The recent Congressional hearing was one of the most bullish events for crypto in all of 2021.

It represented a clear change in momentum, as legislators begin to understand the true magic of the blockchain…

In this thread I’ll compile the best highlights from the hearing! 🥐
I couldn’t help but begin this with Mr. Sherman, a Democratic House member.

In this clip, he claims that Bitcoin is at risk of being replaced by Hamster coin, Mongoose coin, among many other ridiculous names.

This one is just hard to watch.
Next up, we have Republican Congresswoman Ann Wagner agreeing with Coinbase CFO Ms. Haas about regulatory clarity on digital assets.

The clip ends with the Congresswoman firing shots at Gary Gensler. 👀
In this clip, Former United States Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks grills legislators for their hypocrisy shown towards digital assets…

Why are spot Bitcoin ETFs safe in Germany, Brazil, Singapore, and not in the US? 🤔
While speaking to Brian Brooks, Congressman Ted Budd calls out Gary Gensler…

“It seems like Chairman Gensler thinks that everything is a digital asset that he can regulate”
Congressman Budd pt2:

“The U.S. has a huge opportunity with crypto, but my fear is that this regulatory state is going to crack down on an industry that the regulators really don’t understand yet

It’s going to force the next gen of fin-tech to be created outside of our country”
Former Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks lays out the best advice for regulation of crypto assets in 90 seconds.

Are the legislators listening?
Again, Brian Brooks come with pure heat in this clip during a passionate discussion with Patrick McHenry, the Republican Leader of the House Financial Services Committee

Listen to him eloquently explain the ecosystem for the leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives:
In this video, Congressman Ritchie Torres discusses the potential ability for stablecoins to propel the dollar on a wider scale while questioning SBF.

They argue that stablecoins offer greater inclusion, availability, & more for the dollar

This is an extremely important convo👀
Here we have Sam Bankman-Fried brilliantly laying out the use cases for cryptocurrency.

He mentions remittances, financial inclusion, and more in a compelling argument:
In this clip Congressman Tom Emmer fires shots at the SEC:

“Regulators simply aren’t capitalizing on the opportunity here and it’s my constituents, and all of your constituents, who are taking the hit because of this.”
Republican Leader of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry states that the goal is to ensure that the crypto revolution happens in the United States

“regulating before understanding will only stifle American ingenuity & put us at a competitive disadvantage.”
If you took the time to watch these clips, I hope you enjoyed!

All of these videos indicate a clear inflection point for Congress and their approach towards legislating digital assets.

These are truly incredible times for crypto…

Expect more from the croissant soon! 🥐

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7 Dec
The market capitalization of Axie Infinity is at an astounding $6.4B right now.

For comparison, Ubisoft has a market capitalization of merely $5.85B.

Let’s take a look at a bit of a little thought experiment for this thread, shall we? 🥐
Ubisoft is one of the largest video games companies in the world boasting top-selling game titles such as:

-Assassins Creed
-Far Cry
-Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
-Watch Dogs
-Just Dance 2
-Riders Republic
-Star Wars

So… why is there such a discrepancy between the two?
Is Axie Infinity more fun to play than ALL of the titles mentioned above?

No.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥.
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ETH is well on its way to becoming one of the most productive assets in the world.

Don’t believe me? Just have a look at this thread… 🥐
The Ethereum blockchain began in 2015, offering 72M $ETH to over 10,000 #Bitcoin addresses who participated in the ICO.

Fast forward to today, there is now 118M $ETH from block rewards across 135,734,686 recorded wallet addresses.
Of the initial ICO participants:

-81% of these wallets have only 1% of their initial balances or less

-9.5% have an unchanged balance (lost?)

-only 64 have actually increased their ETH holdings

h/t .@ASvanevik

So… where are all of the tokens now?
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10 Nov
For the past few weeks, developers at Metamask have been hinting at a potential token

This would be the largest Ethereum wallet, with over 10,000,000 monthly users on their platform to drop a token

I believe it will be huge… Let’s discuss! 🦊
Consensys, the parent company behind the popular Ethereum wallet Metamask, reported growth over 1,800% for all of 2021

Metamask had just 545,080 users last year, but they now have an astounding 10,354,279+ monthly active users.

So… why would they need or want a token?
Despite its massive success, it has never generated much revenue (up until recently)

Most of their business model ran on ads, and simply acting as an intermediary to the blockchain didn’t get them much flexibility

Ads also required questionable data surveilling to work.
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30 Oct
In this thread, I’m going to display the outright astonishing use cases of NFTs.

There are zero limits with these digital tokens, & I’ll show you exactly what I mean…

(I was too excited to not share this a tad bit early) 🥐
For the last few months, I have been diligently experimenting with different NFTs through many dApps, in an attempt to push the “norms”

As a content creator, I was left with quite the predicament here:

I wanted a way to monetize some work, without sacrificing my core values
I didn’t want to sacrifice any income, interoperability, decentralization, or the fundamental values of 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 to centralized platforms

I needed to do it in a “web 3.0” native way.

So, what did I do?
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19 Oct
Let’s talk about something highly innovative, yet still controversial to many people.

𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘴…
What are stablecoins?

These are digital assets represented as tokens on a blockchain, usually Ethereum, that are made to minimize volatility.

They are often pegged to other fiat currencies, and backed by reserve assets.

However there are now many more iterations of this…
You may be familiar with the term thanks to Gary Gensler, who recently compared them to “poker chips” at the casino

but what he failed to acknowledge were the undeniable, strong use cases for these digital tokens on the blockchain

(this isn’t the first time he’s been confused)
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17 Oct
By taking a look at some of the notable events happening for crypto in the last few weeks, it will help to understand exactly how fast this space moves.

It moves so extraordinarily fast… it’s almost scary.

Here is some food for thought below… 💭🥐
Just a few months ago the market was red all around.

We were hit with headline after headline, each one bashing the entire industry.

Combine this with the #Bitcoin mining ban in China, and you’d think this would line up to be the perfect “black swan,” right?

but it wasn’t.
Why?

Because cryptocurrency was silently transitioning from being a “fringe asset class”, straight to being a part of mainstream finance

Big companies, celebrities, and even entire countries are now taking part in this revolution

The cat is out of the bag.
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