Kate Irwin

@stephengraves @VitalikButerin same as mine tbh 😭

@kateirwin @VitalikButerin Same jawline innit.

My favorite part about the Vanity Fair crypto article is when the journalist says @VitalikButerin should be a runway model

@theweb3jess @BradyDale @VitalikButerin what about "founder mommy"

@kateirwin @BradyDale @VitalikButerin I hate the term lol

@BradyDale @VitalikButerin would pay to see a battle between the product mommies and the crystal mommies

@kateirwin @VitalikButerin good eye "product mommy" is always gonna be number one for me tho

It is wildly concerning that some of the biggest VCs in the game now see being intellectual as a hindrance to capitalism Actively wanting founders to be dumb is baffling to me

@byKatherineRoss thank u 🙏 i was insane tho

@kateirwin giiiiiiirl mad respect

Found my content calendar from 6 years ago when I was creating full-time and grew to 150K TT followers I was crazy

@ashnichrist cozy content would be so nice right now

@kateirwin I wanna see a brand do the opposite. Desperate for cozy, relaxing video content that isn't boring.

Every startup is copying the same video template: → fast cuts full of "archival footage" of money printing, the moon landing, Steve Jobs, found footage that suggests "progress," "America," and other miscellaneous and completely unrelated historical events → sparse words peppered in that don't talk about the product or the company at all but instead convey authority and confidence: We Are Going To Change The World. → high-level, videos that do this are trying to say: We're bigger than the moon landing. We know what's coming next and we are building for it. At this point, I don't think this trend/formula helps build a unique brand. It feels generic now due to overuse, but what's interesting is that these videos still get a lot of views. So effective for impressions, but less effective for brand-building and brand recognition. Click on the post I'm qt-ing here for a full thread of examples following this exact format.

I don't think Bitcoin is a hedge against economic uncertainty. Bitcoin has become less valuable compared to gold in the past year. The Bitcoin/Gold ratio is down 47% in the past 6 months, meaning you need much less gold to buy 1 BTC now than you did back in August. If you zoom out, that's far from the end of the world, but gold vs Bitcoin has always been a false comparison. The point of crypto isn't just to hoard it all in a wallet and have it sit there doing nothing, despite what some bitcoin maxis might tell you. There are so many more things that you can do with Bitcoin and other digital assets that you can't do with gold. That's crypto's advantage. Bitcoin is still very new compared to gold, and new things aren't always trusted right away like the old things. All money is a concept. Its value is tied to the level of broad belief and trust in the asset, a status gold has held for thousands of years. It's difficult to unseat that. That's a big part of the reason why crypto prices are so volatile. There still isn't enough broader, global, sustained international belief in the top handful of digital assets (this is why stablecoins are a key intermediary step). Outside the CT bubble, many everyday people still don't know what crypto is, but they know what gold is and that it has value and that you can immediately use it to barter for something you want. As historians have explained in detail, humans moved away from gold and silver bars and coins toward modern-day paper money in part because it was more convenient than lugging gold everywhere with you. Similarly, banks now use digitized money systems and people often pay with plastic cards instead of paper money. Depositors trust that today's banks are backing those online numbers with real money somewhere, to some extent. The next step toward making money even more seamless, fair, and rewarding for consumers is with digital assets. And things are changing. Banks are realizing the capabilities blockchains and protocols have. Some of them are concerned about how DeFi yield can outperform and displace the measly yield they're currently offering to customers. But this competition is good, and it's all part of what a free market looks like. Blockchains power higher yield for consumers, faster payments, and a more seamless money system. So at the end of the day, this price ratio and whether it's going up or down month-to-month doesn't really matter. The entire financial system is going to change in a major way. If regulators do the right thing, we'll ultimately see a more competitive system emerge that's better for the people.

@0xJonnyDee the footage often feels so generic and random, which to me does suggest AI is involved.

@kateirwin Yeah seems to AI created and following a trend. I would like them to break the mould a little. Just because it's successful for a few startups doesn't mean you have to copy it.

@brennenschlu @cultured add this one x.com/tempo/status/2…

x.com/whop/status/20… Didnt even see this one from today @cultured. Top of the category.

how many more found footage world changing, rocket launching, long jumping videos must we endure?

@jbrukh So many big good news moments for crypto historically have barely moved prices, it’s weird To me it suggests that whales + crypto markets hit buy for different reasons

I am still in shock that the SEC just made 85% of the market cap commodities and the market didn’t notice.

@divine_economy im making a video about this these kinds of scams are making a comeback sadly

just nearly got scammed by a fake podcast. i realized because when i got on the call, the interviewer was someone i knew personally. except they had their camera off, sounded nothing like the person i know, and had no idea who i was. in retrospect there were very clear signs: > person who reached out to me had changed their telegram name within past two weeks (giveaway) > they offered to pay me for the podcast (i declined), which makes no sense > they offered to send merch to my home (i declined), presumably to get my address the call was on google meets, scheduled through my calendly, so there was no trick zoom download. and i don't know where this scam was leading. i hung up immediately before finding out. but be careful out there.

@gannonbreslin you are making me want to return to Tiktok lol

8 million views + 74,000 shares The most unique subtle way to crush UGC I’ve seen yet

@chloewillbrb I was having burnout 😅

@kateirwin i'll have what you were having cause damn

@depressivehacks I did not often achieve these benchmarks lol I was able to film a lot of short-form vertical videos every day though I have been debating going back to TT, I left it some yrs ago after I realized how many hours i spent (wasted?) on it every day

@kateirwin Damn, this is dedication!