I don’t wish to sound apocalyptic about this, but one has the sense that at present our society is simultaneously characterized by wildly disproportionate accountability for trivial transgressions and zero accountability for profound institutional failure.
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The Bankless @YouTube account 'has been terminated'
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Hey @YouTube, our community would like a word!
RETWEET to let YouTube hear you: It’s not okay to ban crypto content
"For the vast majority...eating 2, 3, or 25 eggs a day, does not significantly raise cholesterol levels. The health authorities have spent the last few years slowly backing away from this mistake, presumably in the hope that if no sudden movements are made, nobody will notice."
I just built the best onboarding to crypto anyone has ever made:
⚡️ energy efficient
🔒 secure + easy to use, no crypto-wallets
💰 direct fiat onramp
🔥 all transaction fees paid by the app
I'm quoted in @YahooFinance on my new app @treasurechess_
"We start with an amazing marketplace that doesn't extract, but creates value for chess players, steamers and content creators. From here we raise the bar for NFT projects..."
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There are two Americans. One has a net worth of $5 million and makes $250k a year. One is in debt and makes $40k a year. Now when they send their bitcoin to Celsius only one of them will earn passive income on it. Guess which one. We live in a regulatory clown world.
State of Tech
Crypto: "2.5% transaction fees are outrageous. Let's launch 10 competitors this year to drive this to zero"
Web2: "We think a 47.5% transaction fee on digital objects is pretty competitive to be honest"
Government: "How can we protect consumers from crypto?"
You can accomplish pretty much anything, at any scale if you have the right incentives.
Experimenting with new positive sum incentive schemes that have never existed before is worth pursuing. Hats off the whole @DXdao_ carrot team, it was awesome to build on top of
Meh. Can’t tell you how many startups I’ve seen that can make bio-based polyolefins and bio-based lubricants that are pretty much chemically identical to the fossil ones. This is a red herring. Not a reason to keep fossil feedstocks.
"Taking the idea out of the realm of crypto, this would be akin to Microsoft being liable for someone plagiarizing an essay in a Word document or Gucci being liable for someone carrying stolen cash in their pocketbook."
Metamask (leading non-custodial crypto wallet): 10 million users
Gmail = 1.5 Billion Users
the first wallet with 100M users will:
- remove volatility
- have one click logins & no seed phrases
- not require transactions fees to use
- access apps that arent gambling