Nick Slaney

Ah can people see my likes here can’t keep track

For Bitcoin at least:

- no trust required —> credit free —> cheaper to transact
- greater access for the unbanked and protection against debanking
- well known, only changeable by consensus monetary policy is a world first. Powerful if you’ve seen the cost of groceries recently

Maybe it’s the balkanization of social that we actually want?

A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto

Sad I can’t rock my punycode emoji domain here

I don’t think I’ve actually ever looked at the dunkin donuts menu

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"We believe it’s important for Mastodon to be good as a product on its own merits, and not just because of its ideology. If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder."

louder for the people in the back

Just overheard a web3 pitch 😵‍💫

yo

They needed to add aoc and dril ~ the same time to keep the balance right

Whoa @dril.bsky.social 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

There’s also the other thing—

Even though Twitter had a ton of reach, it still fell short of full world engagement. Posting more than once on Twitter was never a normal thing. I don’t think anything has gotten close to fb in that regard

Maybe it’s the balkanization of social that we actually want?

I think it’s really hard to predict which one if any will “win”

There are different tribes on mastodon, nostr, here, gab, etc.

Decentralized social network competition is good.

Running bluesky