Matt Smith

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Well done Noah Smith, as always. Great blog post today. You speak for me! @noahpinion

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I look forward to @patio11 ‘s complex systems episode every single time. This most recent interview by Eric Tornberg is fascinating. Keep it up!

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Exquisite essay by Noah Smith today on humanity’s eternal foe: poverty. Amazing writing, as usual.

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Noah Smith has intrigued me. I will next read some Vigne. Is he on this platform?

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Nice work @rsa.eth and @trustlessstate for your Patrick McKenzie episode. I love your choice of a thoughtful skeptic on your show. He is bright, articulate, and engaging. And maybe he is right. Great balance. Well done.

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Not the first time @bankless has changed my perspective. The first killer app for blockchains will be financial markets. Transactions will be denominated in tokenized USD. USG will support this. Markets will be 24/7 and open source. Fees will be driven low. I can now articulate a use case!

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My new favorite Noah Smith quote: “there’s more to life than fire safety.”

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I love Morgan Housel’s books and feel that this period in crypto is the perfect example of “getting paid for volatility.”

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To answer your question from the most recent @bankless pod, @rsa.eth , a big reason folks buy BTC ETFs is because they have significant sums in 401k accounts that do not have simple access to BTC self custody. I’d rather have them under my private keys, but that involves transferring my 401k to a self directed IRA

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Today’s are wondering if we shouldn’t have been cowboys.

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@rsa.eth nice summary of Justin’s point on the benefits of shared sequencing.

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As I listen to @bankless latest @justindrake episode, how do we add a universal sequencer in a decentralized way? I’m sure we will get there.

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OMG Jason Kelce is hilarious! What a great dude.

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Do not apologize for passionately articulating your views @bankless . That’s why we listen. If folks want their views (ie SOL) published, they can get a podcast.

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Great analysis @trustlessstate of whether decentralization or UX is the harder problem to solve. Great question & the answer is very important for crypto.

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Those railing against @bankless and their coverage of $SOL should consider their lack of coverage of $AVAX and $ADA. SOL gets fair coverage IMO

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Wish I didn’t have to listen to Gary Danielson to watch Alabama today.

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@trustlessstate @rsa.eth The surveillance episode is my favorite non-technical (like non-blockchain) episode. Amazing guests, well done! Please do more of these.

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Great discussion of digital surveillance! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bankless/id1499409058?i=1000627590584. The description of FinCen’s growth in data and capability is descriptive of intensives in bureaucracy generally. It is t bad, it just needs a (judicial?) gatekeeper.

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Trying to sign up with @worldcoin on the worldcoin app. It gives me a fraud protection error (#2). I’ve tried with a VPN in Japan and Netherlands. Any ideas?

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