Jesse Powell

Co-Founder & Chairman @KrakenFX Founder @Verge_Arts Former pro player @Wizards_Magic #VirtualGoods🎮 Peddler since 2001 #NFT🖼️ Hoarder #Bitcoin Enthusiast

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

I just personally donated $1m (mostly #ETH) to @realDonaldTrump.

For too long, the crypto industry has been under attack by Elizabeth Warren, Gary Gensler and others. Despite overwhelming bipartisan Congressional efforts to put clear rules in place, the Biden White House has stood by and allowed a campaign of unchecked regulation by enforcement. This approach is diminishing US competitiveness as other major economies around the world advance clear rules to regulate digital assets.

I am excited to join other leaders from our community to unite behind the only pro-crypto major party candidate in the 2024 Presidential election so the United States can continue to remain a leader in blockchain technology.

#freeross

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@valkenburgh It’s a miracle that god blessed every major city with a port.

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.

The 11 not-guilty jurors -- who hectored him for a week to cave -- were all white.

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

Also, it’s hard to voluntarily put anything in the state’s hands when taxes are so high and the fraud, waste, abuse is so obvious and rampant. https://t.co/4ylzzNzKLe

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

Remember when private donors put in $25m to rehab the state-owned @Lincoln_Theater in Yountville, CA and then the state didn't fix a known roof leak, resulting in so much black mold that the building had to be permanently condemned? Donors remember. https://t.co/KZr5ZKbonX

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

People often ask why today's tech wealth doesn't go towards more public works, like libraries, universities, and museums during the late 1800s. As far as I can tell the answer is that they would literally not be allowed to be built.

In 2014, George Lucas, a long-time Bay Area resident who built Lucasfilm in the Bay, wanted to build a museum in the Presidio as a gift to the people of San Francisco, to be personally funded to the tune of ~$700 million. The Presidio Trust rejected it. He then tried to build it in his wife's hometown of Chicago, but local nonprofit Friends of the Parks sued and held the project up for two years, long enough for Lucas to give up on the city. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will finally open in Los Angeles next month after more than a decade of planning, eight years of construction, and over $1 billion personally spent by Lucas.

Meanwhile, San Francisco has built no major museum projects since the 2016 expansion of SFMOMA, and no new libraries since the North Beach Branch in 2014. Public works, like so many other things, are bottlenecked not by donor will or available funding but by vetocracy

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

Air travel is fundamentally a different service in the age of @Starlink. What I’m paying for is an Internet Cafe in the sky. Why would I pay for 6 hours at a Net Cafe without Internet? It’s more important than a bed. If Starlink is advertised and not working it’s kidnapping.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Delta customers are now admitting that they’re booking flights with other airlines specifically for @Starlink

Many Delta customers are complaining on 𝕏 and tagging the airline’s account, saying that Delta’s Wi-Fi is slow, unreliable, or sometimes doesn’t work at all.

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@benjitaylor @benjitaylor it looks like this got reverted. Is it coming back? Would pay for this upgrade.

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@benjitaylor This is the greatest QoL improvement in the past decade. Thank you.

[Payward @Payward]

Payward second quarter 2026 results are live.

- Adjusted Revenue was $508 million, up 17% year over year
- Funded accounts reached 6.6 million, up 42%

The quarter's clearest signal was mix: as spot crypto volumes declined industry-wide, equities and tokenized equities grew - clients rotating within the platform rather than off it, and consolidating more of their financial lives with us.

Full results: https://t.co/UH883fLjos

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@CryptoHayes 🫡

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@dhh https://t.co/Era0hku4dr

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

When dealing with stray animals which cannot be held morally accountable for their actions, we generally have 5 avenues for dealing with antisocial behavior in civilization:

1. Bonded custodianship
2. Institutionalization
3. Exile
4. Release to the wild
5. Euthanasia

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@xwanyex https://t.co/Ui6CqjMNsN

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@pepecoins @arjunsethi Growing confirmed.

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

Match acquires successful dating apps, doesn't understand why they are successful, thinks they'd be even more successful if they Tinderized. Problem is, they were successful in a niche that didn't like Tinder. Now they're worse versions of Tinder, users hate it and leave. Repeat.

[Simon Oxenham @simoxenham]

@signulll I will never understand how this proved to be the worst investment I ever made.

Surely they have a literal licence to print money.

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@Noahpinion @razibkhan https://t.co/0tPtLjj4lm

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

ASD have an uncanny ability to reject labels and tradition. Gender norms are historically and geographically widely varied, which make them seem arbitrary. Disassociation is not a new phenomenon. What’s new is the “cure” for divergent thinking being pushed by medical “experts”.

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@DavidFBailey @MagicalTux Good game, gentlemen.

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

Most fun I’ve had drafting @wizards_magic in decades. Check out this legendary table!

[Kraken @krakenfx]

LIVE: Kraken's MTG Celebrity Tournament https://t.co/INh5iJExK1

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

@L3gitRiv4l No new sets involved. Everything is at least 10 years old.

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

2 seats just opened up for the Magic: the Gathering $5k entry 8-man old school cube draft on the 29th. https://t.co/OlF6rkkNcl

Also, have about 20 seats left for the 28th & 29th one-day mystery block draft tournaments. Entry is $75, hugely positive EV on cards + prizes.

[The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf]

Don't miss the Magic: The Gathering tournament presented by @krakenfx with $75,000 in Bitcoin prizes.

Register to play 👇
https://t.co/3uQEIPkOF2

[Jesse Powell @jespow]

Join me and @krakenfx at @TheBitcoinConf for a special Magic: the Gathering tournament.

We’ve got some great, finely aged sets to draft but limited space. Sign up now:

https://t.co/BBoBTtY3Ec