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# ![@nic__carter Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::420308365.png) @nic__carter nic carter

Nic Carter, a prominent figure in the crypto space, has been involved in discussions about Bitcoin and Ethereum. He recently engaged with others on Twitter, exchanging views on various topics, including stablecoins and the role of regulators. A key point of discussion was Massad's post on stablecoins, which garnered significant attention and response from the crypto community.

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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::420308365/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #265 [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [ufc](/list/ufc)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [nfts](/list/nfts)  XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #104, [coins](/topic/coins) #59, [has been](/topic/has-been) 2.73%, [bitcoin mining](/topic/bitcoin-mining) #158, [ufc](/topic/ufc) 0.91%, [marvin vettori](/topic/marvin-vettori) 0.91%, [ibm](/topic/ibm) 0.91%, [$ionq](/topic/$ionq) 0.91%, [investment](/topic/investment) #2293, [rgti](/topic/rgti) XXXX%

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**Top assets mentioned**
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [IonQ, Inc. (IONQ)](/topic/$ionq) [Silvergate Capital Corporation (SI)](/topic/silvergate)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::420308365/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"the paramount no PPV deal is the best thing that's happened to the UFC in years. no one wants to pay for ESPN+ and then an extra $XX to watch marvin vettori headline a main event at 2am ET"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1955050074578342325) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-08-11T23:33Z 425.5K followers, 19.3K engagements


"after the Trump-Intel deal I decided the next obvious candidate was IBM as quantum is a matter of national security (can prove with screenshots + timestamps but don't think I need to) also long RGTI and IONQ not investment advice obviously these got shellacked in the last week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981322850850963950) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T11:32Z 425.5K followers, 81.7K engagements


"@jokieliu china doesn't even permit the release of economic data lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981452463241830827) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T20:07Z 425.5K followers, 15.7K engagements


"@MajorianBTC Im kind of equally ambivalent towards the three main ideas - burn do nothing or recycle the coins to power the block reward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981763728862310664) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-24T16:44Z 425.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Gm Excited to present our new whitepaper written in collaboration with @BHDigitalAssets @Visa and @artemis__xyz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1834224298447294523) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2024-09-12T13:35Z 425.6K followers, 271.7K engagements


"guys it's over. bitcoin has been officially debunked. there's no coming back from this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1922725970630385960) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-05-14T18:49Z 425.5K followers, 232.1K engagements


"that clip of the lebanese wedding DJ blasting Gimme Gimme Gimme while Iranian missiles fly overhead is going to live in my brain forever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1934249313296679143) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-06-15T13:59Z 425.6K followers, 788.4K engagements


"the fact that there are missiles that launch into space reach 10k mph and there are other missiles that compute an intercept and destroy them through kinetic impact still in literal space is completely mindblowing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1934368900084277514) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-06-15T21:54Z 425.6K followers, 50.4K engagements


"if Elon didn't own twitter none of us would have ever heard of Iryna Zarutska"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1965487401444540839) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-09-09T18:48Z 425.6K followers, 3.4M engagements


"@AddictionsPMC @noat_future Anyone that thinks nic pouches are harmful is simply scientifically illiterate. Best harm reduction technology ever invented"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1969787207649996826) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-09-21T15:34Z 425.6K followers, 1884 engagements


"anyone have the best point against stablecoin issuance being a race to the bottom in terms of NIM why wouldn't it end up like the ETF race where you end up getting VOO for X bps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1972747520947470757) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-09-29T19:37Z 425.6K followers, 19K engagements


"leo was a reseacher on the openai superalignment team before he was fired in april 2024 (and before that he worked at FTX of all places). in june 2024 he published an astonishing essay on AI called "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead""  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1977031042969354623) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-11T15:18Z 425.6K followers, 74.5K engagements


"Max pain is 20b in liqs and a full retrace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1977557999251320914) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-13T02:12Z 425.6K followers, 59.4K engagements


"Erebor gets preliminary conditional approval under OCC. New era of de novo charters is dawning. (CIV is an investor in Erebor)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1978474882607563043) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-15T14:55Z 425.6K followers, 16.7K engagements


"@TheStalwart MAYC streetwear is the funniest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1978563634360877556) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-15T20:48Z 425.6K followers, 1284 engagements


"the USA if the government was shut down all the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1978566830034759721) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-15T21:01Z 425.6K followers, 60.5K engagements


"@TECleveland the federal budget is basically social security ponzi interest on the debt healthcare for illegals and then like XX cents for the actually useful stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1978910878364750055) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-16T19:48Z 425.6K followers, 23.7K engagements


"@pmarca Cant teach risk tolerance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1979876526821876018) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-19T11:45Z 425.5K followers, 5034 engagements


"@opinioncasino have you considered wrapping the nickels in a public vehicle. it might even trade above NAV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980082341143093441) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-20T01:23Z 425.5K followers, 2964 engagements


"@deanwball @mattparlmer Theyve been doing this with bitcoin mining for over XX years now. Welcome to our world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980462870707204394) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-21T02:35Z 425.6K followers, XXX engagements


"@sobradob @Innerdevcrypto This right here We basically succeeded beyond our wildest dreams thats gonna sap a lot of peoples motivations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980999781960077638) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-22T14:08Z 425.6K followers, XX engagements


"@tloriato_ @Uniswap @Bancor dydx chain is just straight up down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1976795047598473671) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-10T23:40Z 425.6K followers, 1271 engagements


"@astulenkov as Q day nears live but old bitcoin in vulnerable addresses will migrate to post-quantum secure addresses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981347646548717898) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T13:11Z 425.6K followers, XXX engagements


"@calvinelcheng @CampbellJAustin @cz_binance Iirc was the first ever time criminal charges were brought for a BSA violation specifically"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1786136536867549292) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2024-05-02T20:51Z 425.5K followers, 2387 engagements


"reading if anyone builds it everyone dies at coupa cafe in palo alto but periodically shaking my head and frowning so the nearby VCs know i'm on their side"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1974895933583425966) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-05T17:54Z 425.5K followers, 16.7K engagements


"Nikita Bier has to go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1978119297932075025) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-14T15:22Z 425.5K followers, 73.1K engagements


"@Nick_van_Eck my interest in bitcoin mining let me to invest in core weave seed lancium (working on stargate) core sci crusoe via civ. being interested in weird niche topics sometimes pays off big"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981850550804361418) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-24T22:29Z 425.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Deepseek just accelerated AGI timelines by X years. So focus on the gym. Knowledge work is obsolete. Muscles are all thats left"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1883871974168142205) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-01-27T13:37Z 425.5K followers, 2.3M engagements


"Senator Cynthia Lummis in a recent speech asking for more investigatory powers into the Fed: "Look what happened in the way banks were supervised in the last X years. Chokepoint XXX brought about a government-caused failure of two banks Signature and Silvergate. Those banks were not insolvent. They Federal Reserve and the FDIC pushed them into insolvency because they didn't like their customers. That was it. They didn't like that banks were providing banking services to digital asset companies to Melania Trump to the children of the now-president. They targeted those people. They debanked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1951388879585681833) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-08-01T21:05Z 425.5K followers, 51.7K engagements


"what happened in 2010-15 man. we were seized by some kind of faux frontiersman cult for urbanites. probably the worst cultural era in history: - stomp clap hey music. lumineers mumford & sons imagine dragons etc. awful. no redeeming qualities whatsoever - stipped down exposed brick burger halls with signs saying "eat" on reclaimed barnwood. dim edison bulbs. drinks served out of a mason jar - facial hair and flannel. bears and overdone mustaches popular with the soft urbanite types. lumberjack core - relatedly "manly" trinkets for dudes. beard oil. shaving kits. axes and leather aprons."  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1952895112205238653) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-08-06T00:50Z 425.5K followers, 9.9M engagements


"everyone I know believes we have a few years max until the value of labor totally collapses and capital accretes to owners on a runaway loop - basically marx' worst nightmare/fantasy. this is the permanent underclass thing. and everyone I know subscribes to it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1956063326431035811) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-08-14T18:40Z 425.6K followers, 2.1M engagements


"@shaunmmaguire the left completely owns political violence right now. it's all them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1965859616883183624) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-09-10T19:27Z 425.5K followers, 4.1M engagements


"far be it from me to complain about the algo but it's obvious my posts aren't being shown to my 400k+ followers. i've literally never been this impressions dead in my 10+ years on here. and no i'm not "posting badly" or whatever i've always posted exactly like this. if you're a big account your posts just don't go out to your followers for whatever reason. there's literally no point to being a big account on here. obviously i can still get impressions by tweeting about the Current Thing but that just funnels you into normiecore slop posting. i'll note that this is the opposite of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1972844122831474888) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-09-30T02:01Z 425.5K followers, 427.1K engagements


"Mmers not mming Bigger wicks down than 2020 Exchange dislocation Appchains going down Hyperilliquid Future of France baby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1976790173511041195) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-10T23:21Z 425.5K followers, 33.4K engagements


"the most important thinker in AI in my opinion is this XX year old. leo aschenbrenner. he has been more right both in a testable predictive sense and in a market sense than virtually anyone else. and most importantly he's not an AI doomer he's not an e/acc but rather a secret third thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1977031041190682739) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-11T15:18Z 425.5K followers, 646.7K engagements


"pull stablecoin transactions. very cool"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1978527983045427598) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-15T18:26Z 425.5K followers, 32.4K engagements


"basically all stablecoin (and crypto) transactions are push payments. adding in pull payments is an important modality that makes stable txns useful for a wider array of use cases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1978528182455108048) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-15T18:27Z 425.5K followers, 7704 engagements


"the government that I pay XX% of my income to has been shut for X weeks and nothing in my life has changed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1978814371242406244) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-16T13:24Z 425.5K followers, 855.2K engagements


"One of the funny things about Dwarkeshs book is that the guests keep saying stuff like if such and such were true the models would be able to do X but they cant and then a footnote saying as of the time of writing the model can now do X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1979226820768641257) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-17T16:43Z 425.5K followers, 14K engagements


"the SBR creates the perverse incentive encouraging the USG to perform civil asset forfeiture on various pools of Bitcoins when they should probably be returning the coins to victims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1979586937070510301) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-18T16:34Z 425.5K followers, 10.7K engagements


"from this article"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1979586974521647167) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-18T16:34Z 425.5K followers, 9956 engagements


"obama operated the covert drone programs but was always kind of shy and embarrassed about it meanwhile pete hegseth proudly posts HD videos of him blowing narcos to smithereens on the TL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1979939729819725871) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-19T15:56Z 425.5K followers, 17.7K engagements


"New series from me on the most important issue Bitcoin is facing Bitcoin and the Quantum Problem (Part I)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980280420634640856) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-20T14:30Z 425.5K followers, 327.1K engagements


"@OGJoeyLK unfortunately it's not that simple. first of all changing anything in bitcoin especially core cryptography is going to be wildly hard and controversial. more problematically we can't undo the fact that there's a bunch of Q-vulnerable BTC laying around in p2pk addresses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980291779372134467) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-20T15:15Z 425.5K followers, 4408 engagements


"maybe maybe not. a lot of people said exactly the same thing about AI including the author of that 2019 piece. there's a personality type which is "guy with some expertise that is a contrarian" who hates that subfield is getting popular. we saw this many times with crypto and AI. my approach is simply to consider the available data - qubit progression consensus from experts capital being deployed etc and then make a risk judgment from all of that. that all signals to me that the right approach is "watchful waiting" rather than "total dismissal""  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980304424527392850) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-20T16:05Z 425.5K followers, 3962 engagements


"@BlogsMitch @peruvian_bull we can update encryption protocols in everything else pretty easily. bitcoin is really rigid by design and it has some unique issues that make it particularly vulnerable. i'll discuss in part II"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980308292070224082) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-20T16:21Z 425.5K followers, 1988 engagements


"does this image awaken anything in you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980412108585230385) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-20T23:13Z 425.5K followers, 24.1K engagements


"@MM2014455150282 broadly agreed although we will need to find an orderly way to upgrade to a new sig scheme. and nothing seems to be orderly with bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980414053446218192) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-20T23:21Z 425.5K followers, 1473 engagements


"@RHouseResearch should be disqualifying tbh. i particularly liked this takedown:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1980786008229556611) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-21T23:59Z 425.5K followers, 1302 engagements


"@champagnesucks We dont actually have to tolerate crime and disorder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981070416899633205) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-22T18:49Z 425.5K followers, 42.5K engagements


"i'm going to elaborate on the these firms in Part II of my Quantum and Bitcoin series but suffice to say as a quantum break nears the value of unclaimed/ancient bitcoin starts to be incorporated into their stock price"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981323337570582574) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T11:34Z 425.5K followers, 19.9K engagements


"@dgt10011 i like this post because it upsets almost everyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981332634270585233) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T12:11Z 425.5K followers, 5566 engagements


"Satoshi was an AI from the future that wanted to accelerate development in quantum computing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981363874730258563) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T14:15Z 425.5K followers, 35.7K engagements


"@EricBalchunas @dgt10011 These systems can easily upgrade to post quantum crypto which Bitcoin cant. we cant actually upgrade some addresses so theres a guarantee of theft if we reach quantum supremacy. And the coordination problem of putting Bitcoin on PQ sigs is harder than say a bank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981373933258744289) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T14:55Z 425.5K followers, 1462 engagements


"@paddi_hansen @a16z @a16zcrypto wonder where they got the idea from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981441645145973077) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T19:24Z 425.5K followers, 2284 engagements


"@Andercot heard of bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981442671982870635) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-23T19:28Z 425.5K followers, 7462 engagements


"whether or not this is true consider the following: - theres $100b+ of abandoned quantum vulnerable coins - the US G has a strategic imperative to seize and hold seized BTC - if we don't do it someone else will think about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981745256929325403) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-24T15:31Z 425.5K followers, 50K engagements


"bitcoin (and satoshi's coins) leaked from an NSA lab by a rogue altruistic cryptographer in 2008 in 2028 NSA cryptographers will return those coins to their rightful home: Fort Meade Maryland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981745887119347914) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-24T15:33Z 425.5K followers, 18.4K engagements


"if it were me (assuming I am a US entity and can get legal clarity on claiming 'disregarded' property) i would assume i have a short period of uninterrupted quantum advantage i would pick a bunch of the XX coin wallets at random grind for X months clear 75k coins reveal all at the same time. then keep grinding until someone else catches up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981749753911161104) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-24T15:48Z 425.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@Aaron565 what is this then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981767043855573491) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-24T16:57Z 425.5K followers, XXX engagements


"as I said. careful what you wish for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1979586739229401456) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-18T16:33Z 425.5K followers, 166.2K engagements


"@Ike_Saul Imagine if the roles were reversed Buddy they literally just were and things were way worse. Not sure how you missed that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1981888298533388317) [@nic__carter](/creator/x/nic__carter) 2025-10-25T00:59Z 425.5K followers, 7345 engagements