@balajis Balaji
Balaji Srinivasan, a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency and tech space, has been discussing various topics on social media, including the concept of "cryptoidentity" and the intersection of technology and governance. He has also been highlighting the shift towards a new world order, with cities like Miami, Dubai, and Singapore emerging as new hubs for innovation and capital. Additionally, Srinivasan has been emphasizing the importance of understanding the changing nature of identity, community, and security in the digital age.
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Social Influence
Social category influence finance #1909 countries #4708 cryptocurrencies #607 technology brands social networks stocks celebrities travel destinations automotive brands currencies
Social topic influence china #173, bitcoin, money, india, inflation #1614, ai #654, countries #2543, debt #970, decentralized #289, russia #3260
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @balajis @coco11223393390 @fmrpottyymouth @elonmusk @scout0xd @pmarca @jason @niccarter @web3__youth @grok @noahpinion @a16z @karpathy @ramahluwalia @bestape @innovation_maxi @paulg @vitalikbuterin @jtlonsdale @strykrai
Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Ethereum (ETH) Solana (SOL) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN) USDC (USDC) Spotify Technology (SPOT) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"The rise of SF as a tech capital is really only [--] years old. Here's @paulg from [----] writing as it happened: SF is on top now but its quick rise could be followed by a gradual (or rapid) decentralization. Price is a signal and it's saying "get out". http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html"
X Link 2019-06-19T05:54Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Ive often thought that the most fundamental way to price things might be in joules. How much energy did it take to assemble this phone to pull the materials out of the ground and shape them into that configuration"
X Link 2019-08-03T02:13Z 1.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Making money often means betting against the bien pensants"
X Link 2019-09-02T17:33Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"You have a hundred people in a room for twenty minutes. They all have phones. What task would you have them do"
X Link 2019-11-15T04:00Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"The best time to do it was six years ago. The next best time is today 😁 In seriousness what this showed is how much value remains at the browser level. Full browsers like @brave and @suhails Mighty and crypto extensions like Metamask seem more valuable now"
X Link 2019-11-21T14:45Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Dalio directly disputes WSJ story. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/raydalio_the-wall-street-journal-wrote-an-article-activity-6603690079821025281-G9Lw https://www.linkedin.com/posts/raydalio_the-wall-street-journal-wrote-an-article-activity-6603690079821025281-G9Lw"
X Link 2019-11-22T23:50Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"@harjanbrand This is a good point but there are plenty of flash in the pan apps. Instagram was also smaller than Flickr at the time albeit growing. Also the $19B paid for WhatsApp still hasnt been directly recouped despite the incredible traction metrics"
X Link 2019-12-07T07:15Z 1.3M followers, [--] engagements
"If you are an entrepreneur who wants to address the #AB5 issue this may be a workaround. Youd have to research the legality but it might turn AB5 from a jobs ban into just a fee. What if someone created a freelance intermediary billing service that setup each freelancer with an S Corp at the click on the button #EB5 cc @balajis What if someone created a freelance intermediary billing service that setup each freelancer with an S Corp at the click on the button #EB5 cc @balajis"
X Link 2019-12-19T19:44Z 1.3M followers, [--] engagements
"A new level of auditing of the entire food supply chain To make this reliable you might want Oura ring data which records body temperature over time. Theyre currently $300 but Shenzhen could bring that way down. Make it accessible for everyone who wants to self-monitor. Food delivery note in Beijing now. The food preparer packer and the courier all have to measure their temperatures. https://t.co/u2GZQkdgEA Food delivery note in Beijing now. The food preparer packer and the courier all have to measure their temperatures. https://t.co/u2GZQkdgEA"
X Link 2020-02-01T22:58Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"The Oura Ring if you hadnt heard of it. The Oura ring registers your body temperature reading every minute while you sleep. By comparing that value to values from earlier nights it indicates your body temperature baseline and any variations https://ouraring.com/how-oura-works/ https://ouraring.com/how-oura-works/"
X Link 2020-02-01T23:08Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"Hardware companies hit hardest. Taiwan and Shenzhen are not operating at full capacity"
X Link 2020-02-14T03:23Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"As these curves grow and separate the US will be divided into red and green zones. States which have the virus somewhat under control will be green zones. They will quarantine or outright prohibit visitors from red zones. AK and HI are already doing this. Following my last article here's a different way of looking at COVID19 in each country and state. The implications require swift action. https://t.co/fiOUZ6iQga Following my last article here's a different way of looking at COVID19 in each country and state. The implications require swift action. https://t.co/fiOUZ6iQga"
X Link 2020-03-26T07:02Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"@DrJoshMatthews Yes but its ebbed and flowed over that time. Much of the globe wasnt easy to visit during the Cold War. This is a major ebb for at least the short and medium term"
X Link 2020-03-27T17:14Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"Studies have shown copper kills corona. This is a cool project for a copper phone case. Maybe couple this with a UVC phone sanitizer and make that standard in future iPhones https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aeris-the-covid-fighting-copper-phone-case#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aeris-the-covid-fighting-copper-phone-case#/"
X Link 2020-04-08T18:37Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"@Scott_Wiener My general point is that large crowds of strangers wont rebound to pre-crisis levels. See reasons below. Also: coronavirus is the most documented global event in human history. The economy is different. And we have the internet today as an alternative. https://x.com/balajis/status/1254253267984412672s=21 Follow-up with several reasons physical crowds may not fully bounce back. We need: - vaccine equivalent - government permission - solvent businesses - unchanged preferences - no internet-based alternatives - fast vaccine updates - high disposable income https://t.co/3JXw88YJks"
X Link 2020-04-26T17:08Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"The outdoor economy"
X Link 2020-04-28T15:13Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"NYT: lol its totally crazy to say that corporate journalists consciously plot against tech companies NYT: we should together confront the forces weakening our industry.Facebook and Google https://archive.is/jXXSv https://archive.is/jXXSv"
X Link 2020-05-05T14:48Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"@TheStalwart Ah got it. Yes financial institutions themselves so far have trailed the overall market in the rebound"
X Link 2020-05-19T17:41Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"Decentralized media will be to social media and legacy media corporations what Linux was to Microsoft. Open source international volunteer programmable free and ultimately of much higher quality"
X Link 2020-07-07T22:30Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Insightful. A media network is content-first while a social network is connection-first. It's a continuum. The limiting case of a media network is a broadcaster: all content no connection. And the limiting case of a social network is a messaging app: all connection no content. We keep comparing media networks (Tiktok Youtube Twitter) and social media networks (Facebook Instagram Snapchat) as if they are similar. Both can be user generated content. At their core they are more different than alike. Even if the social networks include some media We keep comparing media networks (Tiktok Youtube"
X Link 2020-08-02T00:11Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"The concept here is that every SaaS tool gives its users some skill. So what if the internal currency of the community that all users accepted for paid tasks was also the companys token or coin Of course users may also take safe BTC/ETH in lieu of speculative tokens"
X Link 2020-08-15T01:07Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"The decentralized social network Get some ETH Buy an ENS address Upload a profile photo* Get a profile page hosted on IPFS** Now youre on-chain. * stored on IPFS with IPFS URL in turn stored in an ENS custom text record ** your ETH pays for the IPFS pinning"
X Link 2020-08-16T16:34Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Increasingly using DuckDuckGo for search. Privacy preserving less thumb on the scale. There was a time when Google was magical. It would nail these queries for really arcane technical topics. Cant remember the last time it felt like that. Hard to find old content for example"
X Link 2020-08-23T15:55Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"- If every data point was on-chain you could accompany it with proof-of-X - Proof-of-who: who made the measurement - Proof-of-when: it was made at this time or earlier - Proof-of-where: where it was made - And so on A chain of custody for individual data points on-chain"
X Link 2020-09-22T11:17Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"Boston Dynamics seems to have raised only $37M. They will be at $35M in revenue if they can sell even [---] Spots at $75k a unit. Security patrol seems like the application that can justify the expense. Basically a mobile security camera with a whoa factor. https://x.com/bIoodtear/status/1309325280146788352/video/1 https://x.com/bIoodtear/status/1309325280146788352/video/1"
X Link 2020-09-26T00:13Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Excited to fund Decentralized push notifications may transform what dApps can do. http://epns.io http://epns.io"
X Link 2020-12-08T17:48Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"@haseebinc Eventually on-chain incorporation. We arent there yet though. @AragonProject is working on something like it"
X Link 2020-12-13T19:05Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"Privacy KYC The long-term reform is to end KYC completely. End financial surveillance. Stop forcing companies to collect hackable jackpots of KYC data. Better one guilty man go free than millions of innocents get hacked. Because they will get hacked as Treasury itself was"
X Link 2020-12-21T20:21Z 1.3M followers, [----] engagements
"@atossaaraxia Not at all. Sovereigns will build sovereign stacks. And crypto will be the post-national decentralized demilitarized zone. Every sovereign needs its own basic internet infrastructure: hosting payments anti-DDOS. Over the long term crypto is the obvious choice for the 80% of the world population that is neither American nor Chinese as well as large swaths of both Americans & Chinese. Every sovereign needs its own basic internet infrastructure: hosting payments anti-DDOS. Over the long term crypto is the obvious choice for the 80% of the world population that is neither American"
X Link 2021-01-09T14:59Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"@atossaaraxia The Law of the Sea is the best historical analogy. International waters are a neutral zone. Not without their complexities related to EEAs and the like but not the domain of any one country. Broadly speaking public blockchains are like the law of the sea for cyberspace"
X Link 2021-01-09T15:03Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"I invested in a while back because I think it could be an important piece of infrastructure for the crypto community. It's a JavaScript-based decentralized database that could be used in combination with on-chain global state. http://gun.eco http://gun.eco"
X Link 2021-01-17T20:59Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Another major area of experimental macroeconomics prior to cryptoeconomics was the virtual economies work by Edward Castronova et al studying World of Warcraft and the like. A good read for crypto people. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/virtual-economies https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/virtual-economies"
X Link 2021-01-19T17:42Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"@lessin Several thoughts: 1) Substack is now offering libel insurance 2) Pseudonymity is an alternative to libel insurance 3) I dont really see journos refraining from libel 🙂 Anyway the transition has already happened in many ways as journalists & citizens interact p2p on Twitter"
X Link 2021-02-01T05:41Z 1.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Bitcoin and defi have much stronger fundamentals than gold and tradfi"
X Link 2021-02-03T13:14Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
""Why not.put social media on blockchains and have efficient cryptocurrency micropayments to reward those who help maintain such mechanisms Censoring postings on such a service would be as difficult as trying to overwrite a blockchain ledger." https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-07/everything-will-soon-be-on-the-blockchain-whatever-that-means https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-07/everything-will-soon-be-on-the-blockchain-whatever-that-means"
X Link 2021-02-08T15:31Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Miami: the first city to buy BTC. Who will be the first country Working on a resolution for our commission for this Thursdays meeting to get the ball rolling.@elonmusks announcement was very helpful.now all we need is for @amazon to adopt and then 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Working on a resolution for our commission for this Thursdays meeting to get the ball rolling.@elonmusks announcement was very helpful.now all we need is for @amazon to adopt and then 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀"
X Link 2021-02-08T21:13Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Every ontology feels like Borges"
X Link 2021-02-21T16:54Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Crypto NFTs are how tech begins truly patronizing the arts"
X Link 2021-03-02T19:09Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Lets fund some art books movies films and games with a positive-sum technologically progressive vision for the future. http://balajis.com/the-purpose-of-technology http://balajis.com/the-purpose-of-technology"
X Link 2021-03-02T19:10Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"The rise of ENS means capable pseudonyms. No longer simply u/madeupname. You get yourname.eth capable of doing cryptographic attestations handling inbound requests and replacing usernames & domain names alike over the long run. https://ens.domains https://ens.domains"
X Link 2021-03-05T11:03Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Enter entrepts The remote economy has put every city into competition with every other city. And each time zone has early leaders. Miami for the Americas Zug for Western Europe Tallinn for Eastern Europe Dubai for the Middle East Singapore for Asia Where else"
X Link 2021-03-07T09:42Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"@paulg Crypto hedge funds are hybrids of VCs and hedge funds and have made billions in a few years probably outpacing most other asset classes. Crypto is teaching VCs how to time markets and hedge funds how to do technical diligence. And disrupting both"
X Link 2021-03-25T07:54Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"@paulg Its true that there often statutory or contractual restrictions on VCs & LPs that limit their crypto exposure. But the time to address that by setting up new vehicles was years ago. Yet many arent even moving on this today thereby missing out on macro trends like this"
X Link 2021-03-25T07:59Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"It is now possible to be an apolitical company. You can hit a $50B valuation while pursuing this path. It is a cultural decision like going remote vs in-person. But if youre a founder you should seize this opportunity. Another mission focused company 👏 it takes courage in these times. https://t.co/Z19jR8IL8k Who will be next Another mission focused company 👏 it takes courage in these times. https://t.co/Z19jR8IL8k Who will be next"
X Link 2021-04-28T05:33Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Technology changes microeconomic leverage. Fiat Fiat or crypto In-person In-person or remote College College or ISA TV TV or streaming Each time a branch is introduced many quietly take the new path. The mere existence of a choice catalyzes reform"
X Link 2021-05-07T09:35Z 1.3M followers, [----] engagements
"What was constant for decades suddenly becomes variable. Options are introduced defaults must defend themselves. Choices multiply combinatorially on every axis all at once. Leverage rises but so does attendant complexity. A digital exit from every institution"
X Link 2021-05-07T09:38Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"How best to inflation-proof long-term USD-denominated contracts CPI isnt a trustworthy denominator. BTC works best if the counterparty buys the total amount up front which they may resist. Perhaps denominate in CHF or a better-managed less-printed foreign fiat currency"
X Link 2021-05-09T02:23Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Just setting up my bitclout 💎🙌 https://bitclout.com/u/balajispublic_key=BC1YLiU9Wpk8c7pVx7GCu8fae6AQhdUrGYcWc1Wz9V56HbCi7RPr887 https://bitclout.com/u/balajispublic_key=BC1YLiU9Wpk8c7pVx7GCu8fae6AQhdUrGYcWc1Wz9V56HbCi7RPr887"
X Link 2021-05-18T18:02Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"An important moment for decentralized social media: the full Bitclout source was released today. https://github.com/bitclout/core https://github.com/bitclout/core"
X Link 2021-05-18T18:32Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"I'm an early investor in several decentralized social media platforms including Bitclout and am excited for where we are going. This is a major step towards truly open source open state and open execution social networks. Will be posting more here: https://bitclout.com/u/balajisfeedTab=Global https://bitclout.com/u/balajisfeedTab=Global"
X Link 2021-05-18T18:35Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"There is a subclass of truths wholly political truths which are entirely determined by social consensus. But for technology popularity is really not the same thing as truth. The train crash we are observing in the US is due to the fact that we are governed by lawyers and journalists and politicians people who specialize in political rather than technical truths. Is it true if others think its true Or is it true regardless of what people think The train crash we are observing in the US is due to the fact that we are governed by lawyers and journalists and politicians people who specialize in"
X Link 2021-05-28T11:58Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"If Twitter is skewed fake-negative (rage sarcasm etc) then Bitclout is skewed fake-positive (promo hustle etc). More like LinkedIn in some ways but more usable. On balance I prefer fake-positive because you can tune out promo"
X Link 2021-06-11T05:10Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Crypto censorship is already here for email (Mailchimp) ads (Google FB) and all of Chinese social media. I have a feeling many Bitclout critics may eventually need to find refuge on Bitclout. @balajis @patrickxrivera The Chinese State media occasionally manipulating the public perspective towards Bitcoin via Trending topics on Weibo https://t.co/I37IR6Werd In early June more than [--] cryptocurrency-related accounts have been deleted. @balajis @patrickxrivera The Chinese State media occasionally manipulating the public perspective towards Bitcoin via Trending topics on Weibo"
X Link 2021-06-11T05:26Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Yes Mastodon also exists and yes there are plenty of other decentralized social media projects. But the traction of most of those has been limited. The incentive structure early adopters programmability and other mechanics make me think Bitclout may become very large"
X Link 2021-06-11T05:28Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"@skyler_ws Awesome idea and I think that is totally feasible. They have implemented Rosetta to facilitate listing. You could probably set up autoconversion of Bitclout and creator coins into BTC. That would actually be a very good thing to fund. https://docs.bitclout.com/devs/exchange-listing-api https://docs.bitclout.com/devs/exchange-listing-api"
X Link 2021-06-11T05:37Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"Satoshi wasnt a troll didnt start fights on the internet spoke to @zooko endorsed the idea of Namecoin and in general was about as attitudinally different from some of his self-styled disciples as the mythical Jesus was from the Spanish Inquisitors. I wouldnt say everything but Bitcoin is a scam. Satoshi acknowledged that Bitcoin cant solve every problem and even helped make suggestions and improvements to a precursor to Namecoin. There definitely are a lot of scams but a few projects are trying to solve real problems. I wouldnt say everything but Bitcoin is a scam. Satoshi acknowledged that"
X Link 2021-06-11T09:36Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Fiat company - paper incorporation - paper contracts - paper payments - paper accounting Crypto company - on-chain incorporation - on-chain smart contracts - on-chain payments - on-chain accounting I'm almost certain that it's just a matter of time before incorporation and simple corporate finance will be doable in code like this: https://t.co/k2rR5hwqSa I'm almost certain that it's just a matter of time before incorporation and simple corporate finance will be doable in code like this: https://t.co/k2rR5hwqSa"
X Link 2021-06-27T03:14Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Another possibly important prerequisite which I backed is the Ethereum Push Notification Service which is enabling push notifications to public addresses. There's still centralized intermediation by carriers but it's progress. https://whitepaper.epns.io/protocol-specs-section/epns-protocol/sending-notifications/notifications-abi http://epns.io https://whitepaper.epns.io/protocol-specs-section/epns-protocol/sending-notifications/notifications-abi http://epns.io"
X Link 2021-07-08T10:34Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Apple should either improve the built-in MacBook camera and microphone or release a professional grade version that "just works". Huge opportunity in a remote world"
X Link 2021-07-17T19:17Z 1.3M followers, [----] engagements
"The global transition from passwords to private keys will be bigger than most realize. It's the start of digital private property. It limits the power of corporations and states alike. It's universal basic encryption. And it's the billion user table. https://1729.com/the-billion-user-table https://1729.com/the-billion-user-table"
X Link 2021-07-24T10:03Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"You just export N on-chain transactions from this app M on-chain transactions from that app and concatenate the links in a giant spreadsheet. Then run software on it to calculate everything. Far superior to the existing method of exporting data via screenshots and CSVs"
X Link 2021-07-25T00:45Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Buy five minutes of advertising time as an NFT. Use it now or hold it for later if you think the show will get more popular. OK let's try something fun. I just minted a new NFT called "5 Minutes of Fame" on @opensea This is a [--] of [--]. And it's not just a picture it has actual utility built in. Here's how it works: OK let's try something fun. I just minted a new NFT called "5 Minutes of Fame" on @opensea This is a [--] of [--]. And it's not just a picture it has actual utility built in. Here's how it works:"
X Link 2021-09-14T16:41Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Denying the existence of 10X engineers is like denying the existence of 10X writers. Hemingway was real; so was Satoshi"
X Link 2021-09-26T08:59Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"This is related to the question of absolute vs relative metrics. At least within the span of a few decades English grammar doesnt change very much. Is this word spelled correctly Thats pretty easy to score as true or false for a given time period. What is hard to argue with are absolute results. Does the plane fly How fast did they run the mile What was the cryptographic timestamp on that assertion A key question is how to restructure as many ranking algorithms as possible on absolute metrics. What is hard to argue with are absolute results. Does the plane fly How fast did they run the mile"
X Link 2021-10-15T19:21Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"The typo test is like Van Halens Brown M&M test. If there are many easily detectable small errors there will be less easily detectable large errors. https://www.thewrap.com/van-halen-brown-mms-remove-concert-rider/ https://www.thewrap.com/van-halen-brown-mms-remove-concert-rider/"
X Link 2021-10-15T19:27Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"Whatever the state props up rises in price. Whatever technology disrupts falls in price. Politicians here to save the day https://t.co/tDsq9lZiFx Politicians here to save the day https://t.co/tDsq9lZiFx"
X Link 2021-10-19T00:42Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Seasteading is already here. Its just not evenly distributed. EXTREME: Royal Caribbean is planning for what it calls the longest and most comprehensive world cruise ever. Passengers will be onboard the Serenade of the Seas for [---] nights - that's nine months https://t.co/eT7JXb9q9L https://t.co/98skcRbg8b EXTREME: Royal Caribbean is planning for what it calls the longest and most comprehensive world cruise ever. Passengers will be onboard the Serenade of the Seas for [---] nights - that's nine months https://t.co/eT7JXb9q9L https://t.co/98skcRbg8b"
X Link 2021-10-21T23:06Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Rates start at more than $60000 per person for [--] months Comes out to $6-7k per month including room gym recreation and all other expenses. Not all that far off from an engineers cost of living in SF or NY. Another 2X decrease in price and you are there"
X Link 2021-10-21T23:10Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Please note: we must still fund people to decentralize Facebook. I'm glad that Zuck discussed interoperability and virtual economies but we do need alternatives. However the only substantive critique is a constructive one: build the future better. https://mobile.twitter.com/balajis/status/1453151588466323456 On the spectrum of decentralization: BTC FB NYT That's the ethical compass. Decentralized media over social media but social media over legacy media. Because you don't have any voice on a legacy media corporation's platform. https://mobile.twitter.com/balajis/status/1453151588466323456"
X Link 2021-10-29T01:20Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Note something else: lesser men would have crumbled in the face of years of relentless attacks from all sides. Easy to just give in. But the modern arena is a crucible selecting for the kind of leader who can somehow notch record wins despite all that. https://mobile.twitter.com/balajis/status/1452138540431822854 I actually dont think they will. Jack and Zuck didnt build their $100B+ companies from scratch to bow to the East Coast establishment whether that be Trump or the Fed. The rematch will surprise people. https://mobile.twitter.com/balajis/status/1452138540431822854 I actually dont"
X Link 2021-10-29T01:34Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Just like the Chinese ascended from making plastic goods to drones & genomics Indians may ascend from Bollywood to becoming web3 influencers & coding VR content. China is a tech and manufacturing superpower. Can India become a tech and media superpower https://inc42.com/features/indias-place-in-the-future-of-global-tech-10-key-takeaways-from-balaji-srinivasans-opening-keynote-at-tms2021/amp/ https://inc42.com/features/indias-place-in-the-future-of-global-tech-10-key-takeaways-from-balaji-srinivasans-opening-keynote-at-tms2021/amp/"
X Link 2021-11-09T14:13Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"As an early Replit investor and user I've had the fun of watching the product just get better & better over the years. It's now my tool of choice for quick scripts. It is gradually ending the pain of buggy local developer environments replacing them with bookmarkable URLs. Beyond thrilled to announce that we raised $80m in Series B financing from amazing investors & angels. Our mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. Here is how we will do it: https://t.co/ULpPbvjiq2 https://t.co/dSZJ8UuxkT Beyond thrilled to announce that we raised $80m in Series B financing from"
X Link 2021-12-10T16:44Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"@Noahpinion @garrytan Wont work completely unrealisticHarvey Dent was half good"
X Link 2021-12-16T12:21Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"Exit the Fed ✅ Stop the bailouts ✅ Return to sound money ✅ Build a voluntarist society ✅ End the welfare/warfare state ✅ Bitcoin as the reserve currency ✅ Bitcoin as an epochal breakthrough ✅ Bitcoin as the only digital asset ever all else is evilyou lost me 🙂🤷♂ Why cant @balajis just say the word #Bitcoin Almost anything he talks about can and should be done with Bitcoin and its security. Why cant @balajis just say the word #Bitcoin Almost anything he talks about can and should be done with Bitcoin and its security"
X Link 2021-12-19T20:21Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Everyone becomes a venture capitalist. 2017: Tokens will break down the barrier between professional investors and token buyers in the same way that the internet brought down the barrier between professional journalists and bloggers. https://news.earn.com/thoughts-on-tokens-436109aabcbe Pro-Bitcoin Pro-Ethereum Pro-Web3 Pro-VCs Anti-Fiat Anti-Government Anti-Coercion Anti-Violence https://news.earn.com/thoughts-on-tokens-436109aabcbe Pro-Bitcoin Pro-Ethereum Pro-Web3 Pro-VCs Anti-Fiat Anti-Government Anti-Coercion Anti-Violence"
X Link 2021-12-21T18:17Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Russell Conjugation. My bet your gamble their scam. https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27181 https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27181"
X Link 2021-12-25T22:16Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"@hadip Think of Carta here as similar to Coinbase: a centralized gateway that handles compliance & reads/writes to a decentralized blockchain. The benefit at the mirrortable contract level itself is not decentralization (the platform retains admin keys) it is operational efficiency. 🧵"
X Link 2021-12-27T17:16Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"@hadip That is mirrortables are to off-chain equity what stablecoins are to off-chain currency. The blockchain is just a more modern programming environment gives operational efficiency. Example: BAT contract records every transfer. Do that but for cap tables. https://etherscan.io/token/0x0d8775f648430679a709e98d2b0cb6250d2887ef https://etherscan.io/token/0x0d8775f648430679a709e98d2b0cb6250d2887ef"
X Link 2021-12-27T17:22Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"The primary censorship tactic used today is to single out one actor then pile so much cost on them that they buckle. In other words the mechanism used against ostensibly free speech is to increase the cost of speech"
X Link 2022-02-06T09:51Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"But this tactic doesnt work against a sufficiently decentralized blockchain. The cost of censoring or reversing a single transaction now soars into the billions and is technically hard to boot. A fickle mob wants only to impose costs not bear them. They wont pay to censor"
X Link 2022-02-06T09:57Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"This is why moving functionality on-chain changes the game and why our first priority to protect civil liberties must be technological decentralization. From the slippery slope to the crypto cliff. https://youtube.com/watchv=3jPYk7ucrjo&t=1235s https://youtube.com/watchv=3jPYk7ucrjo&t=1235s"
X Link 2022-02-06T10:01Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Buy Sell Send Receive Mine Stake Farm Earn Lend Borrow Mint Burn Store Timelock Sign Hash Validate Delegate Fork Tokenize Issue Clone And Prove h/t to @balajis for observing (in 2018) that each cryptonative verb was probably a multi-billion dollar business opportunity. h/t to @balajis for observing (in 2018) that each cryptonative verb was probably a multi-billion dollar business opportunity"
X Link 2022-02-14T22:45Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"How did 1800s Europe reform Exit to America where democracy & capitalism were proven out. How did the USSR reform Again US showed a better model. How did the PRC reform Singapore & HK showed a better model. Reform through physical exit political exit technological exit"
X Link 2022-02-20T22:13Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"See this [----] talk where I discuss setting up a pseudonym reducing expenses 5X by moving abroad and then grouping with others of like mind to advocate for change. Financial independence social independence collective independence via pragmatic exit. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=k_2BXwGXFbo&t=99s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=k_2BXwGXFbo&t=99s"
X Link 2022-02-20T22:18Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"The US sanctioned India when it went nuclear to defend itself against China. The US also sent billions to Pakistan funding "anti-terror" in the country where bin Laden was hiding thus boosting India's other major regional rival. Defense cooperation has to be a two-way street"
X Link 2022-03-03T08:57Z 1.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Bitcoin also has industrial uses namely proof-of-existence and global decentralized storage. Will try to address the reply guys explaining that gold has industrial usage in [--] tweet. The monetary premium of gold is most of its value not its industrial usefulness. Come on I assumed we all knew this already. Will try to address the reply guys explaining that gold has industrial usage in [--] tweet. The monetary premium of gold is most of its value not its industrial usefulness. Come on I assumed we all knew this already"
X Link 2022-03-06T15:58Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Im co-leading a round with @amasad in @synthesischool. Its early but they have phenomenal traction with their first product and over time they could be the foothold we need to build a full replacement for all of K-12. https://balajis.com/synthesis https://balajis.com/synthesis"
X Link 2022-04-21T16:14Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"@WilhemPujar @truflation is taking a crack at it. I am an angel investor. Excited to see cryptographic truth being provided on important topics like inflation by great teams like @truflation with help from top industry leaders like @balajis. I expect to see a growing number of Data DAOs built on Chainlink all providing a superior form of what's true. Excited to see cryptographic truth being provided on important topics like inflation by great teams like @truflation with help from top industry leaders like @balajis. I expect to see a growing number of Data DAOs built on Chainlink all providing"
X Link 2022-07-16T07:43Z 1.2M followers, [--] engagements
"🙂 Revisiting this tweet it turned out that the Fed did print trillions the unexpected consequence of which was inflation even if the monetary stimulus wasnt called MMT. As for BTC Bitcoins value proposition is seizure resistance. That denouement is yet to be reached. Revisiting this tweet after [--] years. It turned out that no one except the occasional NYT reporter listened to the MMTers and Bitcoin turned out not to be an inflation hedge at all. Revisiting this tweet after [--] years. It turned out that no one except the occasional NYT reporter listened to the MMTers and Bitcoin turned out not"
X Link 2022-08-10T01:22Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"I do think theres a terminological difference worth highlighting. When you see ♾/21M thats not a thesis about Bitcoin as a short-term hedge against inflation. Its a thesis about Bitcoin as a long-term hedge against monetary debasement. The ♾ is MMT the 21M is BTC"
X Link 2022-08-10T01:26Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"It was easier to found Bitcoin than to reform the Fed. It is easier to start a new city than to reform San Francisco. https://future.com/cities-broken-api/ https://future.com/cities-broken-api/"
X Link 2022-09-17T16:23Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Tech's model is based on a clean slate with empowered management and venture returns. You get all of those in a startup city and none of them in a failed state"
X Link 2022-09-17T16:26Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"The two major innovations on Bitcoin were in the direction of programmability (Ethereum) and privacy (Zcash). The ideal is a Zethereum that unifies both concepts at the base layer. Might be a new L1"
X Link 2022-09-24T00:40Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"The self-driving car problem will be solved by roads built for self-driving cars"
X Link 2022-10-08T12:25Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"Personally Im more bullish on tech-focused communities like @farcaster_xyz and pseudonymous communities like @poasterapp than I am on communities born mainly out of political warfare. Does the community have a positive mission or just a negation"
X Link 2022-11-05T09:35Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"You may agree with a platforms decisions today and disagree with them strenuously tomorrow. Rather than fully trust everything to a centralized platform explore decentralization. Some resources: - - - http://wordcelclub.com http://lens.xyz http://mirror.xyz http://wordcelclub.com http://lens.xyz http://mirror.xyz"
X Link 2022-11-07T20:07Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"The US government-regulated system spent $787 billion of taxpayer money bailing out the banks. Connected bankers werent prosecuted. And thats before they printed trillions. Were now exploring the alternative timeline. What if no bailouts No this isn't crypto's "Lehman Moment" There are no taxpayer bailouts coming nor money to be printed. This is capitalism and the markets will work it out. No this isn't crypto's "Lehman Moment" There are no taxpayer bailouts coming nor money to be printed. This is capitalism and the markets will work it out"
X Link 2022-11-11T16:28Z 1.3M followers, [----] engagements
"The New York Times is covering up Sam Bankman-Fried's crimes. Nothing SBF says can be trusted. Nothing NYT says can be trusted either. But dunking does nothing. Lies make their traffic rise. You do have one option though. Mass block them all in one go. https://www.blocknyt.com/ https://www.blocknyt.com/"
X Link 2022-11-15T07:01Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"You have to understand: NYT is run by pathological liars some of the most evil people on earth. They literally profited from covering up the genocide of four million Ukrainians. Covering up the theft of [--] billion dollars is no big deal comparatively. https://x.com/balajis/status/1587038168645132288 Remember the Ochs-Sulzbergers profited from covering up the Holodomor when it was happening the intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainians by Stalin. They won a Pulitzer Prize for lying about a genocide. And they've admitted it. https://t.co/mIvNn9eORY https://t.co/PqxRY6AEOS"
X Link 2022-11-15T07:18Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"The journos used to have trust Thats gone Then they relied on having more readers Thats gone Finally they resorted to raw censorship Also gone thanks to Elon"
X Link 2022-11-16T19:38Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
""August institutions including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have.repeatedly seemed to downplay the facts in ways that soft-pedaled Bankman-Frieds intent and culpability." FTX wasnt just mismanaged. At the heart of its collapse was a series of acts likely criminal in nature CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist @DavidZMorris writes. Opinion. https://t.co/0ULpS7tnpd FTX wasnt just mismanaged. At the heart of its collapse was a series of acts likely criminal in nature CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist @DavidZMorris writes. Opinion. https://t.co/0ULpS7tnpd"
X Link 2022-12-01T10:34Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Take heart. Its all just a dress rehearsal for the ultimate rug pull when the state prints trillions monetizes the debt and ends the fiat century. Our space will be prepared. We know what that looks like. And our trust-minimizing systems will be life rafts for the world"
X Link 2022-12-10T16:05Z 1.3M followers, [----] engagements
"By the way the answer isnt to just call every project a scam anymore than the answer is to label every email a spam. You need a binary classifier with a low false positive and false negative rate. Indeed thats the core of what decentralized regulation should be"
X Link 2022-12-10T16:31Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"The die is already cast. Those with quantitative skills in the West have decamped for the private sector. Leaving the 20th century state incapable of even understanding whats coming let alone steering it. https://www.secondbest.ca/p/before-the-flood https://www.secondbest.ca/p/before-the-flood"
X Link 2022-12-10T16:48Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"A small way of seeing this: many in the US establishment just think billion means big number. The journos and electeds are so much dumber numerically than you think. They cant divide. So they wont understand machine learning or cryptography"
X Link 2022-12-10T16:56Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"@Noahpinion You cant easily transport your life savings with the dollar as people needed to in Venezuela and Lebanon. You cant transfer it across borders without bank cooperation as they needed to in Nigeria. When the banks and the state turn on citizens Bitcoin is there"
X Link 2022-12-10T20:29Z 1.3M followers, [---] engagements
"What are you bullish on for 2023"
X Link 2022-12-31T10:20Z 1.2M followers, 2M engagements
"That's nothing. The Chinese are going to do it with 100% people of color NASA is now several years into the Artemis spaceflight program which plans to be the first series of missions since Apollo to landon the moon. The program has come with a promise: The moon astronauts will include an astronaut of color and a woman. https://t.co/ipX82Htyar NASA is now several years into the Artemis spaceflight program which plans to be the first series of missions since Apollo to landon the moon. The program has come with a promise: The moon astronauts will include an astronaut of color and a woman."
X Link 2023-01-12T08:57Z 1.2M followers, 215.1K engagements
"NASA doesn't matter. The actual space race is between SpaceX and China"
X Link 2023-01-12T09:13Z 1.2M followers, 79.3K engagements
"Email lists are good ENS lists will be better"
X Link 2023-01-22T18:32Z 1.2M followers, 465.9K engagements
"Germany before Bismarck Italy before Garibaldi India before Sardar Patel"
X Link 2023-02-04T08:14Z 1.3M followers, 644K engagements
"We're on YouTube Apple Spotify and more. Links below. 📺: 🔊: And here's episode [--] http://youtu.be/1xhPqZZYJSE http://anchor.fm/thenetworkstate http://youtube.com/@thenetworkstatepodcast http://youtu.be/1xhPqZZYJSE http://anchor.fm/thenetworkstate http://youtube.com/@thenetworkstatepodcast"
X Link 2023-02-08T05:23Z 1.3M followers, 76.4K engagements
"Thinking about new countries means thinking about edge cases. Did you know there's a place in the world that anyone can visit Anyone from any country no visa. But the temperature hovers around zero. It's called Svalbard. Full segment here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=1xhPqZZYJSE&t=4903s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=1xhPqZZYJSE&t=4903s"
X Link 2023-02-08T05:30Z 1.3M followers, 98.1K engagements
"AI means a brilliant doctor on your phone. Who can diagnose you instantly for free privately using only your locally stored medical records. Do you think the doctors will be happy about that Or the lawyers The artists The others that AI disrupts Theyll fight it. Hard"
X Link 2023-02-10T01:48Z 1.2M followers, 2.3M engagements
"@davidad @reconfigurthing I dont see any reason to expect that makes AI1 actually care about/for its humans In this sci-fi scenario AI1 needs actuators to gather resources in the physical world & deal with the AI2 tribe the AI3s etc As civilizations have done for millennia. New kind of god king"
X Link 2023-02-16T16:37Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Latvia Lithuania Poland Estonia Slovakia the Czech Republic Hungary and East Germany are now much better off after separating from Russia"
X Link 2023-03-03T08:36Z 1.3M followers, 166.2K engagements
"The concept of a low-probability-but-extreme-downside scenario is not some new thing. Dick Cheney used it to justify invading Iraq. If there was even a 1% chance of nuclear terrorism.well we need to treat it as a certainty"
X Link 2023-03-04T19:51Z 1.2M followers, 197K engagements
"@Chris_Said @mattparlmer What is your p(doom) from a Carrington Event From nuclear terrorism From a meteor striking the earth From ICBMs From a lethal virus From climate change And what is your p(aliens) How about your p(God) Point: these are more assumed premises than true probabilities"
X Link 2023-03-04T20:37Z 1.2M followers, [---] engagements
"Data from an ongoing crypto hackathon. 90% of entrants are now outside the US. Conclusion: the US establishment can't stop crypto"
X Link 2023-03-05T07:19Z 1.2M followers, 664.4K engagements
"@bmorrissey The point is that to buy a 10-year Treasury you need some trust in official pronouncements over the long run. Like the statements of officials in [----] should give some hint of what things under their control might be like in [----]. Or at least [----]. Instead we got this:"
X Link 2023-03-11T17:47Z 1.2M followers, 15.8K engagements
"David I like you. You are a good guy. Nothing I'm about to say should be taken personally. But here is the story I've been piecing together. To level set: Kim Kardashian was fined $1M for giving bad financial advice to her followers. So what's the penalty to the Fed for giving bad financial advice to the entire global economy Because my understanding is that banks are insolvent because the Fed devalued the bonds it strongly asserted it wouldn't devalue. As you know the Fed was off by almost 50X in its Dec [----] forecast of [----] rates. You can't hedge such differences. First banks can't sell"
X Link 2023-03-13T13:57Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"The Fed caused the banking crisis. Surprise rate hikes devastated the balance sheets of hundreds of banks not just SVB. Because all of them followed the same guidance and bought the same assets from the same vendor who devalued them in the same way at the same time. Their mistake They thought buying long-dated Treasuries and similar bonds from the US government was the safest bet you could make. It turned out to be the riskiest. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/svb-and-the-fed https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/svb-and-the-fed"
X Link 2023-03-15T12:17Z 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Imagine this graph but in fast forward. Thats what happens when people exit a failing fiat currency and enter gold. In this case theyll exit the dollar and enter digital gold. The bet isnt a way to make money. Its a way to alert innocent dollar holders: get to Bitcoin. im not the worlds greatest trader or anything but if you have $1mm and you think bitcoin will be worth $1mm in [--] days the trade is to buy 40 of em im not the worlds greatest trader or anything but if you have $1mm and you think bitcoin will be worth $1mm in [--] days the trade is to buy 40 of em"
X Link 2023-03-19T16:26Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"In [----] the worst bet was long-term Treasuries. In [----] the worst bet is short-term Treasuries. Because in the event people exit to #Bitcoin during this time you have three big risks. You are illiquid. Your assets can be frozen. And your assets can be quickly devalued. Why specifically is @balajis saying that short term treasuries / money markets are a trap Why specifically is @balajis saying that short term treasuries / money markets are a trap"
X Link 2023-03-19T17:29Z 1.2M followers, 574.7K engagements
"PRINT TRILLIONS WHILE HIKING RATES The Fed now has high rates like SF has low crime rates. It says it does but it doesnt. Because you have to be pretty naive to think todays rate hike means the Fed is still fighting inflation. You can see it in the graphs the printing is already vertical12 and trillions in new money is available for both domestic34 and foreign5 banks. Yet the Fed continues hiking rates to fool low information voters into thinking the last two weeks were just an isolated series of multi-hundred-billion dollar bank failures and that their policy is unchanged. Nothing to worry"
X Link 2023-03-23T02:36Z 1.3M followers, 2.3M engagements
"They will eventually try to seize Bitcoin. Eventually may be soon. So buy Bitcoin. Get your coins off exchanges. And get to a Bitcoin-friendly jurisdiction. States like Florida and Texas in the US. Or El Salvador and UAE if youre abroad. Theyre going to attempt to limit/block the exit ramps to bitcoin exchanges as the banking system gets run. Its starting. Theyre going to attempt to limit/block the exit ramps to bitcoin exchanges as the banking system gets run. Its starting"
X Link 2023-03-23T05:28Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"This also happened in Cyprus. A bank legally stole depositor assets. While running ads saying they were safe. The EU backed them up. So many stopped trusting banks. 25% of deposits moved out. Much into physical cash. Mattresses became safer than banks. https://www.ft.com/content/6c337371-0c34-38f4-9330-2ac88c0b7ce2 https://www.ft.com/content/6c337371-0c34-38f4-9330-2ac88c0b7ce2"
X Link 2023-04-01T03:14Z 1.2M followers, 550.4K engagements
"The Cyprus bail-in is worth understanding in detail. A good chunk of wealth just permanently moved out of bank accounts. https://www.ft.com/content/6c337371-0c34-38f4-9330-2ac88c0b7ce2 https://www.ft.com/content/6c337371-0c34-38f4-9330-2ac88c0b7ce2"
X Link 2023-04-01T03:21Z 1.2M followers, 41.4K engagements
"Draper now advises his companies to hedge against bank failure with Bitcoin. Some tips for business cash management post SVB. https://t.co/dVEw0EJJyZ #bitcoin #trust #freedom Some tips for business cash management post SVB. https://t.co/dVEw0EJJyZ #bitcoin #trust #freedom"
X Link 2023-04-01T04:54Z 1.3M followers, 615.8K engagements
"Buy generators when the grid fails. Hire private security when police are abolished. Hold Bitcoin when banks collapse"
X Link 2023-04-01T05:09Z 1.3M followers, 116.7K engagements
"This is the right discussion to have. I agree that "if we control spending and technology continues to bail us out" then everything is fine. But (a) the establishment is blocking new technology and (b) it is not controlling spending. Catastrophists arent always wrong just 99%+ of the time @balajis points out a number of challenging issues but all of them are surmountable if we control spending & technology continues to bail us out with massive efficiency gains https://t.co/55M0aWf7mp Catastrophists arent always wrong just 99%+ of the time @balajis points out a number of challenging issues but"
X Link 2023-05-02T21:21Z 1.2M followers, 780.1K engagements
""The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default." Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in 2011"
X Link 2023-05-03T10:54Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
""When PacWest Bancorp is forced into receivership.it will be the fifth largest bank failure in US history.and it will come less than a week after the failure of First Republic bank the second largest bank to fail in US history." https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-1340/ https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-1340/"
X Link 2023-05-04T06:29Z 1.3M followers, 283.9K engagements
"Australia and New Zealand have surprisingly good financials relative to the G7. They may be the best run countries in the Western world. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook47p/AustralianGovernmentDebt https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook47p/AustralianGovernmentDebt"
X Link 2023-05-10T22:50Z 1.2M followers, 177.2K engagements
"More evidence for Australia and New Zealand as the best of the West: they're successfully competing12 with places like Dubai for global millionaires. 1: 2: https://archive.is/ferXV#selection-553.330-556.0 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/migration-of-millionaires-worldwide-2022/ https://archive.is/ferXV#selection-553.330-556.0 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/migration-of-millionaires-worldwide-2022/"
X Link 2023-05-10T22:55Z 1.2M followers, 182.1K engagements
"The two world cities for global investors are Dubai and Singapore. ok hear me out what if we moved silicon valley to dubai https://t.co/QEWKK6Z7vs ok hear me out what if we moved silicon valley to dubai https://t.co/QEWKK6Z7vs"
X Link 2023-05-14T05:32Z 1.2M followers, 4.4M engagements
"Druckenmiller estimates the true debt including entitlements to be $200T. If its anything close to that you cant grow your way out. You could sacrifice [----] unicorns plus all of tech without making a dent. So they wont pay. Theyll print"
X Link 2023-05-24T16:32Z 1.3M followers, 976.3K engagements
"The true dystopia would be: - take a photo of a crowd - face recognize all people - look up their phones - freeze their WeChat accounts Its like a human EMP. Knocks the fight out of a crowd. And is technologically possible now. BREAKING: Protest signs and protestors' faces are automatically reported to PRC police thanks to an AI system touted by Dahua a huge Chinese video surveillance manufacturer. Dahua calls this solution a "banner_alarm" https://t.co/bxrJQiL7LW via @ipvideo https://t.co/tgftN09Z1r BREAKING: Protest signs and protestors' faces are automatically reported to PRC police thanks"
X Link 2023-05-31T04:08Z 1.2M followers, 2.6M engagements
"GOING META Congrats to Apple and everyone who worked on the Vision Pro. But I wouldn't count out Zuck and Meta for four reasons. 1) First we're still in the bulky headset era. That means Oculus Quest's focus on gaming is a better fit. A gamer doesn't care if they look weird with a headset on because no one else is around. 2) Second Zuck may decide to pursue an Android strategy against Apple. Their new Twitter competitor is rumored to be built on Mastodon1 he spoke quite a bit about interoperability in his public talks2 and he's certainly aware of just how much traction the partially"
X Link 2023-06-07T18:05Z 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"How quickly could countries de-dollarize It's been reported that Russia was able to flip some systems from dollar to yuan in a year in the middle of a war arguably indicating that access to the US economy is no longer indispensable. https://archive.is/08NFv https://archive.is/08NFv"
X Link 2023-06-18T07:20Z 1.2M followers, 27.9K engagements
"As Rubio has said "we won't have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won't have the ability to sanction them.""
X Link 2023-06-18T07:21Z 1.2M followers, 32.4K engagements
"Bank of America alone has $100B in unrealized losses. Yet what you hear is: no big deal. After all we knew about this months ago and in any case BofA is too big to fail. Worst case another Credit Suisse And we all know the money printer is infinite https://archive.is/Xv9jS https://archive.is/Xv9jS"
X Link 2023-07-01T16:23Z 1.2M followers, 37.1K engagements
"Fed says doomsday1 scenario is "only" $541B Leave aside Stanford2 estimate of $2.2T. And that the Fed also assured everyone that bank runs wouldn't happen on the day3 they began. 1: 2: 3: https://archive.is/5quL6#selection-5117.718-5117.839 https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/many-us-banks-face-same-risks-brought-down-silicon-valley-bank https://archive.is/nL1Y9 https://archive.is/5quL6#selection-5117.718-5117.839 https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/many-us-banks-face-same-risks-brought-down-silicon-valley-bank https://archive.is/nL1Y9"
X Link 2023-07-01T16:30Z 1.2M followers, 95.5K engagements
"The technique is what Mearsheimer and @stephenWalt call offshore balancing. The US inherited it from the UK. It essentially involves the #1 allying with the #3 against the rising #2 until the #2 is beaten. Then rinse and repeat. Its described here. https://archive.is/N2sgm https://archive.is/N2sgm"
X Link 2023-08-03T10:03Z 1.2M followers, 73K engagements
"@stephenWalt There is also a corporate version of this. Microsoft built up Facebook to fight Google. Ballmer invested a crucial $240M of essentially non-dilutive money into Facebook in [----] giving them the resources to scale and bleed Google in internet advertising. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/technology/25facebook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/technology/25facebook.html"
X Link 2023-08-03T10:07Z 1.2M followers, 58.6K engagements
"From yesterday's Network State meetup in Bangalore"
X Link 2023-09-18T04:12Z 1.2M followers, 38.4K engagements
"Solana Hacker House in Bangalore was packed"
X Link 2023-09-18T04:17Z 1.2M followers, 127.4K engagements
"I understand why DC rejected free speech and free markets. They think its necessary to beat China. For example some Democrats explicitly argue1 that China was right to reject free speech. And Republicans say that China was right to reject free trade. So if you cant beat em join em. As a consequence we see state-directed2 censorship and economic nationalism rising. Ironically China isnt copying America on this. Its now DC that is copying China. But I think well find that its just not in DCs DNA to become a terrible copy of China. The censorship is already failing thanks to Elon. And the"
X Link 2023-10-05T22:16Z 1.2M followers, 64.2K engagements
"LOSING THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN Lets be real: US political leaders since the Gulf War are perhaps the worst leaders in the history of the world. In [----] they inherited a hyperpower that wins everywhere without fighting. But by [----] they produced a declining power that fights everywhere without winning. Its thirty years of unmitigated domestic and international failure from San Francisco to Syria from financial crisis to coronavirus. With every inherited advantage US leaders nevertheless produced historical collapses in life expectancy1 and manufacturing capacity2 in patriotic loyalty and"
X Link 2023-10-20T12:32Z 1.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"THE BASICS WORK IN INDIA Rohit is right about India. 1) First the basic daily loop of a tech worker is now easy in India. Wake up hit the gym open laptop get coffee call an Uber hang out with some friends etc thats all there. Reliable power internet air conditioning roads airportall the basics are present. Sounds trivial but its not a lot of infrastructure has to come together for that to be true. And it wasnt as present a decade ago. 2) Second the public goods are also there. Unlike SF or LA the streets arent filled with people that NGOs have addicted to drugs. In fact theyre cleaner every"
X Link 2023-10-22T22:36Z 1.2M followers, 3.3M engagements
"Prime Minister Modi is the most popular leader in the democratic world"
X Link 2023-10-28T00:19Z 1.2M followers, 416.6K engagements
"Now is the time that everyone sees the risk of a single point of failure. If the board can do this to Sam they can do it to any OpenAI customer. Hence decentralize AI. ANNOUNCING SHOGGOTH I am excited to announce Shoggoth - a peer-to-peer anonymous network for publishing and distributing open-source Machine Learning models code repositories research papers and datasets. As government regulations on open-source AI research and https://t.co/2CshRLAINY ANNOUNCING SHOGGOTH I am excited to announce Shoggoth - a peer-to-peer anonymous network for publishing and distributing open-source Machine"
X Link 2023-11-18T05:22Z 1.2M followers, 271.9K engagements
"This but in reverse. AGI means God is back"
X Link 2023-11-19T09:15Z 1.2M followers, 101K engagements
"THE DIGITAL IRON CURTAIN I dont think enough people see this for what it is. A Digital Iron Curtain is gradually descending over the West. - Its the FedNow quasi-CBDC - Its the [-----] agents - Its stepped up financial surveillance - Its attacks on every exchange - Its expanded civil forfeiture All of this is against the backdrop of sovereign debt crisis commercial real estate collapse and a historical crash in bond prices. Basically the US is bankrupt many times over Western central banks themselves need bailouts and DC is making it ever harder to exit to crypto. So if youre caught on the blue"
X Link 2023-11-22T00:13Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"We need to hyperdeflate the cost of raising a family"
X Link 2023-11-28T21:07Z 1.2M followers, 569.3K engagements
"The fusion of SolBrah and Bryan Johnson is @hubermanlab. It strikes me that we should see a 💪 🔬 conference with @AJA_Cortes @alexfeinberg1 @davidasinclair @PeterAttiaMD and co all together. Maybe include a fitness and nutritional assessment for all attendees with blood tests. BS-free longevity doctors: - Peter Attia - Brand Stanfield - Rhonda Patrick - Andrew Huberman - Oliver Zolman Highly recommend following all of them. BS-free longevity doctors: - Peter Attia - Brand Stanfield - Rhonda Patrick - Andrew Huberman - Oliver Zolman Highly recommend following all of them"
X Link 2023-11-29T16:57Z 1.2M followers, 96.1K engagements
"The Soviet Union posted its highest GDP right before the collapse"
X Link 2023-12-01T20:20Z 1.3M followers, 1M engagements
"Very reasonable ask. So here's what Shanghai looks like at ground level. While I prefer the freedom of Seoul or Tokyo I have to admit the Chinese have built great cities. We should build greater ones. One interesting thing about panoramas of Chinese cities is that very few of the shots are ever at ground level. When it's Tokyo or Seoul the montages are of people shopping and electric signs. When it's Shanghai or Shenzhen it's all just infrastructure and skyscrapers. One interesting thing about panoramas of Chinese cities is that very few of the shots are ever at ground level. When it's Tokyo"
X Link 2023-12-05T01:45Z 1.2M followers, 776.5K engagements
"I have a new fund. Naval Brian Armstrong Fred Wilson are backers. I'm also putting in my own money. I'll be seed investing in every promising company. Especially startup societies & network states. The fund is for accredited investors. And it's live at http://balaji.com http://balaji.com"
X Link 2023-12-14T06:26Z 1.2M followers, 3.3M engagements
"There are three alternatives to Delaware. 1) Red states like Texas & Florida 2) Foreign states like Singapore & UAE 3) Blockchains like Ethereum & Solana All three should develop tools for corporate refugees exiting Delaware. Port over charter bylaws cap table everything. https://t.co/27beLd57HX https://t.co/27beLd57HX"
X Link 2024-01-31T10:33Z 1.2M followers, 388.8K engagements
"I just got back from Prospera. A startup city on the island of Roatn. Its crypto its bio its robo. And its not San Francisco"
X Link 2024-02-17T08:15Z 1.2M followers, 581K engagements
"Taylor Swift may be a Democrat. But Larry Fink is a Bitcoiner. And that will matter more. Why can Republicans no longer win Taylor Swift Democrats. These are people who are comfortable with their biological sex and want normal lives and relationships. They'd usually vote against the left. Except Republicans have become even bigger weirdos. https://t.co/11CrAOWu4z Why can Republicans no longer win Taylor Swift Democrats. These are people who are comfortable with their biological sex and want normal lives and relationships. They'd usually vote against the left. Except Republicans have become"
X Link 2024-03-01T16:32Z 1.2M followers, 229.7K engagements
"Suddenly GPT4 has four competitors. - Gemini [---] - Mistral Large - Claude [--] Opus - Inflection-2.5 Links below. All are impressive. I like Claude the best. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/8/gpt-4-barrier/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/8/gpt-4-barrier/"
X Link 2024-03-08T21:23Z 1.2M followers, 557.3K engagements
"Linear extrapolation gives $50 trillion. Exponential is more like $70 trillion. And Bitcoin remains at [--] million. This is the scariest chart Ive ever made. This is what it looks like when a country is heading toward a financial precipice. Each color shows $1T getting added to the national debt. Not that long ago it took six years to add a bar. Were now adding one every 90-120 days. https://t.co/RZ1B8vrZqW This is the scariest chart Ive ever made. This is what it looks like when a country is heading toward a financial precipice. Each color shows $1T getting added to the national debt. Not"
X Link 2024-03-12T08:23Z 1.2M followers, 286.4K engagements
"At least 23.98% of your wealth has been invisibly seized by the government since Jan [----]. https://truflation.com/dashboardfeed=aggregated-us https://truflation.com/dashboardfeed=aggregated-us"
X Link 2024-03-16T09:37Z 1.3M followers, 815.1K engagements
"Vanguard is wrong. Bitcoin does have something analogous to cash flows namely fees. And people are currently paying $2.7M/day in fees to use Bitcoin which is $1B annualized. JUST IN: Vanguard CEO says they will not offer spot #Bitcoin ETFs because "it does not belong in a long-term portfolio" and it's "not a store of value." https://t.co/yF0dNmYMaR JUST IN: Vanguard CEO says they will not offer spot #Bitcoin ETFs because "it does not belong in a long-term portfolio" and it's "not a store of value." https://t.co/yF0dNmYMaR"
X Link 2024-03-16T10:42Z 1.2M followers, 240.5K engagements
"BRICS is buying gold bricks"
X Link 2024-03-27T11:42Z 1.2M followers, 207.8K engagements
"ALL IT TAKES IS ALL YOU GOT Wow I love this so much. First the debt didn't matter. Now it still doesn't matter. Because the state can take all your assets to pay it Here's the graph Brent cites: Below is that same graph with titles and labels1. See how it says balance sheet of households and nonprofit organizations So that $177T number isn't really about government assets. It's just everything every American household (and nonprofit hedge fund PE fund and personal trust) owns2. And now we're getting down to brass tacks. See Keynesianism is like Communism in that it sees no real difference"
X Link 2024-03-28T19:54Z 1.3M followers, 1.6M engagements
"CITATIONS 1: Fed's balance sheet of households 2: This $177T isn't cash of course. If you actually sold all those assets (to who for what) they would crash in value. Google itself is only worth 2T. If we're actually talking about that 177T as "collateral" against the 200T owed by the US government which means welfare payments and medical care for seniors we're talking about a bizarre end-of-the-Soviet-Union fire sale here combined with a beginning-of-the-Soviet-Union asset seizure. 3: Open the Books has a writeup: 4: The Feb [----] Treasury Report: 5: Druckenmiller: "The present value of that"
X Link 2024-03-28T20:08Z 1.3M followers, 54K engagements
"The criminal isn't the upstream problem. The woke is the upstream problem"
X Link 2024-03-29T04:54Z 1.2M followers, 85.8K engagements
"The woke gets paid to addict people to drugs. He then looses his maddened pets upon civilians. And as the victims pile up He holds his hand up. He has solutions Compassionate ones. That involve funding his NGO. Or electing his party. Escalating the problem That he created"
X Link 2024-03-29T05:02Z 1.2M followers, 39.3K engagements
"How do you go bankrupt Gradually and then suddenly"
X Link 2024-04-01T04:11Z 1.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"The rate of increase is up roughly 15X. Q3 1991: $304B Q3 2021: $588B Q2 2023: $909B So that's three decades in under two years. A new $320B of recurring obligations added in just [--] quarters. Go check for yourself: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA"
X Link 2024-04-01T04:19Z 1.2M followers, 138.2K engagements
"I'll be in Dubai next week for @Token2049. It's a rare in-person appearance. I'm giving a talk on the Network State of the Union. And a fireside with my friend Bryan Johnson. We're talking about Moses-meets-Methuselah. Exit the old world and never grow old. I'll be at Token2049 in Dubai next week with @balajis. We reject both the slow loss in wealth of inflating and the slow decline in health of aging. Come to hear about immutable money and eternal life. I'll be at Token2049 in Dubai next week with @balajis. We reject both the slow loss in wealth of inflating and the slow decline in health of"
X Link 2024-04-09T02:24Z 1.2M followers, 192.6K engagements
"Dubai is run like a tech startup. Balaji and I met with His Excellency Omar Al Olama Minister of State for AI and Digital Economy UAE. He also runs their Golden Visa program recruiting top global talent. Im impressed. This is what tech-forward leadership looks like. https://t.co/peMfo6ObSb Balaji and I met with His Excellency Omar Al Olama Minister of State for AI and Digital Economy UAE. He also runs their Golden Visa program recruiting top global talent. Im impressed. This is what tech-forward leadership looks like. https://t.co/peMfo6ObSb"
X Link 2024-04-23T13:17Z 1.2M followers, 668.5K engagements
"Taiwan Hong Kong and Singapore did well in the 20th century while the Chinese mainland was gripped by a mind virus. Quite possible that Australia New Zealand and Singapore do well in the 21st century while the Western world is gripped by a mind virus"
X Link 2024-04-26T14:29Z 1.2M followers, 428.7K engagements
"BTC GPA Assume AI disrupts academia. How do you now evaluate skills when hiring Perhaps crypto bounties. Anyone can try them online. And if you successfully complete a bounty its like a paid interview that proves valuable skills. Heres an example from @replit: Reddit is flooded with students asking various subreddits how to deal with professors accusing them of generative AI use in their writing during this finals period. Professors are wondering how to deal with obvious generative AI use in their grading. We broke something. Reddit is flooded with students asking various subreddits how to"
X Link 2024-05-03T20:23Z 1.2M followers, 119.5K engagements
"HUBERMAN HARVARD MAN Franois I disagree and heres why. ON THE SPECIFICS First on the specifics I dont think one can correct someone without posting the correct answer. And the equation for the geometric CDF isnt some random mumbo jumbo. Its exactly what you need to get the probability of having one conception on or before N=6 cycles with p=0.2 success rate. Moreover when I first saw the Huberman clip I thought he was just misspeaking when talking about the expected number of successes in N=6 Bernoulli trials with p=0.2 success rate. In that case EX = Np = [---]. Which does have a real-world"
X Link 2024-05-11T15:21Z 1.2M followers, 506.5K engagements
"AI 🤝 Crypto Tokenize everything"
X Link 2024-05-14T21:06Z 1.2M followers, 431.5K engagements
"See Karpathys tutorial if you arent familiar with tokenizers in AI. Its more complicated than just using ASCII. New (2h13m 😅) lecture: "Let's build the GPT Tokenizer" Tokenizers are a completely separate stage of the LLM pipeline: they have their own training set training algorithm (Byte Pair Encoding) and after training implement two functions: encode() from strings to tokens and https://t.co/iSRD2la1Gv New (2h13m 😅) lecture: "Let's build the GPT Tokenizer" Tokenizers are a completely separate stage of the LLM pipeline: they have their own training set training algorithm (Byte Pair"
X Link 2024-05-14T21:20Z 1.2M followers, 73.1K engagements
"The issue is: they are prepared for this. They know people are against bailouts. So now many of the policies are engineered to look like acquisitions or accounting rule changes rather than bailouts per se. For example the state indirectly gives JPMC the money to buy small banks resulting in de facto nationalization but without the optics of a direct government bailout. Or they allow their friends (but not normal people) to sell devalued Treasuries back to the state at par value with BTFP. Its meant to be confusing. Its evolved camouflage. But at a high level the coming crisis isnt exactly a"
X Link 2024-05-15T22:00Z 1.2M followers, 102.5K engagements
"DEDOLLARIZATION REINDUSTRIALIZATION In theory dedollarization enables reindustrialization. Because if you can export dollars why build anything else You make 99.99+ cents on the dollar for a new dollar. It's a very high margin good made with zero effort and zero pollution. Why make screws or bolts or planes or trains if you can literally print money Let someone do that overseas. That was the logic of the 1971-2021 era. But the problem arises when people at home and abroad start realizing they're getting diluted to prop up the dollar. Or when you're in a military standoff with China and fiat"
X Link 2024-05-20T02:32Z 1.2M followers, 402.6K engagements
"The Fed now admits some countries are moving to gold. But says its a small group. China: 1.4B India: 1.4B Russia: 144M Turkey: 85M That small group represents 3B people. So 37.5% of the world is moving away from dollars towards gold. In today's post the authors note that the narratives about declining dollar shares in official reserves and increasing roles for gold holdings by central banks inappropriately generalize the actions of a small group of countries. https://t.co/Rpwa0hnX6X In today's post the authors note that the narratives about declining dollar shares in official reserves and"
X Link 2024-05-30T15:53Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@Mihoda I agree it would break many things and be similar to the end of communism and shock therapy at the end of the Soviet Union. I also agree youd have to massively shrink the size of the federal government. It was much smaller in the 1800s. Yes yes very good. And the Federal Government was what [--] or 4% of GDP Sure you can raise that from tariffs. 18% not so much. Yes yes very good. And the Federal Government was what [--] or 4% of GDP Sure you can raise that from tariffs. 18% not so much"
X Link 2024-06-15T07:48Z 1.1M followers, 10.6K engagements
"There are many great cryptocurrency conferences. But there's only one cryptocountry conference. https://x.com/balajis/status/1803416645958050253 Come to Singapore on September [--]. https://t.co/1eo1XG87zb https://t.co/v7EGf2d2l6 https://x.com/balajis/status/1803416645958050253 Come to Singapore on September [--]. https://t.co/1eo1XG87zb https://t.co/v7EGf2d2l6"
X Link 2024-06-23T09:29Z 1.2M followers, 61.5K engagements
"We built tech media. X All In Nostr Farcaster Dont Die Hereticon Power Law Not Boring Turpentine Pirate Wires My 1st Million Network State Thats books podcasts newsletters conferences and social media platforms. Now the next step is to build tech movements"
X Link 2024-07-01T16:09Z 1.2M followers, 130.1K engagements
"Polymarket is the news"
X Link 2024-07-03T16:04Z 1.2M followers, 288.6K engagements
"You can now short the Party with cryptocurrency. Take any NYT headline figure out how Sulzbergers employees are lying this time and turn it into a prediction market. Once the Party is forced to accept reality collect your money. Rinse and repeat. https://polymarket.com/event/democratic-nominee-2024tid=1720022191655 https://polymarket.com/event/democratic-nominee-2024tid=1720022191655"
X Link 2024-07-03T16:15Z 1.2M followers, 79.5K engagements
"China is now holding joint military exercises with Belarus near Poland before the NATO summit. Wait. Chinese troopsnear Poland This is the most obvious brushback pitch in the world. Theyre signaling that NATO would face not just Russia but China. This needs to deescalate"
X Link 2024-07-09T15:14Z 1.3M followers, 296.2K engagements
"A bit more context with some photos. Officially its an anti-terror exercise. But obviously Beijing is 3000+ miles from Belarus. And terrorists usually don't fight in formation. Further context is that Belarus just joined SCO which is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It's similar to BRICS but is more focused on Eurasia and Central Asia. In terms of the meaning of it China is being passive aggressive about the exercise. But Belarus is much more explicit: At a press briefing on Friday Vladimir Kupriyanyuk the deputy head of the general staff of Belaruss armed forces said that the joint"
X Link 2024-07-09T15:31Z 1.2M followers, 48.9K engagements
"Chinas demographic problems have robotic solutions"
X Link 2024-07-10T11:50Z 1.2M followers, 125.8K engagements
"The EU fears that free speech on the internet might cause political change on their continent. So they want to build a new Berlin Wall online to protect Europe from thoughtcrime. Back in the day #BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information✔🐦 Now with X our preliminary view is that: ❌They deceive users ❌They infrige #DSA X has now the right of defence but if our view is confirmed we will impose fines & require significant changes. https://t.co/M9tGA5pYQr Back in the day #BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information✔🐦 Now with X our preliminary view is that: ❌They"
X Link 2024-07-12T11:14Z 1.2M followers, 184.7K engagements
"Indians will never be fighting for Taiwan because Americans will never be fighting for Taiwan. Reason: the US military is made in China. "India likes it's autonomy but in times of conflict thr is no such thing as strategic autonomy." Says US ambassador Eric Garcetti Source: CUTS defence conclave https://t.co/6qXjDOZBJE "India likes it's autonomy but in times of conflict thr is no such thing as strategic autonomy." Says US ambassador Eric Garcetti Source: CUTS defence conclave https://t.co/6qXjDOZBJE"
X Link 2024-07-12T20:44Z 1.2M followers, 302.2K engagements
"Russia sold Alaska for $7.2M in gold in [----]. Gold was $28 per ounce then. It's about $2400 per ounce now. So for less than $720M in gold the US got Alaska"
X Link 2024-07-20T23:22Z 1.2M followers, 174K engagements
"Polymarket is the news. It priced in a 10%+ chance of Biden dropping out even before the debate. Meanwhile legacy media claimed Biden's senility was a conspiracy theory. No journos only crypto"
X Link 2024-07-21T21:19Z 1.2M followers, 410.6K engagements
"Biden's senility was disinformation. It was cheap fakes. It was conspiracy theory Until once again it became conspiracy reality"
X Link 2024-07-21T21:23Z 1.2M followers, 60.2K engagements
"You can now make money from NYT's lies. Short the fake news on Polymarket. https://polymarket.com/event/democratic-nominee-2024tid=1721596221773 https://polymarket.com/event/democratic-nominee-2024tid=1721596221773"
X Link 2024-07-21T21:31Z 1.2M followers, 41.7K engagements
"ECONOMICS POLITICS No election can pay off America's $175T in debt. Only the printing press can. Because as Elon Dalio and others realize.the Western world is headed for a sovereign debt crisis far worse than [----]. Just like theyve been lying about Bidens senility theyve also been lying about the economy. And so they're going to print a lot of currency. But take a look at the data and judge for yourself. 1) MORE EMERGENCY LOANS THAN [----] First did you know the Fed1 made more emergency loans in [----] than during the financial crisis of [----] The banking system is on life support thanks to the US"
X Link 2024-07-22T22:36Z 1.3M followers, 2.3M engagements
"I love the optimism. But let's do the math: AAPL: 3.4T MSFT: 3.3T NVDA: 3T GOOG: 2.25T META: 1.25T TSLA: 0.78T The combined market cap of the Magnificent [--] is "only" 14T. That's 10% of the $175.3T owed by DC So there's no way to grow out of this. A debt crisis is coming. @balajis A popular line of thinking among NPCs is the economic gains from AI is gonna solve this problem. How do you respond to that @balajis A popular line of thinking among NPCs is the economic gains from AI is gonna solve this problem. How do you respond to that"
X Link 2024-07-22T23:58Z 1.3M followers, 693.4K engagements
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