Tayyab - d/acc (@tayyab) on Farcaster

I’m from Pakistan, your financial outcome is affected by the whims of elites in your country and other countries. (70% of US inflation hits outside the US) Sovereign money available on indiscriminate rails.

linda

A major reason I'm still in crypto is the importance of people having control over their own money and financial systems. My family had everything taken from them by the communist government in China during the Cultural Revolution, simply for owning a business and being educated

tayyab

Elon is crazy, gotta be the most ambitious dude who might just pull it off

Steve Jurvetson

@FutureJurvetson

SpaceX has acquired xAI Elon's letter: "The basic math is that launching a million tons per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute power per ton would add 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually, with no ongoing operational or maintenance needs. Ultimately, there https://t.co/ZhV2dv1eTh

tayyab

Lmao interviewed with her before joining icebreaker in 2020

Short Squeez

@shortsqueeznews

BREAKING: Gokce Guven, the 26-year-old founder of fintech startup Kalder and Forbes 2025 30 Under 30 honoree, faces up to 52 years in prison for an alleged $7 million fraud. https://t.co/aYqWTw5i33

tayyab

Plan is to dual use Farcaster and Twitter via Firefly as an experiment

tayyab

Strong agree @barmstrong is one of the most principled builders

Patrick Collison

@patrickc

Something this WSJ piece omits is that what @brian_armstrong is arguing for is not obviously in Coinbase's interest: in a world where yield sharing is prohibited, USDC will at least in a first-order way be more directly profitable for Coinbase. As far as I can tell, Brian's

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tayyab

So when gold and silver eventually crash back down… will everyone call it a scam?

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tayyab

OliveOilCaster

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tayyab

Lot of normie friends fleeing to hard assets. Bubble driven or loss of trust in US?

Philip Pilkington

@philippilk

If you measure it in gold instead of in dollars, the US stock market has basically collapsed. 📉 https://t.co/96tlr3abBk

tayyab

According to Claude: “The key feature is **price discovery through trading** - participants can buy and sell positions at any time, and the current market price aggregates information from all traders to reflect the collective probability estimate of the outcome. This distinguishes prediction markets from simple bett...

dwayne

what's the key feature of a guess based betting that makes it a prediction market?

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tayyab

What would you rather be doing?

tayyab

Everyone pumps their bags, though their is truth to his argument

Vlad Tenev

@vladtenev

Thanks for the thought-provoking piece. My main critique is that you are overemphasizing flashy but low probability events like “left-handed bacteria,” while merely giving lip service to the risk of extreme economic concentration of power, which is very real and materializing

tayyab

I predict something in American Dynamism, but not weapons. Most likely nuclear. I await the announcement.

dwr

Joining another startup. Public announcement in two weeks!

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