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May 15 3 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Holy fucking shit.

I just walked from Soma to Hayes Valley through Market St and easily sketchiest walk of my life.

And dude I grew up in Brazil and Colombia. I’ve walked real sketchy shit before. Doesn’t even compare.

Felt like a scene straight out of the walking dead.

Sad.
I walked by a corner where there were easily 100 people, many visibly high. Probably a shelter.

Right then, an unoccupied FSD Waymo car drove by. It was the first time I saw one without a human at the wheel.

And it just hit me.
San Francisco is the epitome of a tech dystopia.
This can’t be the future of tech.

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Jul 24, 2023
With everyone talking about the Oppenheimer movie, it felt like a timely stop to drive by the Los Alamos Monument on my way from Austin to Oregon.

One thing fascinated me about the history of this place that I haven’t heard anyone talk about yet.

Super quick 🧵

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In 1862 president Lincoln pass the homesteading act.

It basically allowed any male to lay claim to any 160 acres of government-surveyed land.

If they build a well and farmed the land for 5 years, the land would become theirs.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead…
Homesteading in the Los Alamos area (Pajarito Plateu) began in 1887 when a Hispanic family filed for the first homestead.

Over the next 50 years, several homesteaders would lay claims to land in the area.

But one special kind of family was more prevalent than any other:
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Jun 1, 2023
For several months, I've been working with @sunnydece and others at @MessariCrypto to advance the discussion of blockchain decentralization beyond @balajis's original Nakamoto Coefficient paper.

I am so excited to finally share this!

A quick 🧵
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messari.io/report/evaluat…
One of the key insights of @balajis's original paper that got lost in the echo chambers of Crypto Twitter was the idea of "essential subsystems".

In short, it referred to an area of a blockchain network for which to quantify decentralization.

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news.earn.com/quantifying-de…
The Nakamoto Coefficient quickly became a proxy for the question: "How many validators/miners need to be compromised to compromise 51% of the chain?"

While helpful, this abstraction leaves out key subtleties and subsystems that are progressively becoming more relevant.

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