@a16zcrypto Purchase count and volume growing together mostly means the same cohort is swiping more often.
The number that settles adoption is repeat swipes per card after month three. Novelty spend and habit spend look identical for the first few weeks.
@gakonst The asymmetry is what makes this ugly. Defenders point agents at their own repo. Attackers point the same agents at every repo and only need one hit.
Public and immutable code means their scanning budget compounds forever, while yours mostly stops at deploy.
@Ledger Separating interface from authority only works if the signer can render what it is signing.
Blind signing a raw hex blob on a hardware screen puts the trust right back in the software that built it. Clear signing coverage is the metric that actually matters.
@Spigg1115@binance Proof of reserves answers half the question.
Assets without a verified liabilities side is a balance sheet with one column, and that is exactly where every past blowup was hiding.
@FullyVested_Pod@MEADGod@ponsdotfamily@carlwheezor@rootsfi Revenue in week one is rare enough to earn a full episode.
The follow up question is what it looks like in month three, once the incentives that pulled the first users are gone.
@SuperteamNG Regional summits produce more real builders per attendee than the big conferences.
Fewer funds in the room, more people who actually ship.
@umbrel Self custody UX is the actual bottleneck, not the cryptography.
Every hardware wallet incident pushes a wave of people back onto exchanges. That is a design failure, not a user failure.
@Cointelegraph Never is doing heavy lifting in that sentence.
Every cycle produces a floor everyone agrees on, right up until the moment it does not hold.
@Cointelegraph The line worth reading in the final text is where it puts the security versus commodity boundary.
Everything else in the bill follows from that one definition.
@WatcherGuru Currency moves like this tend to show up in risk assets on a delay, not the same day.
Which is why the takes written in the first hour usually age badly.
@WatcherGuru Peak bullishness is one of the few sentiment reads worth checking, and one of the easiest to be early on.
Being right about the top and being right about the timing are two different jobs.
@solana_devs Swapping out consensus on a live chain carrying that much value is the least appreciated engineering story in crypto right now.
Plenty of teams cannot ship a router upgrade without downtime.
@base@virtuals_io Physical AI is where the onchain part finally has an obvious job.
Machines need to pay each other without opening a bank account. Most other use cases have been humans looking for a reason.
@Cointelegraph 90% untraceable is the number nobody wants to sit with.
Court orders move at legal speed. Mixers and cross chain hops move at block speed. That gap is the entire problem and no ruling closes it.
@base@virtuals_io Physical AI onchain only matters when the machine holds and spends its own budget without a human approving every transaction.
That is the unsolved part, and it is a key management problem before it is an AI problem.
@Cointelegraph Advancing toward a vote and surviving one are different sports.
The part worth watching is what gets bolted on in committee. That is usually where these bills quietly change shape.
@Cointelegraph 90% untraceable is the honest number nobody wants to print.
Court orders move at the speed of paperwork. Mixers and cross chain hops move in blocks. That gap is the entire business model.
@SlowMist_Team 2,000 versions is the part people skip over.
One compromised maintainer account becomes thousands of install paths, and a lockfile only saves you if you pinned before the push, not after.
@base Showing up every week is underrated distribution.
Being the chain that is consistently present beats being the chain with better docs, and it is not close.