Justin Slaughter

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@jbsdc asked what Harris could do to prove she's pro-crypto my answer was "publicly use crypto" looks like Trump beat her to it https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1836515361145205141

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It’s a true irony of life that for all Gary Gensler says about crypto not following unwritten rules, he is personally consumers sloppy about following political norms and rules in his official government job. https://x.com/eleanorterrett/status/1834210398842581351?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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Stray thought: leftists concerned first and foremost with social welfare programs may be more amenable to crypto than liberals obsessed with building state power. It’s not Bernie Sanders or AOC declaring a war on crypto like Warren has.

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What a surprise, independent academic poll basically tracks polls from us at Paradigm and others in crypto: - Crypto owners lean Trump, voting for him 50-38 over Harris - Ownership skews young and nonwhite - ownership is not ideological: equal percentages of progressives, moderates, MAGA, liberals, conservatives all own crypto. https://www.fdu.edu/news/fdu-poll-finds-trumps-embrace-of-crypto-pays-off/

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The battle of sekigahara wasn’t only about logistics imo: - Kobayakawa had large forces on a hill for half the battle couldn’t decide which side until both sides pretty much not only threatened him but started shooting arrows on his troop well into the battle - he chose the Tokugawa side - Other defectors like Kikkawa and Akaza late decided the battle as they followed Kobayakawa - Mitsunari was charismatic and deeply loyal to the Toyotomi side but still had a of issues recruiting lords to fight for him - Background: Toyotomi Hideyoshi passes away in 1598, and it creates a power vacuum. Ieyasu now in his late 50s is ready to take over (after seeing unification happen first with Nobunaga, and now with Hideyoshi, there’s finally an opportunity for him) but Hideyoshi’s son and his mother are in the way. This was the literal and metaphorical battle between the incumbent and the challenger - So every daimyo in Japan has a choice, stick w/ the old Toyotomi, or fight for the Ieyasu, or abstain. It was a bet

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In the great battle of Sekigahara, the eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the western forces of Ishida Mitsunari because the eastern forces had a unified command structure and the west didn’t. Better logistics beats better strategy nearly every time.

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Besides Farcaster (obviously), what’s one crypto project Brian Nelson should experience? What speaks best of our industry?

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Besides Farcaster (obviously), what’s one crypto project Brian Nelson should experience? What speaks best of our industry?

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https://x.com/crypto/status/1826331383205142779?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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Great things are happening in Chicago. https://x.com/crypto/status/1826331383205142779?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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People are overrating Bharat’s involvement.

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We dropped our new poll of Democrats on crypto today. Best data point on crypto is that 18% of Dems have bought up to this point, 12% currently own, and 27% plan to buy in the next year. Based on the crosstabs, about 14% of Dems plan to buy for first time in next 12 months. AMA https://policy.paradigm.xyz/writing/Dem-polling

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If you want to know who is losing power in Dem politics right now, look at who is screaming that the Biden years were actually awesome. https://x.com/ddayen/status/1821941375723552853?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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Anyway, if you wanted a rebuttal of some of the bad points made about crypto in the Washington Post and the New York Times recently, Sheila Warren and I have a new op-ed fact checking them. https://t.co/J6mCVTOQcG

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Publications write headlines of op-eds, not the authors. If you took out the headline (which shows the NYT Editorial page hates crypto), this is annoying but less bad than usual. And if you dropped this piece in 2023, it would seem pro-crypto compared to all other newspaper columns on us. We’re winning. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/opinion/crypto-2024-election.html

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If you had 30 seconds with a senior adviser to the Harris campaign to explain why they should be pro-crypto, what would you say?

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Hard to say whether its bearish or bullish for Dems becoming pro-crypto, but this focused pressure seems to be at least requiring them to engage for the first time and reducing the odds they decide to be overtly negative (since they’re struggling to analyze downside risk of doing so on the fly).

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This also means Harris’ view of crypto is being rushed. Rather than the usual multi week to month process of slow analysis and engagement, Harris is having to shoot from the hip because the Biden team never paid enough attention to crypto and Trump is forcing the issue into the press.

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The really wild that about this election is that the Harris team is building a campaign apparatus in basically 90 days, which is a long time for the rest of the world used to 5-6 week election campaigns, and insanely fast for the US and our multi-year death march campaigns.

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Man, Harris went with Walz. I’m shocked. Probably an error, not least that is signal an interest in prevent defense/not rocking the boat rather than playing to win.

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