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@nic_carter 🙏

There’s only one non-Israelite in the Old Testament who is called “God’s anointed” and that’s the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great, who ended the Babylonian exile and allowed the Israelites to return to the holy land and rebuild the Temple. His great act of generosity is also confirmed in the historical record. Sending prayers of strength to the Persians throwing off the yoke. May they get the chance to restore their nation to its greatness. (Isaiah 45:1-3)

@0xMarcB @zackbshapiro @SMB_Attorney Marc, you nailed it. This is the future and the frontier lawyers are going to get there faster. Those of us at big firms need to get loud within our firms and practice this type of up leveling with haste.

FWIW as a former BigLaw lawyer now running a company, if I were making decisions on who to hire, I’d only hire someone that can describe practicing the way @zackbshapiro described. I was an AI skeptic until Opus 4.5 landed because AI sucked. Putting together a contract was embarrassing. But since November, the game has changed. I push use of AI for everything we do incredibly hard. I actually got a 60 column spreadsheet of 15 countries’ payments laws across licensing, tax, physical presence, etc requirements done in a few hours with insane depth. It cost me almost nothing. It would have cost $500k-$1m and I would have waited 3-6 months for it. I then dropped my funds flows and had memos written on different approaches to entering the markets. Truly better outcome than any memo I wrote or that I saw written by any law firm associate or partner. It was mind-boggling. So naturally, I spun up a contract drafting instance. I didn’t even spend that much time with instructions and context. The output was incredible. I think many law firms still have time because their clients will still take some time to learn the power of AI. But soon, only those leveraging these tools will compete. It is a change like nothing I’ve ever seen. Unsolicited advice: find a way to get to where Zach is faster. I promise you I know what great lawyering looks like. AI is there now.

@levie Spot on.

Hard to know exactly how this nets out, but if I had to bet on AI simplifying the legal space or making it more complex, I’m going with the latter. When you drop the cost of anyone asking a legal question and generating increasingly more exotic and bespoke conditions, you will only increase the amount of human legal work downstream from that. The ABA pegs active attorneys having gone from roughly 400,000 in 1975 to roughly 1,375,000 in 2025. In that time period we invented the PC, word processor, shared legal databases, and 50 other things that would have made law more efficient. But instead we have more lawyered precisely because of that efficiency. I suspect this will happen in more fields than we anticipate at the moment. Especially in healthcare, engineering, and many other highly demanded and high skilled areas of work as we create all new use-cases for the work.

This Thanksgiving week I’m thankful for the breakneck pace of innovation, for my clients, and for my family and our health. Let’s finish this year strong in product, partnerships, and markets.

@MichaelRosmer @JourneyMacro Hi Michael - tangentially related, how would you recommend allocating today between BTC and ETH?

Or the bigger reasons 1. Markets take time to reprice 2. Rate cut was expected so largely already priced in 3. 0.25% isn’t that big a cut so realistically what would you expect? 4. The same players have mostly the same volumes of money so where’s it going to come from 5. Rates are one part of a bigger system and rate cuts come from perceived weakness so it’s a counter balancing force to some extent

So why isn't the price of ETH skyrocketing higher after the 25bps rate cut, with two more rate cuts scheduled in? Three key reasons IMHO: 1) most people can't believe there's no correction to markets (reason why is that the US Govt created $12.7 trillion in new money during and after COVID- this is unprecedented) 2) people are wary of crypto after so many scams (Solana, pump dot, Luna, etcetera) 3) 99% of people don't understand that Ethereum is becoming the world's settlement layer 🌎

Although I rarely disagree with @cburniske , I think @hosseeb is right here. The four-year cycle has been stretched by the Fed and the macro backdrop. Calling for a top soon feels early. 2026 looks like the year to watch.

@cyounessi1 When was this published?

Presenting my ETH bear short thesis.

@max_gagliardi You couldn’t pay me $17k to ride a cruise ship for 140 days.

You can do a 140 day cruise that goes all the way around the world for $17k That’s $3.7k per month all inclusive There are literally senior citizens riding this thing year round because it’s roughly half the cost of a senior living facility Talk about a life hack

@brian_armstrong And to you and the Coinbase and Base teams, who deserve credit for leading the industry. @Montana_Wong

Happy ETH all time high to all those that celebrate!

@RyanSAdams Love to see it. You deserve credit RSA for not only investing for the long haul but also pausing, refreshing, and coming back with a vengeance.

WATCH ETH BREAK $4878 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY 4 YEARS WE ARE ALMOST THERE THIS IS HISTORIC

@CryptoTaxGirl Wow, congrats on the growing team. That’s a big deal.

We are excited to announce that Trish Turner, former Head of Digital Assets at the IRS, has joined Crypto Tax Girl as our new Tax Director! With all of the big crypto tax and compliance changes on the horizon, we are excited to have Trish on board to help advise our clients!

@rleshner This is the correct sign off whenever ETH nears $5,000

Instead of signing my email 'Best,' I accidentally wrote 'Beast,' and honestly I might just switch to this permanently

I continue to believe that the key to success in business is adaptability. Adjust to the market, tailor your product to the customer, be flexible with your counterparty, conform to changing regulations, be water my friend.

If U.S. regulators keep framing crypto and AI as strategic infrastructure, and I hope they do, founders will ship faster and lawyers will be busier than ever cleaning up.

Startups who use AI to move faster and more efficiently will win. I would just say that you shouldn't use AI to skip legal, data privacy, security, and compliance entirely.

@CryptoGucci @SERdotxyz How does the USD value compare between value held by all bitcoin treasury companies and all ETH treasury companies, as of today?

Another day, another $603,500,000 worth of $ETH bought by SharpLink Gaming SharpLink has now accumulated 728,804 ETH since June, which brings their total ETH reserve to $3.38 BILLION Ethereum is becoming the treasury asset of the world $SBET is setting the blueprint

The best lawyers I know spend as much time learning the client’s business as they do reading the law. And how I justify following crypto daily.

@SMB_Attorney I use voice on my phone ideation and strategy. Do you have ChatGPT plugged directly into Outlook?

This is dead wrong. Across all categories, the ChatGPT voice feature for drafting emails is the greatest productivity hack of our lifetimes. If you’re still typing emails you’re wasting a TON of time daily. I can make a video on this if you don’t believe me.

@CryptoGucci @cyounessi1 @icebergy This is the tease

@CryptoGucci @cyounessi1 @icebergy Ok, maybe today.

today?

@udiWertheimer Here you go x.com/defiignas/stat…

why isn’t anybody talking about this btw