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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.

### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::61417559/interactions)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [countries](/list/countries)  [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 

**Social topic influence**
[venice](/topic/venice) #65, [south dakota](/topic/south-dakota), [agentic](/topic/agentic) #102, [crypto](/topic/crypto), [if you](/topic/if-you), [sea](/topic/sea), [fintech](/topic/fintech), [switzerland](/topic/switzerland), [germany](/topic/germany), [roots](/topic/roots)

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@thorchain](/creator/undefined) [@askvenice](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@shapeshift](/creator/undefined) [@thorswap](/creator/undefined) [@dotkrueger](/creator/undefined) [@shapeshiftio](/creator/undefined) [@secgov](/creator/undefined) [@tryvenice](/creator/undefined) [@peterschiff](/creator/undefined) [@niccarter](/creator/undefined) [@petermccormack](/creator/undefined) [@coindesk](/creator/undefined) [@czbinance](/creator/undefined) [@dylanleclair](/creator/undefined) [@tayvano](/creator/undefined) [@pmarca](/creator/undefined) [@coinbase](/creator/undefined) [@binance](/creator/undefined) [@bitpaine](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Zcash (ZEC)](/topic/zcash)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Trumpcoin is stupid and embarrassing Trumpcoin is a signal of sea change in US fintech policy towards much more permissive innovation Both are true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1880664333488906563)  2025-01-18T17:11Z 747.2K followers, 585.3K 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 747.2K followers, 57.8K 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 747.2K followers, 158.3K 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 747.2K followers, 64.7K 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 747.2K followers, 32.4K engagements


"@KevinCastley It started looking like that after China largely embraced capitalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998223183087034418)  2025-12-09T02:48Z 747.2K followers, 132.8K 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 746.9K followers, 520.4K engagements


"@_sha256_512 zcash monero thorchain and others that I'd prefer to be private about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1988720281288904839)  2025-11-12T21:27Z 747K followers, 3999 engagements


"@divine_economy Except for those of us with rapidly growing revenue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1993407857853972778)  2025-11-25T19:54Z 746.8K followers, 13.6K 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 747.1K followers, 7770 engagements


"@Scooterr16 Explain South Dakota has 76000 square miles of land which could support X billion people at NYC density"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996699873349923252)  2025-12-04T21:55Z 747.2K followers, 1246 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 747.2K followers, 45.4K engagements


"@RonSwanonson I mean. any crypto basically satisfies this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996986446528352739)  2025-12-05T16:54Z 747.2K followers, 18K 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 747.2K followers, 5399 engagements


"If your docs are stored by the company they are not private. doesn't store anything excellent for analyzing legal docs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996421632026649009)  2025-12-04T03:29Z 747.2K followers, 61.8K engagements


"There are literally millions of people that believe if you took Elon's wealth away everyone could have healthcare. They could verify this belief in XX seconds with a napkin and pencil but this is too much for them. Instead they go and vote for @BernieSanders #democracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996448684545106156)  2025-12-04T05:17Z 747.2K followers, 141.8K engagements


"29 video models now available in Venice API"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998537983809802550)  2025-12-09T23:39Z 747.2K followers, 14.7K engagements


"Permissionless protocol deposit BTC borrow stables Who is building this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1857494039089787307)  2024-11-15T18:41Z 747.2K followers, 661.7K 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 747.2K followers, 31.5K engagements


"serving 20000 images and 60000 texts per hour now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1995971827999670479)  2025-12-02T21:42Z 747.2K followers, 21.3K 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 747.2K followers, 17.6K engagements


"@Jrag0x the fuck is that creepy thing in the background"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996264021184692349)  2025-12-03T17:03Z 747.2K followers, 37.3K engagements


"All your chats are belong to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1996699226915652015)  2025-12-04T21:52Z 747.2K followers, 49.9K engagements


"Z-Image is now the default image model on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998447726451896586)  2025-12-09T17:40Z 747.2K followers, 16.1K 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 747.1K followers, XXX 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 747.2K followers, 64.4K engagements


"Nearly every leading model is now available in Venice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1998883330503356581)  2025-12-10T22:31Z 747.2K followers, 21K engagements