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And this number is greatly underreported. Actual numbers are much worse.

@Rob_ThaBuilder inb4 muh left hand graph

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Welcome to the new members of America's most pro-crypto Congress ever... 219+ pro-crypto candidates and counting have now been elected to the House & Senate. Tonight the crypto voter has spoken decisively - across party lines and in key races across the country. Americans disproportionately care about crypto and want clear rules of the road for digital assets. We look forward to working with the new Congress to deliver it. Thank you to everyone who stood with crypto today. We did it! #StandWithCrypto

I hereby challenge Michael Saylor @saylor to a technical debate on Bitcoin security, moderated by Laura Shin @laurashin. IMO Bitcoin is long-term insecure. Let's discuss issuance, the fee market, security budget sustainability, economic security, 51% attacks, and 51% attack recovery.

@elonmusk Trivial? He literally undermined the fabric of democracy.

Indeed, great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system. If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter – motivated by politics, rather than justice – then anyone is at risk of a similar fate.

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@ErikVoorhees @markjeffrey @TuurDemeester Yes, exactly.

"the centralized committee that rules ethereum" Ignorance of maxi's toward ETH is on the order of the ignorance of nocoiners toward BTC. So lame. Nobody rules Bitcoin Nobody rules Ethereum Their ecosystems are different, their cultures are somewhat different, and some of their design decisions are different, but they are both decentralized, open-source, permissionless protocols, and despite the nonsense tribalism of a portion of their devotees, they grow and fall together.

News broke today that the SEC may be investigating the Ethereum Foundation. Good to remember that political attacks are attacks just the same, putting pressure on trusted third parties and the centralized committee that rules Ethereum.

@neuralink This is literally mind blowing.

Wake up Democrats @SenWarren's anti-crypto army could literally cost you the 2024 presidential election. 11m registered US voters own more than $1k in crypto. Crypto voters choose Biden over Trump 43% to 39% last time. This time they support Trump over Biden 48% to 39%. You risk losing the presidency, and you gain what - the banking lobby? This may be the biggest political self-own of our time and no one in mainstream is talking about it. What should Democrats do? First, they need to abandon their anti-crypto policy immediately and promote pro-crypto democrat voices like @RitchieTorres. Second, the white house need to backtrack it's anti-crypto rhetoric and call for congressional clarity. Third, @POTUS should to say something positive about American crypto Entrepreneurs like @jespow, @brian_armstrong, and @haydenzadams - bring them to the white house - engage. Fourth, call off your dogs - the SEC is on a rampage - ask Gensler to cool his jets, approve the ETH ETF as a good faith gesture - give Biden admin credit for that. Fifth, no one wants a CBDC right now - they find it creepy - stop talking about it. Zooming out, there are huge wins for Democratic platform in crypto... - banking underserved communities - escaping wall street monopolies - exporting the U.S. dollar - disempowering authoritarian rivals - new jobs & economic opportunities Look at those. Your party supported the open internet in the 90s - why are you against it in the 2020s? This is such a layup. Wake up on crypto - or lose the presidency.

If nothing bad is happening to you now, wait a bit and it will. That is just reality. My approach to life is that it is what it is and the important thing is for me to figure out what to do about it and not spend time moaning about how I wish it were different. Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." You will come to enjoy this process of careening between success and failure because it will determine your trajectory. It makes no sense to get frustrated when there's so much that you can do, and when life offers so many things to savor. Your path through any problem is outlined in these principles--and in others you'll discover yourself. There's nothing you can't accomplish if you think creatively and have the character to do the difficult things. #principleoftheday

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@ErikVoorhees @antiprosynth @IIICapital Could the same be said for CBDCs?

@antiprosynth @IIICapital It brings them closer to ETH and BTC, obviously. How? Because it starts teaching about blockchains and a different system of finance. The merits of decentralized finance do the rest.

The crypto community cheering on Paypal for launching a USD "stablecoin" is a sign they have completely lost the plot. Buy #Bitcoin. Hold it in cold storage. That is the innovation. Not "Dollars on blockchain" by big tech.

@jack @brian_armstrong Stablecoin TVL is over a 1000x greater than that of lightening. The market is speaking, #Coinbase is listening.

@brian_armstrong Why do you continue to ignore bitcoin and lightning? what "crypto" is a better money transmission protocol and why?

The next step for crypto is to make payments instant and free globally. This will take lots of work from all of us, Coinbase included, getting layer 2's integrated, better on-ramps, simpler UX/onboarding, etc. A magic threshold would be getting the average payment under 1 cent and confirmed in under 1 second. I think we'd see orders of magnitude more payments move to crypto if we can achieve that. Today, crypto has the *potential* to improve global payments infrastructure, but it hasn't yet delivered on that promise as we're largely still stuck on layer 1. Payments are like water, they flow to the path of least resistance.

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@brian_armstrong Twon0.eth

If any developers are interested in trying out Base, reply with your ENS name or address, and I'll send you some Base Goerli ETH to use on testnet. (yes, these are testnet coins)

@elonmusk Australia will be happy to have you.

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