Vaughan Smith

Technology and adventure enthusiast, Conservationist

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

@chamath Sadly, It seems like you have lost it. I enjoyed most of the comments on your post

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

@pmarca We were de-banked by JP Morgan. I understand Elizabeth Warren was behind Operation Chokepoint 2.0 to de-bank the crypto industry which ended up destroying many exciting, innovative and legitimate businesses

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

@Schwarzenegger Well said. Thx Arny

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Agreed - Massachusetts residents should vote for @JohnEDeaton1

Crypto holders in MA should realize @SenWarren is the one who got Gary Gensler his job and encouraged him to (unlawfully) try and kill the crypto industry in America. Luckily they did not succeed as we and others fought back.

She is anti-freedom, thinks the government should run all financial services (similar to China), and has done enormous harm to this country.

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

Excited to see Bridge's acquisition by Stripe, after Bitso was one of Bridge's key early partners. As a frequent traveler, crypto continues to become a better way to move $ quickly. This should help. Kudos also to Coinbase and Base

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

Venmo and Paypal don't work in Turkey. Fortunately crypto payments now work pretty well. Crypto was an easy way to pay for services. People naturally preferred digital USD over euro. Shame the Biden administration has been so anti-innovation. Missed opportunity for the dollar

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

@brian_armstrong Congratulations

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

Bummer to see Brazil banning X - joining China, North Korea and Russia. I feel for the 40M Brazilian customers denied access to information

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

@twobitidiot wow! I never expected to strongly prefer Trump over Biden on a complex policy issue. Helps with being more relaxed about the election outcome

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

if @JoeBiden @TheDemocrats are serious about winning crypto voters

the best thing they could do is fire Gary Gensler immediately and name Hester Peirce as his replacement

that would be a good start to win back a lot of liberal crypto voters imo

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

Wow. The SEC finally gave a crypto ruling that makes sense. Given previous arbitrary, capricious and anti-progress behaviour, skeptically I wonder if Biden and Warren finally realized that driving crypto voters to Trump was going to end badly.

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

Hester should replace a corrupt @GaryGensler

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

“[W]e have alienated a generation of product innovators within our space. Our unreasonable approach to these applications has signaled that regulatory prejudice against new products and services can lead us to sidestep the law and unreasonably delay product launches. The industry has logged hundreds of meetings, has filed submissions, withdrawals and amendments, and ultimately had to resort to a costly legal battle to get us to today.”

Thank you @HesterPeirce 👑

https://t.co/o4ko6JOwFe

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

@chamath Need leadership change at our corrupt SEC

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

Great to see our US court system winning over our "arbitrary and capricious" SEC who seem to be doing everything possible to hurt US consumers who should be diversifying into crypto. Kudos to everyone who made approval of the first spot ETFs a reality. Now to make crypto useful

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

A good day for crypto with CZ & Binance being held accountable for facilitating criminal activity. Next up, it would be great to finish the year with @GaryGensler & SEC providing regulatory clarity so Coinbase, Ripple, Blackrock and other great US companies can keep building

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

@satyanadella Impressive weekend's work. Great for Microsoft

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

Congratulations Argentina on chosing change after 20 years of a system that didn't work. Exciting times ahead

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

@bgarlinghouse @Ripple Yes, we need to vote in regulators and politicians who want to grow gdp and jobs rather than protect incumbents

[Vaughan Smith @v_smith]

While FTX’s behavior (as revealed in the trial) is outrageous, I presume Binance executives are paying more careful attention than most observers

[Bloomberg Crypto @crypto]

In the latest blow to Binance’s global ambitions, a Brazilian congressional committee has recommended the indictment of four of the company’s senior leaders, including its founder Changpeng Zhao https://t.co/FoIgVSLNxJ

[Blockchain Association @BlockchainAssn]

"Do we really want to hand over 1 million developer jobs and 3 million other high paying jobs to overseas jurisdictions, simply because we can't get our act together in the United States?"
-@iampaulgrewal

@coinbase #Mainnet2023