Zack Guzman
@zguz
Award-winning Host of @Coinage covering crypto for a mainstream audience | Fmr. YahooFinance Anchor & Harvard Econ Grad | Co-Own Coinage with me 🫡
The ugly truth about crypto/financial media is that the stories that get the most clicks are all price predictions. It doesn't matter if they are right.
A big number in the headline gets the most clicks. Thats why you see so many “Bitcoin to $1 million” headlines. It doesn’t matter if they are right, as long as you ge...
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Well, @vitalik.eth just outlined exactly how he would tokenize the $500B creator economy ... and he is 100% right.
I can say that — because his thesis is also exactly what we've spent 4 years building:
1) Tokenized co-ownership over a creator's future attention value
2) Payouts in the form of patronage dividends exec...
How I would do creator coins
We've seen about 10 years of people trying to do content incentivization in crypto, from early-stage platforms like Bihu and Steemit, to BitClout in 2021, to Zora, to tipping features inside of decentralized social, and more. So far, I think we have not been very successful, and I think th
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Andrew Yang was one of the first politicians in America to call out the risks of AI back in 2020 with his idea of Universal Basic Income.
This week, I chatted with him on @coinage about how that warning has played out and why he thinks what comes next may be way worse:
"It's painful to be right. I think it's a very d...
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NEW: As Gold surpasses Bitcoin's gains on a 5-year basis, Peter Schiff says $BTC is going to continue its decline in what he calls a double top (priced in Gold)
"The entire false narrative that Bitcoin is some 'digital version of gold' was eviscerated" 👀 ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7c...
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Out of all the people in government to go after, landing on Fed Chair Jerome Powell at a time when even moderate Republicans are wary of Trump’s overtures may be one of his biggest miscalculations yet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFmN...
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AI is exponentially disrupting the creator economy in a way that's even more impactful than when social media revolutionized how content gets delivered.
But as production effort asymptotically falls to 0, the only defensible moat for creators will be tokenizing their IP like @coinage has
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At Saudi Arabia's investment conference, billionaires who once called Bitcoin an "index for money laundering" and a "fraud" gushed over it.
To their left, a billionaire called Mamdani "catastrophic for New York."
Here's why Mamdani's rise & Bitcoin's revolution are linked:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxLt...
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60 Minutes interview with Trump just barely scratching the surface of the CZ pardon imho
Full story: www.coinage.media/s4/inside-tr...
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Hey @vitalik.eth 👋🏽
Just wanted to say thank you for liking our thread that one time about building a media co-op on @ethereum. It was huge for us! ☺️
If you’re open to considering buying some $COINAGE, I think it would help us in our journey to prove Web3 can help fix media’s biggest problems. 🫡
Blockworks shutting down its newsroom and laying off all its reporters is indicative of a larger trend: Journalism layoffs are only going to accelerate. 🧵
In some ways, this is tied to AI. But it's also tied to the old model for journalism being an extremely bad business.
It's why I quit traditional media (and also
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Blockworks shutting down its newsroom and laying off all its reporters is indicative of a larger trend: Journalism layoffs are only going to accelerate. 🧵
In some ways, this is tied to AI. But it's also tied to the old model for journalism being an extremely bad business.
It's why I quit traditional media (and also...
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