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Sean Thielen-Esparza

@xael

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Use cases that haven’t worked outside of crypto: - identity/auth (wallets) - composable data (public blockchains) Whereas - crowdfunding - prediction markets - remittances - saving & investing Have all found healthy traction by staying finance-related
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An uncomfortable truth: as a technology, crypto has proven to be too controversial for any use case outside of money
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Criticizing these people assumes that they just need to get over themselves and make “real” friends. And if they can’t, then there’s an implicit assumption: m they don’t deserve friends. (But of course, none of the critics ever seem to make it this far in their rage bait)
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Most people don’t have great relationships (friends, family, coworkers, etc). They haven’t felt what being witnessed, what being truly cared for, feels like. Judging people with “AI friends” often overlooks this point.
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meme density is key
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World is the most misunderstood opportunity in crypto
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great curation; insta-following errbody
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Looking to get in touch with Burner (https://burner.pro/) for a special project… who’s the best person to contact?
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energy
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SFO is a perfect airport
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2017: Attention is all you need 2025: Err, maybe memory too
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bullish lmfao
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She was super excited to get her first crypto haha. It was the message she’s heard from others before (“you should get paid in crypto”), but I was the right messenger to reach her Still, the goal is for her to spend this money on supplies and it was a ton of friction to offramp her funds. How can we make it easier for folks to spend USDC directly from a wallet? Even a Base debit card would be a better experience than offramping cc @jessepollak
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(It’s lowkey a psyop to get my fellow technologists to become patrons of the arts haha) 🤓
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Onboarded another artist to @base this morning! I started a grants program (silica.capital) where I’m giving $1000 USDC to 12 artists throughout the year
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always have been
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Information should be kept offline and private if you want to retain an edge in a post-AI world
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“Open source everything” suggests that you don’t find anything precious
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The word “vibe” is the laziest word to describe something that you like. Specificity of goodness (and badness) is good!
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Oh right. I think Prime Intellect is working on this actually
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