🖤 #hccp23
'investing in bitcoin is like having the ability to buy shares of a general internet etf back in the early 1990s'
'a new form of money where the users set the rules, simply made for a better story than a high capacity, low fee, global payment system, irrespective of the truth of either claim'
'crypto companies are just going to become tech and digital assets will kind of just be assets. you know, in a similar way that music was initially called music files, then were called mp3 files, then they dropped mp3 and it was just music.'
'permissionless - it's radical, rebellious, non-compliant. it's historically american.'
'when bitcoining, please believe in your plebs. because all you need is one other dude to show up and that message will start to spread.'
'i'm glad we have teams building modular blockchains and i'm also glad there are teams focused on maximizing the throughput of a single shard. that's why i'm still paying attention to solana - the idea that someone is going down the other side of the path.'
'the problem is that we the bitcoin community all want different things and this will never stop being true. this means you'll only ever be able to expect the lowest common denominator out of bitcoin.'
'with tradfi payments, there are so many different fee collections points. doing things on-chain allows circle to save so much money. it's no wonder that circle has 300 people with $1b - $1.5b arr.'