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@laurashin Truly though what is the alternative? Which of these other projects have better tokenomics? Solana had better revenue until their FDV ratio caught up. I expect HYPE to do the same. It’s short sighted to focus on fees or revenue in the adoption phase anyways

I think Ethereum’s original sin was not considering tokenomics with every move it made from Dencun on. The ultrasound money thesis was a good one and with Dencun (or the L2 roadmap generally) they should have stopped to say that this was going to hurt the ultrasound money thesis and consider how to preserve it. Most people, like David, don’t want to believe in something that isn’t also putting up points on the scoreboard. When the main offering becomes ideology/communism and money/tokenomics/capitalism are overlooked, the peasants are going to revolt — as they’ve been doing for two years now. Look at the public reaction to Tomasz: broad praise, a sense of hope, excitement, the price pumping … only for him to be gone a year later with the new ED being someone who cannot even be found online except for a Wayback Machine url with his name that has some really questionable statements on it (and I should say the EF denied that this website, which was taken down a few weeks after he was appointed to the board, is his). They’re going to be really mad at me for even mentioning that but in the place of a void, these are the kinds of things people will glom onto. Then there was the manifesto — I mean, mandate, which they backtracked on forcing people to sign. (Btw, this is the second bit of news that seems to relate to Bastian. And now the third would be all these departures. There’s nothing else for us to point at and say about him — when I searched for his name on Google News just now only 14 links came up. He seems to be some kind of invisible hand behind the scenes.) I don’t think ideology and capitalism/tokenomics/number go up are mutually exclusive. I think you can have CROPS values and also consider how each step of the roadmap affects the tokenomics and even have teams for BD/ecosystem growth. It feels like the EF doesn’t realize the moment that crypto is in. The competition is only just starting. We are in the phase of real world adoption. The Ethereum Foundation’s CROPS principles are great ones, and they are worth fighting for. But the EF seems to want to sit back on its laurels and act above it all when all its competitors are all getting down and dirty on the field to gain market share. Maybe it is the right approach. I don’t know. I’m just saying that more competitive people won’t align with it. And so they will leave … and community members will as well. I personally don’t think it’s good for Ethereum if its most competitive people depart. Ethereum’s unwillingness to stop the brain drain will only benefit its competitors — or spawn new ones. Giving a shit about price and tokenomics and BD doesn’t hurt CROPS. It just helps ensure that these principles get spread to more people and that other chains that don’t have these principles don’t get a leg up. All the commentary may be pointless. It seems Vitalik tried what everyone wanted and it didn’t align with his vision, so he brought in a new person he felt more comfortable with. It makes me sad to see people become so disaffected with Ethereum, but maybe this is V’s Brian Armstrong/no politics at Coinbase moment where he lays down what the EF will work on and asks everyone else to leave. That was the right move for Coinbase, but I view them as fundamentally different issues. We’ll see whether Ethereum maintains its lead with a foundation that isn’t willing to fight for it.

@JamesSurowiecki The reality is very few players make the pro bowl in the first five years. This is probably average. So.. pointless stat picking.

Out of their last 5 drafts, the 49ers got only two Pro Bowl appearances and one 2nd-team All-Pro (and he isn't even on the team anymore). And no one would say that the 49ers have had one of the best and deepest rosters in the league the past 2 years. Kyle Shanahan is a wizard who can make miracles out of anything. But if you keep failing to find very good to great players in the draft, eventually it will catch up to you.

@SharpFootball If it was as easy as aggregating a “consensus” and the just drafting BPA anyone could be a GM and every mock draft would be right. That’s obviously not how it works.

@SharpFootball Your methodology is deeply flawed. Teams draft for their system not for a beauty pageant called “consensus”. Also this is the NFL, most picks don’t work out. So saying most of the reaches didn’t work out means nothing.

I evaluated the last 4 years of John Lynch drafts his performance: 2023: #31 2024: #28 2025: #31 2026: #32 after the draft, Lynch claimed he knows better than everyone else the data shows he doesn’t I went thru every single "reach" he made it's gross sharpfootballanalysis.com/analysis/john-…

@brian_armstrong whats going here? 909 payout quoted vs 769 at check out. Is this just fees? Where can I learn more about the fee structure?

@McFranchisee @McDonalds Me and my friends used to meet up at “chevronalds” before going out

In the 90’s, @McDonalds developed an oil-alliance strategy: 🍔 +⛽️ I’m not talking about a co-brand where a McD will go into a Love’s or a Pilot but Corp built sites where the McD franchisee sold the burgers, fries, lotto, gas, beer and tobacco but McD mostly outsourced the jobber. Nowadays, you don’t see this any longer. Some of these oil alliances get rebuilt into full McD restaurants. While co-brands still happen occasionally, Corp prefers stand alone sites. I haven’t seen a McMart or McGas station built in decades & I am pretty sure I won’t anytime soon.

@49ersSportsTalk Dee Greenlaw going to the pro bowl. Dre Winters is trash

How would you grade the #49ers LB Room? • Fred Warner • Dre Greenlaw • Dre Winters • Tatum Bethune • Luke Gifford • Nick Martin • Garrett Wallow • Jalen Graham

@ribzoftiktok Zero chance she did this in under 30

Looks good but slightly overcooked IMO

@datingbyblaine If your criteria is this specific you’re not ready to get married.

Why is matchmaking expensive? To illustrate, here’s how I’ll lose money on a client’s $49,000 package. Client is 46, 6’2, exited tech founder. He’s looking for a woman 27-33, very specific criteria around match personality, appearance, and profession. Without diving into specifics, she: • Isn’t easily searchable online... • Isn’t likely to reply when we find her… • Isn’t likely to be single… • Often has a deal-breaker trait we can’t screen for without a phone call… • Isn’t necessarily interested in my client… I was expecting this to be a difficult search, so I quoted $49,000. I wasn’t expecting ~100 hours of labor to find each match, not including communication with the client! To date I’ve spent $45,000 on salaries for the women staffed on his search, plus $2,750 on styling and photos, and we still owe the client 2 matches... Before considering overhead (let alone opportunity cost) this will be a huge L financially. Things balance out though. Most engagements are profitable. Some engagements are quite profitable. For example, a new client in NYC paid $30,000 and paused after his first match, because he’s 99% sure we found his wife. That's still a new relationship, and engagements last 9 months (6 months of active matching + up to 3 months of pause), so we could be on the hook for more work in coming months. But you get the point 🙏

@_Craig_ Slowbro??? Water/psychic type. Cool lore. Name is on point.

I ranked all 151 Pokémon by popularity. Be honest... who do I need to put more respect on?

just got a bomb art commission idea

@McFranchisee 85c

Swig What would you do?

@orlacsm @ChefReactions new content for ya

become obsessed with these three fellas who cook full on meals in a transit van on their lunch break

@lady_valor_07 Hey there Delilah

Fuck your favorite song. Tell me your least favorite. One that you despise. I don’t need a reason why, just tell me.

If you’re not going to the that then you need to ask actually follow ups representing the other side. Tushar? Mike? Tushar? Thoughts?

I generally appreciate Laura’s journalism and contribution to the space. But if you’re going to title a podcast “Can Solana Edge Out Ethereum to win the AI Agent and RWA Race?” Then you need to book an Ethereum guest who can provide meaningful counterpoints.

@dieworkwear Should the shoulder seam be bunching like that?

another example of how good style is about learning how to express yourself through clothes, and not about conforming to a certain body type. btw, this is joe pacetti, a jewelry dealer in dallas. you can find him on Instagram under the handle joegpacetti

The new crypto drop down is showing me way more bitcoin maxi and dino coin content than I want but still better than whatever that slop was before

@laurashin @tusharjain Solana is not a new chain. If this is true why are Solana lending markets dwarfed by Ethereum?

"Ethereum has scalability challenges. And they are SO substantial that it can't be competitive on trading applications. And if you don't have those, you won't have borrow/lend markets. That's where Solana has an advantage" @tusharjain from Multicoin x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Increasingly convinced crypto doesn’t need to manufacture new use cases. In the words of the Wu Tang Clan: C.R.E.A.M.