Founder journey: Y1: “We’re going to change the world” Y2: “We’re lost and co founder quit” Y3: “We’re broke.” Y4: “I need therapy” Y5: “Wait… it’s working??” Y6: “Scaling is just as brutal.” Y7: “Turned down 1B acquisition offer.” Y8: “We are going public”

Crypto diehards are basically lazy people who are addicted to gambling and easy money Most of the people i've met over the past 4 years are middle-aged, unemployed dudes, who cant bear to see the cycle end because that would mean they have nothing to do

bit by bit, we're giving our hard earned crypto cash to outsiders. Celebrities Trump random Devs who work AI Every rug takes a little more out of the native crypto liquidity and it's the same 6 guys at the poker table swapping the same pot around. Stop giving it up

Positions ICE has taken: - We can enter your home without a warrant - You must carry your papers at all times - But we can ignore them and only our scanner matters - We can detain you anywhere, no matter your age, situation or status - Indefinitely with no access to a lawyer -

one of the wildest things on this app is watching otherwise smart people get completely one-shotted by their political biases where through mental gymnastics & whataboutism they reinterpret The Current Thing to try and make it align with their preconceived views about the world

no one is immune to this because tribalism is written into our DNA but all I know is the world would be a much better place if everyone had more of a truth seeking impulse... the problem is to get there you need humility & self-doubt which seem to be in short supply these days

absolutely bananas that this needs to be said to people are known to legally open/concealed carry, wear “don’t tread on me” shirts, and lament paying federal taxes in general yet here we are you won’t understand government overreach until it comes to lock you up next enjoy the

This reminds me of how I lost $15k because synthetic decided sETH was bad debt so they would just stop redeeming it

I have a degree in Public Policy & before crypto worked in the government for many years. Tons of close friends & family still do. The issue with America is the two-party system. It pits us Americans against each other. It’s not conversation on ideas, it’s all framed as good

the eminently wise separation of powers via 3 branches of government + federal-state governance split via federalism designed by our founding fathers + split-ticket voting by the electorate protected us from the worst excesses of the government, regardless of the predominant

Biden really completely and very visibly fucked up US border policy, named Kamala the "border czar" saddling her with all its failures, then stepped down so late that she was the only candidate they could come up with in a non-democratic process and he flat out knew she would

It's insane to me that some of the richest people in the space are those whose projects failed, token went to $0, but somehow the majority of the project's treasury ended up in their wallets. 12 MAU, $15M market cap, $100M exfiltrated by the team. We need to do better.

• Crypto metaverses targeted the next marginal buyer (adults) rather than the next generation (kids) • Roblox took 20 years to get to where it is and won because of laziness from Minecraft (arbitraged F2P vs paywall & vertically integrated mods/tooling/servers) • The last

People need to realize that Binance is just a proxy for CZ 🔶 BNB CZ owns 90% of Binance When CZ makes statements like "I don't buy and sell" or "buy and hold" this is the exact opposite of what he (Binance) is actually doing For the past 8 years Binance (CZ) has been

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And we wonder why everyone hates crypto

to anyone serious who's left in crypto: this is the creator of ClawdBot / OpenClaw probably the most important consumer agentic AI project, and the likely starting point for the onchain agent economy his POV about crypto people is common. the popular perception has shifted

it’s not Coinbase’s fault normies hate crypto now look deeper and inward too much of the space devolved into serial rugs devoid of any lasting value, meaning, or culture and many here celebrated the nihilism once we accept that and reject it, we can move forward again

All the American AI companies talk about sharing the wealth, but all the top open source models are Chinese.

A bunch of startups have failed & the founders are just using money they raised from venture funds to pay themselves a salary while testing out new AI tools full-time under the guise of “pivoting” when they should simply give money back & call it a day