Fresh meaty goodness for The Culture Vault. Added another Diewiththemostlikes 1/1 "more to give" from the Legalise Ground Beef series. The Culture Vault now proudly has 6 1/1's from @toadswiback Thanks @maxkarlan and @Blondie23LMD for this!

Yes. One thesis is that Xi Jack Ma’d Jack Ma so that Jack Ma couldn’t Elon Xi. Meaning: Xi seized Jack Ma’s assets and drove similar Chinese tech founders into subservience or exile, so that Jack Ma (or someone like him) couldn’t use his fortune to challenge the ruling Party, like Elon did in America. So: in China, the State won over the Network. But in America, the Network won over the State. Elon freed speech with X, and tech freed media with AI and freed money with crypto. Technologists did not bend the knee to the ruling Democrat Party. That’s the alternative outcome. Now yes, it is still possible (and indeed likely) for some of the assets of the Internet to be seized by the American State, particularly by Democrats, particularly in Silicon Valley. I also expect physical violence against immigrant technologists, mostly from the left on the basis of class, but possibly from the right on the basis of race too. And this will be ugly. But fundamentally the Internet has decentralized enough that this will only be a fatal blow for those unfortunate enough to be physically resident in failed American states like California. Because today the Internet is much bigger than the Democrats, and blues have lost so much IQ over the past few decades that they’re not going to be able to shut it down. They already tried with the censorship and regulations, and they lost. Democrat wealth seizures and anti-tech violence will cause pain, but it just isn’t going to stop the global Internet. Thus: the Western State is in decline. And the successors are the Eastern State and the International Network.

💯 Both views are silly. Possibly: Sympathy when you get out of prison for a "no fraud, no victim" offense, and all of crypto of under attack from the "war on crypto" gov, vs now, pro crypto gov but bitcoin not making daily ATHs (even though bitcoin is still much higher than 1.5 years ago). Or more simply, maybe just a bull vs bear market thing. Over generalization of course. Either way, we continue to build. Thank you for your support (and for taking heat for your unprompted posts)! 🙏😂

x402 is an open, internet-native protocol developed by @Coinbase that enables payments in stablecoins and other crypto assets. In Messari's newest Enterprise Note, @0x_Cloud examines the progress of x402's adoption, potential use cases, and which network(s) will capture meaningful market share in the future.

the one with Charlie Lee aka @SatoshiLite everything Litecoin and Lite Strategy + Charlie's early Coinbase days key timestamps - 0:38 - Litecoin starting point 7:57 - the initial Litecoin community 9:36 - early days at Coinbase w @brian_armstrong 14:00 - leaving Coinbase decision + original Litecoin thesis 17:00 - evolution of the Litecoin thesis 17:50 - Litecoin listing on @coinbase 20:00 - top Litecoin community moments 21:34 - relationship w @VitalikButerin + thoughts on Ethereum 25:25 - @LiteStrategy going live 28:50 - Charlie's message to the community 30:05 - Litecoin's privacy layer 34:04 - decoding @SatoshiLite + evolution of crypto twitter 38:50 - advice to founders on building a real community

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@girllich1 @north0fnorth I'm not sure at all, though I personally know that I enjoy cities with very-above-average nature preserve levels at a reasonable distance from livable areas I generally support the "skyscraper yimbymaxxing + deep forest" barbell and wish more cities were like that