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1/ Welcome 2025! 🎉

2024? Gone forever. My mantra has been work, travel, and do shit. 

In fact, 2024 was one of my BEST year so far.   

Sharing my extreme lessons, experiences, and stories month by month: 🧵👇

veil.cash

What is /veil ?

Veil is a privacy protocol on @base that uses zk-SNARKs to provide users with onchain privacy. 

What makes Veil different than others, is that it only allows "verified" users to enter these pools. 

Link: https://www.veil.cash/

Docs: https://veildotcash.gitbook.io/veil-cash/veil-cash-v0.1-base

Token: https://dexscreener.com/base/0x7f1a5b66ba3bb56c4b68cfc353a5e041c9763a4c

GM Farcaster (podcast)

I wrote up some personal goals for GM Farcaster and sharing here before I even showed @nounishprof 

Is this called building in public? 🫴 🦋 

Prof what do you think?

“Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin demonstrate that on a long enough time scale, mere privatization is not the same as efficiency. Especially if the government is your only customer.”

Burja explaining why well-run govt. is essential in “high freedom architectures”

I'm on a full blown Samo binge right now, somebody help me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1PD_CY7kmk

brypto

it's inevitable that crypto product frontends will price access in stables and allow users to pay in whatever asset they want.

pricing access to a product in a volatile asset is too bad of a user AND builder experience for it to remain the norm.

speculators buy access they'll never use, drive up prices and lock out potential real users.

bad for builders (who need real usage), bad for users (who can't get in).

"what's wrong with adjusting access requirements as price changes?"

if you're dropping access from 10k $token to 1k $token while nothing about the product changed, you're already pricing in stables — you're just using $token as an unstable middleman, introducing volatility risk for users and extra work for yourself.

defi enables any product frontend to show price to access at a stable $25, yet users can still pay in whatever they want (ETH, USDC, ANON, HIGHER, VEIL).

the tech for this already exists today. zero friction for users. zero complexity for builders. zero volatility risk for everyone.

TIL if you microwave something for too long, in this case defrosted frozen plantains, it will indeed catch fire.

If this is obvious, please excuse my retardant

exact minute of the top. 

lesson in there.

am i just an idiot or can you really not connect to opensea in the rainbow browser?

Memes

Silicon Valley Daily

Atlanta is irrelevant to this story. The data centers will be built somewhere.

Base

total ETH bridged to @base has 2x'd in the last 90 days

teddit

Gray Tribe

It's not enough to be "the third thing". There are so many possible third things that at times different people's proposed "third things" end up being almost exact opposites of each other.

The vibe of being "the third alternative to escape the binary" is appealing, but it has to be matched with the right substance.

Books

Found a first edition of Cybernetics in a used bookstore. Printed in 1948!

Embarking on a journey of discovery and growth

Malik🎭🎭🎩

@malik1819