
Newsletter: As parts of the crypto industry scramble to court the Harris administration with events like “Crypto4Harris”, others insist it is Harris who must “bend the knee”. citationneeded.news/issue-64/
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Newsletter: As parts of the crypto industry scramble to court the Harris administration with events like “Crypto4Harris”, others insist it is Harris who must “bend the knee”. citationneeded.news/issue-64/

Here's my conversation with Pieter Levels (@levelsio), self-taught developer and entrepreneur who designed, programmed, shipped, and ran over 40 startups, many of which are hugely successful. In most cases, he did it all by himself, while living the digital nomad life in over 40 countries and over 150 cities. This was a fun and inspiring conversation! It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:03 - Startup philosophy 9:34 - Low points 13:03 - 12 startups in 12 months 19:55 - Traveling and depression 32:34 - Indie hacking 36:37 - Photo AI 1:12:53 - How to learn AI 1:21:30 - Robots 1:29:47 - Hoodmaps 1:53:52 - Learning new programming languages 2:03:24 - Monetize your website 2:09:59 - Fighting SPAM 2:13:33 - Automation 2:24:58 - When to sell startup 2:27:52 - Coding solo 2:33:54 - Ship fast 2:42:38 - Best IDE for programming 2:52:09 - Andrej Karpathy 3:01:34 - Productivity 3:15:21 - Minimalism 3:24:07 - Emails 3:31:20 - Coffee 3:39:05 - E/acc 3:41:21 - Advice for young people

This was a cool listen. I think Cloud+AI is increasingly making the @levelsio -style model of a scrappy solo serial micro-entrepreneur viable, allowing one person to spin up and run a number of companies that generate income, possibly well into billion-dollar valuations.

I feel like a large amount of GDP is locked up because it is difficult for person A to very conveniently pay 5 cents to person B. Current high fixed costs per transaction force each of them to be of high enough amounts, which results in business models with purchase bundles, subscriptions, ad-based, etc., instead of simply pay-as-you-go. As an example, I'd like my computer to auto-pay 5 cents to the article/blog that I just read but I can't, and I think we're worse for it. In a capitalist system, transactions between entities are the gradient signal of the economy. Because our pipes don't support low magnitude terms in the sums, the gradients are not flowing properly through the system. I'm not familiar enough with payments to have an idea of specific solutions, but I expect we'd see a lot of positive 2nd / 3rd order effects if the gradients were allowed to flow properly, frictionlessly and with much higher resolution.

More on what Harris might mean for digital currency, and on my Digital Greenbacks / Treasury Dollar plan in particular, from FT's marvelous Rana Foroohar. ft.com/content/3563a5…

1/8 Digital Greenbacks (again): Spoke to American Banker again on my old 'Treasury Dollar,' a.k.a. 'Digital Greenbacks' plan of 2019-20, which would digitize the TreasuryDirect accounts available to all Americans into P2P digital wallets usable with ... americanbanker.com/payments/news/…

Grayscale had a meeting with the SEC at Dec 19 about their conversion of GBTC to a #bitcoin #etf sec.gov/comments/sr-ny…


I am part owner of a bitcoin mining company. We have increased our hash rate 56% recently. Added capacity to double the next 18-24 months. Making up for the halving coming up. We've seen a 61% rise in fees with all the ordinal and BRC20 use. We produced 3490 $BTC last quarter. And I got all this buy buying $mara stock and options 😀

One of my favorite stories. eBike purchased for $71K. Brought to @katebuckley1 3 years later and sold for over $1 million "When our partner Reza Sardeha from DAN. com pointed us to the opportunity of acquiring ebike. com in an expired domains auction, he stated: ‘that's a domain worth $400K sitting right there.’ And it would've indeed been a $400K sale if it wasn't for Kate's persistence and vision, chasing high-quality buyers and not letting the domain go for less than what it's truly worth: one million dollars. Well done, Kate!” —Legendary Names, Inc.


One of my favorite stories is how Kate has been consistently definING the domain biz. So fittING and memorable to now be able to find her dba at definING.com.

Setter aims to address "the complexity and unfriendliness of current wallet technologies," making entry into Web3 a more seamless experience for more users: coindesk.com/business/2023/… @CoinDesk @setter_app

CoinJoin coordinators are simply message passers. This is true of Wasabi & Whirlpool. They are not money transmitters, they are not facilitators they simply pass data packets to connected clients. Clients never surrender custody to any 3rd party. Clients collaborate w/ each other