New bankruptcy filings and exclusive interviews with confidential sources suggest crypto-friendly bank Silvergate could have survived if not for pressure from Biden Admin regulators, who may have informally mandated it to cap its crypto deposits at 15 percent. The bank, where

My local Target now puts spider tags on their shopping carts.

Shameful behavior. I met Neil in 2013 when running USC's Rocket Propulsion Lab USC Rocket Propulsion Lab. We were excited to have him come by, show him our work, and tell him our goal of flying the first student-built rocket to space. While there we told him about our goals and his response

These are so fun to carry around. #Bitcoin

OH: “the ceo of impossible burger called the cops on us because we were playing Catan too loudly”

tfw when you’re watching the first non-garbage crypto documentary and see a Lockitron in the background

Y’all really think boomers are gonna croak in the next decade and pass their wealth to their kids instead of handing it all over to hospital billing departments?

West Coast, East Coast, America Coast

Kills me that ChatGPT is worth $360B and hyperlinks in the app don’t even work.

Today, I am announcing that we are open sourcing our fully onchain game and that Emerson Hsieh and I will be helping the team transition to new opportunities. A brief 🧵 on what happened:

If you’re decorating your 12ft tall Home Depot skeleton for Valentine’s Day that’s a sign you should clear out your basement.

Rental cars are hilarious.

“Throughput Anxiety” - an obsessive, neurotic need to max a system’s capacity - whether that’s a conveyor belt in Factorio, a 56k modem on LimeWire, or your ChatGPT deep research query stack hitting empty. A mix of FOMO, inefficiency dread, and fear of idle cycles.

May the Fourth remind you how a spurious trade war with one dimensional villains in a republic back water can precipitate a constitutional crisis granting authoritarian powers to a dictator for life.

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Use a passkey they said. Use 2FA they said. Travel to a location where you have previously signed in from they said.