David Quintero

Congratulations @Brian_Armstrong on $COIN being added to the S&P 500 Index. A major milestone for Coinbase and for Bitcoin.

We are living in a timeline where a non-US company is keeping the original mission of OpenAI alive - truly open, frontier research that empowers all. It makes no sense. The most entertaining outcome is the most likely. DeepSeek-R1 not only open-sources a barrage of models but also spills all the training secrets. They are perhaps the first OSS project that shows major, sustained growth of an RL flywheel. Impact can be done by "ASI achieved internally" or mythical names like "Project Strawberry". Impact can also be done by simply dumping the raw algorithms and matplotlib learning curves. I'm reading the paper: > Purely driven by RL, no SFT at all ("cold start"). Reminiscent of AlphaZero - master Go, Shogi, and Chess from scratch, without imitating human grandmaster moves first. This is the most significant takeaway from the paper. > Use groundtruth rewards computed by hardcoded rules. Avoid any learned reward models that RL can easily hack against. > Thinking time of the model steadily increases as training proceeds - this is not pre-programmed, but an emergent property! > Emergence of self-reflection and exploration behaviors. > GRPO instead of PPO: it removes the critic net from PPO and uses the average reward of multiple samples instead. Simple method to reduce memory use. Note that GRPO was also invented by DeepSeek in Feb 2024 ... what a cracked team.

If you bought $100 of Bitcoin when Coinbase was founded in June 2012, it would now be worth about $1,500,000. If you kept the $100 USD you'd only be able to purchase about $73 worth of goods today. Bitcoin is the best performing asset of the last 12 years, and it's still early days. Every government, especially those looking to create a hedge against inflation, should create a Bitcoin strategic reserve. Happy Bitcoin $100k day.

ubi is close.

@brian_armstrong Congratulations Brian & Angela!

I got married this past weekend to my long term partner and best friend, Angela Meng! Can’t wait to build a life together.

Google has officially integrated ENS, allowing users to search for any .eth name and check associated balances directly within Google Search 🤝

Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto" vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/0…

Coinbase 🤝 Stripe Coinbase is partnering with @stripe to bring @base's faster, cheaper financial infrastructure to millions of businesses around the world. Here’s what we’re doing ↓

I met with more than a dozen Dem and GOP Senators in DC over the last 48 hrs to discuss creating clear rules for the crypto industry and consumer protection for crypto users. There’s strong bi-partisan momentum to get this done in the Senate now that FIT21 has passed in the House. Glad to see the voice of the crypto voter having an impact.

Biden campaign in talks to accept crypto donations, per The Block

Apple was like ‘yeah let’s do Venmo but make it absolutely sick’

This is Kabosu. She's the shiba inu whose face became the internationally recognized Doge meme after a photoshoot went viral in 2010. Kabosu passed peacefully today, May 24, at 18, after a long battle with liver disease and leukemia. Kabosu (which means Pumpkin in Japanese, so named for her round face), was rescued from a puppy mill shutdown and adopted from a shelter in 2008. She lived in Sakura, Japan, with her humans and three feline siblings. Her mom, a kindergarten teacher, first posted the picture of Kabosu with the wide eyes and daintily crossed paws in February 2010. The pup's pic made the rounds on Reddit and Tumblr, before the meme-ified version with colorful "Doge speak" captions began taking over. (such fame, wow.) Kabosu eventually became the face of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin in 2013, which, while created as a joke, reached an $88.8 billion market cap at its peak in May 2021. On Nov. 2, 2023, meme legends celebrated the inaugural Doge Day and unveiled a statue commemorating her. Many in the Doge movement use DOGE as an acronym for "Do Only Good Everyday." "I think Kabo-chan was the happiest dog in the world," her human wrote in a farewell post on the blog she maintained for Kabosu and her adventures. "And I was the happiest owner." A celebration of her life will be held Sunday, May 26, from 1-4pm at Flower Kaori in Kotsu no Mori, in Narita City. For her lasting legacy on internet culture, the legend Kabosu receives our highest honor, a 15/10

Today Kabosu, our community's shared friend and inspiration, peacefully passed in the arms of her person. The impact this one dog has made across the world is immeasurable. She was a being who knew only happiness and limitless love. Please keep her spirit and her family in your heart, and most importantly carry her with you as your story continues - we are all fortunate for hers to have touched and shaped ours. kabochan.blog.jp/archives/51831…

The fourth #Bitcoin halving is almost here. And a proper thank you is in order to the ones impacted the most. So, to the miners…thank you for moving money forward.

Coinbase surpassed PayPal in market value today for the first time ever. Coinbase: $64 billion PayPal: $63.8 billion

I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)

I wish the AI bubble would move to @farcaster_xyz

PSA: it's not "Base chain" or "Base network" or "Coinbase's Base" or "Coinbase's L2" it's just Base

Happy Bitcoin all time high! Another cycle, and once again the haters were wrong. As always, trade responsibly.