I believe the efficacy of @x algorithms finding high value content for me is going up as evidenced by the significant uptick in my bookmarking activity. It’s near to where I fear I’ll never be able to read it all.

Impressive work!

Kraken Q2 Highlights 👇

Today’s Gym Beats, a throwback to the turn of the millennium Carl Cox on.soundcloud.com/SChDNfZSCA0i59…

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Going to DEF CON? Kitboga and I will be presenting “Anatomy of a Crypto Scam” on Saturday, August 9th at 5pm - find us on Creator Stage 4 (Room 228).

There is an entirely new cohort of folks with bitcoin exposure who did not come up through podcasts and reading blogs and books and now need principled podcasts more than ever to more deeply understand what they have—And trade out of ETFs to spot bitcoin when they are ready.💡

If you hate the politicians in Washington now, just wait until they can’t make money aligned with the general public. It’s just going to drive even more adverse selection for politicians.

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Today’s gym beats— on.soundcloud.com/9bJkHwM52FeXeQ…

Running ‘em back today — if you didn’t get to the 2 hour mark you’ve missing out.

The SEC just confirmed that liquid staking — where users receive receipt tokens for staked assets — does NOT constitute a securities offering if structured properly. Great to see the Commission using its statutory authority to provide clarity to the markets.

Can I get a $30m refund?

This is why any sustainable Layer 2 on the Bitcoin stack needs to have a healthy and symbiotic relationship to mainnet, mutually aligned with the success of Bitcoin itself. It’s quite easy—almost the default, really—to design an L2 architecture that is parasitic to the L1.

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Interesting to see the lag in $ETH this cycle, despite '24-'25 moves. Last cycle, it had already hit a new all time high in January of 2021. It still hasn't yet this cycle. Historically, there have been many "number 2" assets. There's only ever been a single #1: bitcoin.

I woke up this morning to ChatGPT being bad at basic math. That was unexpected.

💡We're not buying dollars.

Here’s what the sounds meant.

…And they’ve not yet lowered rates. Buckle up.