🇺🇸 BIG: The Federal Reserve is seeking public input on "payment accounts" that would give crypto firms and fintechs direct access to central bank systems without typical approvals.

This is exactly why true property rights matter — and why Bitcoin matters. Bitcoin proved a censorship-resistant bearer asset is possible when you hold your keys. Now we extend that idea with DePIN: community-owned physical infrastructure that reduces chokepoints, avoids single

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We need to explicitly separate the “corposlop web” (the “open web” that’s been optimized by corporations to extract attention + data) from the “sovereign web” (a web where users genuinely own their identity, data, and agency). The sovereign web isn’t only about avoiding the

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In 2014, there was a vision: you can have permissionless, decentralized applications that could support finance, social media, ride sharing, governing organizations, crowdfunding, potentially create an entire alternative web, all on the backs of a suite of technologies.

The Internet was built to be open. Gao Internet is built to stay that way.

The Internet was built to be open. Gao keeps it that way. #Gao_Internet