forever radicalized by my experiences with traditional finance: everyday banking, credit scores, loans, remittances, pretty much everything really

it's all a flaming heap of garbage, burn it to the ground and build better

imo one of the fundamental divides in crypto culture and discourse is between those who have experienced debanking and difficulty accessing financial products, and those who have not.

writing about products & protocols on Farcaster | prev. Juicebox, Nouns, RAW DAO | casting about coffee, hi-fi, and other rabbit holes

perennial reminder: https://farcaster.xyz/matthewb/0xee87c511

have had to deal with cross border payments and transfers for 13 years now in arguably one of the easiest borders to transact between (CA & US) and it's still frustrating as hell 

(even tho wise made it easier)