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22 Jun, 8 tweets, 2 min read
1) Some thoughts on a chart:
2) NOT ADVICE, whether investment or trading or smoothies or anything else.
3) Most crypto volume doesn't trade on FTX.

Mostly, I'm sad about this fact, obviously. But there are advantages.

One is that we have real baselines to compare our growth to.
4) The point isn't that exchanges are playing a 0-sum game--we're not!

Rather, it's that comparing growth to other venues can help us contextualize ours.

How much are things a result of market dynamics, price action, or our work?
5) Anyway, there are a bunch of interesting things in the graph above.

I won't make you guess what the top line is. (I'm posting this; obviously it's FTX.)

But there are other interesting points.
6) (a) who is the second fastest growing exchange? What's exceptional about this fact?

(b) who's the third fastest, and what's interesting about their graph in 2021?

(c) what are the overall trends in terms of exchange volume?

(d) how would you summarize FTX's chart?
7) FWIW, the exchanges are, in alphabetical order: Binance, Bitfinex, BitMEX, Coinbase, Deribit, FTX, Huobi, Gemini, Kraken, and OKEx.

There are some other interesting exchanges but they're less comparable to FTX: retail, regional, etc. (Upbit, Bithumb, Bitflyer, Paxos, etc.).
8) I'll leave with one last question I've been pondering:

Does PR drive performance, or vice versa?

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24 Jun
1) A case study in brands: ImageImage
2) Quick, what are the top two stock neobrokers in the US?

Hint: their logos are in the first tweet.

Ok, you probably didn't need the first one: obviously, it's @RobinhoodApp.

How about the second?
3) Everyone I ask gets Robinhood.

Very few people get #2 right on their own, even though, according to public numbers, it's on the same scale.

In fact, when I _tell_ people the answer is Webull, they often say "huh?".

And then, after 15 seconds: "oh right, @WebullGlobal."
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23 Jun
1) A week ago, we had Cloudflare errors on FTX. I promised a post-mortem.

Here it is.
2) The context: for about an hour on June 16th, many users got DNS errors when trying to access FTX.

That basically means that Cloudflare, our anti-DDOS service, was rejecting a lot of users.

You can find the Cloudflare incident here: cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/qj2z…
3) What happened, roughly:

(a) we had a particularly type of logging turned on
(b) do to a bug in a maintenance process, Cloudflare accidentally routed logs to one of their shut-down servers
(c) this triggered their DDOS systems
Read 7 tweets
23 Jun
1) We're really excited to partner with @MLB!

FTX is now the official crypto sponsor of Major League Baseball.

2) What does this mean?

Well, to start, it means we'll be going live with one of the more unique sponsorships in the world, with patches on every MLB umpire's uniform.

But over time, much more than that.
3) We're super excited to partner with the MLB on ways that we can grow together:

collaborating on products and experiences together, and helping to build world-leading brands.
Read 6 tweets
22 Jun
1) How much should gas cost?
2) Well, it depends on the blockchain, uses, etc.

Ok; let's say that your goal is to build the most ambitious plausible DeFi ecosystem: one that could end up with a substantial fraction of the world's economy on it.

projectserum.medium.com/an-ultimate-vi…
3) Well, the largest companies tend to use ~100k-10m TPS or so.

They make something like $1-100B/year of net profit.
Read 12 tweets
17 Jun
1) A few further comments on COVID, in response to some comments:

2) On the 1,000 person sample size:

a) challenge trials fix this
b) safety can be determined with ~1000 people; either you think COVID death >> 0.10% or the whole thing is stupid
c) efficacy was strongly expected
d) fine pay for 40k, it's a tiny fraction of the delay cost
3) On politics:

Both parties get failing grades here. They both flip flopped (remember the immigration wars a year and a half ago?). We transitioned from incompetent to poorly-thought-out.
Read 8 tweets
17 Jun
1) When it comes to COVID, there is no plan.

There never was any.
2) NOT PANDEMIC ADVICE.

Fuck it, yeah, this is basically pandemic advice.
3) As I write this, I'm a day delayed traveling.

Why? Because my negative COVID test used my middle initial instead of my full middle name (it also had my passport number on it!)

I needed that test in order to:

fly
--> take another test
--> quarantine
--> 3 more tests
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