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They’re new ways of organizing people without central control by aligning their incentives. The successful ones are movements and possibly revolutions.
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All of these comms tactics, and the perceptions of secure/encrypted, are almost always 100% reliant on no one paying any attention to you.
When they are, assume everything electronic is collected. teapawt.org/ali_h_soufan/status/10…
Brings back memories: The same system used by al-Qaeda to communicate with its operatives. It didn’t work then, it does not work now. teapawt.org/shimonpro/status/10076…
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Dear people citing The Bible:
It’s a cool book with some wonderful passages but it also has ghost sex & giants & super babies & demons. It’s why we don’t make laws based on Game of Thrones, My Little Pony or Legend of Zelda.
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The more new chains launch with massive issues (including some with huge budgets) the more impressive it is that bitcoin has never had any similar catastrophes, over a much longer period. – at San Francisco, CA
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"We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side." — Charlie Munger
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4/ Growth may be flat for the first 9 months. It's gonna be okay. Almost every company has experienced this: Airbnb had to sell cereal in-between, Slack failed as a gaming company first, Tesla sold only 147 cars after 6 years! You probably won't be an overnight success either.
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Nothing to remember, nothing to create, nothing to reset…no passwords or access codes or 2FA! AI powered #VerifiedPresence instead. #Sonikpass
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S@#%w passwords, use #Sonikpass instead. No rules , no passwords, just #VerifiedPresence.
Try it for your enterprise today, you will never want to go back to using passwords again.
Your ICO does not need an ICO teapawt.org/arimnazir/status/10037…
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Friday's massive Visa outage in Europe reinforced how complex these massive payment systems are and how difficult it is to recover from problems once they cascade out of control wired.trib.al/lWAuDYx
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Money gets too much respect and execution gets too little.
Raising $20M doesn't make you a success. Neither does hiring a bunch of people or selling stuff you don't have yet. Ultimately you're judged by what you've made.
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How do we handle the fact that blockchains fundamentally do not scale? Thoughts on scalability: “The Importance of Layer 2” medium.com/mit-media-lab-dig…
Blockchain is not going to solve all your problems for you, you're a hammer-thrower just looking for nail, When you have technology in search of a use, "you end up with crap that we see out there in the enterprise today." wired.com/story/when-the-blo…
Very few things truely need it but almost everyone wants it... most don’t understand it. teapawt.org/naval/status/999514893…
If you don’t need (true) decentralization, you don’t need a blockchain. teapawt.org/jimmysong/status/99600…
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The more I dig into crypto, the more I realize:
* The smartest people in the space are names you've never heard of.
* They are writing code + building products while others attend events.
* Advice: find these people & learn from their ideas instead of going to every conference.
This happens more often than we think ... teapawt.org/_jillruth/status/99720…
