Jon Harvell

Can anybody fly this thing?

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Spend dollars, get Bitcoin.

The Coinbase One Card is fully live in the US! You can apply now to get one.

It’s the best looking card with the best rewards, it might make sense to get one in case it catches on.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Coinbase One Cards have started shipping.

Here’s the TL;DR ↓

[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

This is likely the best designed product @coinbase has ever shipped. Thanks for the limited launch edition @MichaelRihani! Can’t wait to have the real one soon!

[Max Branzburg @maxbranzburg]

hypothetical: say Coinbase One Card existed 5 years ago, when BTC was at ~$9K

- spend $10k/month, earn $400 of BTC/month
- just 1 year of regular spending earns $4,800 of BTC
- that would be worth $55,000 of BTC today

spending dollars and earning hard money is a game changer

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Introducing the Coinbase One Card.
Earn up to 4% bitcoin back on every purchase.

Powered by @AmericanExpress network.
Coming fall 2025.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

If you bought $100 of Bitcoin when Coinbase was founded in June 2012, it would now be worth about $1,500,000.

If you kept the $100 USD you'd only be able to purchase about $73 worth of goods today.

Bitcoin is the best performing asset of the last 12 years, and it's still early days.

Every government, especially those looking to create a hedge against inflation, should create a Bitcoin strategic reserve.

Happy Bitcoin $100k day.

[Jon Harvell @jonharvell]

Outside of designing trading software at Coinbase, I like to lean in on some of the ancillary design efforts like the branding of our team offsets. This is an example of one we had a few years back in Miami. I created a kinetic logo system based on the Coinbase “C” logo and wove Miami-esk graphic elements in.

#design #Logo #spline

[Jon Harvell @jonharvell]

I played a lot of poker growing up and I love the game, but noticed there weren’t any high quality poker apps in the App Store, so I put together this concept. @theuinspo #ui #uidesign

[Jon Harvell @jonharvell]

New Dallas Mavericks logo?
@dallasmavs #DallasMavericks #MFFL #mavsnation #gomavs #Mavericks

[Jon Harvell @jonharvell]

I’ve been experimenting with @midjourney and I’m pretty blown away by what it’s able to render. #AIart

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Bitcoin (+43%) and Gold (+25%) are the top performing major assets in 2024. We've never seen these two in the #1/#2 spots for any calendar year.

Join my free weekly letter on markets/investing here: https://t.co/l5IYmkeySJ

[Jon Harvell @jonharvell]

@aaaronang @mortenpx Thanks for sharing. Will check it out.

[Coinbase Traders @coinbasetraders]

You can now create multiple portfolios on Advanced

Manage up to 25 portfolios on spot trades, with seamless funding and transfer options on desktop. Mobile is coming soon.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Food for thought:
What if money was designed to get you more over time, not less?
#Bitcoin

[Chainlink @chainlink]

The #RWA trend will only expand to encompass new asset classes.

Real estate could be represented onchain as dNFTs, with payments, identity, and other offchain information all verified using zero-knowledge proofs.

The tokenized future is coming: https://t.co/l0dLJpvs7X

[Jon Harvell @jonharvell]

@EmyLascan Send

[Coinbase International Exchange 🛡️ @CoinbaseIntExch]

Let’s go. Perpetual futures are now available on Coinbase Advanced.

Learn more at https://t.co/fENRpH1LT4

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Quality without a name

As companies grow, they often have a hard time with quality, and usually just give up on it. Main reason is that quality is something which cannot be easily measured or defined. As the companies scale, the way they operate or make decisions, are based more on measurements. They start flying with the dashboard instead of flying by looking out of the window because the former is easier to do in scale.

Christoper Alexander opens his book Timeless Way of Building, that in order to build with a timeless way, we first need to find the “quality without a name”.

What he is saying is that quality exists, it can be experienced and perceived, but it cannot be described by words. A town, place, or building that just feels good and natural.

You can spec that a door needs hinges and locks that function, but we all have experienced a wide range of very smoothly working, quality doors, and very janky working, bad quality doors.

Usually the quality doors happen because someone took the care to first build the door and all of its parts, and then install the frame and the door correctly, and kept it maintained over the years. Measurement like number of doors installed or times the door is used never gives you anything about how good it is.

This throws off many people in the tech world, where often things are seen as binary and belief that the world or anything can be reduced to mathematical formulas. It’s almost as if you have to stop thinking for a minute, and just focus on the experience.

The only way I know to promote quality in companies is to keep reminding people about the quality and why it matters. Most of us are in the retention business. We like to see our customers stick around, build trust and loyalty. Quality of the product, and customer is one the key drivers of that - yet many companies forget that.

So how to promote it? You can give examples of previous quality things the team has built, show other products or show your way of looking at things. When something feels quality, it often feels natural and you may even feel positively surprised. Quality is so rare generally that people are often surprised by it.

Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.

Quality, brand and culture are some of those intangible things you need to create as a company founder.