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From today I'll share more my reading, mostly crypto but other thing also, with a quote of the article sometimes, here on Farcaster
I will do it, to share it to a good and productive audience that is Farcaster and also as a reminder for me
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« When someone in Amsterdam tells me blockchain doesn't solve a real problem, I think about these numbers and I think: you have no idea. You have no idea because you've never had to. »
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Mario
@hypermarioal
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Just submitted a proposal to bring @EFDevcon to Lisbon in 2027 🇵🇹
Lisbon has the builder density, the infrastructure, the track record, and the community to host the best Devcon yet.
If you want Devcon in Europe, go show some love 👇
https://t.co/gOacFwL6Wn https://t.co/pUMcBNkP7G
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« The workers describe videos where people’s bank cards are visible by mistake, and people watching porn while wearing the glasses. Clips that could trigger “enormous scandals” if they were leaked. »
«“When I get hit up by people in the Middle East who are saying, ‘Hey, we’re looking at Polymarket to decide whether we sleep near the bomb shelter; we look at it every day’ and I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s really that popular over there?’” he added. “That’s very powerful. That’s an undeniable value proposition that did not...
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«On Polymarket, the geopolitics category is fast becoming one of the most popular on the platform. Bettors placed a record $425 million in wagers on the category in the week ending March 1, up from $164 million the week before, according to user-compiled data on Dune Analytics.»
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« OpenAI CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, disclosed the termination in an internal message to employees earlier this year. The employee, she said, “used confidential OpenAI information in connection with external prediction markets (e.g. Polymarket).” »
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«The US Army's own Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin published a piece arguing that prediction market data can serve as a novel intelligence source, a way for analysts to identify and assess national security threats by observing how contract prices shift in response to events on the ground. These aren't frin...
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« Intercontinental Exchange’s clients accessing this data are institutions with billions of dollars devoted across asset classes, and not the retail users who research shows are overwhelmingly losing money on prediction markets through a combination of bad wagers and transaction fees. Some clients may also profit off p...
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« Prediction markets aren’t new. Betting on papal conclaves was common in Italian city-states until Pope Gregory XIV banned the practice in 1591. (It continued underground.) In the 18th century, British gamblers wagered on whether the Tea Act would be repealed, and during World War II Londoners bet on how many German p...
« The promise of prediction markets is that organically, markets of sufficient liquidity and breadth might develop naturally such that corporates could come to rely on them for otherwise bespoke hedges. But this seems unrealistic. The markets that seem to appeal to speculators have virtually nothing to do with the mark...
« The first conclusion is that anything worth building must be resistant to capture. Not by design philosophy or whitepaper aspiration, but by architecture. If a protocol can be shut down by serving a subpoena to three people, it is not decentralized in any way that matters. »
« You talk to it. It responds. It figures out what you don’t understand and explains it a different way. Infinite patience and engaging. No question or request is ever too much or too dumb to ask. That builds confidence, especially in kids. Every subject. »
