Brandon Possin
@pacificdiplomat
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Founder of Merito (a DeSci venture), weightlifter, fmr diplomat, USG crypto patient zero, Wahoo. Speaking six languages. AppWorks30 accelerator.
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Joined September 2011
As former 🇺🇸 official of 17 years, let me say SEC’s Gary Gensler contributed to Dems loss. He attacked innovation while going against the spirit of the law by doing “regulation by enforcement.”.
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SEC should understand what has happened tonight. Let people own and trade what they want, without DC elites thinking they know better. Stop using 1940s era tools to regulate the internet economy.
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おめでとございます、@missbitcoin_mai for the dazzling NFT event and bringing together Tokyos Web3 community 👏🏻 . Wishing you luck on your 🇨🇭 adventure.
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Stop suing crypto businesses. Start talking to Web3 crypto innovators. Initiate rulemaking now. Stop pushing innovation offshore. Time to return power to the builders and not the bureaucrats.
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@laurashin @ASvanevik Japanese often eat until their only 80% full…”Hara hachibun me.” Portion size control! Also, subway/train stair climbing does wonders for metabolism….
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Obama/Hillary were complicit too by not listening to fellow citizens who use crypto to protect themselves against inflation and bank excesses (3 days for ACH transfers, overdraft fees, arbitrary deplatforming). They gave into financial privilege and lacked economic empathy.
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@CBSNews How did the South Americans, Caribbean people, Filipinos, and Central Americans feel though?.
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@RampCapitalLLC Dude, I usually like your posts, but this one is baloney. this isn’t one presidents fault. It’s a global oil market with hundreds of variables.
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Thank goodness Japan has preserved its ancient culinary traditions. 🇯🇵 . @MacaesBruno .@MartinJPJP .@hiragananinja .@DeepinJapanPod .@JaponicaPub
Been in Japan two weeks, have yet to see a single sign of American cultural influence. A situation not seen in maybe a century.
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@brian_armstrong US citizens resident in Japan (part of the core of crypto community here) can’t use it. However they can use Kraken Japan…maybe you can change this?.
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@matthewbketchum The two-tickets-for-one-train system is indeed bewildering to many…including moi.
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@hiragananinja The daily exposure to English of a typical Japanese person is 1000s times higher than daily exposure to Japanese of a typical American….
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From a Gold’s Gym in Fukuoka, 🇯🇵. The glorification of infrastructure/manual labor in this country is quite fascinating. And a huge part of just how well maintained 🇯🇵 infrastructure is. So unlike the office/digital-work-only glorification in 🇺🇸 like @balajis has pointed out.
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@VJyou_NFT @noroichan_m @yugalabs @unWallet_Fujii @TheNFTAsian @Wagomon @VincentLKN @d_s_n_j @MinoruY Glad to come to another event like this. How to find out about them, Yu san?.
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Network state meetup in Tokyo today on margins of ETH Tokyo. First in person manifestation of @balajis ideas I’ve seen. Intrigued.
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Thanks to @DeSciWorld , @athena_DAO_ , @ResearchHub , @brian_armstrong , @valley_dao for the inspiration.
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Ewa Beach, Hawai’i. Christmas Eve sunset and Christmas Day sunlight, 2024.
Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform.
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Mid-chew photos are always the most glamorous. From the Fukuoka Int’l Business Association dinner. 🇯🇵🥢
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Have enjoyed teaming up with NVIDIA’s great team to bring The Ignition AI Accelerator to Japan and support high-potential, growth-stage hashtag#AI startups with start-up growth accelerator Tribe.
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Ski lift views from Niseko 🇯🇵. This week, made it halfway through @balajis ‘ epic seven hour podcast with @lexfridman . So rich with wisdom. An intellectual ultramarathon.
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Pre-flight pump at Fukuoka’s airport. The harbinger of many more airport gyms?! Fun facts: FUK is world’s fourth busiest single-lane airport and FUK-Tokyo is the world’s fourth busiest route too. 🇯🇵✈️🇺🇸
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Can Web3 lead to medical cures? .A look into this question, below.
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@haegwankim @brian_armstrong Much appreciated reply. App has worked for me well in Japan (have been CB client since 2017!), though there is perception non-Japanese citizens can’t sign up from within Japan. Just wanted to flag that perception as Coinbase fan and supporter.
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Thought while riding the Shinkansen in Kyushu today: Vehicle making prowess shows individual company skill. High speed train making shows community coordination skill. 🚅.
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@_AshleyRichmond Another good post. In Outlive, Peter Attia breaks this down into four categories of exercise: strength, zone 2 cardio, V02 max expanding cardio, and stability work:.
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Which side are you gonna take?. @DeSciWorld .@PeterAttiaMD .@hubermanlab .@MeritoNetwork .@sidrmsh .@MartinJPJP .@JaponicaPub .@theA4LI
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Amidst supermarket checkout efficiency chatter, Japan has figured out the hybrid model. Human product scanning and automated payment counters. Quickest ever seen. Might only work in high trust societies like Japan? And yes, only bought cheese. I’m from Wisconsin.
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In health, you can either pay with slight discomfort (in 2 hours of exercise a week) or with pain (for 10+ years with diabetes/metabolic syndromes/heart disease/dementia). I know which one I'll take. .
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Walking and yoga aren’t really exercise. Walking and yoga aren’t really exercise. Walking and yoga aren’t really exercise. How to get this to sink in more… hmm.
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Fukuoka 🇯🇵is a test market for new products in Japanese market so we get a sneak peak here. The latest were today’s entry of rentable motorcycles around town, just like rentable scooters. Intriguing.
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For us polyglots, can iOS 18’s multi language keyboard get more dizzying? . Switches from 🇬🇧 to an 🇬🇧🇵🇹 mix to 🇮🇩 🇬🇧 mix. Keyboard can’t decide what to translate. Send update soon pls @Apple .ありがとう！. @Duolingo_Japan .@duolingo .@TechCrunch .@MangoLanguages .@tim_cook.
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Pre-landing view soaring into FUK today 🛬. Underrated part of vacations is that it charges us up to enjoy our hometowns more. No longer are we odd transients…we are others’ neighbors and worth getting to know…
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@TimDraper Unfortunately true yet am optimistic 🇺🇸 policymakers can reverse this trend by changing course on our Web3 policies. As I wrote….
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@FEhrsam Ecommerce for science. Innovation with less intermediaries. Leveraging tokenization to allow IP creators to shed exclusionary gatekeepers and enabling science to stand on its own merits. Meritocracy enabled. Why I founded Merito, Asias first DeSci venture.
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Jakarta, June 2022: Was an honor to give a copy of my book (Maksud Lo) to Bu Tamalia Alisjahbana, daughter of the founder of the Indonesian language and a talented archivist of Indonesian history.
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@RyanHoliday , @FitFounder , @_AshleyRichmond , @RaoulGMI , @amandacassatt , @morganhousel , @cdixon , @cburniske , @twobitidiot , @mrjeffu , @dickiebush , @patriciamou_ , @tferriss , @rumireports , @BUILD_OR_DIE , @hubermanlab.
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Inspired by @PeterAttiaMD and @hubermanlab ‘s exhortations to lift weights, checked out the world’s first strength training community in 🇹🇭 . Its highlights in this post:.
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初めて日本語でスピーチするのは緊張しましたが、コンフォートゾーンに留まっていては成長しませんよね？福岡の日米協会で紛争を防ぐ市民社会団体について講演した。彼らのおもてなしに感謝しています。
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At Niseko’s apres-ski bar. Cant say I was expecting Côte d’Ivoire. Desk asks for @diplomattitude to write a DAR. #bidAF
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@_smcf And to double the fun while in Japan, the SF visitors can spice up their conversations with words from Yabai the book:
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After living in a high-trust society (like Japan), it's almost impossible to return living in a low-trust society (like Colombia or parts of the United States). Anyone else notice this?.
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So much wealth is flowing to Bali, could see Indonesia’s economy bifurcating between those who have a piece of the Bali tourism pie and those who don’t. My 36th time here haven’t ever seen so much construction nor new residents from other islands like Sumba or Flores.
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City I dislike: Tokyo suburbs incl Yokohama .City I think is overrated: Kyoto.City I like: Onomichi .City I love: Fukuoka .City I feel most myself in: western Tokyo.City I still need to visit: Miyakojima.City I dream of living in: Niseko.
City I dislike: Toyama.City I think is overrated: Kyoto.City I like: Yokohama.City I love: Tokyo .City I feel most myself in: Himeji.City I still need to visit: Sapporo.City I dream of living in: Kamakura.
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Thank you @BlockFiZac and @BlockFi for being a responsible financial institution and reopening withdrawals today. Will remember the good business ethics 👍.
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@diplomattitude Actually Manhattan got traded for Rhun island in eastern Indonesia per Treaty of Breda in 1667 🏝️. Took Ambassador Bob Blake there on an unforgettably good TDY!.
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