when i say “stablecoins r not a threat at all” I mean specifically consumer-to-merchant which is visa and mc’s core business. however there r at least 2 major battlegrounds between visa/mc and stablecoin startups, namely b2b (eg importer/exporter cross border) and c2c (eg

I dunno who needs to hear this but this current moment is the “Netscape” or “iPhone” moment for crypto. It’s working bigger than ever before, far beyond our wildest dreams. Both the institutional parts and the cypherpunk parts.

Neobank Misinformation Tier list Etherfi “No FX fees in USD” is not a thing. USD cards have no FX in USD 🤦🏼‍♂️. For all the other currencies 1% fee applies. GnosisPay: IBAN options only for Europeans. Onboard via partner apps. UR: “minimal fees” but you pay $24/mo to get them

My birthday is in April, everyone!

Congrats to Moolah (ALL13) on their launch. Moolah is a social finance network where users are anonymous but their net worth is verified.

Elon Musk on how he deals with running many different companies: “Well, I have a lot of inbound communication, so it’s basically information triage. I try to segment my days to avoid too much context switching. Because, arguably, fear isn’t the mind-killer—context switching

Good points!

The internet becomes a bank

Every time I am in SF, the city tells me I can be the change I want to see. SF tells you so many things, do you want to make something great? Make the world a better place? Be fit? Create value? Be here. *It also tells you to move to NYC to find a gf, but that’s beside the point

.Nassim Nicholas Taleb said it first

The future is onchain fr!

Shipping on Christmas 🎄

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become