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ZERO ad budget, product, service, employee, office or company (100% digital & 100% global) we are simultaneously nowhere & everywhere circa 2010: we are the timeless beneficiary of the net sum energy output of EVERY #Bitcoin related #marketing & #advertising initiative worldwide.

@carlosjmelgar Lolz for the culture $COIN

Maybe it's you?

@UziCryptoo This is what @grok said — obviously average and median are VERY different. And, including vs excluding home equity is a huge difference as well. #networth #investment $BTC

The latest 401k data was released Here is the median balance by age: 18-24: $2k 25-34: $16k 35-44: $40k 45-54: $68k 55-64: $96k Over 65: $95k Saddest thing you’ll see all day 😔

@jconnorholliman @base @jessepollak @baseapp In 2012 or 2013 after some friendly banter back and forth about fake news, my suggestion for video explainers, & IP best practices,…I asked @brian_armstrong if I could be the $COIN #Coinbase janitor if there were no positions available. Fun times. $BTC

It’s Friday, which means it’s time to drop some fresh finds for @base job seekers I’m hiring: - Head of Communications (to directly support @jessepollak) - Sr. Product Manager, Growth & Trading (to drive @baseapp growth strategy) Two of the highest impact roles we’re hiring 👀

@bitcoin__apex Bro your work is 100% 🚨 INSANE 🚨. $BTC // #Bitcoin Network

4 years ago, I made my first Bitcoin pencil drawing. A lot has happened since then. I’ve created 38 artworks, with more than 4000 prints of these drawings being sent around the world and I published my first own illustrated book. Leaving my minimalist 10 m² 'apartment' finally happened after living my entire twenties in it, meeting a lot of brilliant people at many international events and meetups, and of course, becoming self-employed in an unparalleled community that stands for something whose values couldn't be better. This professional independence was not planned. It just happened. The free market decided: the demand was there, I met it. I don't want to brag with these words, but rather encourage other people with interests, talents, gifts and the right attitude to follow their urge to pursue a career in this amazing Bitcoin universe. I didn't plan anything, it wasn't my intention to start my own business. If someone had told me 4 years ago that I would become self-employed with pencil drawings at some point in my life, I would have laughed with amusement! Within four weeks, I had everything I needed to get started. If I can do it, anyone can!

@dwr This is the starting point and the end point. Forever. Worldwide. This is THE API. #MachinePayments circa 2010 vision.

If you have an API that you’re interested in making work with MPP, send me a DM.

@bitharington @Vikingobitcoin9 $1M $BTC is definitely before 2040 IMO. #Bitcoin

@Vikingobitcoin9 Let's decide the Bitcoin four year pattern is gone, and that it was bullshit always anyway. Everything is possible now that basically all Bitcoin are mined already. No more patterns, no more halvings, just various bull markets and bear markets... And $1M before 2040. LFG.

In the previous cycle, there was a clear Bitcoin bottom. But due to the FTX black swan event, we went slightly lower, for several weeks; a opportunity. It is certainly possible that we will go lower now, but this is not necessary. Mentally prepare yourself for both 50K and 200K.

@Vikingobitcoin9 @bitharington Hmmm? You really think we won’t hit $126,000 $BTC before spring 2028…? So TWO YEARS of chop in between,…what range? $58k - $125k …?!

@bitharington I don't think we break out past ATH until post halving 2028 but I would sure be happy if it's sooner. Not holding my breath.

@mcuban @tbpn Hey Mark! Can you let us know what they sold for,…so we can document history correctly and the global market can learn and benefit?! ;) #Domains Also, can you provide a quote on how important generic, ultra-premium dotCOM domain names are to be added as billionaire #4? Please?

@tbpn I sold baseball and sandwich years ago. Still have the others

After buying broadcast dotcom for $8,000 in 1997, @mcuban went on a domain name buying spree when he realized he could use simple URLs to route traffic to the site. As a result, he says he now owns democracy dotcom, baseball dotcom, mrpresident dotcom, sandwich dotcom, finalfour dotcom, and more. "You name it, I've bought it."

@chuk_xyz OUR audience: 2010 vision #MachinePayments #crypto #AI

Cool console demo on the new MPP site! Claude Code made terminals the primary interface console demos will be the way to do demos in 2026 Know your audience! nice work @tempo

@matthuang @gakonst This is “2010 shipping” …Matt. MachinePayments.COM Oh yeah,…a few more: UsdToken.COM UsdTokens.COM UsdStablecoin.COM UsdStablecoins.COM TokenizedAssets.COM BitcoinNetwork.COM BitcoinBlockchain.COM BitcoinWallets.COM

@gakonst shipping, and shipping, and shipping more

to be absolutely clear, the only things we paid for the tempo hackathon were the breakfast bagels, the pizzas, the diet cokes, and the redbulls the hackathon has no sponsors, no rewards, no winners, just good vibes, good music, and great hackers

@abishek @patrickc Hey Patrick. Let’s chat again. We’re ready now. MachinePayments.COM

Stripe just held their first crypto event and I don't think people realize how big of a deal this is. @patrickc just gave the most bullish crypto talk I've ever heard, straight from the man running the internet's payment layer. Here's what I took away: 1/ Stablecoins aren't speculative anymore, they're settlement rails. Stripe acquired @Stablecoin + @privy_io & is powering stablecoin cards in 100+ countries. @SpaceX, @Meta are all using Bridge for cross-border money movement. Not because it's crypto, but because it's faster and cheaper. ---- 2/ Agents are the next payment endpoint. Stripe launched Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) on @tempo the same day, which lets AI agents authorize, spend, and settle autonomously. OAuth, but for money. But as @lay2000lbs pointed out, when agents do everything, proving you're human becomes the most valuable primitive on the internet. ---- 3/ The best ideas are hiding in plain sight. @zcabrams opened by sharing how he started Bridge in 2022 thinking everyone would build stablecoin infra. Nobody did. Stripe acquired it for $1.1B two years later. The crypto stack still has massive gaps waiting for someone to just go do it. ---- 4/ Crypto is growing up, and it's not accidental. The room was @apolloglobal, @tryramp, @aave, @Morpho @cmoyall from Apollo shared how she navigates internal buy-in for crypto at legacy institutions like JPMorgan & Apollo. Institutional adoption isn't a question of "if" anymore, it's organizational patience. ---- 5/ TradFi is building with crypto, not against it. The popular narrative is @coinbase vs banks, but that's not what's actually happening. It's teams like @stripe, @RobinhoodApp, @krakenfx legitimizing crypto from the inside, making it easier for institutions to build on these rails. -------- Also: one day, one venue, no side events, no noise. Just high-signal conversations in a stunning CDMX venue. More events should be this curated. Congrats on an incredible event @stripe @privy_io @stablecoin @tempo

@browserbase @mpp @stripe Cya @ the finish line, as they say. Is that still a phrase @grok ?! Anyway,…2010 was a long time ago. Machine Payments = MachinePayments.COM #MachinePayments #agents #AI

Browserbase supports the new Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) from @stripe, Your agents can now pay per search/browser using the following endpoints.

We predicted the future 16 YEARS AGO and not just with #MachinePayments but also #BitcoinNetwork & #TokenizedAssets & #UsdTokens & etc., It is sincerely humbling and amazing and surreal. Extremely grateful. Thanks again for the traffic. $BTC Working 100 hours a week paid off.

@ardaerturk @jeff_weinstein @stevekaliski @tempo @stripe Yes: MachinePayments.COM 2010 vision. #MachinePayments #AI

@jeff_weinstein @stevekaliski @tempo @stripe machine payments!!

Introducing the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). mpp.dev: an open protocol for machine-to-machine payments, co-authored by @tempo and @stripe. Watch it in agentic action ⤵️

@jackforestell @Visa @tempo @stripe @basistheory @getVGS 16 years ago,…we predicted the future long before #AI #Crypto #Tokenization & #Stablecoins etc., It’s absolutely beautiful to see #Visa $VISA validating our very early and humble work. #MachinePayments

Enter @Visa’s new card spec for Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)—an open standard from @tempo and @stripe—bringing card‑based payments into autonomous, machine‑to‑machine flows. Combined with enablers like @BasisTheory and @getVGS, developers can securely tokenize and orchestrate credentials while transacting on global card rails. Open by design. No single rail. Global reach.

The infrastructure for agentic commerce is being built right now. The decisions we make about credentials, reach and standards will define how agents transact for years to come. 🧵

@lindsey_haswell @tempo We knew this day would come. We predicted it in 2010. Literally. #MachinePayments #AI

Several non-crypto friends have asked me what we launched today at @tempo. It's easy to feel intimidated by the jargon and technical concepts and think it's not for you, esp if you're not in the crypto/AI industries. My answer: just go to wallet.tempo.xyz and try it. If you wonder what payments look like in an AI world, this is it.

@jeff_weinstein @stripe We skipped the line in 2010. #AI It was a beautiful day. #blockchain #MachinePayments

if you'd like to skip the line for accepting mpp via @stripe, email machine-payments@stripe.com with a sentence or two on your use case. (we're rolling out early access to the first ~100 users later today.)

@0xfishylosopher @stripe @tempo We’ve been here since 2010. And it’s all getting really exciting. #MachinePayments #ai

The most common question people get in agentic commerce - "what if Stripe does this?" Well - today Stripe did it with MPP - big congrats to @stripe and @tempo on launch!! A few design observations + thoughts: > MPP is actually built on the same HTTP 402 standard that x402 is built on. At the most basic level, it's request -> 402 challenge -> POST with creds -> verif -> release. HTTP 402 is undoubtedly becoming the backbone of all agentic payments. > MPP has some nice design touches, especially around payment "sessions" which are batched payments that can greatly reduce microtx spam. > MPP to Tempo is like x402 to Base - the preferred settlement chain but not necessarily the only one. Stripe itself will likely support both multi-chain and multi-standard (it has a x402 SDK too), with Tempo MPP being the best-supported. > Which standard gets adopted depends on where the merchants decide to "flip the switch". For any Stripe owned account, you opt-in to machine payments. Key merchants will likely have direct BD by Tempo/Stripe team to onboard on Tempo MPP. > For Tempo hackathon friends - imo the most interesting layers right now to build around MPP and broader aCommerce is likely: (1) wallet orchestration at the client agent layer (multi-standard, multi-address, multi-chain), (2) multi-standard discovery and curation, (3) authorization and identity schemes for agents.

@mpp @tempo @stripe We’ve been here since 2010… And,…it’s all getting really exciting. #MachinePayments #payments #AI

Introducing the Machine Payments Protocol: an open standard for machine payments co-authored by @tempo and @stripe MPP is designed to be extensible and payment-method agnostic, already supporting stablecoins, cards, and more.

@shafu0x We’ve been here since,…2010. And it’s all getting really exciting. #MachinePayments #stablecoins

Very excited to announce the new home for everything mpp! We call it MPPscan