Why did I start building P2P? A thread 🧵

You are supposed to use all your unfair advantages in life. Beauty. Wealth. Capital. Networks. Relationships. Intelligence. Use whatever you have to achieve your goals. But there is a little problem: figuring out what your goals actually are - the things you genuinely want, not what you think you should want - is tricky for most of us. In poker, you are dealt your cards, and the objective is simple: maximise your share of the pot. Life is much more complex from a goal-setting perspective. There are many parameters, both subjective and objective, that you can optimise for: money, peace, health, relationships, beauty, family, spiritual growth, meaning. You can’t be at your peak in all of them. At the same time, you probably can’t afford to completely neglect any of them. Having a billion dollars but no one to share your joy with makes little sense. Having enormous wealth but no healthy body to enjoy it with doesn’t make much sense either. Likewise, having a healthy body while carrying a mountain of debt and unresolved trauma from past relationships won’t necessarily lead to a good life. And even if you somehow have it all, having no meaning that you personally assign to your story can leave the whole thing feeling empty. Some say the goal is balanced growth. But even “balance” is subjective. It depends on the culture you come from, the circumstances you were born into, and the stage of life you are in. So yes, you are supposed to use all your unfair advantages to reach your goals. But before that, you need to spend some time figuring out what those goals actually are. Everyone is not dealt the same cards. And everyone doesn’t have the same goals either. Life is not exactly poker and we are not playing against each other!

P2P.Store is evolving to onboard the next billion into web3

Can’t keep money on CEX - they might get hacked. Can’t keep money on self-custody wallets - they are prone to phishing attacks, key leaks and other things. Where to keep money 😓

I’m very wary of using a lot of AI on the Mac 🖥️ where my self-custody wallets live. Is it just me?

Shipping was done - now total focus on distribution 🫡 We got the capital and people to help us distribute too Over 60% of our monthly allowance will go into distribution from October - the number is already very close to this in September. Success is coded for P2P - because all the pieces of the puzzle are in place 🫡

We hit 30K users. 🫡 This is no easy feat. These aren’t degens chasing pumps. Nor are they tourists just checking things out. They’re real users in emerging markets who’ve decided that CEXs aren’t worth the trade-off on safety, while using traditional wallets can be too painful and risky. They’re choosing an alternate path. The P2P Ecosystem. 🫡

Few reasons I started being bearish Zcash short term - but still bullish long term. 1 - No real mass adoption signs among real people yet - it’s still a tech chasing the big future problem. 2 - at $20bn+ MC you are buying an option on how future might be widely different - you are not buying an asset that realised its potential. 3 - lot of VCs entered the chat, which will put off retail degens - without degens mass-adoption will be no easy path.

Just lost $2,850 by clicking a Uniswap link that came up first in Google search results. I know exactly how this would work. I know that Uniswap phishing links exist and that they show up on Google. But I still clicked this one, signed a transaction, and lost money. I was just in a hurry, busy with life, made a mistake due to oversight, and lost money in an instant. It makes me think - these are the challenges normies still face in 2026 when trying to access crypto specially in emerging markets. In emerging markets, you can’t trust CEXs because they have really poor security infra and they share your data with governments. You can’t use decentralised infrastructure because self-custody is still too complex for the average normie. One bad Google search is all it takes for someone to completely lose their funds. It makes me reflect on exactly why we are building the P2P Ecosystem - so the average person in emerging markets doesn’t have to depend on CEXs, while still being able to stay safe and maintain self-custody getting an experience as easy as a CEX. Lost $2,850 to once again remind myself how important it is to build what we are building - this money lost is worth the reminder on this “Core Customer Insight” on why P2P should exist in emerging markets 🫡

Good heart is way more important than cracked abilities.