, nonetheless i'm bullish on zcash because they fucking care about security & privacy; something many other clown chains could learn from.
Ok, Ethereum will become the world’s settlement layer.
Price discovery for assets like fiat currencies (FOREX), gold, and equities will take place here.
New powerful entities (aka DAOs) will exist, where people organize with each other beyond the main entities that exist today: nation-states and companies.
And then a whole lot of things we don’t even know about yet.
Woke up extremely bullish on DeFi and Ethereum today
Uniswap launched in the 2018 bear, when Ethereum sentiment was at all time lows
Uniswap and other defi projects relentlessly built through that bear market and proved how powerful Ethereum can be, catalyzing defi summer and everything since
Now vibes are down bad again and Uniswap intends to build our way out of it. Last time it was by proving defi is possible. This time it will be by proving defi is inevitable.
The internet brought two disruptive changes: existing businesses moving onto the internet, and the formation of new internet-native businesses
The same duality will exist for defi: the tokenization of all existing assets, and a growing vibrant economy of crypto native assets. And it’s all happening right now, with more and more assets being brought onchain, increasing the value and productivity of crypto native assets.
As this digital economy grows, Defi is being integrated everywhere - payment processors, brokerage accounts, asset issuers. It won't stop until we eat the entire global economy
Uniswap the liquidity layer + Ethereum the settlement layer. The perfect combination of low counterparty risk, permissionless, programmable infrastructure
And all this will result in huge growth in protocol volumes and fee generation. Which reminds me:
UNI burn hit all time highs today, after several new sources of protocol fees came online.
And there are many more to come: v4, uniswap x, aggregator hooks, more chains, etc
Now add in all the new assets coming onchain
We're still at the beginning 🦄
$ZEC is so private that there’s no way to find out whether trillions of newly minted coins via exploit is been dumped on you or not.
Yeah rip privacy narrative and respect to satoshi who thought of everything before deploying Bitcoin’s network live
technically zec is now unbiddable after that
if this happened in tradfi they wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole ever again
but in crypto it’s different
price will dump, whales will buy, then have people like arthur hayes shill zcash again, everyone fomos, then they dump on your head
why do we never learn
🚨 It's not just ZCash.
Opus 4.8 also found a vulnerability in $USD that allows for unlimited issuance which could theoretically enrich insiders at the expense of all holders
huge breaking