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Lots of chatter and questions about my tweet. A bit more clarity so that people don't make this into something it is not. Why is tap to pay using USDC on iPhones incoming soon, and what does it mean for Wallet devs to get going? - Circle has no relationship with Apple and this

Head of Fidelity digital asset management division says firm is evaluating stablecoins & tokenized treasury products… Notes they’re also researching onchain credit & structured products. Space is moving *fast*. via Daniel

ADGM stablecoin consultation paper saying the quiet part out loud. Stablecoins cannot scale if they don't become an effective store of value, and sharing income from reserves in the form of rewards is a great way to do so. This marks the second leading crypto jurisdiction to

NEW ODD LOTS The Booming Crypto Use Case That's Happening Right Now Tracy Alloway and I talked to Austin Campbell, prof at Columbia biz school and financial markets veteran, about the rise of stablecoins, and the genuine breakthrough that they represent bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Crypto is real. I traveled to Nairobi and met the Haraka team which is building on Celo.eth/acc 🦇 🌳 and using Mento Labs issued cKES. Haraka provides microloans to small business owners in Kenya and Ghana collateralized by social reputation (e.g. group of friends who form a savings

I typically only post about work on here but today I have a more personal note: I live in Northwestern South Carolina, down the road from Buncombe County, which has been devastated by Hurricane Helene. Although my direct community was impacted - we still are without power and

San Francisco really is a stunning city on a clear day.

“Nerd” vs “jock” is a false binary. Excelling at either requires a similar underlying skill set: toiling for hours on end, every day, for years at a time. The common denominator is an extremely high pain tolerance and the stamina to do one thing tirelessly until every minute

If you're a guy in your early 20s, buy bitcoin over a Rolex

It’s 2025 and it pains me that people are still asking for wire transfers vs stablecoin transfers

Bit of an adjacent comment from me: I wrote a few years back that I think China and maybe (*maybe*) Vietnam will become history's last developed countries. No new evidence has manifested which would cause me to change my view. Impact of policy interventions is overrated.

It's clear that John Collison and Patrick Collison actually write these themselves. Words like "dispositive" and sentences like "Such transitions occur with some regularity over the centuries, and the effects tend to be large." And the clearest stablecoin pitch I've read.

Just a few minutes ago, President Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The Reserve will be capitalized with Bitcoin owned by the federal government that was forfeited as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings. This means it

"... And this is something you believe in? 🤨 Very good, made the promise, right?" I'm upbeat on this news. BUT just looking at Trump, it's not like there's a ton of personal enthusiasm here lol.

The end game was never “the U.S. government buys all of the world’s bitcoin.” A U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve means… - Other countries will buy bitcoin - Wealth managers have no excuse - Financial institutions have no excuse - Pensions/Endowments have no excuse - Fear of the

Stablecoins will benefit our financial system:

The original architects of American global power did something very clever that no other empire had ever done before: they deliberately hid the instruments of their power. Specifically, they institutionalized the hard power of the post-WW2 American military into a "rules-based

We’re finally going to see Red Dawn 2 starring Timothee Chalamet fighting Chinese Communists.

Yea both lead to higher prices but price minimums flow into corporate profits while tariff money would’ve flowed into EU coffers.

Warren Buffett this AM: "Trade should not be a weapon." “It’s a big mistake in my view when you have 7.5 billion people who don’t like you very well, and you have 300 million who are crowing about how they have done." “We should be looking to trade with the rest of the world."