ANY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM is now available to watch on Apple TV and Prime Video with more platforms coming soon! From the Oscar-nominated team at Actual Films and Emmy award-winning directors Alyssa Fedele and Zachary Fink, ANY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM captures the personal journeys of five young entrepreneurs. In an industry often misrepresented by hype and stereotypes, this intimate portrayal reveals the grit, creativity, and passion required to make it as a startup founder in crypto, no matter the headwinds. Thank you Brandon (@brandontory), Ellie (@elliefarrisi), Adam (@levychain), Chris (@creeefs), and Ryan (@ryanouyang ) for sharing your stories. You continue to inspire us!

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Celebrate Ed’s homecoming Ipswich shows this weekend with the special edition Play x Portman Road Picture Disc & Cassette. Pre-order now on the store - limited copies available! ▶️ UK & EU exclusive Plus if you're heading to the shows this weekend, get your ‘Play’ x Portman Road Commemorative Lanyard. Tap the lanyard with your phone to get instant access to exclusive content, unreleased audio snippets from Play and more. When the album drops, your lanyard will also give you access to the entire album. Head to the merch stand at Portman Road to get yours 🩷 wmg.lnk.to/edsheeran-portman…

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A letter from @gmoneyNFT: It’s with a really heavy heart that I’m announcing the wind down of 9dcc, effective at the end of the month. Over the last few years, we’ve been on a journey to merge the digital and physical worlds. We did innovative drops, had amazing irl events and activations, and fostered a community at the intersection of tech and fashion. Despite strong brand recognition and community engagement, we were unable to overcome the macroeconomic headwinds in consumer Web 3 and global luxury retail softness. I want to say thank you to the community for coming along on this journey with us. I firmly believe that we will see a future where ownership and verification will live onchain, we may just have been a little early to that vision. I also want to thank every member of the 9dcc team, as well as partners that we have worked with throughout the years. Your hard work and efforts are what led us to the success we experienced over the last few years, and without that dedication, I don’t think we would’ve been able to achieve what we did. For vaulted products(IT-01, IT-02, and Stapleverse hats), a 90-day redemption window will open the first week of June for holders to redeem and ship their products. We’re committed to as smooth a transition as possible for existing customers. All membership benefits from Admit One will end at the end of the month, as we hit the 3-year anniversary and fulfill the original membership commitment. Again, thank you all for your support throughout the last few years. gmoney

We’re thrilled to welcome @emilyxxie to Voices Onchain, @a16zcrypto program amplifying creators who are boldly blending art and technology to unlock new creative possibilities. Emily uses code and computation to create lifelike textures inspired by textiles, collage, and tradition. Her generative work explores the balance between chance and control, the organic and the systematic, bridging history with technology. With her art showcased globally, Emily credits the blockchain space for empowering her creative independence and launching her career. Welcome to Voices Onchain Emily! Who else should be part of VO? Drop names below and nominate the voices shaping the future of creativity and innovation. Thank you @creeefs for nominating Emily!

Okay, I'll critique your ideas. "Bitcoin needs no leaders, no board, no reform." Do you know Bitcoin was lead by Satoshi for a while? Then by Gavin Andresen. With time, it decentralized, and yet it is not perfectly decentralized even today (nothing is). It has a core development team which has more influence than those who aren't on this team. That team changes with time, and the way it governs itself can and does change. The majority of hashpower comes from known, legally-registered entities. Singular corporate entities have and are acquiring material percentages of supply. Am I making the argument that Bitcoin is centralized? I'm not. Bitcoin is the most decentralized economic apparatus on the world. But decentralization exists on a spectrum with many variables, and they change with time. It's nuanced and worthy of study and consideration. Bitcoin is not a holy thing, perfect and beyond critique or improvement. It has become increasingly decentralized with time (on most metrics), and hopefully this continues. Vitalik could die tomorrow, and the EF disappear. What would happen? Would Ethereum go away? Obviously not. Ethereum is *also* a decentralized project. Yet it is not identical to Bitcoin. In some ways it is more centralized. In others, it is less (should we talk about mining centralization? Should we talk about number of devs involved in the protocol? Should we talk about the number of implementations or apps built on it?) You're right to praise Bitcoin as decentralized and wonderful. It is. And if you want to levy targeted criticism of specific aspects of how Ethereum is structured or operates or is governed, that's perfectly fine. But "targeted criticism of specific aspects" is not what maxis engage in, is it? Your original post above is the perfect example. Maxis cast the most obtuse, crude, propagandistic condemnations of anything that isn't Bitcoin. "Bitcoin is decentralized, everything else is a centralized shitcoin." This is absurd nonsense, unbecoming of any serious Bitcoiner, of anyone who is passionate (and principled) about these technologies. You, and other maxis, come across as the worst kind of insecure zealots... praising national governments for their "strategic reserves" and cheering on custodial, permissioned companies, while condemning actually decentralized financial innovations. You adore custodians that are proudly "Bitcoin only" while insulting as scams open-source apps that actually imbue the cypherpunk ethos. Look how the maxis have treated privacy coins... actual anonymity in finance, yet disparaged as shitcoin scams because you make no distinction between actual fraud and earnest technology. To you, if it isn't Bitcoin, it's fraud. This is fucking retarded, emblematic of the most left-curve thinking that I'd expect from someone like Paul Krugman, not from any principled Bitcoiner. You say you have principles? Okay, what are they, exactly? To call Ethereum a "shitcoin trying to ride Bitcoin's coattails" is not a principled statement. It's maxi dogma, devoid of depth, accuracy, and honor. And when it spews forth with such bravado from an operator of a centralized custodial KYC'd company, you simply embarrass yourself and deserve to be called on it. Every decentralized permissionless app builder in Ethereum is doing more to advance the foundational principles of Bitcoin than any Bitcoin maxi with their gov-registered and state-regulated custodial service. /endrant

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