Skill Issue

The culture show for people who play with money.

Streaming live on X every Wednesday, 9am ET, feat. @SpeculatorArt & @0xDith

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ACK's new Argonauts collection, 10,000 pieces at 0.12 ETH (~$300) each, sold out in minutes

Roughly a $3M mint

Kix and Dith were minting live on air and witnessed it all

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Robinhood launched its own blockchain in July and it's become one of the busiest new networks in crypto, with memecoins leading the activity

Kix and Dith chat on the Vlad Tenev interview, tokens that airdrop stocks, and the cash flow argument traders like OSF are making

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Kix and Dith relive the Trump and Melania coin cascade and call the next grift wave

"A coin for every family member"..."my new energy drink brand ICO"

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"Thought he could just sell shoes online all day, baby"...that's a bold strategy Cotton

Kix and Dith on the CEO call that wrecked Nike: cutting Foot Locker, Macy's and DSW right before store traffic came back

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The Steve Jobs play

Kix and Dith on Travis Kalanick's $1.7B a16z raise and Uber joining the round

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@0xDith @SpeculatorArt it is, imagine what diseases we'll cure in the future with how rapidly tech is advancing. also wonder how many will come from private organizations vs the general public

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People in the US are more opposed to an AI data center being built in their town than a nuclear powerplant

How AI can be used to cure diseases

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Cyber currencies, a better name for crypto?

Dith speaks on a hilarious moment at Stripe

Are you aping any cyber coins?

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It's never different...but this one doesn't count

Kix and Dith cover Rule 14 & 15 of trading and the sell everything pledge

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SpaceX or Tesla?

@0xDith and @SpeculatorArt discuss

-Cursor acquisition and Grok
-Geopolitics, real world friction, robotics
-SpaceX leasing excess data center capacity to Anthropic

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Take 20% of the US federal budget. Take the top 5% of American talent. Put all of it into manufacturing

Best case scenario: we break even with China in 5 years

"Bambu Labs is the Apple of 3D printing and it's not even close" says Kix

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"This is, in my opinion, the ETF moment for this cycle" says @SpeculatorArt

@0xDith speaks on SEC's proposed framework changing who actually builds in crypto

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Elon says Grok 6 is training on SpaceX's rocket data

Every other model trains on the same internet while this one gets the physics, geometry, and insane math behind actual rocket engineering

Tennessee stalled his data center power for a year, so he crossed into Mississippi, got approved in 2 weeks, and ran his own power line across state lines

Kix: "That's me fading Elon Musk, which is pretty dumb"

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@Aphation_ we're just getting started

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AI is already running science labs

A startup in Boston automated the entire biotech lab: the vials, the reagents, the physical experiments behind discovering new drugs. All run by AI and robots, claiming 90% cuts on cost and speed

Yearly full body scans, catching stuff in your body early, drugs built specifically for you are part of the future

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@0xDith how this looks at scale is insane to think about

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@melbo_eth oh yea?

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The SEC just proposed making ICOs legal again

Raise up to $5M, no registration required

Kix breaks down the new framework, and why the old rules that locked up US investors for a year or more kept ICOs from ever taking off

Still a proposal for now. 60 day comment period

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@0xDith more ready than ever