Chris Powers (chrispowers.eth)

The case for decentralization keeps being eloquently made by our dysfunctional politics. We shouldn’t have centralized control of payments just like we shouldn’t haven’t centralized control of our media platforms

Is there a chance that RSS makes a comeback?

@arpitrage Ahh, back to reserving time on the university's mainframe

Proposal: grad students should get a budget for compute

testing this to see who can reply if u then you're cool

@jwyattsports @Titans @NissanStadium Someone should tell him they rebranded the team and they need new hard hats

.@Titans President and CEO Burke Nihill details the area inside new @NissanStadium where local high schools will be featured.

@PaulKuharskyNFL Totally. Looks even better after the rebrand

Amazing to me this sign lives on. Church Street. #Titans.

@david_enim Yes! The equivalent of "Have you Googled this question?" or this great site: letmegooglethat.com/?q=chat+gpt

The frustration when they don’t use ChatGPT or use it poorly. Need a term for that! #ChatGPTNichtOderMinderNutzung

@heyjessicasmith Another angle: any fees earned onchain is governed onchain

What is built onchain is governed onchain. No way around it, sorry.

Well, at least we’ll always have these 5 minutes.

@AlanaDLevin Another one that's building a fund fully integrated with the company/product: x.com/delitzer/statu…

@0xKaden That Feb 2020 incident took place over ETH Denver. The kyber market was so easy to manipulate

the bZx protocol had probably the worst security posture of any smart contract protocol in history in february 2020, they suffered not one, but two oracle manipulation exploits [1] within a three day period. with the second one coming after the protocol was deemed to be fixed. ~$350k + ~$600k exploited then in september 2020, they had a self-transfer exploit [2] which resulted in a loss of ~$8.1m and if that wasn't already enough damage, in november 2021, a phishing attack on the developer key [3] allowed the attacker to not only drain the protocol TVL, but also dangling user approvals, resulting in a loss of ~$55m!

@tallyxyz Good game, y'all

@korkedbats lol, at Prince Albert taking a note "Gunnar - HR, 4th inning"

THESE COLORS DON’T RUN! THEY HOME RUN!!!

Sadly, T-Rac survived this rebranding. #Titans

Very interesting question re: OpenClaw / Agents and the Great Fire Wall in China

@wilburforce_ Great run. Excited to see what’s next for you ✍🏼 👀

End of the road for parsec I'm afraid. The market zigged while we zagged a few too many times A little parsec lore for posterity, In early 2020 I started charting uniswap *v1* charts as a side project, this spiraled into a full blown DeFi terminal during DeFi summer and into the 2021 craziness. Our big break was DeFi completely unwinding its insane leverage in 2022, first wonderland, then ohm, then terra, then 3ac/stETH depeg. Lots of firms and traders were using parsec to navigate (and in some cases being the ones getting liquidated!). Post FTX DeFi spot lending leverage never really came back in the same way, it changed, morphed into something we understood less, activity onchain changed hugely in a way that I never fully grokked. We had pockets of life after that, Friendtech (rip), our polymarket election dash that grabbed a few hundred thousand hits in 1 night. But nothing stuck as the ephemerality of crypto crept in (more on this another time). I've made about a thousand mistakes along the way but the team I built was not one of them, a group of hardworking, knowledgable and overall good people with the unwavering @bshee1102 as my right hand from the very early days My vision was for DeFi to reinvent finance and permeate the opaque and gated systems of old, a vision I still hold (perhaps masochistically). Parsec was a part of the very beginning of this and will sadly not be of part of the long journey the industry has left. I'm not going anywhere, will be doing some writing and finding new ways to contribute. Onwards!

New site. Go Look.

Preach. I don’t begrudge @steipete. But the deeper issue is that open source lacks both: sustainable incentives and organizations that can scale into real institutions. The scale of @OpenAI is tough to beat and is just as appealing as the comp.

New meme alert: roboturfing

Shockingly positive takes on crypto from @benedictevans on @a16z podcast with @balajis a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/balaj…

via @dropkicksam

Wow - MLB used to reward teams to hold the line on arbitration hearings. And you think a "salary cap" is good for baseball or the owner's bottom line?