crypto ₿, lightning ⚡️ & automation 🤖 / still learning
Sunnyvale, CA
Joined May 2015
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Markdown is the new HTML.
IM (Telegram, WhatsApp, etc.) is the new Web browser.
AI Agent is the new SaaS Website.
XXX Claw is the new Web server program (Nginx, Apache HTTP Server, etc).
Skill is the new backend business logic.
This is super smart! You don’t have to spend your Bitcoin to use Bitcoin.
This feature will start to roll out tomorrow, allowing you to pay from @CashApp over bitcoin rails using your USD balance - no bitcoin required.
This dramatically opens up the aperture of who can pay with bitcoin to our entire monthly user base of 58m - normies included.
I respected CZ as well.
CZ deserves his pardon.
His show trial of a prosecution was a combination of regulatory railroading and ethnic persecution for being Chinese-Canadian.
Imagine if Macron was held personally responsible for every crime committed by the 67M citizens of France, and you'll get the absurdity of holding CZ personally responsible for the actions of a few of the 250M+ Binance users.
Indeed, if the bureaucrats who went after CZ were similarly held accountable for every violent crime committed in their home states, they'd be in prison for eternity! But there was an insane double standard. In the physical world, the Biden admin gleefully abolished the police. Meanwhile, in the digital world they demanded that CEOs achieve impossible levels of probity.
The ethnic dimension to CZ's persecution was similarly execrable. In reality, he helped many millions of Chinese people get into Bitcoin and thereby get to freedom. And also helped millions of poor people from around the globe get out of failed currencies, and into cryptocurrency.
So he did more for practical human rights and civil liberties than most. CZ did nothing wrong, and did so many things right.
Of course, my friends at Coinbase and I were competitors of Binance. But I always respected CZ, and I congratulate him on his accomplishments, and I congratulate him on his pardon today. Well deserved.
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CZ deserves his pardon.
His show trial of a prosecution was a combination of regulatory railroading and ethnic persecution for being Chinese-Canadian.
Imagine if Macron was held personally responsible for every crime committed by the 67M citizens of France, and you'll get the absurdity of holding CZ personally responsible for the actions of a few of the 250M+ Binance users.
Indeed, if the bureaucrats who went after CZ were similarly held accountable for every violent crime committed in their home states, they'd be in prison for eternity! But there was an insane double standard. In the physical world, the Biden admin gleefully abolished the police. Meanwhile, in the digital world they demanded that CEOs achieve impossible levels of probity.
The ethnic dimension to CZ's persecution was similarly execrable. In reality, he helped many millions of Chinese people get into Bitcoin and thereby get to freedom. And also helped millions of poor people from around the globe get out of failed currencies, and into cryptocurrency.
So he did more for practical human rights and civil liberties than most. CZ did nothing wrong, and did so many things right.
Of course, my friends at Coinbase and I were competitors of Binance. But I always respected CZ, and I congratulate him on his accomplishments, and I congratulate him on his pardon today. Well deserved.
I created a Google Calendar MPC and linked it with my Codex-cli. I use it to plan my schedule every day. It works as a charm.
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Excited to share our first @solana validator performance report, which also happens to be my first time taking the pen for the @coinbase engineering blog.
Our performance has never been better, and the community deserves a huge shoutout for helping with our transition to bare metal ❤️
I go over some details of our bare metal configuration and would love to hear people's thoughts!
We have published our @Solana validator performance report—highlighting how we’re strengthening Solana’s decentralization, security, and validator performance through our staking operations.
As of June 1, 2025, over 40M SOL is staked to Coinbase validators, representing 10.6% of total stake in the Solana network.
Our migration to bare metal infrastructure has delivered measurable improvements, reducing our skip rate to 0.05% and improving our vote latency. Thank you to the Solana community for your support through this process and supporting us in this significant switch.
Our validator distribution across geographic regions and providers further enhances Solana’s performance and redundancy. We operate validators across 6 countries and 2 bare metal providers, with built-in protections like double-signing prevention. To support decentralization at every layer, we use a diverse mix of clients: Agave-Jito, Paladin, with Frankendancer coming soon.
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My 14-month-old son just looked me straight in the eyes and said “dad, with the interest expense on the national at over $1 trillion per year, isn’t the Fed’s only option to print their way out of this with the largest monetary debasement event in history?”
What should I tell him?
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It really depends what you count as the official start year - for Bitcoin, Internet, and mobile phones - to make this comparison. But regardless, this is directionally correct.
Bitcoin adoption should get to several billion people by 2030 at current rates.
🚨CRYPTO ADOPTION 43% FASTER THAN MOBILE PHONES, 20% FASTER THAN INTERNET
Crypto has hit 300M users in just 12 years—43% faster than mobile phones and 20% faster than the internet, per BlackRock.
Younger generations, inflation fears, and Trump’s pro-crypto stance are fueling the surge.
With Bitcoin ETFs projected to hit $250B and regulatory wins piling up, crypto’s mainstream takeover is accelerating.
Source: BlackRock
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The cryptoeconomy has been technically feasible for a while. It just became politically feasible.
All payments use stablecoins.
All companies raise online.
All accounting goes onchain.
All systems are go.
After noticing that Trump and his wife launched meme coins, here are a few scattered thoughts from the past two days:
1. They’re incredibly creative.
2. Meme coins may represent the opposite of scarcity.
3. True wealth comes from scarcity.
4. Instead of meme coins, buy Solana; instead of Solana, buy Bitcoin.