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I am almost certain there is a Trump executive order, or at least a @Linda_McMahon @EDSecMcMahon demand letter sent to Columbia or Harvard, addressing the KANGAROO COURTS held at universities where accused students get no due process or representation and their fates are decided by a panel of unelected, deranged academics. This is something I am certain @christopherrufo would be interested in looking at. @elonmusk , this kid is DOGEing the universities and they are inappropriately retaliating against him for it. These hearings cause extreme stress for the student --this case reminds me of Aaron Swartz at MIT. We need safe harbor provisions for engineering students to be free to pursue their genius without fear of retaliation from an unelected university bureaucracy. I can guarantee @alexkshieh can produce more in one hour than any of the fake humanities academics Brown will put on this hearing panel have produced in an entire career. They are unfit to be deciding the fate of this genius.

Pomp is correct as always. This controlled supply is the mechanism that protects the purchasing power of Bitcoin owners. Miners get paid newly minted Bitcoin when they add a block (containing transactions). That miner’s reward per block cuts in half every 210,000 blocks / ~four years. Thus there’s a diminishing number of new bitcoin entering circulation = eventual scarcity, solving the purchasing power problem. In order to add a block, miners must spend electricity (proof of work), meaning it’s more expensive to spend electricity for many previous blocks than it is to just spend electricity to add one new one, ensuring Bitcoin is append only and transactions are immutable. This is necessary for a system where thousands of competitors are maintaining a ledger / earning rewards, and no single third party (like a bank) is relied on. A consensus of miners is required to mine the next block of the longest chain. This solved the Byzantine general’s problem in computing, as thousands of computers in different locations agree to the most up-to-date version of the Bitcoin “file.” Miners must also check all transactions are not already spent before adding it to their own block. This solves banking’s double spend problem. Bitcoin’s transparent but pseudonymous wallets help enable this. In fact, according to Satoshi, a bitcoin is “a chain of digital signatures,” all of the private keys that have signed for that bitcoin previously. This private key signing is history is what miners check to prevent double spend. One elegant solution to four problems across monetary theory, computing, banking, and digital identity.

@APompliano I appreciate you Pomp.

Can someone in the crypto world dip in here. Im happy for y’all, really, not my thing but Im glad it’s working out. Is there a use case for this stuff yet or is it just “number go up”? I mean Im fine if it’s the latter but is that what we’ve landed on?

@TimJDillon Hey @TimJDillon, my friends and I just applied to be in the audience but it doesn’t say where this is being taped. We’re guessing in Riyadh or on the 162nd floor of the Burj Khalifa?

Kim Cheatle please respond to our request for you to have a picnic with me on the sloped roof. Would be good for America

@Twitter why is there a sensitive content warning on this? @TwitterSupport

Thank you @SpiritAirlines pilot Mark Collins for sharing this unbelievable footage of the @SpaceX Falcon launch, as seen from the cockpit of his flight. @elonmusk is an American hero. CC: @astro_g_dogg @Gwynne_Shotwell

We’re building Twitter in public now. Wild.

@Austen Happy to talk about university blockchain clubs / academics and what we are doing @FilFoundation with our Orbit Ambassador program (80+ ambassadors, 30+ countries).

Who can I talk to for 30 mins who is an expert in scaled (campus) ambassador programs?

Take Materials Science 101. You won’t regret it.

Mars may be a fixer upper of a planet, but it has great potential!

Elon & his ventures are the reason I wake up every morning filled with hope, optimism, joy, & excitement that humanity has a better future with Elon around. I'm sure I'm not the only one to wake up with that optimism. Take care, Elon. Stay safe. The world needs you. @elonmusk

I strongly believe that all managers in a technical area must be technically excellent. Managers in software must write great software or it’s like being a cavalry captain who can’t ride a horse!

Elon acquiring Twitter is the best thing that could've happened for freedom of speech. There a lot of exciting & positive changes that Elon has planned to make this platform a better place. Other billionaires spend their wealth for personal benefits, @elonmusk helps humanity.

The Biden Administration’s creation of a “disinformation” bureau within DHS is effectively a Ministry of Truth that is alien to our constitutional tradition. Florida rejects Biden’s attempt to enforce regime-approved narratives and to stifle dissent.

@esaagar Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate

@AOC Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy ☺️

Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech

The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all

Let’s make Twitter maximum fun!

I’m excited to see what happens next. Here’s to the future! But one request for @elonmusk: can you use Twitter Logs to show us how our communications were manipulated? Who was shaddowbanned or targeted by bots? How algorithms limited our reach? Why we were throttled? Etc. 🙏