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28 Feb, 12 tweets, 3 min read
You guys are fucking ignorant if you guys think that posting a smart contract is going to shut down a chain.

1. etherscan/bscscan is a centralised platform - this window into the contract can be censored, just like the USDT, USDC, or other stablecoin code is removed.
2. The amount of xenophobia in this space is absolutely horrid, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves for proclaiming an open ecosystem of money and value, yet your actions show you haven't been able to advance past the idea that builders have no language barrier
3. If you want to or support these types of tactics to try to tear down other people's shit, go ahead, block me, unfollow me, I don't wanna see what products you build b/c you're clearly wasting more time shitting on other people's stuff than building your own.
4. you know what has been the biggest alpha in crypto? buying non american projects and giving them a chance to play with the big boys. The whole narrative all along is that crypto empowers builders, and builders can come from anywhere
5. this type of thing shows that the crypto twitter world is honestly still a predominantly cis-white male game that if you guys wanna play, HFSP. all the alpha will go to other chains because of your actions.
6. As an American born Chinese person who's spent all of my post-graduation working career in Asia, I honestly don't believe any of y'all get to do this shit. Y'all haven't seen either side. Don't use someone else's historical stuff to make a joke.
7. You guys realise how insensitive it would be if a Israeli-based ICO project received hatred by people posting ERC20 transactions with memo metadata referencing the Holocaust,
or an African supply-chain project getting some spam transactions referring to slavery trade.
8. If you want to use technology to use others' heritages as a joke, then get the fuck out. I don't want my technology to help your sorry life someday.
9. I have a hard time reconciling how upset this shit has made me - because at the same time I don't care what anyone writes on a chain, b/c it's permissionless
But at the same time, what kind of a world are we actually building for? I hope not this one filled with hatred
10. S/O @she_256 for doing its part in helping make the crypto ecosystem a bit more diverse. If you're not trying to build inclusively, your ecosystem will only have 5% as many developers as the next eco.
11. Chains are B2D - business to developers, and if you only don't want to welcome all the developers in developing countries with lower-wages, you don't believe in the most powerful tool in the world to level the playing field for all.
Have fun staying ignorant.
12. if you all see that im following or supporting anyone who is ignorant or has caused you to feel that you are not welcome in building in the decentralised world, please dm me. Not wasting any brainpower to share with people who don't welcome all to this space.

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28 Feb
I had several interesting conversations today due to the the tweets, so I thought i'd do a tweet thread summarizing first my background, why this situation matters, and the good things that came out of this, because above all, I seek to learn, not just in crypto, but in the world
1/n I've had some people message me to praise me for speaking up, and some ask me why I was being so loud. I hope that the next bits will share a bit more as to why I think it's important to share, educate, and learn together.
2/n I was born and raised in Chicago to two immigrant parents. My dad was born in Taiwan because his father was a physicist for the Kuomingtang (KMT), which was forced to flee mainland china after the Communist Party came into power in 1949.
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23 Feb
In case you were wondering why the NYAG's letter is so condemning and the Tether perspective, let me introduce you to a concept called "scarecrow governance"
I've forgotten the real term because I was reading white papers in lecture halls with nobel lecturers during my time at uchicago, but the general premise is that governments are also profit-maximising entities, and as such, seek to perform actions with the lowest costs
This then means that if they can "scare" bad actors away from attempting heinous crimes in the first place, it is a worthwhile attempt to spend resources on, in terms of reducing the likelihood of crime
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20 Feb
Here's the one thread you need to read on BSC to actually DYOR and stop listening to all these talking heads on Twitter:

1. last year, Binance launched a PoA-based EVM compatible chain, compatible with common tools like metamask, trustwallet, etc. It works with ur eth address
2. this point of interoperability is important, because a user doesn't need to deal with new wallets or infrastructure to use this chain, whereas past projects like Tron required you to download a new set of tools (TronLink wallet, use tronscan, etc.)
3. Disclaimer: This chain operates with 21 validators that have staked BNB. It is currently centralised, and can be conclusively described as permissioned (aka binance has selected who can operate these nodes and thus can have influence over this chain).
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18 Feb 20
An @EthereumDenver Hackathon Thread:
I’ve finished reading through all the submissions to ETHDenver (forgive me if I missed some across Devfolio, Daostack pages).

Here are some themes I saw:

1. ETH-as-a-swiss-army-knife
2. ETH2.0 Tools
3. Crypto UX
4. Interoperable Gaming

1/n
2/n
The first theme that I saw was all kinds of use cases for Ethereum solving real-world problems.

There were people building everything from DMV solutions to ETH-enabled paywalls. Here are my top "use-case" ETH creations:
3/n
ETH-enabled paywalls
ethanceit.netlify.com
just a couple of lines of code to drop in a little paywall enabled by crypto payment. This could enable microcontent anywhere on any website! Would love to see it support morecoins using the same logic!
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