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@CharlotteFang77 That wasn't agreement. You're selling a vision where tech oligarchs owe nothing to anyone beneath them, as rebellion, to the people beneath them. Every merch store needs a good story I guess.

@tayvano_ @SolanaFloor @circle @jerallaire @bax1337 This image makes their decision look based ngl.

@SolanaFloor @circle @jerallaire the moral quandary:

🚨NEWS: @Circle CEO @jerallaire defended the firm’s decision not to freeze USDC tied to the $280M Drift exploit, saying Circle acts only under legal orders and warning unilateral action by private firms creates a “moral quandary.”

Flight No. 168 has departed from Minab for Islamabad. #minab168

Just straight-up war-crime apologism. The same people who love talking about the ‘barbarism’ of other cultures suddenly have no problem excusing barbarism when it comes from their own side.

@CryptoCyberia The PA is a client to Israel.

I don't even know what's going on anymore.

@VitalikButerin >identifies problems that require political power to solve, then prescribes technology. People most crushed by walled gardens aren't joining DAOs, they need unions and antitrust enforcement.

I actually like private property more than I did a few years ago. One variable that changed for me is "stable era mindset vs chaotic era mindset". When you're in a "stable era", you see how private property is suboptimal, how economics can easily churn out 10+ categories of situations where it's obvious that certain taxes, incentives to make things available at better prices, etc can produce first-order gains with only second-order deadweight losses (which means that at low levels, the gains greatly exceed the losses). "Pure" private property is only "optimal" under spherical-cow economic assumptions like perfect competition. But in a "chaotic era", private property is more about schelling points - it's about creating a bulwark that's easy for people to understand and rally around defending, that says "your attempt to intervene in my life from the outside ends here". In the chaotic era, infringements on personal space are less likely to be well-meaning bureaucrats who overreach because they have not read enough Hayek, and more likely to be coming from a place of outright indifference or even hostility to your well-being. And looking at modern politics, yeah, there's a lot of that now. Since a lot of "Vitalik hates private property" sentiment comes from me liking Harberger taxes, I'll address that topic directly. My biggest update since the original 2016-19 era ideas was that, when designing details of Harberger taxes, the best motivating example to organize thought around is not "your house", rather it's "corporate intellectual property and walled gardens". If we think about the underlying complaints that people have about powerful corporations, the walled gardens and various ways in which centralized power accumulates on itself is top 5 on the list. What would it look like to build a "Harberger tax" that would tax eg. social platforms, Apple, etc more if they acted as walled gardens, and less if they enabled interoperability (and zero if they were fully open-source and interoperable and forkable)? There is a lot of energy right now around wanting to tax very wealthy individuals and corporations more, and I wonder: what if the best way to do that is not to tax *wealth* or *unrealized gains* (which has large downsides), but instead to tax *enclosure*? This way you raise revenue in a way that actually *increases* efficiency (any losses from people working less hard are more-than-compensated by gains from people shifting their work into formats where it's easier for people to build on top of each other and markets becoming more competitive). Any tax is an infringement on private property. But if you think about "tax on social platform that's proportional to some metric of how walled-garden-y they are", in an intuitive human sense, it really doesn't feel like "bureaucrats intervening in my life". It feels like "keeping concentrations of power from getting too out of hand". So I am in favor of doing things like that, and much less than before in favor of anything that forces people (incl entrepreneurs) to outright sell their assets, as eg. "Harberger tax on everything" does. A world where startup entrepreneurs are forced to constantly sell shares, realistically to the same few large VCs, in order to pay unrealized-gains or wealth tax bills strikes me as a world that's likely to be more soulless and homogeneous than today. But a world where the top 50% of large companies ranked by walled-garden-ness are taxed more (and the bottom 25% by that metric taxed less, perhaps some even zero), is a world that feels more dynamic and open and free. But even the above is somewhat of a "stable era" perspective, because it tries to make a more-perfect solution from the perspective of the political layer being friendly. We live in a chaotic era, and the point of crypto should be to solve important problems from the bottom up (whether "individualistic bottom up", enabling people to resist and escape various shackles, or "collective bottom up", communities organizing around shifting entire equilibria to their benefit) This ties into what I mean by wanting Ethereum to protect financial self-sovereignty. I do not think that Ethereum has much to offer to the trillion-dollar companies whose goal it is to offer products and services in a way that maximizes walled gardens and enclosure - in fact, much the opposite, censorship resistance can serve as the baseline for rebel communities that play the adversarial game of routing around those walled gardens. I do think Ethereum offers stronger security to people who want to maintain security of (including ability to use) their own financial resources, including surviving through great economic and political turmoil, for their personal or economic needs. And Ethereum offers a base layer for communities to organize large sudden collective shifts away from harmful equilibria into better ones; DAOs should try to solve that problem more.

@lymmozu @CharlotteFang77 Scott's entire point was that these hierarchies are NOT natural.

@videoanon @CharlotteFang77 i believe his point is that those set of behaviors are natural phenomena in human hierarchies, which naturally includes himself—which is what you accused him of, and hence implicitly agreed with him

Contemporary peasant demonology catalyzed by the emergence of a newly illiterate, algorithm-subject subaltern class alienated from capital, easily consumed by conspirational epistemics; historically, peasants employed "hidden transcripts" "offstage resistance", the popular dissemination of morally delegitimizing rumors against the seigniory, in an inversion to place the powerless morally above the elite. Imagery of upside-down worlds, carnivalesque, the ogre-baron stem from this impulse; you can expect to see more of it as our "permanent underclass" is made even more aware of their status while simultaneously consumed by illiterate media epistemics.

@CharlotteFang77 That wasn't agreement. You're selling a vision where tech oligarchs owe nothing to anyone beneath them, as rebellion, to the people beneath them. Every merch store needs a good story I guess.

@videoanon Finally someone gets it

@fluidkey Much more important is a currency switcher, right now it's all $

Fluidkey now supports Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French, and English 🌍 We've been lucky to see growth from Argentina to Taiwan - now we speak your language!

Three incidents in eleven days. The collapse of @kadena_io exposed the quiet decay beneath the Wall Street polish - mismanagement, missed signals, and a runway that vanished before anyone noticed the lights were out. Story below.

@0xdune2000 @defidotapp_ @infinex Both use AI to compensate for what could have been impressive graphics, a sign of laziness. Both also rely on gimmicks like a "degen arena" or a "bull run, yaprun."

if it wasn't clear before: @defidotapp_ = temu, or maybe even wish @infinex = amazon don't be fooled, this isn't even a competition

@theo I’ll only start watching once these videos are not always 15 whole ass minutes long.

Is Claude a snitch? Kind of. I made a benchmark to figure it out. This is the hardest I’ve worked on a video in a long time. Go give it a watch and let me know what you think!

@alexanderchopan Not sure about this one accountless.lovable.app

can we move from a towards b?

@0xdune2000 I feel like the AI generated (looking) token icon, takes away from the high quality interface. Same with the patron cards. Or with the bull run game, all these silly additions to what is supposed to be the future of finance, makes it hard for people to take seriously. Imo.

Sometimes all you need is a pretty animation and all your problems go away. Infinex

@polarizz39 @bigwelf Woah finally. Was not very clear, should be "add new" or "create filter" something like that.

@bigwelf Tap on "EMPTY"

Shot vs edited on Potte Should editing existing photos be allowed? Here's an edit ⬇️

@0xAbhiP 90% of issues I hear from people is without fail a direct cause of polygons decisions. Just delete the whole network at this point.

> be me, trying to onboard friend into crypto > friend has USDC on polygon, wants to move it to base > tries bridging, hits confirm > needs matic for gas > tries swapping usdc to matic, needs matic again > funds stuck on polygon > finally sends matic from cex, bridges to base > funds arrive, ready to explore > tries to swap on base, needs eth for gas again > no eth on base, funds stuck again > friend deletes wallet, never touches crypto again devs pls find a way to fix, normies just wanna use your chain

@ns123abc same vibes

*BREAKING: Nvidia CEO + UAE secured US approval to build on of the largest AI training cluster in the world Jensen can't stop winning.

@family Tested this and accessed a wallet using only forgor password + email code. Nothing else needed. This is without using a passkey obviously, but I doubt many people will. And those that do may use it via their google/icloud acc kind of making it just as secure as email... right?

Family accounts eliminate seed phrases while preserving full self-custody. Read more: family.co/blog/why-famil…

@ercwl The last section of this talk is exactly what I was wondering about. Maybe it's just my TL, but I only see Eric ever talk about op cat, I hope it happens, but I figured this would be much bigger than it is right now.

gave a talk in Hong Kong about OP_CAT earlier this month this will give you an intro to: - what we're trying to do - why - why now talk title was "You Can Just Do Things"

@infinex_app Infinex x.com/videoanon/stat…

What is your most hated crypto app that you use regularly?