just saw peter thiel at my local gym in tokyo
took a pic with him, but i'm not gonna post it lol
quite a surreal to just see him randomly as i was working out lmao
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woid retweeted
changing imaginary social constructs inside peoples’ minds is harder than changing mechanical constructs in the physical world. psychological changes are also deeper and longer lasting. WW3 is fought on the psychic plane, and governments are no longer the sole participants…
can think of life as being benched for 13b years,
then you get to play for 100 years,
then you are benched forever again
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we'd probably have a last mover L1 at some point. and there's value in being on a chain with the most valuable state
otoh the winning architecture can be endlessly forked as well if you don't value the state as much and want more control
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in 2021 cypherpunk died
in 2024 decentralization died
speed, valuable state and composability is underrated (arguably has been underrated, but not anymore)
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woid retweeted
BUILD FOR PERFORMANCE, NO COMPROMISES.
I know I have been off the radar up until recently, let's catch up.
I've left Firedancer to found @UntoLabs. We are building a next generation Layer-1 blockchain.
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woid retweeted
New project! Optimize your stable diffusion prompts via a "chain-of-thought" style iteration - built with DSPy
starting to think more and more that the term web3 could've been hugely misleading on where crypto was and would go
instead, it's possible that infra is largely the application, and what crypto enables is what stock market did for the world, but an order of magnitude better
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web3 makes ppl compare with web2, and go back to that way of thinking
most ppl that grew up with internet and trad tech etc. are then conditioned to think that way as well
but could be the case that u just have to think differently abt all this, and what the "application" rly is
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a lot of smart ppl got into crypto 2021 (and then left),
but something else that happened was that it got everyone who was already into crypto, into one big collective room (ct)
felt crypto was more fragmented before, but now feels less so (to a degree), which is a good thing
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feels good to be back on woid
kind of want to do more things
idk, whether building, reply guying more, tweeting more, writing, etc. or whatever comes to mind. lets see ig
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if main usecase of crypto is pretty much just global finance on blockchains,
then a good play i think would be to build fintech-like infra for crypto.
e.g. fireblocks, chainalysis, cybersecurity firms, etc.
they're valued above 1bn with no token, and prob won't ever have token
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