While institutions are increasingly discussing $ETH (what, why, how), they’re not FOMO’ing into it the way they are into $BTC right now.
There are many reasons for this — compared to $BTC, $ETH is younger, takes more time to grok, and constantly has to correct propaganda from #bitcoin maxis.
There’s still a lot of reputation upside for institutions that “get” $ETH early (still a pioneer here)—

—whereas $BTC is quickly becoming a consensus macro trade (now borderline a follower).
When we look back in ten years, I expect both $BTC and $ETH to be trillion dollar assets.
We’ll see $BTC went the gold route, and $ETH went the capital route, to cement their places in global finance.
And as for when institutions start FOMO’ing into $ETH... enjoy the fireworks 💥

Hopefully @yassineARK @wintonARK lead the way with quality research.

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27 Dec 20
For most people, the leap from “no coin” to #bitcoin, is much harder than the leap from owning $BTC to also owning $ETH and beyond.
Once the crypto infrastructure is set up and trusted, the human itch to explore is incessant for most.
Those of us who are considered OGs, have too much context to see #crypto the way a new entrant does.
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23 Dec 20
Where $BTC is the mother token that spawned all the rest.
What we’re seeing with the SEC is continued formalization about which tokens will be considered securities (eg, $XRP) and which won’t (eg, $BTC & $ETH).
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16 Dec 20
Bear markets reward reality over promise.

Bull markets reward promise over reality.
Yesterday in @placeholdervc's Tuesday meeting, @alexhevans pointed out that some of the assets with clearest fundamentals (eg, $MKR and $NXM) are slow and steady in their growth, while some of the shakiest cryptoassets raise eyebrows with their reflexive boom/busts.
.@BradUSV pointed out that sometimes teams that raise on the promise of things, fetch higher valuations than when they have real #'s that bring valuations back to Earth.
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24 Nov 20
Ceteris paribus, halvings double the cost of producing a single unit of a PoW-based #cryptomoney like $BTC or $ZEC.
Cost of production is important for commodities, as it sets the price floor at which a producer is willing to sell.

As argued here, I believe PoW-based #cryptomonies classify as commodities: static1.squarespace.com/static/5a479ee…
A halving's effect on price is a lagging one, driven by changes in miner economics and thereby the market structure of ASKS.
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12 Oct 20
Love ❤️ is one thing that can't be tokenized.

If blockchains become like economic water, trying to "tokenize love" would be akin to washing cotton candy with that water 🧵
Dating apps are the step before attempts to tokenize love. It's a common complaint that dating apps "commoditize love."

That's right; dating apps make a special connection something that people aim to produce efficiently, like a commodity.

In so doing, love loses its essence.
Everything we do is for our social relationships, which feed back into the relationship with ourselves.

Often people get confused, that the money, or the token, gets you to the end destination.

And that end, whether you acknowledge it or not, is love...belonging.
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29 Sep 20
As much as I ❤️ #Ethereum, crypto innovation will not be constrained to , just as it wasn't constrained to .
The ~year since writing the below piece has been full of fires for up-and-coming smart contract protocols.

For the quality SC protocols, on the horizon is a period of massive growth, alongside #Ethereum's own scaling journey.

placeholder.vc/blog/2019/10/2…
#Ethereum will scale, but that doesn't mean it will capture every middleware protocol & crypto application interface built forevermore.
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