Crypto really is low status and trashy. It has afforded me a lot of opportunity but it’s also embarrassing and not something I am excited to tell people about

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

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Feature not a bug 

Most powerful financial technology ever created — would be a real shame if incumbents could coopt it

Good thing they won’t touch it

friendly neighborhood shitcaster / building @pinetree

Have you ever taken a payday loan? Or had to remit money to another country? Or held physical dollars to hedge against inflation?

I think incumbents are good for you because you’re in the top 10% in the world when it comes to financial access

The incumbents honestly are the better players sorry not sorry

No one here myself included is all that great 

Crypto afaik uses a revolutionary posture to take all the worst parts of the incumbent culture and KEEP those while being worse in every other way and hoping you don’t notice because you’re distracted by ideals no one lives up to 

Ie why is Coinbase so shitty at providing reasonable customer support while allowing company insiders to snipe every single new token listing of the year? 

Sure tradfi insider trades too but at least they give me a fucking person on the phone when I have a problem with my scraps