Bryan Barton

@pitdesi It will take a ballot proposition to stop the boondoggle.

This is probably gonna go on for the rest of my life and they’ll keep driving the cost up somehow. In a few years the estimate will be $350B and it will be just as far from completion. What would it take to kill it?

@bpmilne What do you mean by the merchant not having to do anything? Don't they have to allow access to the terminal in their store?

Who’s built a onchain payment terminal for accepting funds with stablecoins via tap- without the merchant having to do anything?

@paulthagoras @CaHSRA I came here to post exactly that!

@CaHSRA From ConGlobal to ConCali

Marilyn Norris has been appointed Chief of Safety and Security for the Authority! She brings a wealth of experience in transportation and safety, including leadership positions at ConGlobal, REMPREX, Amazon, and more! Welcome aboard!

@SzechaunAlex @sircalebhammer

@sircalebhammer I heard they refused to use Rearden Steel

Shouldn’t it be creating… high-speed rail though?

@jbarro Lol. I appreciate that they leave comments open. Of which literally 💯 of them are negative 😅

Can we reduce the number of social media manager jobs created by the project to zero?

@robcgiani @Seasteading

Who are the sf startups building in ocean/maritime? 🌊

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

@ajhodls 🤣

openai should have announced the tbpn acquisition yesterday so they could take it back

@zachperret @Plaid Anything and everything #stablecoin related. start with @bettermoney_co and @brale_xyz my bank ( @usbank ) won't even let me wire to crypto exchanges. Others have #debanked me for doing so. Would be nice if plaid could fix that.

Which banks, data elements, or account types would you most like to see @Plaid add or improve?

@justkierstenm The fine line between persistent and stalker... 😬

The real ones know they gotta call me twice cuz my shit’s always on dnd

@AlyseKilleen Because people know the podcaster and don't know the relevant technologists. It isn't advanced rocket science, just basic marketing.

I will never understand how, even in deeply technical arenas, podcaster opinions are favored (or sought) over those of the relevant technologists (or of any technologists at all).

@Evanzsolomon Clark in their compliance department. (The guy is a real Dick)

Mercury needs to roll out stablecoin custody and payments ASAP. Partner with Coinbase, Circle, or Anchorage, and let's move. What's the hold up?

@AdamZuck13 I frequently need to swap from one stablecoin to another. How does @bettermoney_co charge? Is it cheaper than exchanges? What amounts are you guys targeting? What is the deal with KYC and AML? How will the IRS view exchanging stables on your platform?

@JorCru It is stupid to expand the subway because soon everyone will have access to self driving cars. The time of choo choo trains has passed. 🚂

Seeing an LA guy on here be very dickish about how “no one in LA uses the subway” to emphasize why it’s stupid to expand the subway. First of all, yes people do take the subway — many commuters even — but the biggest reason more people don’t is THERE ISN’T ENOUGH SUBWAY.

@justkierstenm @kixmberley 😆

Still trying to figure out time travel so you can spit in my mouth one more time

Elevators used to be manually operated and were especially risky if the operator was tired or inebriated. Now, you just get in, press a button and a modern elevator, if inspected regularly, is extremely safe.

@FroatsHenry @tbpn @mcuban House came with it. And i am too cheap to doordash 3 times a day. 😆

@Bryan_Barton @tbpn @mcuban You can, it’s called door dash. Why do you still have a kitchen?

.@mcuban says humanoid robots won't last more than 5-10 years. Instead, we'll "design the house to fit the robot, and design the robot to fit the house." "You could create a house where the pantry, the refrigerator, and the washing machines were hidden behind the garage, if you even have a garage. That way you could redesign the house so that all the living space was for people."

@Bryan_Barton How dare they [Greta voice]

“No kings” says Gavin Newsom who ordered all the outdoor skate parks filled with sand during the pandemic.

@DppCrypto @Cointelegraph Lot's of tether is on tron.

And of course on Ethereum 🏆

🚨 FUN FACT: Nearly 90% of all stablecoin volume comes from Tether and Circle’s USDC.

@antoniogm The director of base growth should work on making some inroads!

Counter-prediction: If this were true, then porn would be all crypto given the chargeback rate there is 30% and banks and issuers hate dealing with the business. Yet crypto has made near-zero inroads there. Stables will be riding shotgun with fiat rails for a while yet.