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Anthropic just pulled the oldest trick in SaaS pricing. I pay $200/mo for Claude Max. My limits have been noticeably worse this past week. Now they announce 2x off-peak usage for two weeks. Sounds generous. But here’s what actually happens: limits quietly drop, a temporary 2x makes the reduced limit feel normal, the promo ends, and you’re left at a baseline lower than where you started. You just didn’t notice the downgrade because the 2x absorbed the transition. These AI plans are massively subsidized. The raw compute behind a heavy user costs multiples of the subscription price. Every move like this is the subsidy quietly correcting. Very sneaky, Anthropic.

Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to be private. He said so himself. When Bitcoin launched in 2009, it was built as a middle finger to a financial system that had just failed the entire world. And the design worked. A fixed supply of 21 million coins that no central bank can inflate. Proof of work consensus that no government can shut down. Halvings every four years that make the monetary policy predictable forever. But Satoshi left a gap in the design. Every transaction on Bitcoin is recorded on a public ledger. Your wallet, your balances, your entire financial history, all visible to anyone who cares to look. Pseudonymity is not privacy, and Satoshi knew it. In August 2010, he posted on Bitcointalk about a technology called zero-knowledge proofs (pictured below). He laid out the problem: you need global knowledge of all transactions to prevent double-spending, but that requirement makes everything public. Then he wrote, "If a solution was found, a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible." He described exactly what needed to exist, but he couldn't build it yet. Six years later, a team of cryptographers did. @Zcash launched as the first real-world application of zk-SNARKs: zero-knowledge proofs that verify a transaction is valid without revealing who sent it, who received it, or how much moved. Same 21 million supply cap as Bitcoin, same proof of work consensus, same halving schedule. But with real financial privacy built into the protocol. Bitcoin was designed to free us from the existing financial system. But without privacy, it risks doing the opposite. Every transaction on a public chain is a data point. Every wallet is an identity waiting to be unmasked. Traditional banks at least have legal obligations around your financial data. A public ledger has none. Without privacy, crypto doesn't just fail to free you from surveillance. It could make surveillance easier than anything that came before it. AI makes this worse. Models can now process entire blockchains, connect wallets to identities, and map financial relationships at a scale that would be completely impractical for humans. Every public transaction is training data for the next surveillance tool. As @balajis put it: AI is the attack. Zero knowledge is the defense. Zero knowledge proves that a transaction is valid, while revealing nothing about it. Not who sent it. Not who received it. Not how much. The math gives the verifier exactly what they need and nothing more. Privacy isn't a nice-to-have. It's the foundation of individual sovereignty. It's the reason Bitcoin was created in the first place. Zcash is what Bitcoin was always supposed to be. The same monetary principles Satoshi designed, completed with the privacy he wanted but couldn't yet build. Zcash isn't an alternative to Bitcoin's vision. It's the completion of it.

@zacglover The hobby you get to have if you’re lucky lol

No one tells you when you go into marketing that tweeting isn't the job. Meetings and docs are the job. Tweeting is the fun little hobby they let you have in between meetings.

@gregisenberg You're a fucking G Greg

my entire content strategy is this give you free startup ideas + growth playbooks that work i won't hold back and every time you build something from my tweets/pod I'm sippin' a martini & cheering you on your success is my ultimate flex now go ship something & make me proud

@deeparocks Yeppp, walkability is huge for sure

@Pranit yes environment is everything walkability score is how i decide where to live

Underrated life upgrade: Pick cities that make your default day better. - gym you’re excited to go to - food that makes eating clean easy - cafes / coworking spots you actually want to work from You don’t need more discipline. You need better environments.

I've been at @ns for the last 3 weeks and have found that to be a great environment in which I enjoy locking in. If anyone is curious, happy to chat more in DMs

@mohbii 🎯

@Pranit Degrading limits after launch while positioning the off-peak bonus as a perk is the move every SaaS makes when they've oversubscribed supply. The 2x framing is clever but the underlying issue is they oversold capacity.

Anthropic just pulled the oldest trick in SaaS pricing. I pay $200/mo for Claude Max. My limits have been noticeably worse this past week. Now they announce 2x off-peak usage for two weeks. Sounds generous. But here’s what actually happens: limits quietly drop, a temporary 2x makes the reduced limit feel normal, the promo ends, and you’re left at a baseline lower than where you started. You just didn’t notice the downgrade because the 2x absorbed the transition. These AI plans are massively subsidized. The raw compute behind a heavy user costs multiples of the subscription price. Every move like this is the subsidy quietly correcting. Very sneaky, Anthropic.

@rinegade 🫡

I’ve noticed that a lot of people have left Crypto. If you are still here, reply. I want to connect everyone who’s helping keep crypto alive! 💪

@fedesarquis Ah yeah, makes sense. Hope the presentation goes well!

@Pranit Thanks for the tips! this is awesome! Yeah the .html route is not a good one because I need these presentations to be in google drive. Usually going for events they ask for the presentation to share with the video crew :)

I still can't find a way to get really nice looking and formatted presentations with claude. any tips? what other AIs should I try?

@Mardeni01 @ns @itscharann Ahh rip 💀

@Pranit @ns Already used @itscharann’s but next time haha

In Bangkok 🇹🇭 for the next 2 weeks, DM me if you are building anything DeFi!

@Mardeni01 @ns Oh and you can use this referral if you want a free week: ns.com/pranitgarg

@Pranit @ns

@Mardeni01 @ns Nicee, I’ll be here! Looking forward to seeing you then :)

@Pranit @ns Will be there on 1st of April!

@cjpedregal x.com/pranit/status/…

There are some tweets out there saying that Granola is trying to lock down access to your data. Tldr; we are actually trying to become more open, not closed. We’re launching a public API next week to complement our MCP. Read on for context. A couple months ago, we noticed that some folks had reversed engineered our local cache so they could access their meeting data. Our cache was not built for this (it can change at any point), so we launched our MCP to serve this need. The MCP gives full access to your notes and transcripts (all time for paid users, time restricted for free users). MCP usage has exploded since launch, so we felt good about it. A week ago, we updated how we store data in our cache and broke the workarounds. This is on us. Stupidly, we thought we had solved these use cases well enough with our MCP. We’ve now learned that while MCPs are great for connecting to tools like Claude or chatGPT, they don’t meet your needs for agents running locally or for data export / pipeline work. So we’re going to fix this for you ASAP. First, we’ll launch a public API next week to make it easier for you to pull your data. Second, we’ll figure out how to make Granola work better for agents running locally. Whether that’s expanding our MCP, launching a CLI, a local API, etc. The industry is moving quickly here, so we’d appreciate your suggestions. We want Granola data to be accessible and useful wherever you need it. Stay tuned.

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hot take but i think guys being a little overweight like this is attractive

@ivanburazin 100%, wrote a little more on how to think through this here x.com/Pranit/status/…

New category emerging: Headless SaaS Not infrastructure as a service / platform as a service Traditional software (Photoshop, Slack, Jira) rebuilt with agent-first APIs. - No UI - Programmatic access - Essentially the same product with different interface Entirely new business model.

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@TurnerNovak Damn grok was pretty smart till it wasn’t

you can just do things

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