Adam Cochran
@adamscochran
1/11 On New Years: One of my goals for 2024 is to shift more of my writing to Farcaster and get away from Twitter. But more broadly a return to my roots. In a recent post by @vitalik.eth he encouraged the community to “be more cypherpunk”
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Adam Cochran
@adamscochran
2/11 I joined this industry over a decade ago, working at a Bitcoin exchange in Canada. A nerd with an IT background, I spent my days trying to even teach people what Bitcoin was. It wasn’t about the money; it was about the message.
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Adam Cochran
@adamscochran
3/11 Over the years I’ve tried to keep true to that in my investing, believing that the best way to make money is to do things that are good.
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Adam Cochran
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4/11 But there is only so much you can do behind the investing desk. It’s not the same as building. It’s not the same as shipping new code, and trying new ideas.
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Adam Cochran
@adamscochran
5/11 So I’m (mostly) hanging up my investor hat and putting my family office fund on hold to dive back into the trenches again and make a difference. To try new things, in hopes I push forward this space in a meaningful way, and not necessarily a profitable one.
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Adam Cochran
@adamscochran
6/11 While this has been in the works for a while, @vitalik.eth’s post really inspired me to set a coherent approach to this return, via a set of self prescribed goals:
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Adam Cochran
@adamscochran
7/11 1) Build robust, cypherpunk systems, that fairly exist outside the scope of the system to help preserve privacy, freedom and autonomy. 2) Build robust systems within the letter of the law, that preserve access to privacy, freedom and autonomy and to those exterior systems.
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