My favorite answer to: WHAT IS BITCOIN? By Peter Van Valkenburgh.

Did Coca-Cola invent Santa Claus? While it didn’t invent the *idea* of Santa, it popularized the image we know today (plump, excessively jolly) starting in the 1930s. The whole story is an insane marketing coup. The urban legend that “Coca-Cola created Santa” is so

ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs yes -- I also think elites fail to realize a lot of people want to be NPCs. And a functional culture provides healthy a NPC character to be

media is bifurcating. all legacy channels have collapsed. there are no more gatekeepers one half decides it's a free-for-all. acquire influence and power at all costs the other half wants to earn the right to tell every story but hard to reach escape velocity tradeoff between

"Tokenization today is roughly where the internet was in 1996." - Larry Fink, BlackRock Chairman & CEO

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We are extremely bullish on private credit markets coming onchain the emerging stack to support these products. This is how we see the stack today: Base layer of stablecoins (M0, Circle) Asset Issuance (Apollo, Daylight, USDAI, etc.) Risk Layer (Cork) Tokenization

The more time passes, the more I believe crypto natives have completely lost the plot on ETH and that’s it’s becoming impossible to replicate the product that Ethereum has built. At this point, no other ecosystem is even attempting to create a WWIII-resistant, globally shared

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is trade.xyz nasdaq market getting attacked ? A lot of liquidations, weekend mark price should be capped to +-5% from last external oracle update (friday), fyi we dumped almost 4% with no news.

Andy explains why crypto feels broken right now, pointing to celebrity exits versus institutional conviction, and reminds us not to lose the plot.

marketing is the new cs major

Securitize plans to launch onchain trading for real public company stocks in Q1 2026. These are actual shares, not tokens that track a stock’s price. Owners keep the same rights they would have in traditional markets, including dividends and voting. Today, most tokenized stock

Base Eco Mega Stream. Today. 3-7pm EST. Big day.

Actually screw a whole paragraph, I can explain them in one sentence. Google 2004: They control the path to the entire internet AMD 2016: They're going to be competitive with Intel for the first time in a decade and only have 1% share currently BTC 2011: You can get paid to run

bro real bd is closing fucking blackrock or a god dam micro-nation like bhutan. bro lock in. your peers are doing this.

Top of the morning to ya. Big day. 2025 Awards Show kicks off at 2pm EST. At 3:30pm, Haseeb ＞|＜ joins us for a reflection on 2025 & 2026 predictions. See you there.

The Rollup This is going above Carlos' fireplace.

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