James

Built some companies you never heard of. Retired young. Dabble in investing, but mostly spend my time pursuing my interest and optimizing for freedom and joy.

[James @jamesduffx]

@CamTheApe @1PunchBran @ToxicAlldaylong @inversebrah

[The ALS Association @alsassociation]

In honor of @halfin and the #ALS community, we’re now accepting most types of cryptocurrency including @Bitcoin & @Ethereum to END ALS. Donate today: https://t.co/YZ6DHTamfT

#CryptoGivingTuesday #GivingTuesday

[James @jamesduffx]

@EndTheFUD @jimmysong @Bquittem @lopp @mindfulknowing MBTI's 4 categories roughly correlate to 4 of the 5 aspects of the Big 5. So you're spot on about Bitcoiners being high in openness and low in agreeableness (N and T), though there seems to be a pretty even split between high and low conscientiousness (J vs P).

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

What if I told you that I felt like a failure even after selling Twitch for a billion dollars?

This is for anyone experiencing impostor syndrome:

[James @jamesduffx]

@nasjaq__ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

– George Bernard Shaw

[James @jamesduffx]

@muneeb @nic_carter Reminds me of Diogenes of Sinope:

"When someone later brought up this incident in an attempt to shame Diogenes, he responded that yes, it was true that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, but added that he in turn had sentenced them to remain in Sinope."

[Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley]

“I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap

“I can see that,” responds judge

[James @jamesduffx]

@gannonbreslin @APompliano I just relentlessly laid on the couch and scrolled Twitter for an hour and a half.

[James @jamesduffx]

@nic_carter @udiWertheimer @ercwl @inversebrah

[James @jamesduffx]

@JamesonCamp @Wildingp This is your problem.

Caffeine's half life is 6 hrs, so drinking 4 cups of coffee at noon is like chugging a cup of coffee at midnight before trying to go to sleep.

Try to cut down to 1-2 cups per day and stop 12 hours before bedtime. Or just accept the tradeoffs.

[James @jamesduffx]

@BitcoinMises @jratcliff @GrandMoffMerkin I think this is how Unchained Capital does it. I haven't used their services, but was also looking into this.

https://t.co/Bi5ALeZMRt

[James @jamesduffx]

@bitcoinarchive @elonmusk @michael_saylor https://t.co/yhXeSnwpPa

[Plan Marcus ⚡️🧡🍀 @plan_marcus]

Game theory says every billionaire waking up to #bitcoin is buying right now.

[James @jamesduffx]

@banjoivan @ken_swymer @DavidSacks Right, the difference is that we have a choice of many web hosts. A lot of people can't choose another ISP.

Social network services fall somewhere in the middle, since Metcalfe's law makes them extremely difficult to compete with without a ton of investment capital.

[James @jamesduffx]

@RaemondBW @_JimB @Suhail Broadcasters could decide to not broadcast their tweets. It would be similar to terrorists using email, or hosting a web page. The technology itself is neutral.

[James @jamesduffx]

@RaemondBW @_JimB @Suhail The difference is users would be able to choose their own content moderation algorithm between multiple competing options; it wouldn't be forced upon them.

[James @jamesduffx]

@ken_swymer @DavidSacks Should ISPs be able to decide which websites their customers are allowed to visit?

[James @jamesduffx]

@_JimB @Suhail @RaemondBW It could be on an open standard, similar to RSS. Anyone could run a broadcast node, and you could publish your tweets to multiple broadcasters to make sure you're not censored. Messages PGP signed.

There could be multiple clients so you could customize your viewing experience.

[James @jamesduffx]

@delvin_baronof @iamjosephyoung Korean gov going to start taxing crypto capital gains from Jan 2022. May be one factor.

[James @jamesduffx]

@GS_CapSF @profplum99 @SantiagoAuFund And I actually don't think it's a sure thing. I just think it's a very strong asymmetric bet where the potential upside is 10-100x the potential downside. I'll take that bet any day.

And at this point, I do think the odds of it succeeding are very high.

[James @jamesduffx]

@GS_CapSF @profplum99 @SantiagoAuFund Government ban is probably the biggest remaining risk. But there are plenty of other countries who would take a crypto friendly approach to benefit from an influx of newly minted millionaires and crypto companies.

BTC's price would definitely dip, but I don't think it would die.