Neil Collins

@coinbase Hopefully you’ll sort out my case soon and pay me the £35000 you owe me

First, resolution in our case. Next, clear rules for crypto.

@brian_armstrong @coinbase Can you house Ai to pay me the £35000 you owe me?

We're using AI in many ways at @coinbase (fraud prevention, customer support, risk scoring, design, and 100% of engineers have onboarded to Cursor) but the next step is every ticket in Jira/Linear should have a draft PR attached that was auto generated by AI based on the description & screenshots. Will start with "fix it" lower difficulty tickets, but eventually move to all.

@brian_armstrong morning, you still owe me £35000

@brian_armstrong Great! Will it pay me back the £35000 you owe me?

Well done Team is working hard on a major update to the app coming next month

@brian_armstrong Will you super sonically return the £35000 you owe me?

The FAA should allow supersonic flight in America. Nothing says American dynamism more than everyone flying on supersonic jets everywhere. This boomless version would be a no brainer. We might even want to allow sonic booms in more situations, as they aren’t particularly dangerous.

@brian_armstrong It’ll be 100% the right call to give me the £35000 you owe me

100% the right call The CFPB is unconstitutional on the face of it. And even if it wasn’t, it should be deleted as we already have DOJ to prosecute fraud, and (many) other financial services regulators. It’s an activist organization that has done enormous harm to the country.

@brian_armstrong I like to think of you a bank too so you need to protect my funds and therefore owe me £35000

If you think of Coinbase like a bank, we now hold about $0.42T in assets for our customers, which would make us 21st largest bank in the US by total assets, and growing. If you think of us more like a brokerage, we'd be the 8th largest brokerage today by AUM. If you think of us like a payments company…TBH i'm not sure where we rank on that list. There are various ways to measure it, but there were about $30T in total stablecoin payments last year (not all of those were goods and services though). The point is, with crypto the line between these categories is blurring. There are many legacy reasons these are separate in the traditional financial system - and not all of them are good reasons. Why does the money you spend lose value instead of growing in value like an investment? Why does your checking account not earn yield like a savings account (or better yet, like short term treasuries)? Many people use Coinbase to invest, but also to spend, get a loan, etc. In the updated financial system, you will have a single primary financial account which serves all these functions. A greater % of global GDP will run on more efficient crypto rails over time. We'll have sound money, lower friction transactions, and greater economic freedom for all.

@brian_armstrong I’m excited to get the £35000 back you owe me

Excited for this!

@brian_armstrong That’s good, you can afford to pay me the £35000 you owe me?

👀

@brian_armstrong @howdymerry I’m getting disillusioned you won’t respond to my emails or give me my £35000 back?

Every tech field is a grind! Doing breakthrough work is difficult no matter which field. That’s what makes it worth doing. You could easily get disillusioned in any of these fields… - making a new drug is difficult with failure rates in clinical trials - AI is just a csv file of weights, from scraped data - etc People often get disillusioned after seeing how the sausage is made. The key is to pick something you’re passionate about and stick with it for a decade or two. Avoid grass is always greener thinking, jumping on bandwagons, or short term trends. Also you can work on multiple things. I’m working hard on crypto but have invested in breakthrough biotech companies for instance like @newlimit There is an art to picking a field that will matter (and you’re a good match for) over the coming decade. Choose wisely!

sometimes i get very sad that i spent the last four years of my life full time in crypto. i read papers from other tech sectors all the time—one friend is working on a soft magnets start up, another stayed up all night with me talking about lithography machines a meta engineer told me they’re working on an agent framework that specifically handles llama models and i know anything that comes out of crypto will soon look like a toy in comparison i have this general sense that ive fallen vastly behind my friends who have been on the forefront of biotech research for the past three years, the senior i looked up to most when i was in college took her research on quantum computing research and turned it into a public company there really are only two or three companies doing genuinely cool things in crypto, otherwise you kind of just get stuck selling a token for outdated tech to an easily awed audience. it feels really shitty and i take what i make from crypto and rotate it to tech sectors that genuinely excite me—for the past two months I’ve been buying dips on nuclear energy stocks because it forces me to challenge my sluggish ‘nothing ever changes’ crypto brain and engage with something that will change the world in the 1-3 year timeframe im really sad because it feels like my understanding of the world and my ability to think critically about science / tech have atrophied because i spent the past few years understanding blockchains that will be radically commoditized and face a steep adoption curve when i may have been better off reading deeply about another field i think a lot of smart people in crypto get burdened with a social weight to stay in crypto and all of a sudden their mental energy is sapped into silly meaningless twitter drama and fights, wrapped into inane bureaucracy of man children that can’t handle the objective fact and criticism, they’re stuck building silly toys for degens, how much of that intellect and sheer will could have gone to something more substantive back in the real world because how can you have a serious product and a token, ever it’s hard to say if id be financially better off had i invested my time elsewhere, but im fortunate to be a part of this group of people that don’t really care about material wealth, just find meaning through challenging work. the only way my life has changed is my clothes are marginally nicer and i actually say yes to ski trips now the world must be explored

@brian_armstrong @coinbase You owe me £35000

Welcome to @coinbase !

@coinbase @jessepollak @iampaulgrewal You owe me £35000

Watch @jessepollak & @iampaulgrewal discuss US crypto policy and what we can expect next. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@brian_armstrong @coinbase Will they work on refunding me my £35000?

Great opportunity for someone to join a new product team at @coinbase

@CoinbaseWallet It’s not safe, you owe me £35000

What if your wallet was actually your gateway to the whole internet?

@brian_armstrong @boomsupersonic How’s the progress on getting my £35000 back?

@boomsupersonic Awesome progress!

@brian_armstrong @mbeisen @biorxivpreprint @ResearchHub Are you on getting my £35000 credit organised?

@mbeisen @biorxivpreprint @ResearchHub is on it!

A publication system based on @biorxivpreprint plus community notes would be INFINITELY SUPERIOR to what we have today, and would cost $10 billion per year less.

@brian_armstrong @coinbase You owe me £35000

Agree with this. Gotta acknowledge there is a problem on speed of execution before we can all fix it - @coinbase is happy to help!

@coinbase When will I be getting my £35000 back?

Read our Solana sends & receives retrospective here ↓ coinbase.com/blog/retrospec…

@brian_armstrong You best credit my account quick then, I’ll be seeking the amount as of now

Executive order on crypto has landed - bullish! (link to follow)

@brian_armstrong @mdudas @krakenfx No apology for my £35000 getting stolen? Nothing actually, not even an acknowledgement

@mdudas @krakenfx Delay should be resolved now - apologies for the trouble. Kraken is a great company also! Hope you'll continue to work with both.