Josh Gordon-Blake

@jasontan Thanks for sharing Jason. Your thoughts help to shift the framework away from (1) work hard or not to (2) work successfully over a ten year period. We all know the platitude of “it’s a marathon not a sprint”, but posts like this make it real / actionable.

Chief Product & Technology officer Luke Tuttle sat down with @rodrifernandezt x @crossmint to discuss all things AI and stablecoins:

$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time. 5 minutes before Trump's post. Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer? This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.

@bpmilne Maxwell’s Trading or Giant

Going to Chicago. Where do I eat?! Willing to be adventurous. Grateful for any suggestions.

What did removing Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad get us? Chaos, civil war, genocide. The rule for regime change operations in the Middle East is that they don’t flip a country from bad-to-good. They flip a country from bad-to-worse.

@NBABlackburn Dirty Dort

Lu Dort playing POS defense. No shit Jokic is mad!

When the speculative noise gets a little loud, stablecoins quietly make the biggest moves. During Stellar House Miami, @_therealjosh explained how @MoneyGram is improving settlement times with the help of stablecoins.

One of the often slept-upon benefits of attending the University of Chicago is that they make you read Marx as part of the core curriculum, which is why this article gave me flashbacks of taking SOSC 114 as a freshman. Marx, writing during the Industrial Revolution, predicted capitalism would periodically devour itself: firms replace labor with machinery to boost profits, but competition diffuses the technology, drives prices to marginal cost, and the gains get competed away. Meanwhile, displaced workers lose purchasing power, hollowing out the demand the whole system depends on. Production rises but no one can afford to buy what's produced - the contradiction between production and realization. Citrini's piece describes this exact dynamic, then declares there's "no natural brake." It's the most Marxist piece of financial analysis written in years, and makes the same errors Marx did. Schumpeter offered the obvious rebuttal 80 years ago: creative destruction doesn't just destroy, it creates industries we can't yet conceive of. Everyone in the replies is already making this point, and I think they're right. But the sharper rebuttal is Hayek's: prices are the brake Citrini says doesn't exist. Who funds $200bn / qtr in AI capex when equities are down 38%, private credit marks are in the 50s, and consumer demand has collapsed? Cost of capital rises. Incremental build-out becomes uneconomical. Capital gets destroyed and reallocated. Citrini also unknowingly describes Marx's proletarianization of the petite bourgeoisie: the $180k PM driving Uber is textbook. But the article claims this collapses consumer demand, and that's where it breaks. The top decile drives 50%+ of spending and their wealth is in equities, not W-2 income; they're long the hyperscalers posting records in Citrini's own model. Blue collar is insulated because AI replaces cognitive labor, not physical. The professional middle class gets crushed, but aggregate demand doesn't. The spending class IS the capital-owning class. The K-shaped recovery they fear actually stabilizes the demand base they say is collapsing. In the stable aggregate demand, the petit bourgeoisie finds ways to reinvent itself. I think the Citrini piece is excellent and worth reading. But history has repeatedly shown that periods of transformative productivity gains ultimately accrue to the consumer through lower prices, more leisure, and higher quality of life. Marx's error wasn't diagnosing the disruption, it was underestimating the system's ability to adapt.

Today, Marc Winniford joins MoneyGram as CFO. We're rebuilding the foundation across product, technology, marketing, and operations. Marc brings the financial rigor and high standards to accelerate our refounding. Onward. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

@MSilb7 Utah Jazz LA Lakers

Dumbest things in sports: - Buffalo Bills named after Buffalo Bill - University of Miami “U” logo - Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim - Kansas City being in Missouri - Cal and Stanford in the ACC Help me build this list

@NBABlackburn Been thinking about this all day. If Zeke keeps this up until the deadline, I think you have to move him to duck the tax and retain PWat this summer.

I have a question for Nuggets fans: Would you rather Denver duck the luxury tax this year if it meant a higher chance of retaining Peyton Watson in summer? Or, would you rather Denver make an aggressive trade this year to maximize championship equity in this season alone?

Redefining Everyday Payments with Sarah Frese from @airtminc, @rodrifernandezt from @crossmint, and @_therealjosh from @MoneyGram, moderated by @rajachak75. youtube.com/watch?v=EDy0Bn…

To clarify, MoneyGram is sunsetting their legacy wallet app (built a few years ago) and consolidating everything into the core MoneyGram app, where the new wallet is now embedded They're tripling down and going all-in on stablecoins. Instead of having two separate flows, they're making stablecoins the main flow

Better payments infrastructure starts by creating strong, clear standards. Join us at Stellar House Miami for "Redefining Everyday Payments," featuring @airtminc's CMO Sarah Frese, @crossmint's Founder @rodrifernandezt, and @MoneyGram's EVP and GM @_therealjosh.

@landon20s So cool. Do things that don’t scale.

Just spoke with the guy who launched Uber in the Midwest He shared a great story: at one point Uber might’ve been the largest buyer of new iPhones. Back then, many drivers didn’t own smartphones or even know how to download an app So Uber bought phones in bulk, preinstalled the driver app, and handed them out during onboarding Manual at first ~~> till it becomes magical

@Decaf_so Decaf is on-chain freedom 😊 After almost a year of using Decaf to convert crypto to fiat through @MoneyGram, it's been incredibly helpful :)

I'll be joining @DenelleDixon, @StellarOrg and Chris Newkirk, @Visa to discuss "coopetition" and how collaboration between traditional and emerging players can help build a more inclusive and borderless financial system for everyone. Hope to see some familiar faces there. #Money2020 #MoneyGram #Crypto #Refounding

@DenelleDixon @MoneyGram Grateful for the unwavering support and partnership from @StellarOrg and @DenelleDixon. Excited about what we’re building together and even more excited about what’s ahead.

This is great! We need to raise the social security retirement age, but it’s been a third rail of politics for a long time… too easy for the Dems to point at R’s taking away benefits for seniors (and v-v) When social security started, the average lifespan was 61 and someone who made it to 65 would live another 12 years. Now the average lifespan is 77 and a 65 year old lives 20 more years! That math is hard to sustain. The only way to make this work is to increase it super gradually so the current seniors aren’t affected. A gradual increase to 70 would reflect modern lifespans and help keep the trust fund solvent. Kudos to Trump for bringing it up, hope it happens