Martin

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What are the best comeback stories or pivots in crypto? Here’s some of my favs: 1) @virtualsprotocol.eth From a gaming guild hit hard by the winter, pivoting to a venture studio in the bear, and now a leading AI agent platform. Simply never giving up. Hats off to @ethermage @empty 2) Drift Protocol Battling issues early on, the FTX implosion, seeing their TVL drop to $1M, to now having $1B in TVL and being a leader in Solana DeFi across multiple categories (perps, borrow lend, vaults, etc). Will always have immense respect and love for @cindyleowtt and David 3) @solana The entire eco’s comeback has been crazy. From being left for dead to being by far the most successful chain across almost every metric that matter. Insane how laser focused @aeyakovenko @rajgokal have been towards their vision of building the decentralised Nasdaq.

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Crypto has historically onboarded most folks by speculation. Once they own assets, they’re one big step closer to exploring the onchain world. But the majority of the world aren’t that fond of speculation. The easiest way to get them onchain will be by giving them assets to kick start their journey. Depin and social apps are the two categories most likely to lead this movement. Or founders utilising their CAC on giving a small amount of assets when a user joins.

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Existing systems never fail to remind me of the value of sufficiently decentralised systems like @farcaster Started a ig page for a fun project with a friend. Didn’t do anything against the ToS but got suspended without warning and no real explanation. Was able to appeal and get it fixed but still, kinda scary to know that this could happen to anyone at anytime.

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Prediction markets for culture is slowly but surely showing signs of broader interest. @polymarket isn't generating as much buzz as it used to. But it's still one of a small number of apps that has visible achieved real mainstream interest. Biaheza (1.38m subs on YouTube) made a video about making bets on Polymarket a month ago. The bets weren't even election related. The best part, I didn't see any comment containing the usual crypto hate. Viewers were genuinely entertained and found it interesting. It's almost as though making a product that people actually want to use for reasons outside of crypto is key to get wider usage beyond our echo bubble. (Off the grid is another example)

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Stablecoins/crypto payments have demand and strong real world usage in developing nations But in developed ones with strong banking services/fintech players like Singapore and the US, there’s little need to use stables in your day to day life. Except for remittance/cross border transfers ofc. Do we ever see that changing? And what needs to happen for us to have wider adoption? Main issues now from someone living in Singapore are 1) extra fees that I’d have to pay 2) more convenient to just use local services unless I already have stables

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Finally back at double digit distance runs

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It ain’t much but it’s honest work

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Still think this is super underrated. Looking at existing business models, see inefficiencies or gaps that crypto can fill. Likely helps to convince skeptics of the value of crypto more than trying to build another fork of XYZ hyped protocol.

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I’ve seen articles/videos saying how your long run should only be 20-30% of your weekly mileage. But if applied to my case, the long run is only about 2km more thn a normal run haha. Should I ignore that rule and go higher? Or just focus on increasing my overall mileage everyday.

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Another one for the books (don’t mind the heart rate)

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Farcaster’s edge over the bird app is its ability to organise chaos (large magnitudes of real time engagement). Channels segment real time engagements across a multitude of topics on a generalised social network. Giving the platform the strength of Reddit but the engagement and live-ness of Twitter.

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Slowly but surely

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Pretty funny how CT hates on VCs but are so excited and hyped about going for the side events and conferences paid for by VCs

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Another one for the books

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any chance a Coros integration is in the works? would love to join in but Coros is my only tracker

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Speculation is a side effect of ownership. Ownership allows for markets to be created leading to speculation. Embrace it as a feature and not a bug. The ability to own domains on the web created a multi-billion dollar industry of buying/selling domains. People would speculate on the value of specific domains, buy them and sit on them until the right buyer comes along - voice(dot)com sold for $30m. Domains go through boom and bust cycles and at times, wild fluctuations. The same thing happens across other asset classes - real estate, equities, etc.

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Crypto marketing in a nutshell

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The way students are tested in schools is so outdated it's not even funny at this point. The knowledge economy is over and the allocation economy is in. The internet and now AI has drastically reduced the value of knowledge while increasing the value of a person's ability to apply knowledge. In an allocation economy, the person who wins isn’t the expert who knows the exact answer to a question. It’s the one who knows which questions to ask in the first place.(credits to @danshipper ) Yet students are still largely being tested on their ability to retain knowledge. If an exam paper is filled with questions that can be answered by ChatGPT or Claude in seconds, it's not testing the right things.

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Everyone’s so focused on cutting edge world changing tech but forget that at the end of the day, good consumer businesses give good returns.

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DePIN turns capex heavy pipeline businesses into asset light platforms. A platform's strength comes from its network and grows exponentially, while old school pipeline businesses grow linearly. Platforms can achieve scale and size that pipeline businesses can only dream off. Like how Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles, and Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate, platforms like Helium can grow to become the world's largest telco without owning all the physical infra required.

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