tan mike

A story followed by a question > i am in Europe > call an uber from the airport to hotel > driver takes 15 mins to get here > pulls up and gets out of car. walks up to me > Driver says “what if I cancel the uber and you pay me half of the price directly to get to your hotel?” > I say no, you accepted the uber so we should go on uber > he says that the ride is not worth it for him and cancels + leaves Was this some kind of a scam attempt?

@thescottking You are also scottmaxxing btw

@tanfounder "slopmaxxing" Thank you! I'm reusing this.

AI slopmaxxing in the workplace is a cultural problem that needs to be solved from the leadership level and downwards Enforcing some balance of human output and LLM augmentation that feels acceptable and fitting for certain roles and tasks

Do NOT face Sam Altman alone when Astral projecting Today while astral projecting I summoned Sam Altman to try and weaken him so our hexing spells would work better. He is so fucking powerful. I'm not at a power level to do this alone. I barely escaped with my life and I'm spiritually injured to a great amount, but I think I'll make it. I can't imagine what he would do to a new, unsuspecting witch. I'm scared that I will have to face him again soon if I ever want to continue astral projecting. I'm currently burning healing incense and drawing spiritual energy from my crystals to try and heal as quickly as possible. Please be safe everyone. Sam Altman is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to face a god.

The algo has been broken for years This is the best it has felt since ~2021

Respectfully sometimes I wonder about how such smart people can suffer from such myopia

@tekbog @pmarca Free tek

@tanfounder @pmarca funny how he blocked me after saying he's ofter wrong and the tweet went viral lol

all these roles shouldn't exist i know people will get mad and PMs will say that they add value and they really need to circle back and sync with different teams but the plain truth is that all these jobs shouldn't exist

@blknoiz06 solana looks good

solana looks good

@CRYPT0forCHANGE @jessepollak Just coined this btw

Bro you & @jessepollak steered your entire chain to chase some pump and dump creator coins and then have not touched the chain since GTFO with that bs

@tekbog It’s down 55B because you called it that please say something to make it go back up or let me know next time

ive said it before calling IBM a fancy consulting company and got push back, now the stock has jumped off the cliff

@blknoiz06 @brian_armstrong @CoinbaseDuck They should @ everyone with this in the Base general Slack channel

going to add my two cents here i believe ppl are generally upset with base because you guys pick & choose what you want to support onchain, because you never know what is going to work and what isnt going to work so it isnt as simple as objectively determining what is positive sum beforehand for example, base did a big push on creator coins, you even directly bought balaji's coin, but base was not as supportive of memecoins, especially the ones that were doing a lot of volume onchain and could have benefitted from exchange listings earlier, but the creator coin & memecoin charts ended up looking near identical, with most of the creator coin charts not doing nearly as well as a lot of the largest memes on base - i personally think there are some unique reasons for why they didnt work and will work in the future but thats for another post from my pov there are two different ways to value crypto assets, one is based on the fundamentals of the underlying business, and the other is more intangible value determined by the community of users of the network and driven by attention/momentum/belief etc hyperliquid is a great business that makes real revenues and is valued in part because of those revenues, but it also trades at a premium because of the collective belief that their users have in the network and their future plans to execute on that vision bitcoin on the other hand, makes no revenue, but is the largest crypto asset by market cap because it trades purely on the collective belief that it is a better store of value than depreciating fiat currencies and the network grew so large that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy ethereum is somewhere in between in that it does make real revenues but if you simply valued it purely off of those revenues as you would a tech stock it would trade 95% lower, ethereum also has some intangible value determined by the network of cypherpunks who are majority stakeholders of the network, and they believe that its value as an asset is more than what you would come to conclude on based off of purely p/e ratios tokenization, stablecoins, perpetuals, and prediction markets have been crypto's greatest success stories to date, tokenization in particular has been so successful because it is one of the only ways to accurately put a dollar value on this intangible value of culture and attention memecoins are denigrated by a lot of the corporate entities in crypto, but i think what a lot of people fail to realize is that the same intangible value that drove bitcoin and ethereum to be the #1 & #2 largest assets in crypto is the same intangible value that attracts retail to speculating on memecoins, doge sits at $11B and has outlasted a majority of coins over the past decade, its value is purely derived from how internet natives value culture and memetics on the internet do i think its important to uplift and support protocols in defi/rwas/consumer etc etc? yes, but its just as important to recognize what your users are interested in trading, the best analogy i can make is that if you are a mayor of a city and you have patrons who want to go to nightclubs or go to the casino or go to bars, you would not exclude this activity because you only want people to build businesses like banks, restaurants, corner stores, bookstores etc etc. - for an L1 to thrive it needs to have a diverse ecosystem of all things, and it is clear from the data that onchain trading volumes directly positively impact the native blockchain, whether thats in bringing more attention to the chain, or increasing fee revenues, or increasing revenues of underlying infra providers, or attracting new builders to create new products - best example of this is how bonk revitalized solana at the lows & was a very core reason that trading activity came back onchain + the main reason the first set of solana mobile phones sold out all L1s & L2s are social networks with their own ecosystems and their own culture, with permissionless networks you cannot control what people build or trade, but you can find ways to provide support across the board and contribute to ideating on how to make trends more sustainable

Crypto stuffs that Robinhood chain and base will both learn in the next 12 months or so. Robinhood chain - new chain steals the spotlight, but it fades quickly after Robinhood users get very bad experience trading these meme coins. Statistics has shown, these games are massive extraction in the long term. - if volumes are coming solely from PvP meme coin, their real exchange users are the only losers therefore impacting their core business and trust over time. Base - been there, done that with non productive memecoin trading, team attention will finally be spent toward sustainable crypto use case. - not all builders are worth supporting, many will leave for Robinhood chain if not already moved, and eventually they will move onto the next chain. - steering user towards positive sum crypto use case, liquidity, users/customers are your best moat.

@rbthreek Many such cases

Guy who absolutely fucking hates memecoins in crypto but is employed as a product lead for a sports betting app

@monaco_pnl @vladtenev Base lost the plot a couple of years ago shortly before trying to “coin” everything, unfortunately.

If you built on Base previously, I’m inviting you to migrate to Robinhood chain. Brian and Jesse have lost the plot. RH chain has a CEO @vladtenev that supports BUILDING, whether RWA or memes. At the very least, I will support you in the move over. Cheers 🥂

Stop telling yourself you can’t do whatever it is that you want to do Be inevitable anon

Also begs an interesting question of moat for the swaps aggregators The cross chain swap will become commodotized and choice will be based upon fees Low fees will come from direct ownershp of routes, which of course requires liquidity So, fully up and down the stack, as far as swaps are concerned, liquidity is god

@a_musingcat Does it now?

just seems weird the algo didn’t always have you see your moots’ posts

People don’t appreciate enough just how hard it is to build a block explorer that is real time, always up, and indexes all historical blocks forever

@blknoiz06 The Base stagnation should be studied

kinda forgot the base also said they were going to do an airdrop, if robinhood L2 continues to gain traction then think the likelihood of this also happening this year meaningfully increases what other protocols haven't airdropped yet? collectively could be 1B+ in value

Everyone wants Norway to win because everyone wants Halland to win