James
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James
@jamesduffx
Built some companies you never heard of. Retired young. Dabble in investing, but mostly spend my time pursuing my interest and optimizing for freedom and joy.
Seoul, Republic of Korea Katılım Ağustos 2010
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@1PunchBran @ToxicAlldaylong Did…did you just right click save this dudes lifestyle?
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In honor of @halfin and the #ALS community, we’re now accepting most types of cryptocurrency including @Bitcoin & @Ethereum to END ALS. Donate today: als.org/crypto
#CryptoGivingTuesday #GivingTuesday
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@EndTheFUD @jimmysong @Bquittem @lopp @mindfulknowing MBTI's 4 categories roughly correlate to 4 of the 5 aspects of the Big 5. So you're spot on about Bitcoiners being high in openness and low in agreeableness (N and T), though there seems to be a pretty even split between high and low conscientiousness (J vs P).
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1/ Quick thread on how Bitcoiners differ from the general population (Myers-Briggs)
TL;DR Bitcoiners are quite different from gen pop.
Chart made by @mindfulknowing
Brandon Quittem@Bquittem
What's your Myers-Briggs? (I'm an INTP) Curious if there are any obvious trends with Bitcoiners.
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What if I told you that I felt like a failure even after selling Twitch for a billion dollars?
This is for anyone experiencing impostor syndrome:
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@muneeb @nic_carter Reminds me of Diogenes of Sinope:
"When someone later brought up this incident in an attempt to shame Diogenes, he responded that yes, it was true that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, but added that he in turn had sentenced them to remain in Sinope."
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“Countries don’t ban Bitcoin. They only ban themselves out of the Bitcoin network” — @nic_carter
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The proposed Tax Code in the US infra bill means miners & validators need to KYC all “customers,” i.e., transactions.
It’s equivalent to saying you need to KYC users if you touch internet packets.
It’s a kill switch for crypto in the US, and policymakers don’t understand this.
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“I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap
“I can see that,” responds judge
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@gannonbreslin @APompliano I just relentlessly laid on the couch and scrolled Twitter for an hour and a half.
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@APompliano I just relentlessly ate chicken parm for dinner
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clients don't actually own stocks
can't withdraw entitlements / claims
hard to audit
hard to locate risk
multiple claims to the same stock
yes, blockchain-based assets DO improve on this paradigm.
yes, rebuilding finance from scratch IS a good idea
Compound248 💰@compound248
Margin accounts are Wall Street's way of denoting lending accounts. Practically speaking, in margin accounts, the client does NOT own *any* securities. Rather, margin account holders "own" a promise from their broker. Yay.
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@JamesonCamp @Wildingp This is your problem.
Caffeine's half life is 6 hrs, so drinking 4 cups of coffee at noon is like chugging a cup of coffee at midnight before trying to go to sleep.
Try to cut down to 1-2 cups per day and stop 12 hours before bedtime. Or just accept the tradeoffs.
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My mind is always running 1000 mph right before I try and sleep
Other than just more sleeping pills or CBD does anyone have any suggestions?
Trying to get back on a good sleep schedule
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@BitcoinMises @jratcliff @GrandMoffMerkin I think this is how Unchained Capital does it. I haven't used their services, but was also looking into this.
unchained-capital.com/collaborative-…
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1 Bitcoin = Tesla Cyber Truck
I am convinced @elonmusk is buying #Bitcoin since his conversation with @michael_saylor
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@banjoivan @ken_swymer @DavidSacks Right, the difference is that we have a choice of many web hosts. A lot of people can't choose another ISP.
Social network services fall somewhere in the middle, since Metcalfe's law makes them extremely difficult to compete with without a ton of investment capital.
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@jamesduffx @ken_swymer @DavidSacks But I also think you can’t compel a private hosting company to host a terrorist website if they don’t want to
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The free market argument for limiting free speech (ie build your own platform if you don’t like our moderation) evaporated as soon as Apple and Google banned Parler from their app stores. There’s no opportunity to build an alternative if the OS duopoly prevents it.
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@RaemondBW @_JimB @Suhail Broadcasters could decide to not broadcast their tweets. It would be similar to terrorists using email, or hosting a web page. The technology itself is neutral.
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@jamesduffx @_JimB @Suhail I don’t think that will work. What would you do for this case? Terrorists have joined the platform and are radicalizing members through custom moderation algorithms that they distribute to their users.
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@RaemondBW @_JimB @Suhail The difference is users would be able to choose their own content moderation algorithm between multiple competing options; it wouldn't be forced upon them.
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@jamesduffx @_JimB @Suhail Oh it’s definitely doable. You have to be careful to not fall into the traps we have seen exploited for the last 5+ years. Content moderation is clearly important and decentralization makes that much more difficult
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@ken_swymer @DavidSacks Should ISPs be able to decide which websites their customers are allowed to visit?
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@DavidSacks Respectfully disagree here. Private companies , old & new, tech or newspapers are not required to allow everyone on their platform. A newspaper 100 years ago not publishing your op ed or a tech company not allowing your app isn’t limiting free speech.
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@_JimB @Suhail @RaemondBW It could be on an open standard, similar to RSS. Anyone could run a broadcast node, and you could publish your tweets to multiple broadcasters to make sure you're not censored. Messages PGP signed.
There could be multiple clients so you could customize your viewing experience.
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@Suhail @RaemondBW How would decentralization of Twitter work? I imagine there’d be multiple platforms similar to email clients, each with their own rules, or none at all. How would it not become like email at that point, & isn’t having everyone in one place part of the reach and power of a tweet?
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@delvin_baronof @iamjosephyoung Korean gov going to start taxing crypto capital gains from Jan 2022. May be one factor.
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Good morning all.
It's the weekend, but the selling doesn't stop in Asia.
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@GS_CapSF @profplum99 @SantiagoAuFund And I actually don't think it's a sure thing. I just think it's a very strong asymmetric bet where the potential upside is 10-100x the potential downside. I'll take that bet any day.
And at this point, I do think the odds of it succeeding are very high.
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@GS_CapSF @profplum99 @SantiagoAuFund Government ban is probably the biggest remaining risk. But there are plenty of other countries who would take a crypto friendly approach to benefit from an influx of newly minted millionaires and crypto companies.
BTC's price would definitely dip, but I don't think it would die.
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The majority of BTC being mined is done inside China.
The power required to mine this many bitcoins is 10+% of China's energy output. Do you believe the CCP is letting private chinese cos use this dosage of generated power for their own private needs w/o their pound of flesh?
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