I've come back to this image 5 times this week already. Hilarious!

Google, Brave, and the other search engines need to offer a paid option that does two things: 1) removes ads 2) filters out content based marketing and SEO optimized garbage articles from search results 2 might be tricky, but I would gladly pay a monthly fee for this!

Consumer spending is down, interest rates are up, banks are making a killing on deposits, yet consumer debt defaults are down. Consumers are servicing debt with savings and deferring spending. If wages distantly trail inflation we are in real trouble.

Not financial advice. 1) Use cold storage, not exchanges. 2) Decentralized cryptos ONLY. 3) Weight bear market survivors that hit higher highs on recovery. 4) DCA in during bear markets (now). 5) DCA out for fiat you need during bull runs. 6) Never short, margin, or day-trade.

I hope all CEX's follow suit!

Following financial markets today should come with a health warning. Take a few deep breaths and stay calm everyone.

1) Find your representatives here: whoaremyrepresentatives.org 2) Call them and tell them they must vote against the "Restrict Act". This thing is far scarier than the Patriot Act: congress.gov/bill/118th-con…

Clear rules around USD backed stablecoins will both strengthen the US dollar and bolster its use in international trade.

They need to narrow the scope of this "stablecoin" discussion. 1) Limit their discussion to USD-backed stablecoins. 2) Define the permissible investments - ratio of cash and short-term treasuries w/auditing. 3) Everything else out-of-scope. youtube.com/watch?v=ti0CDU…

Raising interest rates while only protecting the largest banks puts regional banks into receivership and ensures only "too big to fail" banks survive. The Fed has all but stopped issuing new accounts to startup banks. Why do their actions clearly support a US banking oligopoly?

🚨 JUST IN: US Court of Appeals rules the sanctions on Tornado Cash smart contracts are unlawful.

The entirety of the Joe Rogan <> Marc Andreeseen podcast is fascinating, but please, please listen to this part. The abuse of power within unaccountable (and arguably unconstitutional) federal agencies has become so extreme the stories are almost unbelievable.

How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 opened the floodgates on Joe Rogan’s pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a

3/ When FTX went down, Silvergate survived a 70% run on deposits A typical bank cannot survive 20% FTX didn't kill us, our regulators did

Dólares vs. otras inversiones en México x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🚨 There’s a large-scale supply chain attack in progress: the NPM account of a reputable developer has been compromised. The affected packages have already been downloaded over 1 billion times, meaning the entire JavaScript ecosystem may be at risk. The malicious payload works

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I