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VP Eng at Ulys -- web3 eng leader 🟠 Rustacean 🟠 Bitcoiner (nonmaxi) 🟠 econ geek 🟠 Coinbase alum #btc #crypto #blockchain #defi #rust #GenX
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Privacy matters.

It's your Fourth Amendment right, in fact.
Balaji on screen this morning talking about network state, technocracy, democracy and network school.
112 followers and not a one is an OF bot.

Feels like something for once...
Some serious explosions shaking the SLC valley today.

Apparently was demolition of old munitions, but wow.
Unpopular opinion:

* ETH = Rupe Goldberg
* SOL = Practical Tech
We need more Rustposts on FC!

I'll try to put some content out...but we need some folks actually talented at content to contribute...
always remember, success is 1% idea and 99% execution.

Ideation is fun. Making it reality is work.
I swear Elden Ring ruined me.

It's the only thing not a rougelike retro that I want to play anymore.
Query to the brains:

Other than finding a sponsor bank (increasingly hard in the US), is CB Pay the most optimal solution for fiat on ramp?

Use case is wallet/neobanking
A warm Farcaster welcome to @mrsx and her loyal companion!
To the "Kamala will be fine because Trump is mean" crowd:

aside from you not knowing hardly anything about her actual record unless you happen to be a Californian from her reign (I am), she is:

- pro Elizabeth Warren
- anti self custody
- pro cbdc (though she doesn't understand why)
- anti Bitcoin
- anti Crypto
- anti NFTs
- pro Gensler...

she'll make Gensler head of Treasury, in which capacity he'll likely declare crypto to be counterfeiting.

If your partisanism blinds you to this, you are enemy to cypherpunks and all we stand for.
Fuck the SEC

a bunch of midwit hall monitors who sit around pleasuring themselves to fantasies of ruining young software engineers' lives.

Loser fucks.

Only people worse are the dumb fucks simping for them: mostly Boomers who act like experts because they heard a dilettante posing as a journalist prattle about the subject on TV...
maybe a user problem, but WC on Brave simply stopped responding today
Lessons building a web3 native neobank:

- integrating tradfi = simple technically, hard functionally

- integrating web3 = complex technically, collaborative and pleasant functionally

Basically, how legacy companies behave is their weakness.
Today I read 3 stories on dropglobalnews.

I politically disliked two of them, but was still treated with respect by the authors in how the news was written and delivered.

This is the way forward: intellectual honesty.
Remember what is really at stake amid all the MSM astroturf nonsense.

Gell-Mann Amnesia matters.