Alex Tapscott

My new book launches today, and I couldn't be more thrilled! "Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier" is available everywhere books are sold! Amazon is a good place to start: a.co/d/9ZgGshf Why did I write this book? 1/x

@therollupco @SamiStart Nice book collection 👀

Welcome to the institutional supercycle. DAS NYC kicks off. Huge exploit ove the weekend. More on agentic commerce. Calacanis is bullish Bittensor, and the NASDAQ keeps moving closer to 24/7 trading. On today's show, live from the Tokenization Tower: 1:00p EST @SamiStart - @Transak 1:45p EST @anjan_vinod - @paraficapital 2:30p EST @rob_svrn - @stillcorecap See you on the show.

@andyyy @therollupco Thanks for having me 🙏

@alextapscott @therollupco Great to see you brother 🫡

Thanks to @andyyy and @robbie_rollup of the @therollupco for having me on the pod here at the DC Blockchain Summit. We talked about the intersection of crypto and AI and the potential winners of the new Internet of value, aka the digital asset group of seven (the #DAG7)

@therollupco @adam_minehardt @chainlink @banamlas @plumenetwork @alex_dreyfus @Chiliz Thanks for having me gents!

LIVE from DC Blockchain Summit in Washington. Today & tomorrow we're talking policy, regulation, and the future of digital assets with founders, policymakers, and regulators. - @adam_minehardt - @Chainlink - @banamlas - @PlumeNetwork - @alex_dreyfus - @chiliz - @alextapscott - @CMCC_Global - @iyoshyoshi - @AlpacaHQ - @Chasramp - @DinariGlobal - James Cheng - @canaanio - @teddyfuse - @Bitwise See you on the show.

Big day for these guys!

Enjoyed meeting with @SECPaulSAtkins, who has been a true champion of blockchain innovation. At the #DCBlockchainSummit he laid out a vision for how we can responsibly modernize our financial system for the digital age

Loved talking to these guys! Thanks @robbiek__ and @andyyy for the great discussion

Joined an awesome panel at the #DCblockchainsummit hosted by @DigitalChamber discussing AI, crypto and quantum. Great insights from @iotex_io @Conste11ation @BenJorgensen and others!

Wheels down in Washington where I am speaking at the D.C. Blockchain Summit, hosted by the @DigitalChamber. Great catching up with old friends and collaborator @PerianneDC and @giancarloMKTS Place is packed with decision makers and builders. The energy here is palpable.

@Crypto_Mags This is highly misleading, implying the result of a referendum would be Alberta becoming a state.

This is a high probability. Carney should be paying attention

@packyM “Permanent underclass” is the new “have fun staying poor” - why don’t AI boosters ask crypto folks how that messaging turned out?

AI is very weird for me because normally I'd be the guy who'd argue that it's crazy we're not more excited about this miracle technology, but I completely get this sentiment. AI companies have clearly botched telling the story. That's a big piece of this. Telling people, "We built this thing that is definitely going to take your job and hopefully we can figure out how to give you handouts or something on the other side, or come up with even better jobs or whatever, say thank you" is clearly terrible messaging. Part of the issue is that what you need to say to raise tens of billions of dollars is very different from what you need to say to get the public excited. "This is definitely a better Google, it does some other cool stuff, too, and we think it's going to really help make you and your loved ones healthier" doesn't fund data centers. Then there's the gap between hype and the average person's experience with AI. Models are getting more useful for a small number of people - if you're a coder or a mathematician or someone who wants to make software but never learned to code, the last few model upgrades have felt really big. That's like ~5% of people, maybe? 2%? If you just want it to answer your questions or do your homework, it's gotten a little bit better, but it's also gotten better for everyone else, so it's not like you have a magic A+ machine all to yourself. Meanwhile, that very small group for whom it's more useful (or who at least say it's more useful because they don't want to be the one who admits it's not) is flooding the zone telling people, "If you don't use these tools as much as / as well as I do, you are completely screwed. You're going to lose your job to me and my army of bots. You (and your kids) are going to be part of the permanent underclass." If you dare question how incredible it is, you are told that you just don't get it, either because you're not smart enough, are too low agency, or don't pay for the latest paid models, which are the really good ones and don't even bother with the free stuff, you dumb poor. And you hear stories like the guy making an mRNA vaccine to fight his dog's cancer, which is awesome, and you're told that everyone will be able to have personalized medicine like that in the future, which sounds great. But like, are you, who can't even make a website with Claude Code, going to start using AlphaFold to whip up your own peptides? Are those dickbags telling you that they're going to be so much richer than you also going to live so much longer than you?? Plus, you hear creepy stories about AI encouraging people to kill themselves, and you know those people were probably unstable anyway and that AI is just a tool and it'll tell you whatever you want, but is it worth the risk? Pretending to be afraid of it might be the best way to stop it from taking your job, which, remember, all of the leaders at the big labs are promising it will do, unless you want to go be a plumber or something, work with your hands (they will not, of course, but you, you should probably seriously consider getting your hands dirty). Or maybe you're not pretending about being afraid, you actually are, which would be totally justified because the leaders of the big labs have told you to be afraid, that they're afraid, that these things are like nuclear weapons in the wrong hands and that there's a 10%? 25%? higher? chance that they'll kill us all, but it's worth the risk, because this is how society progresses. There's no turning back. "We have achieved Recursive Self-Improvement!" they squawk. "This is the big one! Humans are really and truly useless meatbags now! Ha ha!" And you're so confused, because most of the AI you actually encounter is slop. Poorly written social media posts, fake images, etc. Some of it is very funny, but if this is the stuff that's definitely going to take your job and then probably kill you, you don't quite see how? Are you that replaceable? Would you be more excited than concerned? Or would you be more concerned than excited? Personally, I'm excited, because I think LLMs are overhyped. We'll spend bajillions of dollars on inference in a Red Queen's Race, the slop will runneth over, some people will certainly lose their jobs, but a lot of things will genuinely improve, and a lot of people will end up being able to do more at their job than they can now. Plus, the non-chatbots, the models that power embodied AI and help crack biology, are showing early signs that they're going to be magical. In the past week or so, Travis Kalanick, Bob McGrew, and RJ Scaringe all said they're going to be building AI-powered factories. Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for world models to accelerate AI's impact on the physical world. Robots can play tennis now. We'll all have personal tennis coaches or coaches who teach us anything we want when we're around, and spend the rest of their days making our beds, doing our laundry, cooking healthy, delicious meals. The near future is going to be insanely cool, and different in all sorts of ways, some of which we can predict, and some of which we can't. But my god you weirdos need to stop shilling your dystopian fantasies to the people if you ever want them to feel more excited than concerned.

Bitcoin is chopping around the previous cycle high. That’s exactly what it’s done in past cycles. History says this could be a basing zone. — @scottmelker, the Wolf of All Streets

@lisaabramowicz1 Bitcoin?

Crude prices up, everything else down. From Deutsche Bank analysts:

@baystreetamber When massive rate cut?

Canadian dollar plunges after the report

#BREAKING: UGLY Canadian jobs report Canada unexpectedly shed 84,000 jobs in February vs 10,000 gain expected This is the biggest monthly drop since June 2024 The unemployment rate spiked to 6.7% All the jobs lost were FULL TIME (-108,000) Public jobs fell by 17,000 Private jobs fell by 72,600

@TrungTPhan The 90s economy was so great that Gen Xers worst fear was having a stable good paying corporate job. lol.

@MikeIsaac @OsitaNwanevu Does Mr. Gonka own a regiona trucking fleet by chance?

@OsitaNwanevu to me this post honestly is an argument for staying on here more regularly where else can you see the dumbest people alive tweet random shit then look at their bio and see this the world rocks

@inthemoneypod @baystreetamber Prof G Sandwich 🥪

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@awealthofcs Wild that that's been true since 2022. Narrative violation.

From the Covid lows energy stocks are now crushing tech stocks Up more than 500% in total

Sat down with my buddy @scottmelker to make sense of this crazy market. Scott is a master strategist and market commentator. We talked: Bitcoin technicals Why he is accumulating ETH and BTC CLARITY Price vs. Fundamentals The 4 year cycle BTC vs. Gold and more!

@alextapscott Déjà vu

The 90s economy was so great that Gen Xers worst fear was having a stable good paying corporate job.