$near nuked because bitget hackers had their transfers blocked by team hence not actually private (i dont think this is a bad thing tbh, visa/mastercard work the same but people are fine with it in tradfi, so if it was the same onchain they wouldnt care) $zec not moving on price they're using zecash to transfer their money with no one having the ability to stop them or look at their movements, yet hasn't pumped...curious

50% for team and investors what are we doing 🫩

the @higgsfield_ai landing page is pure chaos good lord who designed this?

Sic Itur Ad Astra

robinhood chain achieved more in 2 months than solana did in 2 years

On people leaving crypto. The surface area of companies shrinks in a bear market, so there are simply fewer well-paying jobs rn. If you want to stay in the industry, you're left with a handful of well-funded companies (Coinbase, Circle, @raincards ahem) that can ride things out, or taking less money and a flier on an earlier stage company. AI-land is the opposite. Tons of funding, tons of companies hiring and paying top dollar for talent. And AI is the sexy new thing that crypto was in 2021. It's hard to resist. That said, it does seem like this AI cycle is unwinding: ~ Situational Awareness margin call ~ SpaceX IPO 50% off its high ~ OpenAI reportedly pushing its IPO to 2027 ~ runaway AI capex increasingly funded with debt People chasing AI roles right now are likely to experience some thrash should the music stop playing for a while. I saw the same thing happen to people who left cushy finance & FANG jobs for crypto at the end of 2021. Reasons to stick with crypto People who join the industry in non-consensus times tend to reap the benefits. Eg the people who stuck around in 2018/19 got paid in 2020/21. Sentiment is bad right now, and maybe asset prices get worse if the AI trade unwinds, but it's never been more obvious that this is still a 1000x industry. Stablecoin adoption has hit escape velocity. They're just better and faster in many scenarios (cross-border, global payments, etc). It becomes more obvious every day I spend at @raincards that stablecoins are coming for all of finance. Cool so dollars on the blockchain work. Next put every stock & bond on them, and suddenly we've swapped out the 1970s back-office software that underlies the financial system with something internet native that's better, faster, stronger. Yahtzee. Now sprinkle some AI agents on it. That is coming, and crypto x AI is where I'd take a swing if I were earlier in my career. So TLDR: I get the pull of AI, but crypto is still a more interesting place to be than it ever has been.

ai people tend to dislike crypto but they should really study operation choke point 2.0 for a glimpse of what’s to come

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it doesnt matter where spacex opens, the very fact its happening is bullish for short/med term future

chud is one letter away from chad and the only thing that changes is u

It's been a while since global sentiment towards crypto has been that bad. I said this many times, we're not in 2021/22 end of cycle because this time no SBF/Celsius/Luna. We're in 2018, a slowand lingering despair of "we're not cool anymore" mostly solely due to price not going up. Back then, when the tourists left, the builders delivered MakerDAO, Compound, SNX, EthLend (Aave) and more with mostly apathetic reception. It's an exciting time to focus and deliver even if the market will be ungrateful for a while.

the @SpaceX IPO is going to be $TRUMP but for equities

Sydney

another beautiful day in god’s favourite city

Hey @satyanadella your onboarding process for windows is so trash, it’s literally just ads for nonsense, takes forever and I’m forced to use a god forsaken hotmail to log in. Absolutely horrible experience and it’s just a microcosm of why Apple will be the OS that wins eventually

why chatgpt hit me with the widescreen

It's been nine months since I left crypto full-time. Rejuvenating, but not easier. I graduated in 2021 and did whatever it took to break into crypto after college: six months of unpaid internships, learning on the fly, and saying yes to everything. My finance degree turned me into an Excel and PowerPoint monkey (which was a good thing). Venture internships, banking, the usual path. That foundation helped me find my footing fast, but I lost a bit of edge. We were chasing metrics that meant nothing and investing in companies with no real value. The biggest change? Every single month, you face your demons in the form of your PnL. And you either try to exorcise those demons. Or you live with them for another month. TVL, token price, "engagement," testnet metrics. Numbers that looked good on a dashboard but didn't connect to anything real. All out the window. There's no narrative spin around the corner. No more being early, no more guessing about fundamentals. Revenue comes in. Costs go out. When you're accountable to real margins every 30 days, it rewires how you think. You stop optimizing for stories. You start optimizing for what actually works. I genuinely believe that until crypto finds that same discipline, we are cooked. I'm not saying everyone in crypto is doing this. There are people building real things. But there is too much extraction across a playbook that runs hundreds of times a year. I don't say that to be negative. I say it because I've lived on both sides.

It's not authoritarian unless it comes from the CCP region of China, otherwise it's just sparkling national security.

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