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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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### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::420308365/followers)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  XXXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[money](/topic/money) #2997, [ai](/topic/ai) 6.67%, [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #3249, [stablecoins](/topic/stablecoins) #12, [crypto](/topic/crypto) #6210, [if you](/topic/if-you) #1083, [blockchain](/topic/blockchain) #477, [i know](/topic/i-know) 2.22%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 2.22%, [zec](/topic/zec) #243

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**Top assets mentioned**
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Silvergate Capital Corporation (SI)](/topic/silvergate) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"@shaunmmaguire the left completely owns political violence right now. it's all them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1965859616883183624)  2025-09-10T19:27Z 430.3K followers, 4.1M engagements


"For decades we have opened our communications infrastructure freely to anyone with phone email or internet. But this beneficence has been abused increasingly so. Why should we continue to grant scammers direct access to our phones inboxes and DMs The human cost has been astronomical. Seniors cant safely use the internet. Phones are unusable as SIM farms spam us constantly. Everything online is polluted with ragebait slop. Foreign entities meddle in our politics with no restriction. It doesnt have to be this way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1992599025707610274)  2025-11-23T14:20Z 430.3K followers, 71.8K engagements


"@robustus They are pretty competitive when it comes to quantum believe it or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1996751448798069177)  2025-12-05T01:20Z 430.3K followers, 5943 engagements


"Is this meant to be persuasive We took your bitcoin and instead of holding it for you put it into risky completely unrelated early stage venture investments Bahamas real estate and so on. Terrible argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1985380261430014082)  2025-11-03T16:15Z 430.3K followers, 42.7K engagements


"Some of those investments went up afterwards Cool but that wasnt the deal. It wasnt we are signing our customers up for the liquidity profile of an early stage VC fund with their deposits. It was meant to be you can redeem whenever you want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1985380671418667405)  2025-11-03T16:16Z 430.3K followers, 8920 engagements


"I see its that time of the year when the most braindead criticisms of Tether circulate on this website"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995257693037117803)  2025-11-30T22:24Z 430.3K followers, 34.3K engagements


"NYT article on Sacks is the purest distillation of East Coast v West Coast mindset to date. East Coast: all financial incentives are conflicts. government should be run by impartial career bureaucrats and academics West Coast: no conflict no interest. your views are worthless if you have no skin in the game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995678312408961265)  2025-12-02T02:16Z 430.3K followers, 179.6K engagements


"summarizing/paraphrasing Scott Aaronson's comments in conversation with @EliBenSasson just now: - building a useful quantum computer is "merely" a ("staggeringly hard") engineering challenge now - no new fundamental breakthroughs are necessary - scalable error correction was the breakthrough - most important metric is fidelity of 2-qubit gates - progress towards a CRQC should be "continuous" - if there was a showstopper "we would have already noticed it". - if it turns out (in XX years) we never built a QC it's because civilization collapsed - we will see progress on certain real-world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995882556659585478)  2025-12-02T15:47Z 430.3K followers, 70.7K engagements


"@EliBenSasson conversation can be found here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995882600208965819)  2025-12-02T15:47Z 430.3K followers, 9434 engagements


"The most popular exhibit at art basel was a bookshelf. For the people of Miami who have never seen one before this was an exotic delight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1997390768672043269)  2025-12-06T19:40Z 430.3K followers, 15.3K engagements


"I am on an indefinite podcast livestream conference appearance etc hiatus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1996292580141641832)  2025-12-03T18:56Z 430.3K followers, 40.3K engagements


"I think most Europeans are actually completely ignorant about their track record for arrests for social media posts probably because their press is captive and the data is almost always heavily censored / not released. But here are the facts: - UK: 10k arrests per year for "offensive communications" basically mean tweets. in 2022 alone 77k "public order offences" investigated by police. by far the worst offender. - Germany: hides and obscures the data. but 4486 cases of Volksverhetzung (incitement to hatred) in 2018. most of these are online posts. this means we're talking a few thousand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998153124020916268)  2025-12-08T22:10Z 430.3K followers, 180.7K engagements


"@Copernicus2013 I'm literally British I know the deal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998205211681456254)  2025-12-09T01:37Z 430.3K followers, 1372 engagements


""However because GENIUS Act payment stablecoins do not offer yield and are not backed by federal deposit insurance I see little prospect of funds broadly fleeing the domestic banking system. The real opportunity in stablecoins is to satiate untapped foreign appetite for dollar assets from savers in jurisdictions where dollar access is limited; by contrast users in the U.S. and AFEs like the euro zone already freely access Treasurys dollars and other instruments that offer yield or deposit insurance. I therefore expect most demand for stablecoins to come from locales unable to access"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1988714416909537296)  2025-11-12T21:04Z 430.3K followers, 5173 engagements


"The Twitter location dox is the first acknowledgment of something thought unthinkable in the west that China figured out long ago - that we do not owe the whole world membership in our town square"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1992598101207797812)  2025-11-23T14:16Z 430.3K followers, 440.6K engagements


"I would say pretty good. we _should_ have advance warning unless something really unexpected happens. people will be breaking XXX bit ECC keys. I think in a crisis situation we can probably get a PQ fork going. but the odds of it going smoothly are much better if we have a few years of active research first. we don't want to just fomo into a random PQ signature scheme. and in theory we will want an orderly opt in migration which should happen over years. the one thing we can't truly fix is the presumed abandoned p2pk coins 1.7m of them or so. i mean we could hard fork them out but I don't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1997468564538663396)  2025-12-07T00:49Z 430.3K followers, 3249 engagements


"One of the dumbest fallacies is people thinking their coin is gonna win if only Bitcoin dies like zec people fudding Bitcoin over quantum. Its precisely the opposite. If Bitcoin dies no one will ever trust internet money ever again. ALL coins ride on bitcoins coattails"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1991515105528590699)  2025-11-20T14:32Z 430.3K followers, 654.8K engagements


"And on that point specifically if some cryptographic failure undoes Bitcoin certainly no one is going to trust a wildly more complex and black box coin that ALREADY had a massive cryptographic failure that led to a (likely unexploited) inflation bug. Privacy is the enemy of auditability. A coin like ZEC with shielded transactions will never be as credible as a transparent coin because of the fundamental auditability tradeoff. And it will always have question marks hanging over it due to the frequency of inflation bugs in all major coins and the vastly greater attack surface. With transparent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1991516123448131648)  2025-11-20T14:36Z 430.3K followers, 211.6K engagements


"I lay out XX reasons why I think quantum timelines are accelerating: X. Governments are planning for a post-quantum world X. Qubit counts are scaling rapidly X. Investment in quantum firms is inflecting X. Several major quantum milestones have been achieved this year X. Quantum firms project breaking ECC by 2028-2033 X. The number of qubits needed to break crypto systems is dropping X. Bitcoin is itself a bug bounty for quantum supremacy X. Quantum is a race with geopolitical stakes like AGI X. AI could accelerate the pace of quantum development XX. Credible people have revised their quantum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1993754323252031644)  2025-11-26T18:50Z 430.3K followers, 27.4K engagements


"anyone else get strong FTL flashbacks from the MSTR presentation this morning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995620281952731384)  2025-12-01T22:25Z 430.3K followers, 37.9K engagements


"If you read Gwerns short story Clippy the first way that the misaligned AI makes money is by stealing crypto. The AI actually creates an inflation bug in a ZK privacy coin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995833199050866849)  2025-12-02T12:31Z 430.3K followers, 24.8K engagements


"it's a great piece of writing and it predates a lot of the less interesting AI doom fiction genre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995833418979180971)  2025-12-02T12:32Z 430.3K followers, 8695 engagements


"but yeah the most obvious way people will make money with AI is basically through theft. whether phishing or actually exploiting bugs in crypto. security requirements will be much higher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995833742771028312)  2025-12-02T12:33Z 430.3K followers, 7562 engagements


"within a year when people tell their AI agent to "go make money" the AI will interpret that as "go and steal crypto by phishing or exploits" we are going to have to take opsec and smart contract security a LOT more seriously on a go-forward basis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1995933980202582088)  2025-12-02T19:11Z 430.3K followers, 37.1K engagements


"@TenreiroDaniel that risk should already be presumably priced though. so they can't just buy a "joblessness policy" at 5c that pays 100c in X years if there's big layoffs because presumably other market participants expect that as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1996801492742033788)  2025-12-05T04:39Z 430.3K followers, 42.1K engagements


"new research on quantum blockchain threats from a16z wildly underestimates the nature of the threat and overestimates the time we have to prepare. good thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1997447066008912345)  2025-12-06T23:24Z 430.3K followers, 47.7K engagements


"this extremely stupid article hit every square in my "dumb MSM article on stablecoins" bingo card ✅ stablecoins "dont support chargebacks" like credit cards ✅ stablecoins are like the unstable free banking era ✅ stablecoins are not FDIC insured ✅ stablecoins are unregulated ✅ stablecoins are preferred by criminals and money launderers ✅ stablecoins pose a risk to the banks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1997866686439928004)  2025-12-08T03:11Z 430.3K followers, 32.9K engagements


"this from the NYT is the most bad-faith anti-stablecoin argument I've ever seen: - most "high yield" accounts pay piteously little. Chase pays 0.01%. the national average savings rate is XXXX% - GENIUS banned stablecoin issuers paying interest directly thanks to the bank lobby - stablecoins would LOVE to pay interest and the ones that do (through intermediaries) pay much higher rates. Coinbase pays a base rate of XXXX% on USDC right now. - if stablecoin issuers WERE allowed to pay interest (directly) they would outcompete the banks handily - at maturity most stablecoin issuers will end up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998068905475022938)  2025-12-08T16:35Z 430.3K followers, 16.1K engagements


"all MSM articles on stablecoins annoy me but this one has annoyed me maybe the most"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998069612878200869)  2025-12-08T16:38Z 430.3K followers, 6400 engagements


"@Sandude3 the safest and most secure and most liquid financial asset on the planet by the way calling them just "bonds" is insane. they're not buying junk debt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998071290398142642)  2025-12-08T16:44Z 430.3K followers, XXX engagements


"@Throrf The Russian propaganda thing is hilarious. Americans never think about Russia ever. We dont care. Its only Euros that are obsessed with them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998203808502198741)  2025-12-09T01:31Z 430.3K followers, 1035 engagements


"@infinitee8888 This is a well known case: Another: The problem with arguing with euros as I said is that they literally don't know what their own authorities are doing. You choose to be deliberately ignorant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998208049224536546)  2025-12-09T01:48Z 430.3K followers, XXX 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)  2025-08-06T00:50Z 430.3K followers, 9.9M 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)  2025-10-05T17:54Z 430.3K followers, 16.8K engagements


"2025 is unironically worse because in 2022 bad things were happening but crypto was the center of the action and the star of the show. You could ascribe negative price action to catalysts that you knew we were going to work through. Now crypto is the forgotten child with AI and the mag7 starring. Retail is focused on datacenters quantum and rare earth stocks. Crypto is trending down based on no catalysts just exhaustion and lack of attention and buyers and a long DAT hangover. Does this mean its over No just the X year cycle and alt szn are obsolete concepts. To make money you have to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1989713072970178899)  2025-11-15T15:12Z 430.3K followers, 724.8K engagements


"@cryptoquick Interesting how different satoshis attitude to protocol upgrades (just fix it) was versus developer orthodoxy today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1997826661044322536)  2025-12-08T00:32Z 430.3K followers, 3620 engagements


"The second article in my series on Bitcoin and Quantum risk is out:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1993753509372866587)  2025-11-26T18:47Z 430.3K followers, 534.6K engagements


"the only way stablecoins are more secure than ordinary cryptoassets is that if they are stolen they can be frozen and reissued. a stablecoin on say ethereum is exposed to all sorts of similar risks. admin key takeover infinite mints private key discovery wallet draining (if stables are held in an EOA eg). so ETH will have to introduce a PQ fork and all contracts will have to be reissued to be quantum safe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1997455635277824406)  2025-12-06T23:58Z 430.3K followers, XXX engagements


"based on my analysis of economywide aggregates I'm just not seeing the impact of AI on productivity or jobs at the macro level yet. simply not showing up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998045885276791035)  2025-12-08T15:03Z 430.3K followers, 7618 engagements


"@nikitabier do something about it then instead of complaining impotently. ban all EU bureaucrats from the platform for a start. stop serving european users. it's so incredibly easy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998066894184583337)  2025-12-08T16:27Z 430.3K followers, 14.1K engagements


"@jordihays @tbpn may I meet you buy a hat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998155608969937060)  2025-12-08T22:19Z 430.3K followers, 1726 engagements


"@nyaraVT grifting = getting unearned cash through swindles or exploitation the point of leftism is institutionalized theft from your betters from the well turned out ordinary citizens that pay taxes. the essence the inherent nature of leftism is grifting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998196083852485092)  2025-12-09T01:00Z 430.3K followers, 20.8K engagements


"@octosquixz I'm British (american dual citizen) I know the deal. America is by no means perfect but we are XXX% better than any european country on freedom of speech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998208224290587109)  2025-12-09T01:49Z 430.3K followers, XXX engagements