Share a piece of lore about yourself https://t.co/NX4QIsJjKD

The first version of Coinbase launched with just a hot wallet - a risky proposition. We were in beta and the app prominently told people not to store any money there they couldn't afford to lose. But the amounts of deposits kept steadily rising.

I realized we needed to build

Brian Armstrong

based af brian https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1942673835381383289

splits

when we began work on Teams, we knew we were solving our own problem. But we didn't know if other teams really ~felt the pain we felt operating onchain. We now have enough _discerning_ users and TVL to validate our own experience, and with that validation, the confidence to begin reinforcing our foundation for scale

> make it work,| make it right, make it fast
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  we're somewhere around here atm

Bug smashing over at /splits - this is our primary focus right now

From https://splits.org/changelog/splits-changelog-compliant-payments-live/

bug zero valhalla here we come

as we move toward self-serve, we're investing significant time instrumenting, solidifying, & polishing our whole stack

Parenting

the two primary failure modes imo would be to either act too quickly to placate them, or to react angrily/aggressively in retaliation. and in both cases it's totally understandable why someone would react that way to incomprehensible rage. it's not an easy thing to sit with

imo the general vibe to hold is ~"its ok that you're upset about this, and/but it's my job to make decisions that are in everyone's best interests, which I may not always be correct about". this is hard to hold while tired + getting screamed at + they cannot yet understand

Visakan Veerasamy

Author of INTROSPECT and FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD

@visakanv nails it, per usual https://x.com/visakanv/status/1942012545671598284

jokes on him, that would absolutely end the ukraine war

jokes on him, that would absolutely end the ukraine war https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLnnNB4RrPo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfOVgz_omlU great video on the SotA of agentic programming

> Integrity, honesty, and decency are long-term cultural investments. Their purpose is not to make the quarter, beat a competitor, or attract a new employee. Their purpose is to create a better place to work and to make the company a better one to do business with in the long run. This value does not come for free.

Until we meet again (on the main Splits blog / newsletter)

https://paragraph.com/@weekinfarcaster/farewell-twif-23-final

what tool do you use that more people should know about?

pleasantly surprised here. Yall sleeping on a lot

Don't send Mainnet USDT to Immutable V2.1 Splits

Don't send Mainnet USDT to Immutable V2.1 Splits

https://splits.org/blog/dont-send-mainnet-usdt-to-immutable-v2-1-splits/

@cameron loved your public speaking blog, tyfys

weird internet kid. word rotator. yapping on /okbanger. playing with @wannanaplabs. curating in /cameron | dev + vet + HBS. 
Cameronarmstrong.org 🫡

@cameron loved your public speaking blog, tyfys

https://www.wysr.xyz/p/public-speaking-and-panic

Update on /splits Compliant Payments:

We've integrated Persona in our new recipient KYC flow.

In the future, this will allow:
- recipients to share their KYC with Bridge to receive compliant payments directly into their bank account
- payers to perform additional ID verifications to ensure accurate taxpayer information

https://farcaster.xyz/jonathan/0xba31b176

went thru vendor hell & back to get this shipped, but we made it

TIL nutrition labels tell you the quality of the protein in a product 

The %RDA considers how high quality the protein is. 

Ex: 25g of whey protein is 50% of the RDA, but the 15g of protein in protein pancakes is only 17% of the RDA because wheat protein is low quality

To get https://t.co/Wj4W9iQSTi

Niels Hoven 🐮

TIL https://x.com/NielsHoven/status/1939519663563837751

leaning to use a foam roller properly should be Core Curriculum

yoga flows too tbh

How to Inhabit and Maintain your Body 101

evolutionarily speaking, why do babies shove everything into their mouth??

this is a high tier psyop from sam. he’s talking directly to the market. by floating a number like $100m:

- he sets an anchor so absurd that anything meta offers now feels cheap.

- he forces meta to either deny or match, both of which hurt them.

- he gives his own employees a https://t.co/HRWQHFWsTF

signüll

shady sam https://x.com/signulll/status/1938600122855588311

We've been (quietly) cooking - quick 3 min demo of what we've built recently.

We're focusing stability/bugs/etc for a bit, which means I have more bandwidth to bring more folks onto the beta - your feedback will help shape the product!

global, permissionless banking infrastructure

not quite to web2 ux, but getting closer every week