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25 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
alpha Centauri quote thread lfg: post ur best ones, must include sweet pic of faction leader to count. My overall fav:

"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master." - Commisioner Pravin Lal
The managers always talked about the view from 30,000 feet. The problem with 30,000 feet though, was at that height, all of the people look like ants.

Foreman Domai, "Genejack and the Beanstalk"
What goes up…better doggone well stay up!

Morgan Gravitonics, Company Slogan
Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?
Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations With Planet"
Our ancestors harnessed the power of a sun, and so again shall we.

Pravin Lal, "The Science of Our Fathers"
He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.

Spartan Kel, "Honing the Ki”

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26 Mar
1/ While everyone’s paying attention to it because of some stupid trading BS, I figure I’d give an intro to what @mobilecoin has built, because it’s rather unique and imo will have a huge impact Image
2/ The idea behind the project is simple; Bitcoin rules but it’s poorly suited for private payments (I say this as someone with almost all of my net worth in BTC—it’s awesome for many things but using it to buy coffee is like driving an M1 Abrams to drop ur kids off at school)
3/ the folks behind @mobilecoin figured that if they created the tech to do payments in a way that felt just like @WeChatApp or @Venmo , and made SDKs for easy integration, many messenger apps would love to have a payments rail that preserved user privacy.
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"Eth can do everything that Bitcoin can do, plus a lot more"

I hear this often from people who are very new to crypto, and figured it would maybe be useful to make a list of the things that make King Corn so special ⬇️
1. Bitcoin is the hardest of hard money. There will never be more than 21 million bitcoins, because the culture of full-node-running curmudgeonly bastard Bitcoiners will never allow it. We proved this already (google S2x bitcoin if you want to read about an epic battle)
One of my ETH booster friends said that if ETH adopts EIP 1559, which burns eth per tx, ETH will become even more scarce than Bitcoin. Unforunately, this is actually a total self-own of a point, and beautifully illustrates the difference I'm talking about:
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There's something I call the "bottom of the barrel" trap that is why things like @parler_app are unlikely to ever achieve significant success. Here's how it happens, and how crypto narrowly avoided this trap ⬇️
Twitter has a censorship problem, but if we're being frank, it's not a *huge* deal for most users most of the time, at least yet. It's ideologically frustrating though, so the @parler_app people went off and made their own Twitter, but with free speech as a core feature.
The problem is, the 1st users this kind of thing gets are typically people for whom censorship *IS* a huge and pressing problem; actual neonazis, e.g. With that seed, @parler_app loses any chance of being a general purpose gathering place.
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If you don’t believe that decentralized ridesharing, food delivery etc is coming and will be just as disruptive to uber as uber was to taxis, read this thread:
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2/ When I was in Taiwan last year, my friends often just used a big Line chatgroup to hail rides from a pool of drivers. Worked great, speeds slower but comparable to uber, more flexible. Drivers loosely vetted by friends of friends, no one had heard of any scary incidents.
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