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Ryan Rasmussen

@ryanrasmussen #9004

Research at Bitwise
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That feeling when your flight gets delayed
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Anyone know of any upcoming LA screenings of Vitalik: An Ethereum Story?
/LA
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Back from Singapore. Headed to Washington DC this week. Vegas next week.

All with one purpose: Grow institutional adoption of crypto.
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An RIA just confirmed they’re adding 6% crypto ETFs to their model portfolios: 4% Bitcoin and 2% Ethereum.

Oh and, they sold the Nasdaq 100 (tech stocks) to buy Ethereum.
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Football season is back 🙏
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What will FAANG become once Coinbase becomes one of the top tech stocks alongside the other tech giants?
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Coinbase crushed it in Q1 2024

- Revenue: $1.6B (+72% vs Q4)
- Opex: $0.9B (+5% vs Q4)
- Net Income: $1.2B (+331% vs Q4)
- Adj. EBITDA: $1.0B (+213% vs Q4)
- Cash: $7.1B (+24% vs Q4)
- 2x USDC on platform vs Q4
- 8x Base developers vs Q4
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Presenting 12 real crypto use cases to a room of 1,000+ financial advisors and RIAs (Registered Investment Advisors) today.

Farcaster…
Polymarket…
Render…
Ondo…
Bitcoin…
Stablecoins…
and many more…
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Happy Bitcoin Halving Day to those who observe 🍻
/Bitcoin
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Wen doginme listing on coin market cap?
/doginme
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Sex and the City fans: Is this accurate?
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1/ From prediction markets and decentralized social media to tokenizing real-world assets and tackling Africa’s energy crisis with bitcoin mining, and more…

Here are 12 Crypto Use Cases having an impact on the world by the team at @bitwise

🧵👇
https://twitter.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1770826464314736742
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The Dencun upgrade is happening tomorrow and the entirety of CT is focused on politician- and nicotine-themed meme coins.
/Ethereum
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What is the Pubkey of LA?
/LA
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What are your favorite real world use cases for crypto (beyond Farcaster, of course)?
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Instagram = not working
Facebook = not working
….
Farcaster = working
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What’s the best crypto coworking space in LA? Is there one?
/LA
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Two of my favorite Anthony Bourdain quotes (from a 2016 Reddit AMA)
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Worth noting that Coinbase's institutional custody platform is alive and well. Bitcoin ETFs aren't impacted by this outage.