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why @base.base.eth from @barmstrong today

that's brilliant. Goldman has invested into infra e.g. blockdaemon so they are clearly betting on blockchains for their own products. 

Sometimes feels like Tradfi plays 4D chess with itself: pretend publicly you hate crypto whilst getting ready to out-launch your rival

this is a transcript from a talk he gave at the Goldman Sachs conference today 

we are building a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom

This is so incredible. Before I even saw your cast I saved this image in my Obsidian and ran it through Claude for the transcript.

very neat! I would just throw away that part about "every minute payday" a bit mehh

Totally agree with this, and I’d add that it also makes it so much easier for people to build and monetize digital products. Payments and auth as first class citizens are so incredibly powerful, it’s only a matter of time until web2 devs realize this.

great message!  

I hadn’t heard the text message-blockchain comparison before.. 

will def put this to good use as it’s easy for non-crypto people to understand…

This is a big deal. Big moment in time, inspired to be building things together

This is incredible, we are going to change how people uses money in their day to day life.

There are so many possibilities, our imagination is the only limit!

This is awesome. I was going to ask if this is public and shareable… but you did just post it publicly so will assume yes. 😅

Sounds like b arm is talking about floaties to me too

Groundbreaking stuff here. Have some berries

🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

I'm skeptical - the incentive to decentralize isn't clear, coinbase is a publicly traded company that makes healthy amounts off their centralized sequencer

Truthfully it isn’t yet. It is a proper L2 built on the OP stack, but a better descriptor would be decentraliz*ing*.

in what ways is based decentralized - genuinely curious because there might be gaps in my knowledge with how it works

Would be interesting for sure to see what a global decentralized economy can bring to the world, I liked the comparison with text message too!

I didn't know it was humanly possible for me to become more bullish on Coinbase.
But here we are.