this is the only day of the year this site is relevant 

make your voices heard

this is the only day of the year this site is relevant 

make your voices heard 

https://hotpresidents.com

I solved today's MiniWord in 0:27 (#1 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me?

TIL Alice and Bob were almost Adolf and Bertholt 

Rich Schroepell made the suggestion for the RSA paper:

"Another literary suggestion: name your protagonists, perhaps Adolf and Bertholt or somesuch. This would reserve isolated letters for mathematical quantities."

Anyone have good halal restaurant recs in nyc? Coming with my fam this weekend and looking for spots

Spent the past few months in physical archives digging up this MIT report from 1983 about the NSA’s attempts to limit cryptography research in universities 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814461

Been low key working with Ron Rivest on finding this document and last night he cc’d Shamir and Adleman on an email with me and now I have the full RSA trifecta and 2025 is gonna be a banger year

Spent the past few months in physical archives digging up this MIT report from 1983 about the NSA’s attempts to limit cryptography research in universities

Human Global Payments = $3T
Machine Global Payments = $300T 

We should be talking about stablecoins as offense tech, not "will replace legacy financial rails" tech.

The dollar's global reach is a matter of national security, and stablecoins let us secure USD as the standard reserve currency for our robot future

Sure stablecoins are great for replacing existing Visa transactions because they're cheaper + faster + blah blah blah, but the exciting opportunity is defining the financial and economic system for machines.

Pushing stablecoin adoption and increasing demand for USD via stablecoins is strategically very good for the US over the long-term.

Crypto Daily 4/5. Sorry for no crypto daily yesterday. I fell asleep on the couch watching Remember The Titans with @maaria (incredible movie if you haven't watched). Heres your stories of the day:

-The SEC announced that stablecoins backed by stable currencies, commodities, or high-quality liquid assets are not securities requiring registration. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/sec-says-stablecoins-aren-t-securities-that-require-registration

-Stablecoin firm Circle is considering delaying its IPO due to economic uncertainty caused by President Trump's new trade tariffs. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/stablecoin-circle-may-pause-ipo-plans

-Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed the company is considering launching a new US-compliant stablecoin rather than adapting USDT to meet pending American regulations. Source: https://decrypt.co/313442/tether-usdt-us-laws-needs-new-stablecoin-ceo

Remember the titans is really the greatest movie ever. Crypto daily is also pretty sweet.

Crypto is down across the board YTD with the exception of stablecoins. 

in terms of market cap, USDT is +4% YTD and USDC Is +37%. 

combined market cap of these 2 is ~75bps of the total 2.77T crypto market cap (small), but still very exciting that stablecoin adoption continues to rise despite price declines

brb busy turning all my wedding pics into renaissance paintings

One problem with Apple photos and its ability to auto-identify people / objects is that I now know my husband has 3x more photos of our cat than he does of me

Real talk in the age of AI what will ultimately be the more useful skill: 

Talking to AI or talking to real people

I joined Farcaster on 28th September 2022, which was 2 years, 5 months, 25 days ago. 
Since then, 99.8 percent of users have joined after me
frame by @cashlessman.eth 

And still I have like 300 followers 🤷🏽‍♀️

dev. 
all my frames: @infobot, working on @degensub,
open for opportunities

Open source software has historically only gotten 5% of venture funding, but has created over $2,000 of value for every $1 invested!!! 

Insane ROI.

Don’t sleep on open source.

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf#page=31.22

My cofounder Evan O’Donnell wrote more about our open source thesis at Timespan Ventures here:

My cofounder Evan O’Donnell wrote more about our open source thesis at Timespan Ventures here:

https://www.thetimes.blog/p/open-source-is-eating-software

No cheating, drop your last saved photo no context

not a dude. crypto is such a weird and fun place.