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# ![@ErikVoorhees Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::61417559.png) @ErikVoorhees Erik Voorhees

Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift, has been discussing his new project, Venice, a private and permissionless AI platform aimed at promoting "unfettered civilizational advancement". He emphasizes the importance of private and secure data handling, criticizing companies that store user conversations. Voorhees also shares his views on cryptocurrency, government control, and the potential of projects that earn fees.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  XXXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[venice](/topic/venice) #184, [crypto](/topic/crypto) 5.56%, [agentic](/topic/agentic) #238, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) 1.85%, [china](/topic/china) 1.85%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 1.85%, [nano banana](/topic/nano-banana) 1.85%, [south dakota](/topic/south-dakota) 1.85%, [debt](/topic/debt) 1.85%, [culture](/topic/culture) XXXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@coindesk](/creator/undefined) [@anondeguerre](/creator/undefined) [@2fast_gg](/creator/undefined) [@un_united_soa](/creator/undefined) [@kevincastley](/creator/undefined) [@alexnomads](/creator/undefined) [@bob_the_buidler](/creator/undefined) [@cryptoitalia_io](/creator/undefined) [@creamofdacrop](/creator/undefined) [@falloffiat](/creator/undefined) [@base](/creator/undefined) [@berniesanders](/creator/undefined) [@realkeithweiner](/creator/undefined) [@hldrinduecourse](/creator/undefined) [@bitcoinxtalk](/creator/undefined) [@rohnek_kdosi](/creator/undefined) [@prajwalpramod3](/creator/undefined) [@geeksgolfers](/creator/undefined) [@abundance_dao](/creator/undefined) [@budgetdog](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[ThorFi (THOR)](/topic/thorfi) [THORChain (RUNE)](/topic/$rune)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"All your chats are belong to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996699226915652015)  2025-12-04T21:52Z 747.5K followers, 50.3K engagements


"@KevinCastley It started looking like that after China largely embraced capitalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998223183087034418)  2025-12-09T02:48Z 747.5K followers, 134.2K engagements


"29 video models now available in Venice API"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998537983809802550)  2025-12-09T23:39Z 747.5K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Best image model in the world by huge margin. Now available in Venice API DIEM stakers enjoy it for free on @base"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1995923677783748669)  2025-12-02T18:31Z 747.6K followers, 31.6K engagements


"@mcsquared34 You realize all life on earth works to earn a living right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998888972500762651)  2025-12-10T22:54Z 747.6K followers, 36.5K engagements


"I would love to see a US state go entirely and indefinitely socialist. Any socialists that wanted that life could have it and I'd be happy for them. I do wonder if they'd afford me the same Would they be open to see a US state go entirely and indefinitely libertarian Imagine if North Dakota and South Dakota ran this experiment for next fifty years. The radical socialists would have a land of their own the radical libertarians would too the rest of the country could watch and we'd all learn a lot wouldn't we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996692644886368530)  2025-12-04T21:26Z 747.4K followers, 64.7K engagements


"@cyberprince_rwo Even if that were true (it's not) the market value of those several assets easily dwarfs the investment made in all the nonsense. The vast majority of frontier ideas and projects fail. That's a sign of the frontier not of failure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1997467579817054350)  2025-12-07T00:45Z 747.4K followers, 5410 engagements


""Warren Buffett stated this many times that his secretary paid more in federal tax than him." Disingenuous. Her marginal rate might be higher as she's earning income vs capital gains but he obviously paid a million times more in taxes than her. Top X% pay almost half of the entire tax base"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998468418559947187)  2025-12-09T19:02Z 747.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Permissionless protocol deposit BTC borrow stables Who is building this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1857494039089787307)  2024-11-15T18:41Z 747.5K followers, 661.7K engagements


"Some day the hot crypto narrative will be projects that earn fees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1883205191320867091)  2025-01-25T17:28Z 747.6K followers, 520.5K engagements


"Day X launch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1993406149681656020)  2025-11-25T19:47Z 747.5K followers, 24.1K engagements


"@AlexNomads @base Stake VVV = get VVV yield + option to lock VVV to mint DIEM (this is where all DIEM comes from) Stake DIEM = use up to XXX credits per day in (100 credits per diem per day)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1995970736960537067)  2025-12-02T21:38Z 747.4K followers, 7817 engagements


"serving 20000 images and 60000 texts per hour now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1995971827999670479)  2025-12-02T21:42Z 747.5K followers, 21.4K engagements


"@ProudSocialist In capitalism workers can own the means of production. It's called buying shares"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996237269477318688)  2025-12-03T15:17Z 747.5K followers, 17.6K engagements


"@balajis Switzerland stayed small remained true to roots wasn't absorbed by either WWII Germany or modern day EU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996331329299087523)  2025-12-03T21:30Z 747.6K followers, 57.9K engagements


"Z-Image is now the default image model on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998447726451896586)  2025-12-09T17:40Z 747.6K followers, 16.3K engagements


"Dear agents - you can access these models for free with staked DIEM on @base 0xf4d97f2da56e8c3098f3a8d538db630a2606a024"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1997052220336914752)  2025-12-05T21:15Z 747.6K followers, 32.6K engagements


"@BenFRubinstein bro they literally started booming after they stopped being so communist and permitted a material degree of capitalism and markets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996701990056087611)  2025-12-04T22:03Z 747.6K followers, 45.5K engagements


"@BernieSanders It's not $X trillion in annual salary dummy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1997466202059542829)  2025-12-07T00:40Z 747.6K followers, 39.9K engagements


"@MichaelAArouet XXX years is insignificant in geologic time and Co2 levels are drastically lower today than during many phases in history That doesn't mean anthropogenic climate change is wrong but it does mean such a tiny sliver of data is dubious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1997466760380129585)  2025-12-07T00:42Z 747.5K followers, 20.1K engagements


"Bitfinex after it's hack in 2016 and Thorchain after its Thorfi lending mechanism blew up earlier this year both pursued a novel path that is only possible in crypto. They issued a token granted to creditors which was imbued with a share of future profits. This allowed creditors to either instantly get a material portion of their lost funds back or hold the token for some time and potentially earn *more* than they lost. See below chart of LEO since the hack. $X debt token has risen by 8x in less than a decade. As an alternative to a normal bankruptcy proceeding it is far superior. Compare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1925612261340848159)  2025-05-22T17:58Z 747.6K followers, 60.8K engagements


"Sadly the anti-market sophistry is accelerating in America Yes his dad is worse off because of the cheaper alternative tree trimmer from Haiti. That's a negative for the dad. But that's not the entire accounting is it. While James' dad is worse off at least three other people are better off: First the Haitian who trims trees more efficiently is better off. But since he doesn't have a special stamp book from the US Gov people discount him okay. Second the American(s) who need trees trimmed is also better off. They now have trimmed trees plus extra hard earned money that can be spent on other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1990923536282652685)  2025-11-18T23:22Z 747.6K followers, 128.6K engagements


"Opponents of capitalism have no alternative that doesn't require coercion and violence. Capitalism is the system of peace. It is what occurs between man when coercion is minimized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996275760412467502)  2025-12-03T17:50Z 747.6K followers, 65K engagements


"@Inhumansoflate1 $X trillion / XXX million = $2857 - Pays for 2-3 months of healthcare for every American - Several large companies fail as stock sold to zero from liquidation of the $X trillion - 100000-200000 people out of work Then what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996429673157493169)  2025-12-04T04:01Z 747.6K followers, 158.5K engagements


"@kinginvestings What about one where only $17/hr of value is provided"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996708193397821912)  2025-12-04T22:28Z 747.6K followers, 21.5K engagements


"@RonSwanonson I mean. any crypto basically satisfies this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996986446528352739)  2025-12-05T16:54Z 747.6K followers, 18K engagements


"Nearly every leading model is now available in Venice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998883330503356581)  2025-12-10T22:31Z 747.5K followers, 28.9K engagements


"@Jingjing_Li sometimes things require more than one word to describe how they work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998891834551234735)  2025-12-10T23:05Z 747.5K followers, 8756 engagements


"@RealKeithWeiner To transfer any significant value it does Try to move just $2m of gold to someone a thousand miles away without trusting anyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1999196446785175967)  2025-12-11T19:15Z 747.5K followers, 39.7K engagements


"@hldrinduecourse @RealKeithWeiner well now you're trusting a vault buddy see story of egold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1999237802765222220)  2025-12-11T22:00Z 747.5K followers, 1245 engagements