The best way to prepare for the singularity is to become your highest self ↑

Just finished exiting all of my Ape related NFTs now that Yuga has revealed their true colors, I can't unsee it con artists of the highest order

new hire asked for a board seat while negotiating comp honestly kind of impressed

I went on a date this week where I told her I work in crypto and she tried to sympathize by telling me she attended Fyre Fest

old world model: never mix business and friendship new world model: make money online with your friends

I love watching people enter web3 with 0 connections and slowly find their tribe there's room for everyone on this ship, grab a seat wherever you feel comfortable

web3? no sorry we bought it, now it's web16z

the art of a good con artist is that they'll promise you something new the second you come asking them for the last thing they'll just keep adding more and more layers of complexity to distract you from what's really going on

instead of designing their launch properly, Yuga broke Ethereum so that they would have an excuse to launch their own L1 APE needed a new narrative after the land sale

my bull case for Ethereum is that it’s the only protocol whose founder is still grinding 10+ years later name a crypto main character who has the same resilience as @VitalikButerin… they don’t exist Moves with honesty, in the intellectual arena, responds to criticism and adapts to changing environmental conditions. Doesn’t fall into classic crypto traps like greed/lust/saying stupid things on the timeline; optimizes for the good of the protocol over himself (perhaps to a detriment). I can’t imagine what it must have been like to spend your 20s founding the world’s most important crypto protocol but somehow Vitalik has surfed through it with grace. Knowing that it’s going to take another 10 years for crypto to proliferate globally, I think Ethereum will eventually win because I can’t imagine anyone beating Vitalik at this game.

It took me a long time to learn this lesson in crypto, but it is 1000% never worth it to stand by in ignorance, while you watch people you're associated with use dark manipulation techniques on unwitting people

ETH flippening BTC this cycle looks increasingly likely, and is going to send shockwaves across the planet

anyway - if you're reading this, I want to say this as plainly as possible for everyone to hear I believe that the people who run Yuga Labs are using dark manipulation techniques in service of their personal interests, and you should assume they are bad actors

Last night when I read this tweet, I felt sick to my stomach they had revealed their hand, probably much more than even they realized, but it was much too late

Getting really tired of hearing people say “white men have done nothing but exclude black/trans/female voices from these (web3) spaces and it’s time to fight back” full stop this is bad actor manipulation grifter bullshit

Hanlon's razor is a real bitch, because a majority of the time in life, people really are just incompetent, and aren't actually trying to be malicious but in the 1% of cases where they are manipulating, they'll ALWAYS make it appear like incompetence to cover their tracks

anyway, I've made the mistake before of pretending I didn't notice things, or thinking that it didn't matter as long as my own hands were clean but by standing by and doing nothing while you watch people doing scammy shit, you are implicitly perpetuating it (ie lie of omission)

finally, if you're curious where else I've bumped into dark manipulation techniques in crypto, you should google my resume ~

even after the sale, it's obvious that the land markets are opaque on purpose the traits are all wonky and hard to navigate, which lends itself to inefficient markets scammers HATE efficient markets, and will pump fog into the room as needed

I don't have a very big twitter following so this thread probably won't do much more than clear my conscience but I could not sit by in silence while watching as this extremely demonic monster continues to grow

when I tell people SF has no taste and they don’t believe me, this will be exhibit 1 pride in a lack of cultural aptitude, like a child who thinks caviar shouldn’t cost more than a few dollars because it’s icky

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the team at @HaunVentures, helping drive investments into world class crypto founders building the future. I met the team at Haun several months ago, and was immediately impressed by both their taste and their seriousness—every single person on the team is simply a weapon. Having been a builder in crypto and now an investor for almost 10 years now, it was honestly refreshing to find a group so focused on backing founders building great businesses, not just chasing hype. Crypto is now going mainstream. We’ve discussed crypto crossing the chasm for so many years that I started to think the other side was a mirage, and that we were simply stuck building in the lurch forever. Yet somehow… the institutions aren’t just “coming”, they’re actually here. We think the calibre of talent and bar for quality in crypto is rising faster than ever before: in every market, at every layer of the stack. Old metas are dying, but in their place we are developing new ways to create distributed economies that challenge legacy institutions and business models. Crypto is eating the world and I’m excited to be on the front lines investing in a generation of founders that understand how to leverage crypto primitives to create a massive impact on Earth. At Haun we make concentrated bets on founders we believe are building something huge. If you think that’s you, hit me up :)

We're raising $9M on $81M for our new L1 called crimechain which is specifically designed to help scale crime

devs: “we don’t need PMs or any non-technical contributors” also devs:

but at this point, I can't unsee it, and I've felt physically sick all day while I've been exiting these markets so that I can get as far away from all ape related crap as possible it felt like I was excising some dark energy

funny thing about the $ENS drop is that we're gonna know exactly who held and who dumped 👀👀👀

maybe it's my fault for not doing more research or digging deeper fwiw I'm now watching this Nicole interview from 2mo ago it's SO OBVIOUS THAT SOMETHING IS DEEPLY WRONG HERE

all of this is my own personal opinion; I [clearly] don't know these people very well at all; and you should DYOR and not listen to me I am not here to defame anybody or speak badly on hard work, I simply am noticing a pattern of behavior that I believe I need to speak on

Bought my ticket for ETHDenver, spiritually the experience is the perfect epitome of how I feel about Ethereum atm 1. Moongate doesn’t list base USDC as a payment option 2. Tried to convert my base USDC into mainnet ETH, tx failed 3. Then swapped all my base USDC back into base ETH 4. Bridged ETH onto mainnet (with a little extra for gas) 5. Swapped into USDC on mainnet, somehow got $20 less than the USD value I put in (???) 6. Swapped again for the remaining difference 7. Finally completed purchase with USDC on mainnet 8. I’m now left with about $20 of coins (across ETH and USDC) on mainnet, not even worth bridging back after fees I’m not trying to be an ass here but THE BUILDING IS ON FIRE AND EVERYONE KEEPS PRETENDING LIKE EVERYTHING IS FINE ITS NOT FINE THIS IS RIDICULOUS WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD DO THIS TO THEMSELVES BY CHOICE Type 3 fun forreal

we've now entered the timeline where everybody just perpetually has weak covid and sleeps 9h+ every night, but nobody talks about it

“wow you own an NFT that’s minted on the original ETH1 shard?”

it’s been so heartwarming to see all of the VCs who raised hundreds of millions of $ speaking up about the importance of defending user sovereignty in crypto

Small piece of advice — being a tax refugee is never worth it pay your fair share and surround yourself with the people you love; they’re worth more than whatever you’ll owe

one of the worst ways that people sell themselves short in web3 is to call themselves “nontechnical” own what you know, and own what you don’t but don’t let anyone intimidate you into making yourself part of some fictitious out-group web3 is for all of us

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the team at @BoostVC, to help scale their investments at the earliest stages into crypto, AI, and VR startups

Ethereum is a woke community and it’s time for a change. I spent years being shunned/out-clawed in the ecosystem by people who were happy to act one way in private, but said the right stuff publicly and got more and more entrenched. My fear of being pushed out entirely made me afraid to speak up and criticize the very real issues I see in this space. The same is true for many others, who have tried to debate/criticize in good faith and were ostracized for it. I’m grateful that now I care more about the health of Ethereum than being ostracized by various inner circles.

Kind of in awe that so many of you resonated my Yuga thread I wrote it expecting it not to go anywhere; maybe I’m too much of a cynic and our space is now dominated by good hearted people feeling deeply humbled & blessed to work with all of you fine people 🤍

demanding tolerance while offering none is a gaslight

web3 folks hating bureaucracies and creating systems for themselves to become the new bureaucrats is a textbook example of the oppressed gaining freedom and immediately striving to become the new oppressors

I often think about the quiet genius of the @graphprotocol's product building methodology build a centralized product first iterate until you find PMF grow and scale then decentralize it once users are hooked this playbook is going to be in business textbooks 5 years from now

Actual footage of @jack pretending like he doesn’t know Ethereum already exists

ngmi was never about making money it was about understanding what we were building, from a philosophical/political/revolutionary perspective many wealthy people are still ngmi because money can’t buy this level of understanding

Thinking about her today 🥺

I very rarely meet anyone who entered crypto after 2020 that actually understands the cypherpunk ethos at the heart of this movement This isn’t a dunk; the market will eventually teach them out of necessity But if you’re reading this and think it’s you, it’s still not too late!

we’re out here arguing about VC capitalism in web3, while Virgil remains locked up for giving a presentation called Blockchain and Peace

tolerance is a two way street

Hypothesis: we're going to see a lot of DAOs "go private" in 2022

the reason Jack hates Ethereum is that you realizing you could sell your tweets as NFTs is a gateway to you realizing your IP is valuable and you're giving it away to him for FREE

If you're a crypto founder, I believe your first and primary goal should be selling your token, not your software. Here are my arguments for why: m.mirror.xyz/gyyuM1OocVmptHY…

Privacy is normal!

how it feels to finally understand how @AlchemixFi works

I for one am excited for Yuga to move their activities onto a new chain gotta keep Ethereum clean 🧹

never listen to an engineer who says that something will be ready in a week any estimate longer than 3 days will likely take double, maybe even triple the expected time and as an engineer myself, somehow even knowing this rule doesn’t help me overcome it

Okay it looks like I’m going to be spending a while at the airport tonight. 1 like = 1 hot take about crypto Will try to keep the spice levels appropriately high

all of your favorite ETH influencers have sold into stables and are now coaxing the market into thinking we're going to see another 1y+ bear probably means the opposite is going to happen

I don't trade eth I hold it.

People keep asking me how I’m enjoying #devcon4 and all I can say is: Bear market Devcon is waaaaaaay more fun than bull Market Devcon. More introspection, more self-criticism, more iteration.

How many ex-consensys employees are so traumatized that they won’t even touch crypto anymore?

these days it feels like @bariweiss is a lighthouse in the fog of US media Unwilling to accept the evisceration of nuance, thoroughly critical of our misgivings, and doing her part to remind us of the privileges that we're so close to losing bariweiss.substack.com/p/thi…

Paradigm DCG a16z ConsenSys

as the bull market noisiness dies down, I'm excited to make better friends with everyone who sticks around a big GM to everyone who wouldn't dream of leaving crypto

people who are under 30 aren’t real people and it’s hard to explain what I mean by that without making you turn 30 yourself

shoe sizes are far from universal especially when accounting for width ratios my hunch is it’s also because of the process of making the shoe - sometimes certain forms end up feeling tighter/looser even though the base template is standard src: sold shoes for a couple yrs in hs

… has gone into trying to make this space more diverse, more inclusive, quite frankly not just white men joining web3 and assuming the opposite, and then wielding that assumption like it’s a weapon in order to make a point, is unnecessarily divisive

name a more recycled startup idea than "tokenized real estate investment on the blockchain"

they were designed not to crumble under pressure

Sad to say that if you are building a startup based on what YC/a16z tells you they want to see, you’ve already lost the plot Build the thing you can’t NOT build. The thing your mind wanders back to when you have maximum free time. Then do it 100x better than anyone else.

Max Resnick truly testing the limits of my ability to foster universal love; I try to avoid hating anyone in this world but joking about Nikolai’s death is pretty much the scummiest thing you can do in crypto

it's tragic seeing DAOs force talented people to grovel for a chance to work for them - spend time crafting detailed proposals for free - defend yourself in front of the anons - hope the vote goes in your favour the DAOs that solve this will attract the best to join their ranks

It’s one of the most common recurring dreams on the planet. Comes up so frequently that it must be tied to some core archetype in the modern psyche

the problem isn't that web3 is hard, it's that we've become accustomed to tech co's treating us like 5 year olds

happy deplooooying, frens!

This is my last week at Boost VC, concluding one of the most thrilling 18 month stretches of my life. It’s been truly epic to witness this incredible moment of human expansion that’s underway in deep tech, driven by the cost of hardware and data acquisition going to zero. After meeting 800+ of the most exceptional startups in crypto/ AI/ VR/ bio/ robotics/ space/ oceans/ etc, I can tell you conclusively that the future is very very bright, although in some cases still a few years away from mainstream adoption. Nonetheless I feel increasingly allergic to pessimistic thinking: it’s impossible to feel hopeless about the future if you truly understand the magnitude of technological progress that we’re going through right now. This process will be messy as we re-tool the way we live and work and decouple these things from large institutions which used to administer them, but I feel strongly that the version of humanity which exists on the other side of this period will be far happier, healthier, and more prosperous than the version that we live in today. I want to share a sincere thank you to @AdamDraper @BraytonKey and the entire team at @BoostVC for giving me a front-row seat to witness this future, and for allowing me to help play a small role in shaping it. VC is a people business, and I can honestly say that the team at Boost are among the highest order of humans I’ve ever worked with: deeply kind at a human level, extremely brave in their investing style (their track record of betting on new domains 5+ years before the rest of the world speaks for itself), and rigorously truth seeking in their willingness to challenge assumptions and ask the questions no one else is thinking about. I would wager that working on the front lines at Boost VC is among the top 5 most interesting jobs on the planet, and I only expect this to accelerate as hard tech goes mainstream and AI takes over the world. If you think you have what it takes to join the investment team at Boost, I encourage you to shoot your shot and try to convince them why you’re the right fit to help shape the future. ⏻

the biggest difference between now and 2018 is that people actually use Ethereum by choice

I don’t think cypherpunks appreciate the kind of force it takes to be Hester Peirce standing up against financial surveillance in a time when data privacy seems lost Her talk today gave me a lot of hope, worth watching the whole thing imo

might have figured out a way to do NFT collateralized loans in @anishagnihotri’s DMs TLDR the NFTs sit in an active auction whose highest bid is essentially used as collateral

There are SO MANY of us trying to fix the diversity problem in crypto, and whose actions have shown that for years I’m all ears if people have productive suggestions for improvements But please stop inventing a war where there isn’t one

Today is my 30th birthday Lads, please share your best advice for having a successful and prosperous decade

many of you seem to have forgotten that the whole point of DeFi was giving access to credit for people who barely had bank accounts, not just chasing yield from people who chronically underestimated risk there’s a whole lot of World still left to be changed, frens!

Markets are dumping, but we are still actively writing checks into early stage founders at @BoostVC If you know anyone thinking of starting a new company right now and needs their first $50k to get off the ground, my DMs are open!

like this tweet if you're going to Denver✌️

The elephant in the room at ETHDenver was @base

On Reddit’s IPO day, here’s to that secret third guy who believed that information deserves to be free and openly accessible for all The world is a dimmer place without Aaron Swartz

Mila Kunis pronouncing Vitalik's name properly is a moment in time I'd like to own

My brother in Christ the color of the sidewalks in NYC do not compare to SF Also the whole “homeless drug addicts are everywhere” bit is a total fiction But yes if this tweet helps you raise from NYC based VCs then Godspeed brother

Everyone's talking about ownership, and everyone's talking about the metaverse, but no one seems to be asking the primary question: who owns it? m.mirror.xyz/OlcHFb-umaeoQrm…

I round-tripped joy→ depression → joy 2x in the last year after breaking my ankle and losing my dad If you’re ever going thru something and want to chat, DM me! I promise it gets better!

I'm getting that iceberg-under-the-water feeling again about cool things that people are building on Ethereum

did Vitalik steal Jack’s gf or something? idgi

Ethereum excites me because we warmly welcome newcomers to our community, rather than ostracizing them for having waited or not understanding. We are going to get orders of magnitude bigger before we go mainstream, and the winning communities will be those who embrace the noobs.

If you’re reading this tweet and are feeling marginalized/excluded/pushed away because of your identity or not fitting in, I want you to know that your voice matters, and our community is better with you here ❤️

We have 16 yr olds are out here building Genomics tech on #etherum using @trufflesuite and @uport_me. @crypto_chicks hackathon killing the game!!!

Well know that US fintech is taking crypto seriously when the buy pages don’t include nonsense like Litecoin and BCH anymore

Hopefully a lot of other crypto founders can realize what Jesse has - you can simply muscle your way through being viewed as cringe by sticking to your guns and going all in on something you care about. This is because the cringe is caused by a lack of heroes journey which the audience can hook onto. No trials or tribulations to overcome. The road is viewed as too easy and the crowd rejects the champion. The cringe itself becomes the vessel for your return. On your knees, marred with sweat and dust, you regain the mandate of the crowd by showing you’re above no one. By embracing the cringe you acknowledge your undying commitment to what matters most. You’ve proven you’ll die for your cause, and will gladly burn up all reputation behind you. Only then does the crowd respect you - not as a white knight on golden steed, but as a foot soldier fighting for the God that breathes life into your spirit as surely as the sun sets every day.

Imagine fading @CryptoDickbutts

The strange loop within the Bitcoin protocol (via difficulty adjustment) is the most beautiful algorithm I’ve ever laid eyes on. It is the reason why the Bitcoin network is a living thing, unlike any technology that preceded it.

it’s an unpopular take but it’s sadly pretty accurate… crypto natives are unhinged thinking it’s normal to work a total of 20h per wk and travel the world ~remotely~ while deserving mid 6 fig salaries with minimal vesting schedules

Believe me I’m not blind to the systemic ways that marginalized groups are kept out of tech spaces like web3 but as someone who has been on the organizing side of these web3 community spaces for literally 5+ years I’ve seen first hand how much time effort and love…

ZK Snarks + DAI + Burner Wallets = the most convenient private transactions ever on zDai.io. Huge strides being made at @EthereumDenver— the dev community is blooming 🌺🌻🌞