q1 2023 satoshi would laff

Fun fact. The man ultimately responsible for Choke Point 1.0 was FDIC chair Marty Gruenberg, who served from 2012-2018 (OCP ran primarily from '13-'17) The current FDIC chair has a really close relationship with him, because he is also Marty Gruenberg

OCP2.0 isn’t over, not by a long shot. The remaining banks that are known to bank crypto are being targeted, like Cross River and Customers, as are BaaS partner banks like Evolve. The objective is to destroy all fintechs and all havens for crypto firms

Ok one last tweet to celebrate Gensler’s two years in office: Did you know under Chair Gensler, the SEC has seen it’s highest ever turnover in senior staff including legal counsel and managed to seek the largest increase in budgets ever?

Highly self directed, competent and agentic people tend to experience dependent employment as a form of slavery. There is a future timeline where AI tools enable everyone to become highly self directed, competent and agentic. In this future, unemployment may be a non-issue.

oh we are so going to prison

The Big Whoosh (disclaimer, long read) When you really boil down the entirety of what’s going on - the current state of the market boils down to one simple observation. The people buying the highs of the 1999 tech bubble were right. But they were too early. Sama’s most recent

Today Uniswap Labs 🦄 Labs received a Wells notice from the SEC. I’m not surprised. Just annoyed, disappointed, and ready to fight. I am confident that the products we offer are legal and that our work is on the right side of history. But it’s been clear for a while that rather than

Everything.

in a few model generations, any attempt to prompt a llm into generating a tweet will entail a simulation of the history of the civilization producing the tweet; in fact, all our memories and experiences are probably just a part of the request that produced this tweet

Just-in: „Fuck your puts, fuck your calls, Jay Powell has you by the balls. God bless my money printer.“ - Jerome Powell, FOMC

Still laugh when I think about the time the EU regulators acted like they were launching a rocket

Now imagine the difference between SpaceX and NASA applied to every other domain - defense, health care, education, housing, etc. What are we waiting for?

The #NobelPrize in Physics 2024 for Hopfield & Hinton turns out to be a Nobel Prize for plagiarism. They republished methodologies developed in #Ukraine and #Japan by Ivakhnenko and Amari in the 1960s & 1970s, as well as other techniques, without citing the original inventors.

There are broadly two ways people think about AGI and labour: Position A is where humans get fully substituted, which is usually advanced by parts of the AI commentariat. The argument is that if AGI is a scalable input that can do what workers do at lower cost, then the market

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to

run this: /mobile

cloud apps have locked generations of people into self-limiting beliefs about what a computer can do