jordan

I understand the criticism of venice's privacy architecture in its current form, but even a centralized mixer + model aggregator is pretty valuable

@Polymarket Yawn

BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.

@Delphi_Digital Interesting

We have this odd tendency to prop up the super specialized one-trick of the day as a public intellectual whose opinion matters, despite all evidence to the contrary. Retardio

I’ve always scoffed at Hollywood’s cringe midwit AI commentary where one bad prompt sends it on a bloodthirsty rampage (eg Subservience), but the more you use these dumb clankers the more realistic this outlook becomes

Let me clarify here Coinbase/Base should have a Labs division. I proposed having labs and even tried a few experiments like building a fully on chain game with Atari and payments at movie theaters to pay with USDC and to launch composable marketplaces to compete with Shopify, but I was solo, had no support (other than @chintanturakhia. At the end of the day it was my fault, I joined in via the wrong org, didn’t build leverage over years and ignored the corporate structure. My bad in hindsight. But Coinbase, you’re one do the few companies that has the most to gain from this. Cryptos reputation is on the line and it’s only gotten worse from the NFT era and you keep launching things too slow or building in the wrong direction. The fact that there wasn’t a way in Coinbase to INVOICE a business until last year (thanks @sid) is insane. Global payments was one of the first value props of crypto, and thus would take 1 engineer a day to build (+ 2 weeks w cb bs) If you start a labs, please build and launch the following and staff the team with 30 designers, eng, and “real” GTM people. Here’s some easy ideas - payroll platform - Img/ vid onchaun verification - POS - basic store/merchant infra - keyless api infra - a savings app And honestly they don’t need to be boring either, at some point Coinbase was the go to for any top brand to do “a crypto” thing but instead we just told them to drop an nft and we called it onchain summer, you could do fun things like Like a yield-bearing hat w/ adidas Rollarcoaster Tycoon with NFTs Stablecoin payments w/ replit Verified images with Sony Or activate every bodega w payments Drop sneakers in stockX Fee-less ATM or $ EXC at the airport NFT’s on Twitch Verified runs with Strava List goes on…. All is too say, people are “getting” the use of blockchains, and I think some effort around showing people, or more like forcing it into people hands to see that the use case goes past racist memes and bullshit. I have more thoughts but I’ll end here since most of the rest is prob under NDA. Don’t think anyone will care but if someone at coinbase does, pls try to make this happen, or if you want to work on ideas like this, DM me, it’s all we do at @propagandaisnow with brands like Solana, Kraken, and 30 other co’s.

@Little_Dogx Saying it’s too soon to succeed is a cop out from leadership that decided cloning fomo is higher ev

@yeak__ the only revenue they generated on their platform was cause of the creator economy initiative which was too soon to succeed.

It’s funny to see Base community acting like Zora migration is some ghosting traitor drama, as if Coinbase flip flopping on direction wasn’t a primary driver here? > Falling for it again award I assumed the $100B company peddling a grand onchain creator economy vision actually had an ambitious plan w some tricks up their sleeve, but I was completely wrong. They were winging it the whole time.

@Kevca6 Agreed, I’m not making excuses for Zora just trying to say they shouldn’t be the scapegoat and Coinbase is getting off way too easy

@yeak__ Their communication from the official zora account is extremely poor.

Base / Zora’s original vision for onchain social was genuinely unique and a breath of fresh air for a space that only builds copycats of the same 5-10 protocols. To see both teams completely abandon their idea and pivot to building copycats within ~6 months is extremely disappointing.

ZEC pumping like a country passed a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains

@chess_freestyle Dam yall rugged. Rip

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@mert trade implies consent

taxation is not theft, but a trade you pay the state X, and in return get Y like all deals, if you're getting shafted, leave and find a better deal because there's also the tax of compound interest (see img) that said, unrealized gains tax is actual theft

Exchange down? Quit Playing Games (with Your Money)

@TheTakenUser void of any soul or grace is a great summary

@yeak__ It was pure awareness of the “there’s no bad publicity” type, the type violently midcurve FMCG marketers and SV “growth hackers” chase. Void of any soul or grace

The Coinbase ad was a success, and that’s the problem. It elicited a reaction, people are talking about it etc. But it's impossible to ignore what it says about coinbase’s priorities. This wasn't an ad to inspire people or to set the stage for something big. It was an ad to classically condition the cyclically curious normie target market, and coinbase was fine with further alienating a decent portion of the 100M+ audience to do so. AI is an industry on the upswing, and you could tell by the ads. Claude/OAI ads were edgy, competitive, call-to-action-y. Coinbase has lots of ads like this. The crypto moves money forward and the update the system campaigns are brilliant (I would have chosen If Pizza Worked Like Money or Have, Don't Have for SB). They didn’t use those though, and i think it says a lot about how they view the industry. or at least their role in it. We sell our core community a grand, differentiated vision that we are uniquely positioned to execute on, then we pivot in an instant to build a fomo clone w 2x higher fees. And on the grand stage, with crypto reputation in the gutter, we sell vibes youtube.com/watch?v=a4F9u8…

def similar to the QR one, but the QR one was genuinely innovative from a marketing perspective, has a measurable behavior conversion etc. For the kareoke thing, there wasn't really a payload being delivered, they were almost just going for brand goodwill? im curious if they were surprised by the normie reaction

@yeak__ i genuinely think it was a great idea - disruptive for sure i'm sure the QR code bouncing on the screen Super Bowl ad from a few years ago would've gotten the same reaction had it ended with the Coinbase logo problem seems to be just crypto's general aura

@buildonbase damn this would be a sick feature for a social-first super app

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@mrink0 Same

I'd rather get brutally frame mogged in every photo for the rest of my life than bridge to base