I think OpenAI’s hardware device, ChatGPT voice home speaker, will do well There’s roughly 300 million smart speakers but we all know how dumb they are ChatGPT’s voice mode is basically magic ChatGPT also has a billion users, so the brand will translate well, Claude for example would have a way harder time doing this Unlike the phone, the home speaker is not deeply tied to a platform like iOS or Android, so easy to replace It integrating with your ChatGPT account also makes it compelling, pick up what you were working on from a different device To add to that, OpenAI has apparently 400 former Apple employees, including their former VP of Product Design, Tang Tan Apple suing OpenAI feels like sour grapes and a sign that they feel threatened

So, arriving at the end of a week, some thoughts on MiCA…. I think we can firmly put one idea to bed: MiCA was never "just a paperwork exercise." Even Binance, the biggest exchange on earth, with more lawyers and compliance staff than most regulators, wasn't able to complete the licensing process in time. If an organisation operating at that scale couldn’t simply "comply and move on", we can probably retire the fairytale that everyone else should have found it easy. The truth is thousands of firms were operating before this deadline, but only a handful made it through. Germany, France, and the Netherlands hold most of the approvals, entire countries have none. And it’s not a coincidence, and it’s not incompetence on the industry’s part either, though I’m sure we’ll hear that said. This is just what happens when a regulator asks every company to prove it can survive years of legal spend before it's allowed to keep existing. The firms that cleared MiCA aren’t building anything better; some might be, but most probably aren't. They’re the ones that could afford to pay lawyers for longer. That’s all. Nobody running a project wants to say that part out loud, because it sounds like sour grapes from whoever didn't make the cut. But I'm not in that position, and I'll say it anyway: MiCA is going to protect users, and it's also going to hollow out the middle of this industry, the teams with real products and no war chest. What we are watching is protection and consolidation happening at the same time, and pretending otherwise is just being polite about it. I am not saying this from the outside. We spent the better part of the last year treating this exact outcome as the baseline case for @ZIGChain, not the worst case. We assumed early that a fractured, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction version of crypto was coming regardless of how the headlines framed it. That assumption is now just how the market works, and the projects still operating like it's optional are the ones about to find out the hard way. 🙏