A dad who likes to talk about crypto and sports who also likes to skateboard. All thoughts and comments are my own.
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Now that CT is all back and together. What are we building and how do we make it useful in order to survive?
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Question: if I built a prediction market as a job board on how quickly a job would be filled and how long a hire would stay onboarded, would you trade it?
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@nikitabier I think it would be of great use during this time when there are legit scammers invading your platform to have some kind of history of transfer of handles to different users.
Perhaps this takes the form of logging IPs and device ids (which I'm sure you do) and gathering patterns, maybe we're able to see that an email address changed, I'm not sure what that looks like.
But I do know this is becoming a problem. And users deserve some form of transparency in these matters. Lot of people running hiring scams these days.
Here's a question I have. Who's building AI solutions for the trades and laborers? Who's thinking through these problems and actually talking to their blue collar buddies?
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I swear I thought he was about to tell him about that weed pen that mines bitcoin while you pull on it
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I had a thought recently about these notions here. Here's the optimistic view.
We're inundated with tons of apps but nobody to use them (this seems to be borne out by the current economy as it is). AI is genuinely bad at human outbound interaction. Too perfect. We humans, we don't like perfect. We think we do but something seems off about it. Can't trust that. Can't draw googly eyes on it.
This brings about more outbound interaction between real humans at a premium. Get the real salesman. Get the raw real thing. True return to monkey moment.
Meanwhile, demand for GPUs skyrockets so much that it becomes profitable to invest a crapton into GPU manufacturing. This is also happening right now today.
Also meanwhile, Bittensor research continues to find ways to decentralize LLM learning and do so on cheaper and cheaper hardware. This puts AI in the hands of regular people running it on a desktop. Sure there will be smart people at labs but this is the Microsoft vs Linux moment recreated. If there's one thing you can count on it's history repeating itself.
In a weird way this winds up putting us back at square 1 but with more capabilities. Nothing changes. And yet everything does.
It's nice to dream.
Here's how I feel about the situation...
You either have to...
1) stop what you're doing and start using AI to bring all the ideas you've ever had to life via code ASAP (before the token/usage costs skyrocket as VC's stop funding them.. like they did in the Uber/Lyft days)
or
2) own as much public equity as you can reasonably allocate tied to AI software and hardware (as AI eats human knowledge labor at an accelerating pace).
The alternative is... I think... from what I can tell after being in the thick of AI as a heavy user now for 12+ months... permanent underclass
I suppose a corollary to this would be to... be in the IRL experience business or the high-quality premium goods business.
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Correct way of viewing things. The key thing is preserving all of the idealistic and realistic things that captivated builders in the first place. Decentralized, private, censorship resistant money. Detached from the state. Coordinating economies and groups. Preserve that, and idc who’s paying us.
I haven't seen the timeline be this bleak during my Web3 career.
So many people are capitulating.
Even Saylor broke his only principle not to sell any BTC.
I’m also seeing Bitcoin maxis start to worry about the quantum computing risk to crypto.
Let's be real here.
We're probably not getting another altseason or a new NFT summer.
That chapter is over.
We are, however, entering something called the "efficiency zone", where big companies like Coinbase, Sky, or Plasma start merging with classic TradFi.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm still buying BTC at these levels, tracking early-stage protocols, and advising emerging companies on strategies.
This is not a game-over.
It's a new chapter where crypto startups become TradFi startups, and TradFi startups use Web3's rails.
The industry has matured.
It's time we do the same and start adapting to these changes.
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Cool article about the clarity act. It basically paints a picture about how banks could become staking validators and then use MEV for their own selfish interests in a new blockchain empowered financial system.
nationalfile.com/article/the…
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Positive news from this. The dream of basement dwelling financial primitive creators can be alive and well. Thanks to AI. If you were able to audit an entire web3 project for potential security faults -> security goes up -> trust rebuilt slowly -> the dream is alive again.
AI is too early for the web3 security market. People hate AI. People think it's stupid. They don't value it.
Lots of this is just an ACT OF COWARDICE. It's operating on assumptions, rather than testing them and basing your perception of reality in facts.
Companies like GregoAI, Octane, ZeroCool, individuals like Ehsan, 0xasen, vivek and more have been showing off how they find Highs and Criticals, often after codebases have been audited for hundreds of thousands of dollars
You are a dumbass if you can't understand what this means. Never be a dumbass. When you assume something, at least try your best to disprove it - this will make YOU stronger and better off. I don't care. Make the right decisions🫡
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Thinking about everyone in this dreadful job market. And it's got me wondering. What's the cost to a startup trying to hire someone? I don't necessarily mean in terms of man hours, I mean in the sense of money to put people on a job board. Because iirc, there's a charge there, but I'm unaware what that charge is.
So what's the cost? Can we do costs for this in a way that encourage fast hiring?
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This is so cool! I love to see the OG ideals perserving!
Confidential payments are live on near.com.
Alex just sent 0.1 ETH to the Ethereum Foundation from his NEAR balance.
The chain doesn't see who sent what. The Ethereum Foundation just got ETH on Ethereum.
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It's a painful, painful time to be a software developer, especially one in crypto who just got laid off. Feels like we built this industry up only for tradfi to hollow us out and get rid of the weird little mavericks and use the tech left behind for their own reasons (and that's good that they're using it don't get me wrong). I want to see web3 native folks get hired. I want to see us all winning again. I'm unsure how we get there.
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Can’t believe the CEO of Palantir actually had morally sound take
Palantir CEO Alex Karp rips into AI slop companies:
“The appearance of software working, is not software working.”
“The slop getting a lot of attention is dangerous in terms of the hyperbolic rhetoric—that there will be no jobs because of slop, nothing will work, we will have a god-like figure in the name of AI.”
“In fact, what actually does work is a platform built by a motley crew of highly-technical people who over 20 years have been maligned for being right.”
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@josephdelong I’d be scouring networks to give this guy a card and demonstrate capabilities here if I was you. I’m just saying. This seems to me as an outsider to be your target demo.
French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC:
• Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards
• I cannot make any purchases
• I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal
• Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated
• A colleague told me my name won’t be removed from the blacklist until Trump’s term ends
• Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded
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@polymarket @PolymarketBlitz Can we get a market bet on this? Whether Justin Fields will be converted to a WR/RB/Taysom Hill kind of role?
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