Why would serious builders frame their issuance as anything adjacent to a meme or “shitcoin”? The double entendre of the term coin is undeniable. It’s cultural. It’s familiar. And Coinbase has done more than anyone to legitimize it. For millions of people, coin now means onboarding, custody, and compliance. That’s exactly the problem. When one platform accrues that much brand gravity, the word stops being neutral. Coin now carries both the best and worst of the category: credibility and collapse, legitimacy and the dead bodies of a New Jersey landfill. So when builders reach for it, they inherit everything attached to it, the regulatory posture, the retail casino energy, the churn, the graveyard of projects that didn’t intend to survive their own launch cycles. Meanwhile, the split is getting clearer. Some builders are packaging durable rights, access, and coordination into products that compound. Real World Assets are ‘tokenized’. Others are still at the kids’ table, flipping coins that already belong to someone else’s brand. Coins are having their moment. They earned it. They also come with a high mortality rate. Language doesn’t just describe what you’re building. It determines which ecosystem you’re absorbed into so having an omnichain plan sounds prudent. You can respect the culture without volunteering to be buried with it. [turns off hot water first]

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“Mother’s maiden name” is never a security question in South Korea.

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MerkleM’s magic lives in signal integrity. When the feed drifts, that magic thins. Pulse feels like a step back toward it. Onchain transaction flow seems to me to be the North Star now that Base App is the larger client app. Flow is captured by the surface (read as app/website/terminal/API) that feels early, fair, calm, affordable and effortless. Repeat. My Xmas wishlist for MerkleM is to prioritize from this list: Ranking speed (be first to tell me about token trade narratives) Ranking shape (eg ownership journeys, reasons to believe the story) Regime awareness (momo ie long short sideways, why now?) Attribution integrity (data & if hiring or interviewing shot callers add some disclosures) Frictionless execution (already crushing this one) Habit loops (for discovery entry & exits) ‘It’s the game on the field.’ Merry Xmas y’all. Keep going.

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I care enough to draft them but not enough to share them.

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economically productive emotionally dysfunctional families many such cases

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Letting someone know they’re on your mind can go a long way. We all get so isolated sometimes, and it feels really good when somebody reaches out. Be that person when the moment arises.

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ok that would be nuts

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The world we wanted: Distribution creates possibility. Liquidity enables motion. Price discovery creates truth. Signal enables coordination. Coordination creates durability. The world we will get: Distribution becomes gatekeeping. Liquidity becomes bait. Price discovery becomes narrative. Signal becomes instruction. Coordination becomes compliance.

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What if the whole Farcaster app changed colour when your wallet was down. Pure pain

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MEGA GM I guess I'm not gonna make it through US Customs, at least in the next 3 years. FO∞J #47 –– https://drop.art/bm/3gOjAjq6b4GPqqYFRSqqTL

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“Persuasion is the act of treating probabilities like they are truth, and asking people to trust or believe it rather than leading them to see it for themself. “ Such a great way to put it & leads the dialogue towards questioning ai’s role in education. Teaching is not persuading. There is a ‘felt sense’ that’s missing when ai spits out something in a field I know little about. It’s as if it’s trying to persuade me that I can learn to ride a bicycle by studying differential equations & wobble fall models while in its chat box.

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who will be the app a day 'guy'? song a day guy is quite inspiring

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This morning's shower thought: No one becomes truly successful without a healthy combination of intelligence and luck, and successful people who have a hard time understanding the math on that definitely had to lean more on the side of luck to get to where they are. Luck is an awesome force that you should be thankful for and show gratitude to. It can be harnessed for good, or it can be abused, but people need to stop treating it like a bad word.

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What if Sun Tzu were a crypto trader? All markets are won before the trade is placed Preparation beats prediction. Know the trend, know yourself; a hundred trades, no liquidation. Liquidity is the terrain. Volatility is the weather. Never confuse the two. The supreme art of trading is to win without leverage. When the chart is euphoric, appear fearful. When it is fearful, appear patient. He who fights the tape fights the whole market. In chaos, there is opportunity; in certainty, there is exit liquidity. Let your winners run; let your losers retreat immediately. The general who reveals his size invites ambush. Position quietly. Do not pursue pumps; wait for supply to exhaust itself. A trade entered too early is the same as a trade entered wrong. The greatest victory is surviving to trade tomorrow.

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just make sure you keep levelling up

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