1/ When Edward
@Snowden
spoke at Bitcoin2024 last week, he asked a question that lodged like a tumor in my brain. To paraphrase:
“Does the world and the U.S. election feel normal to you?”
When he was a kid, he said... 🧵👇
3/ Something’s off, he argues, and he points to the algos that subtly manipulate us on X, TikTok, Insta, FB and beyond.
For all their benefits, they’ve ultimately pitted us against one another in a competition for likes.
2/ ... presidents were people you looked up, people you admired and aspired to be like.
Do these candidates fit the bill? Do they represent the best of us?
If so, wtf happened to us?
24/ Now, watch Edward Snowden’s speech. It’s unsettling and powerful, and it helped convince me that his voice is among the most important voices of our generation. Pushed to the margins of society, he can see us more clearly than we can see ourselves.
14/ Sure, you can believe in evolution. You can say everything’s a meaningless cosmic accident, but humans require a value structure nonetheless. We require goals and beliefs. We require something that unites us with other humans.
We require meaning.
🤡 thoughts on Binance vs. SEC
1. From trough to peak, $BNB did a 17,000x ($0.039 to $686). Just an absolutely epic 4-year stretch (2017 to 2021).
2. If I had to pick a flag signaling the beginning of the end of the crypto bear, this would be it.
🧵👇
6/ I could talk for hours about this broken world because I see signs of it everywhere. We speak of financial nihilism in the crypto industry. But that’s merely a symptom of a broader, more insidious nihilism that pervades nearly everything.
Random 🤡 thoughts on the $LUNA meltdown
1. People like to act like LUNA investors were low IQ, but most knew the risks. I’m realizing in retrospect that might not be the case for a lot of UST buyers, which sucks. Clown ❤️ goes out to them.
2. Some call Anchor a ponzi...
🧵👇
12/ Humanity has relied upon church/religion for millennia bc it forces you to take at least 1 day a week to look inward, to ask yourself hard q's, to place your feet to the ground, to be here now, to stare into the unblinking octopus eye at the very center of the great mystery.
7/ The inequality gap widens. Misinformation reigns, and we stand on the very brink of World War.
Meanwhile, technological revolutions beget more technological revolutions across virtually every field (AI, genetics, finance via crypto, pharma, robotics, etc.).
8/ The Great Acceleration has arrived.
We call these sorts of changes “revolutions” bc they are. They upset the world’s order. They rob power from one entity and bequeath it upon another. Some of us are ground like meat beneath the wheels. Others rise to perch on thrones.
22/ You need to believe some things are worth fighting for… and some are beneath you.
You need to know precisely what it is that makes you you.
Bc if you don’t, others will determine it for you.
✊
9/ It’s destabilizing (both for our finances and our psychologies). And we can’t help but begin to question our place in the world.
The questioning only grows louder in the face of AI.
I can feel it myself.
15/ I’m still trying to find my way, but one thing that’s helped is building my own “spiritual" book. Whenever I read something profound, something helpful to remember, I take a screenshot that lands in an album on my phone. Then, I flip through that wisdom regularly.
I'd be lying if I said the approval of a
#bitcoin
spot ETF didn't make me emotional...
I can't quit thinking about Satoshi, Hal Finney, Ross Ulbricht and the countless others who gave up their identities, lives or freedom for this vision... a vision of a world with two forms of
11/ I like calling it “desynchronization.”
We’re out of sync with the world. Technological change is forcing us to break with the past. And that means we literally have to rewrite/reconceive our own places in the world.
10/ If we achieve AGI, what’s my purpose? Will I have a job? What will it mean to be human? Is the next rung of evolution leaving these biological bodies behind?
AI lies at the heart of it all. And some have taken to calling these fears and existential questions “AI anxiety.”
17/ I strive to erect inside myself a foundation of spiritual backbone… a personal philosophy that gives me strength to stand in the face of all of life’s wonder, mystery and tragedy.
18/ It’s time for you to build your own framework.
Maybe you’ll do what I do and mash up Buddhism, Christianity, stoicism and techno-futurism. Or maybe you’ll go “off-the-grid Amish.”
More likely, your answer’s entirely different.
If this is the beginning of a bull market, it could be the biggest bull market in the history of bull markets
Now, bear w/ me...
I'm not going to pud off and start talking about
#bitcoin
as "Gold 2.0" or
#ethereum
as a "world computer"
No, let me tell you a secret...
More 👇
A raw, glistening ELI5 thread on $SUSHI
(Alternate title = Sushi chef murders multiple VCs)
To understand Sushi, boy, you must understand uniswap
Uniswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX). You can think of it like a vending machine.
More 👇
19/ The point is, no one is going to hand you an answer to society’s growing nihilism (or as I like to think of it: society’s lack of philosophical frameworks).
My first 100x in crypto was a 4-year-long buy and hold
Sometimes, outperformance is just a pitbull-like ability to clamp down no matter what other shiny things may flit before your eyes
I heard about $ETH for a year before I bought any.
I heard about $SNX for months before I bought any.
I heard about $RUNE for weeks before I bought any.
I heard about $YFI for days before I bought any.
I heard about $SUSHI for hours before I farmed any.
More 👇
🤡 thoughts on Visa + $Ethereum
1) The ground trembleth under mine feet
How much bigger of a news event can we possibly get? This is the beginning of blockchains becoming the de facto settlement layer for EVERY transaction of any value whatsoever moving forward
More 🙃
The vast majority of people think they can beat the crypto markets even though they're something like a full-time dentist and they play squash twice a week and they have two kids and a wife and they get about 30 minutes a day to study crypto
More 👇
Someday, people will say we were in the right place at the right time
They’ll say we got lucky
If they want to think we live charmed, god-like lives, that’s fine
But the truth is we came when all the world thought we were mad
We stood when all the world stayed in their chairs
The most amusing thing about a bull market is you can be making shitloads of $$$ but still feel like a loser bc your shitloads aren’t as growing as quickly as some other a-hole’s 😂
1/ The beginning of bulls are the best, sers... it's like going out on a Friday night and having that first beer. There's a lil excitement and pheromones in the air. You got your shades on even though it's dark outside. A hottie's checking you out and you're just...
🤡 thoughts on the SEC vs. Coinbase
1. The SEC looks outdated AF... like horse breeders in the age of the Model T.
2. The SEC rarely ever protects the plebs. It protects the powers that be (banks, tradfi and, most importantly, itself)... 🧵👇
Sers, what a strange, wicked, beautiful journey crypto can take us mortals on
It appears we'll soon have a tradeable $DEGEN token
It will = a basket of 10 of the fastest-growing, most promising small cap tokens in crypto
& it will run on $NDX
More 👇
I feel the deepest pangs for the ones who look at crypto charts, see parabolas & say we're in a bubble
they don't realize they're looking at charts that shouldn't exist
More👇
Are you an $ETH lover who feels disgusted by growth outside of $ETH?
I say you’re focusing on the wrong thing
5 years from now... maybe less... most people won't give AF what chain anything is on
They’ll buy your $ETH on Polkadot
Or maybe even a $BTC sidechain
More 👇
A fren just asked me about the preparatory steps I'd take for upcoming bull market... Here's what I said:
Preparations for me are really honing in on my mistakes in the last cycle and avoiding them.
7 things I did wrong: 🧵👇
Ever wondered how people discover tokens before they hit Coingecko and Coinmarketcap?
Mostly they have scripts that track big
#Ethereum
wallets
You used to have to be a coder yourself (or at least know one) in order to stay on top of what the 🐳s were buying / selling
More 👇
Where does all this lead, my frens?
A 🤡 just flew across the country to buidl w a tiny group of crypto anons he’d never met in person
I still don’t know their names
they still don’t know mine
Our plan was crude and dangerous…
👇
1/ We spend our waking lives accumulating money
That money isn't a number, medium of exchange or store of value
It's a vault for captive "lifeforce"
To fill the vault, we must give away mental or physical energy -- burning our very vitality
In exchange... 🧵👇
1/ BRC-20s will forever remind me of two things:
1) Experimentation trumps logic
2) F your little ego, redphone
A short tale on the origins of BRC-20 and how they've changed what I thought I knew about crypto 🧵👇
Beyond the obvious like $BTC + $ETH, a few faves:
$LUNA = unstoppable stablecoins for every fiat on 🌎
$LINK = the deep & rumbling voice of TRUTH
$YFI = the perpetual yield machine
$AAVE, $COMP (soon $MARS) = unstoppable credit markets
$RUNE = the freest marketplace known to man
1/ Crypto’s next massive narrative stares us in the face… it’s not the election, Solana memecoins, restaking or gaming. It’s bigger than all those combined
It’s AI + crypto 🧵👇
One of my big conceptual shifts for 2020 was fully accepting
#Ethereum
$ETH as a "global settlement layer"...
That's a lame ass phrase but I think it's true
Ethereum is becoming the deepest, most liquid market for ANY asset... any form of value
1/7
The future is utterly and entirely undecided
it does not happen to us, we happen to it
you can sit on your ideas, wishes and dreams
you can risk nothing
you can change nothing
or you can buidl, right fucking now
& possibly change it all
If you are not shaken after today, I do not know what it would take
Total MC down nearly $1 trillion over eight days
Now, we question everything
When I was younger, I would have been sick
atm, I feel the slightest tinge of excitement...
👇
tldr: this could be it, my frens
this could be the cycle that turns that skeeter into a golden fire-breathing🐲 that burns all of modern finance to cinders
Ask me what I'm doing with my portfolio now + I will say unto you fuck me, I'm long
& fuck me my hands are strong
🤡 out
Dear bankers and TradFi execs,
Look to your left. Look to your right.
Many of your employers won’t be here in a decade.
They’ll go bankrupt, get acquired, or perhaps… they’ll be one of the few that evolves rapidly enough to embrace tokenization and end up thriving.
Fink, of
There’s a reason we don’t have a perfect decentralized crosschain swap platform yet
It’s hard AF
If anyone can solve it, the
@THORChain
community
Still long $RUNE
There is no better zen practice than trading
To make $$$ you must do the things lesser traders can't
Sell green candles
Buy red candles
Ignore ripping cryptos
Buy temporarily forgotten cryptos
Trading = war with others
+ war with yourself
Dog him all you want, but there aren't many humans willing to take on the govts, regulators, and bankers in such a hellish and opaque regulatory environment. Whatever happens, there's a throne with his name on it in the crypto pantheon.
Here is my secret mental map for the next bull market in crypto...
(Alternate title = Why as I'm long
#DeFi
with diamond hands)...
1. We are early in the DeFi bull. I didn't realize how early until I saw this interview with Chamath.
Thread alert 👇
1/ Random 🤡 thoughts on the explosion in telegram bots (+ tokens)
No. 1:
Feels like a new trading “primitive” that could end up everywhere (ie not just crypto but gambling, stocks, options, etc… why not be able to execute a stock buy at the end of a killer tweet thread?) 🧵👇
BSC has set the dark forest on fire
The urgency has returned
No one has to say it
For all the forest knows
It's time to fucking buidl sers
It's time to fucking rise
1/ DeFi was never the end game... it merely enables the end game
Breakout apps like rollbit, friendtech, tgbots, etc., are proof crypto is exiting the infra/build-out/DeFi phase to enter the "app" phase 🧵
We are not normal, sers
We like to think the masses are coming (and they are), but the irony is they'll never be like us
For crypto to truly be successful, no one should need to know what a private key is... or a blockchain or AMM
For us to win, our knowledge must be hidden
On strangled babies 👶, the
#bitcoin
supercycle, and crusted mucus… this is how the current crypto cycle will be different than anything we’ve ever seen before 👇
1. Crypto OGs aren’t your typical hoomans. They believe in (and fight for) tech that attacks the world’s leading
Sewer rats are squirming, crawling through the gutters w little pink noses snuffling about for any scrap of hope. Here it is: 3 catalysts for the next bull run in crypto:
1. Liquidity gush
2. Pink swan app
3. Rubberstamp cycle
tldr on each... 🧵👇
Hello, crypto gods, are you listening?
It's me, redphone & I have a confession to make...
Ohhh gods, I love synthetic stocks...
to me, they = freedom + fairness + a rung on the ladder to prosperity
They're everything a traditional stock isn't
(more 👇)
send my portfolio to zero
nuke it all to dust
and I'd still say thank you
for the first and only time in my life, it let me taste true freedom
and I've never been the same
I don’t consider transparently subsidizing legitimate yield (from PoS assets + borrowing) to be a ponzi.
The fact is, Anchor was one of the greatest onboarding tools crypto has ever seen (for better or worse). It was simple to use.
🤡 musing on the bitcoin ETF hopium:
1. Bitcoin has its whales, but they're 15-ft narwhals compared to TradFi's 90-ft blue whales
Blackrock could finally allow us to siphon off some of that sweet blue whale cheddar in a big way (pension funds, ret. accounts, 401ks, etc.)
🧵👇
Tech executives and engineers are quitting Google, Meta, Amazon and other large companies for what they say is a once-in-generation opportunity with crypto.
- Multi-trillion-$$$ stimulus package inbound
- Facebook Diem
- Paypal merchant program
- US banks given greenlight to use crypto rails
- Censorship at generational highs in "land of the free"
... seems like a great time to sell
There are but two ingredients by which one should judge all long-term crypto projects:
- subtraction of power from the elites
- addition of power to the people
1/ Many hoomans think $ETH will hit $10k someday, but how many are willing to put their monies where their mouths are?
A new protocol that just launched its bootstrap phase is going to find out 🧵👇
Every mistake, every bad trade, every conversation, every tweet, every discord, every conference, every NFT, every DAO, every time you refuse to quit… brings you closer to the day you find yourself “in the right place at the right time”
at that very moment...
I've always struggled to understand $LINK's tokenomics
but I learned long ago there is no tokenomics system that can't be changed
usage and integrations trump all, and $LINK is the undisputed oracle king
it's success is far from guaranteed, but ignoring it now is not the way
For 12 years, the builders have been building
For 12 years, the money-printers have been stealing
For 12 years, the believers have been teaching
For 12 years, we’ve laid the ready kindling
And today the fire has begun
1/ 🧵 w/ very brief history of Silk Road, how it impacted me + why I'm joining
@freerossdao
...
First, Ross Ulbricht
@RealRossU
= a true chad
He didn’t really know how to code when he dreamed up the Silk Road
He just bought a book on programming and started building...
We are officially launching
@FreeRossDAO
🕊, an open community aimed at buying Ross Ulbricht's NFT collection and funding the mission to
#FreeRoss
and fight for prison reform.
freerossdao.eth
Let’s save a life 👇
If & when a spot
#bitcoin
ETF is approved, it's going to mean more than number go up to me...
1. It's technology changing the world no matter how badly some want it to stay the same
2. It's the end of crypto "career risk"
3. It's closing the chapter on SBF
4. It's... 🧵👇
1 year ago,
@AndreCronjeTech
gave up complete control of Yearn
+ with it, $1 billion worth of $YFI tokens
He saved no special tokens for himself…
There were no VC investments or whitelisted presale addresses…
There was simply the gift of code
🧵👇
Today we invite you to celebrate the first year of Yearn with The Blue Pill, a spiritual guide for the past, present and future of Yearn. A beautifully-typeset book is available to our 13,500 most loyal supporters.
Honestly think $LINK is one of the most undervalued/neglected tokens in crypto rn. If they onramp institutions, it could be the rails for trillions in RWAs.
In a recent Chainlink investment research paper -
@Ripple
$xrp Business Development team member Paul Chen wrote:
"The DCF analysis, including the terminal value, suggests that $LINK is insanely undervalued, with an implied price of $5,700 compared to a current market price of
The world needs
@thorchain_org
to succeed more than anything in crypto right now
If it does, it will be humanity’s greatest step forward since the launches of bitcoin and Ethereum themselves
5/ Work hard to get over yourselves. The ones who will come out of this cycle the wealthiest are the learning machines... the ones who stay open and attuned... the ones who aren't afraid to buy when buying is the scariest.
That's it.
Love you all, you fucking bleeding edgers
Companies = a collection of people oriented around profits
DAOs = a collection of people oriented around passion
Companies = soul-draining
DAOs = soul-enhancing
Choose wisely