Optimistic storyteller of frontier technology. The chaotic side of @Bankless
New York, USA
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Crypto wasn't created to make you rich
It was created to set you free.
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Dear Argentineans,
Please invite me to any and all of your fernet-themed events. If you do, please remember to bring extra fernet for me.
Much love,
- David
Dear Argentineans,
No one but you likes fernet. Hosting fernet themed events at DevConnect is not a recipe for success.
Much love,
- Nik
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Incredible opportunity to move to Argentina 🇦🇷 🧉
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.
Now let’s get to work.
transition2025.com
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I'm suing the Department of Tresury!
I got dusted from @TornadoCash, and now every year of my life I am FORCED file a report reaffirming that I'm not a criminal.
I don't intend to waste my time like that.
David Hoffman vs Janet Yellen
Let's dance
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Okay, answer me this:
3AC liquidated...
Alameda liquidated...
FTX insolvent...
then who made all the money???
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Zelensky is an underdog wartime leader holding off an invasion from a world super power, forced to make life or death decisions for an entire country
Founder mode to the extreme
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The worst hack in crypto’s history is met with the best crisis response that we’ve ever seen
Honestly bullish
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Raise your hand if you're holding your $ENS drop
I chose to bear this responsibility 🤝
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Charlie Kirk was an incredible human being
He was a shining example of someone who could have respectful, productive discourse with people he disagreed with
Probably the best to ever do it
Incredibly sad.
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delusional
no US citizens wants these jobs
being a service-based economy is an immense privieldge
we get to make money with brains and computers, rather than blood, sweat and tears
don't send us to the mines
🚨 $AAPL - WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP BELIEVES U.S. HAS CAPABILITY TO MAKE IPHONES
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How to become a millionaire:
1. Stick around and pay attention during the bear market
2. That’s it
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For the first time ever, I feel like I have nothing to stand on when I say crypto is good for the world
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Solana has successfully attracted retail players to play in the memecoin arena
Ethereum has successfully attracted BlackRock to tokenize its trillions of dollars of assets
We are playing different games
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My entire feed is people arriving and falling in love with Buenos Aires
I have been sayin!!
in buenos aires for lil over 24 hrs 🇦🇷
already fell in love w the place
every street corner is aesthetic
cute lil cafes, dogs, trees, graffiti
weather? you can literally run at 1 in afternoon w/o a drop of sweat
a cool breeze blows almost all the time
people are beautiful, warm, colourful tattoos, chill in park, soaking the sun, enjoy dinner on a tuesday eve
streets are clean, wide, cyclists everywhere
…and the spanish backdrop just enhancing the entire vibe
buenos has my heart ♥️
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Everyone is midcurving why ETH’s price performance has sucked
Ethereum leadership and culture have alienated users and builders by being hostile to its own app layer.
We publicly exorcised @LidoFinance. We’ve shunned traders and degens.
On a permissionless chain, we’ve tried to police what’s “approved” behavior.
If we want ETH to go up, the EF and broader community need to start attracting users and builders, not pushing them away with a holier-than-thou culture.
Users. Users. Users.
Developers. Developers. Developers. Scale the L1.
It’s that simple.
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Abandoning decentralization is the biggest sin that you can commit in this space.
It’s easier to fix fees than it is to fix centralization.
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Post-Merge $ETH at $1,300 is the best risk/reward entry that crypto has ever seen
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$ETH was $90 exactly 516 days ago.
Such a crazy figure.
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Sometimes I feel @bankless should victory lap more often
We ignored Solana, Avalanche, and Terra during the bull, where we got labeled as "Blind ETH Maxis"
SOL down 80% vs ETH. AVAX down 70%. LUNA @ 0
All for the reasons we said they'd be.
Meanwhile, we focused on L2s. Our listeners disproportionally got $OP and $ARB drops versus other media orgs. And we pounded the table about cross-L1 bridge risk.
We got so much shit in the 2nd half of 2021. We legit questioned whether we were out of touch. And maybe we were. But Ryan and I decided that Bankless is for making content about things we believe in, not what people want us to believe.
This has been to the great benefit of all of our listeners so far. All the choices we've about @bankless, I would make again, immediately.
We're not perfect, but neither is this industry.
I only hope we can continue this track record.
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Justin Drake’s talk
“The Beam Chain”
The final design of Ethereum
A proposed redesign of the consensus layer, to skip to the endgame
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8️⃣Projects I'm Bullish on in the Bear Market
This is literally all my alpha. Every last drop.
THREAD
🧵👇🧵
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S&P down -22% from peak
Pretty incredible that a single human's decisions can almost match a global pandemic in value destruction
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. @sassal0x coming back to Twitter, after relentlessly telling everyone the ETH ETF will get approved on May 23rd
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Vitalik founded one of the greatest free market platforms ever created
He’s also read more history than 99% of people on here.
He understands communism is bad.
He just made a bad joke.
We don’t have to get all riled up about it.
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What happens when $ETH runs and we’re all stuck in JPEGs
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I’m not going to celebrate Donald Trump accepting crypto donations.
It’s trivial. Thinking it’s “embracing the industry” is naive.
Trump has not shown any true commitment to crypto. So far, we are just another cow for him to milk.
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The Ethereum Roadmap:
More blobs than Celestia
Faster execution than Solana
Better money than Bitcoin
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hey @zksync your community is rabblin rn
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Nothing bugs me more than people telling me I care too much about crypto, and I shouldn't take things so seriously.
This is a moment that will define the next centuries and generations.
It's REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT that we get this right.
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If Terraform Labs ACTUALLY has $4.5B in assets...
and if it ACTUALLY is paid as a fine to the @SECGov, instead of the users who lost money....
It'll be one of the craziest examples of agency corruption in our lifetimes
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Getting some requests to do a show on @Treasure_DAO on @bankless
How much do y’all want this
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I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news....
I have to call off my fight with @nic_carter
On Monday, I had a mock fight with some experienced fighters at my gym, in order to gain some real fight experience ahead of the fight next week.
I took a couple shots to the gut, one of which fully fractured my 9th rib
Quiet literally this has been some of the worst pain I've ever been in. Engaging my core in any way gets up to 8/10 on the pain scale.
This isn't the timeline I wanted, obviously.
Despite the numerous injuries and bruises I've sustained over the last 2 months, training for the fight has been a surprisingly fun experience, and I'm glad @nic_carter brought this opportunity in the first place.
I'm sure Nic has been training very hard for this, and I'm super bummed to rob this opportunity from both of us.
Sadly, ignoring the rib and doing the fight anyway isn't a possibility. One shot to the gut and I would be crippled. It wouldn't be the fight either of us want or deserve.
I don't think this is the end of Nic Carter vs. David Hoffman, but I need this to heal first so I can get back into the gym before I think about that.
Sorry everyone :(
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Let's make something clear
There is no material integration between AI and Crypto.
You cannot put AI 'into a blockchain'.
AI tokens are meme tokens.
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Sad to announce that my time at @bankless has come to a close😢
But, the Bankless mission still burns in my heart♥
In pursuit of that mission, I'm stepping into VP of Decentralization at the Solana Foundation!
Stoked to work with @toly & @Austin_Federa on Solana!
👇
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If this gets 1,000 likes, we'll release it 1 week earlier than planned
I need to hear the Fishy and Chainlinkgod episode on @bankless ASAP.
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If you’re a Lib trying to further your cause…
Politically assassinating a leading opposition member is the worst thing you can do.
The Right is stronger today than it was while Charlie is alive. They’re are galvanized, motivated, and coordinating.
Moderates don’t like it when you assassinate people.
Complete L for the Left
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$ETH is going to be a higher price in the future
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There are at least 3 unannounced $ETH treasury companies
that I know of…
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Insane claim
Solana leadership is forced to align themselves with memecoins since it represents the majority of Solana economic activity
No coincidence that Toly maligns DeFi, since that’s primarily the Ethereum onchain activity
DeFi summer was way worse - leverage loops that created a nasty house of cards. There is virtually no contagion from memecoins.
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I went to like 10+ conferences and events in 2021 and never met a single Cardano user
Pretty sure they only exist on Twitter and YouTube
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Incredible to see the entire timeline bullish $ETH
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$ETH skips $3k
Teleports straight to $4k
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Someone deployed "TANKS OF TIENANMEN" to the Binance Smart Chain.
Let's see how far this goes🍿
Will @cz_binance show his hand? Or risk the wrath of China?
"Cypherpunks know how to attack a system and how to
defend it"
bscscan.com/address/0xb79c9c…
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$ETH is the best way to get exposure to the metaverse
Nothing even comes close.
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Bitconnneeeeeeeeeecctttt
“FUCK ELON, WE'RE NOT SELLING!” — @maxkeiser @ #Bitcoin Miami 2021🙌🏼💎
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Take note:
Everything breaking right now is centralized
Meanwhile, DeFi is orderly and efficient
DeFi, not CeFi
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The @Uniswap V3 "x*y=k" animation from @pplpleasr1 was just purchased for 310 ETH ($525,000)
The buyer was 0x067b9Bbbbc42d2AB9b9Ab6bB62646dAF7F344A76, a DAO formed for the sole purpose of forming capital buying this NFT
an NFT SPAC, if you will 🤯🤑💸
foundation.app/pplpleasr/x-y…
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Mark Cuban is self-teaching himself Solidity so he can better understand #Ethereum Smart Contracts.
It's probably nothing.
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Look, I want Kamala to be pro-crypto as much as the next lib
But lets not gaslight ourselves into delusion
Kamala's 'Somewhat Supportive' statement is a squeak inside a deafeningly silent room
@standwithcrypto fix your shit, or you lose all credibility
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Tom Lee and I own a combined $+3B in $ETH which is pretty cool for us
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