I was sad to see Nick Szabo sign off in 2021. It’s good to see him back in the fray somewhere. Don’t take the old heads for granted. Many have come and gone 🫡

Pushing stablecoins as a way to increase dollar hegemony is strictly worse than the SBR.

El Salvador did always have a bit of an asterisk where businesses were forced to accept bitcoin, never really felt right.

Imagine 2025 the year of ripple, xrp the standard. Who stops this?

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𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓮 (@_Crypto_Barbie) on X

WOW! 💥 RIPPLE CEO BRAD GARLINGHOUSE HIMSELF CONFIRMS: „BITCOIN HAS BEEN A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT, BUT NOT WHEN IT COMES TO PAYMENTS!“ BTC ...

Timeless, true heritage.

Balkanize then bridge

@Alex Gleason always bringing the gang back together

Protocols, protocols, protocols https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/08/apples-iphone-security-suddenly-under-attack-all-users-now-at-risk/

Had to go sort of deep in the Amazon seller list to find this but they didn’t say it had this

Idk how many more times I can allow myself to be shown Elon shooting his shot on x the everything app

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I need to zap again. How are people zapping in 2024 post apple zap take down?

100k! Back to work

@calle cultivating his anti Calle bluesky persona

Platform Benefits - $ - ego - as big as you can build Protocol Benefits - access - $ for real value - use cases you could’ve never imagined - that you benefit from - less all or nothing and picking from two bad options. More options, more benefit for more customers

How does a protocol play differ from a platform play? Platform Play - we own the ecosystem - you connect through our own APIs - you play in our sandbox - we decide who gets to play (fragile) - if we go down, you go down Protocol Play - we play a part in a larger ecosystem - you use open source code for your use case - you can use our services, or anyone else’s (but ours are the best) - we decide who uses our services (no one decides who uses the protocol) - the ecosystem’s growth is not limited by us Protocol plays are the future, they’re not controlled or limited by any one entity, they are bigger than the sum of their parts Platforms are monopolies, will likely be treated as such in the future. Platforms don’t have the growth / access potential that protocols do. Since platforms are monopolies, they become captured and corrupted over time

Protocols, not platforms