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Jan
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@Janonchain umm… I updated my LinkedIn already?🌚
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My maternal grandfather was a house servant in Mumbai. Every time he had to send money back home to my grandmother and kids, he had to walk 3-4 km to reach the nearest post office. Home was a small village near Dwarhat in Uttarakhand, which didnt even have road access back then, the closest road came much later and was still about a km away from the village.
And sending that money wasnt a quick errand. He had to take half a day off, sometimes a full day, just to stand in long lines at the post office and send a "money order". The maalik he worked for would get pissed about it and cut his Sunday leave, and Sunday was the only day he had off in the entire week. He paid a fee that wasnt cheap for him, and even when everything went smoothly the money would still reach days later.
That was the reality of being poor, you had to toil just to move your own money. The fees were somewhat manageable because India had a nationalised postal service, but they were still harsh for a guy like my grandfather. The delays were the worst part. If a money order got stuck for a week or two my grandmother would end up borrowing wheat and dal from neighbours, especially in peak winter when supply was already tight.
Sometimes during strikes or disruptions he had to trust random intermediaries to carry the cash for him. You just didnt have many other options.
And this isnt some old story. The global average cost of sending remittances today is still around 6-7%. Thats what the poor are still paying just to move their own money across a border.
Now someone can send dollar stablecoins across borders in seconds for less than a cent, no bank sitting in between taking its cut. In Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, stablecoins are already becoming part of how people actually live. When your own currency is devaluing year after year, nobody has to sell you on the idea, you just want something stable you can hold and send whenever you need to.
My Nanaji deserved this convenience 50 years ago. Billions of people still deserve it today. Thats why @0xPolygon wants to move all money onchain 💜
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At age 6 the baby still looks like an infant 🤨🤨
J R ❤️🔥@ResilienceX3
Si tienes esto en tu vida, no te hace falta nada más.
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and it's a wrap..
the last 4 weeks have been a real rollercoaster with zkVerify India Event & Workshop Series
hyderabad - bengaluru - delhi - mumbai
ig it'll take me another week to create a recap for all the events we hosted bc there's so much I want to show you (real builder stories, raw talent from grassroots, crazy ideas & real convos)
reporting soon!
over n out😴


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i’ve been badgeless on x for a reason
i didn’t want one from a project i wasn’t genuinely involved with
so this one means something
i’ve been working with @Fhenix on the content side for about 6 months now. at ethcc we ran a full creator activation together and it was one of my favorite things i’ve done this year
the way they approach marketing is different. they actually invest in creators and in community and i think more projects could learn from that
excited to keep building together

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my next few months are going to be
GAME CHANGER!
as I’ll be in sf soon
across past 8years I’ve:
> worked with Top creators
> worked as a data scientist
> wrote smart contracts
> became a YouTuber (1M+ views)
> grew Instagram page 0->100k (in a week)
> did: podcasts, AD films, launch videos, tutorial videos, long form, short form, EVERYTHING
with this crazy portfolio and talent
sf is going to be what Blr was when I came from Gujarat
richard@richardzphotoz
The demand for media talent in tech/SF is huge right now. Feels like creators will be next, and that’s where a lot of attention and distribution will start to head in the next few months.
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