Even the darkest nights lead to the brightest mornings, though it may take time to see.

Life’s beauty isn’t in what we have, but in what we’ve learned from what we’ve lost.

Love isn’t found in perfection, but in the small, imperfect, and messy things we do together.

Some days feel like endless battles, but every small victory counts toward your growth and resilience.

New beginnings are often disguised as endings.

They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes, it’s the people we meet that truly mend us.

Books

Insane. How can such a large exchange have such an obviously inadequate signing infrastructure.

Insane. How can such a large exchange have such an obviously inadequate signing infrastructure.
https://www.theblock.co/post/342667/crypto-exchange-bybit-hacked-as-over-1-billion-worth-of-eth-leaves-wallets

ordered pizza at this italian restaurant and they gave me warm cheesy bread with arugula on it

scammed again

skininthegame

I've been consistently deadlifting since September and today I hit a personal record of lifting 1.4x my body weight! My goal for the year was 1.5x which puts me on a great track so far ☺️

when funding new wallets, having to distinguish between L1 ETH and Base ETH is totally unacceptable UX. 

let’s get this abstraction pattern over and done with.

a collective funding mechanism for +170 Ethereum L1 R&D maintainers 🌿 stewarding our commons infra


my goal with @protocolguild is to build an institution that matches & exceeds the EF* wrt brand awareness, legitimacy, legibility, consistency, & protocol funding allocated

high bars + long way to go 🫡 but that's the aim

*ofc not apples to apples - diff. mandates, constraints

Better, use social signals to determine the “right” token

Podcasts

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Ep. 9 of /dialectic w @jacob is live.

Jacob is co-founder & CEO of /zora, a platform that allows anyone to tokenize media. He's spent his career thinking about how blockchains, tokens, markets, and ideas enable internet-native coordination.

They're building on Stewart Brand's premise that "information wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive.” In an internet era where content is abundant and effectively free, it is also expensive to consume and create—not by way of money, but time.

We discuss a world where markets around attention and content allow better coordination around what information is worth our time.

We also discuss why memes are so powerful, speculation vs. gambling, reflections on popular crypto ideas and Zora's history, Coinbase and co-creating USDC, and many other topics that showcase Jacob's generative creativity, unique ways of thinking, and inspirations.

https://pods.media/dialectic/9-jacob-horne-markets-for-what-matters?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

“Speculation is imagination with action.” 
 
@jacob on how speculation can be a superpower and markets can turn PVP energy into positive sum outcomes:

“Speculation is how you express an opinion.  It is how you can take some agency over what you actually want to see happen in the world.

“People conflate speculation and gambling. [You can ask] Is this zero-sum speculation or positive-sum speculation? Betting is zero-sum.

Positive-sum information markets can lead to the creation of information that is durable and useful to the people consuming it.”

/dialectic ep. 9 with Jacob Horne is available on all platforms.

crystalbreeze

@crystalbreeze