Keep calm, US regulators are not trying to kill crypto, they are trying to let TradFi recapture market from FinTech by using "protect inventors" as a pretense.

My predictions for what will come out of it?
1. $BTC stays as a commodity
2. $ETH stays as a commodity
3. Staked $ETH provided as a service by custodians will become a security
4. A LOT of altcoins will be classified as securities
5. Big financial institutions are going to provide custody, trading and staking services for BTC and ETH

This way they will end the crypto "Wild West", but not

Stablecoins will pave the way for $ETH to mature from a speculative asset into having a significant valuation as a productive asset.

This is how it will happen.
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Startup fintech companies and smaller TradFi companies can gain market share very quickly by providing cheap financial services powered by regulated stablecoins on Ethereum's L2. Stables will make it easier for other tech giants like Apple, Microsoft and Meta will be able to

Hi fam, I have super exiting news to share!

I've been selected to participate in the @MecenateFineArt curated exhibition that will be happening in Rome this month!

I have to select 2 unsold pieces from EAD, and I need your help!

Please vote for your favorite pieces 👇 2/
Enter the Metaverse

This piece has a motif of ETH being a gateway into the metaverse. I like the cyberpunk vibes and the visualization of crossing into the great unknown.

It will be very hard to get to find out exactly how many people are suffering negative effects from Covid vaccines because a lot of people will refuse to self-report.

There are also things that critics are not talking about. 1. Heart damage is very likely related to incorrect administration of the vaccine. The rush to get as much people vaccinated as quickly as possible ended up causing a lot of inexperienced and/or ill trained staff to administer the vaccine without proper, or completely

People in the metaverse will be able to express their identity in very creative and fun ways.

For example: cats will make for interesting avatars in the metaverse. Not as a identity crisis. They are just fun costumes in a world where it is socially acceptable to wear them. Paladins are cool too. How cool would it be to be a Paladin driving a 911 Porsche in the metaverse?

This might be a little too much for you, but your kids are going to love it.

I've been working on internal living spaces. I'm loving how they are coming out...

Ethereans have been predicting for years that #Ethereum is the foundation for a global financial system... "the future of finance".

That means it's a global system, and that every major financial institution AND all levels of economic participants will be using ETH.

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https://twitter.com/Leerzeit/status/1613485219901734912

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That includes all TradFi incumbents like JP Morgan.

There is also no question that stablecoins pegged on fiat currencies will be regulated. There is no way around that. The same would be true if they were operating on BTC's network.

Right now, global access to stablecoins

I think I can consistently create variations of #Ethereum themed wizards, warlocks, mages, elementals, wraiths, samurais, ninjas, cyberpunks, elixirs (sounds silly, but they are dope), and architecture, using AI algos and photoshop.

Samples...
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The amount of people who didn't understand I was trolling and shitposting as a pretend $BTC toxic maxi was It speaks for how absurd $BTC maxi narratives have gotten... here are a few of my favorite shitposts:

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https://twitter.com/AdrianoFeria/status/1560369789419372544

I've recently come to the realization that PoS will never work and that $ETH is a centralized shitcoin being co-opted by JP Morgan and the government.

I'm a $BTC and PoW maxi from now on.

I've also changed my profile pic and banner to reflect my newfound appreciation for $BTC. I'm sharing the profile pic and banner here. Feel free to use them if you are also an ex-shitcoiners who have recently become enlightened by the glory of $BTC.

I am 100% convinced that improvements to AI, neural networks and tools like Unreal Engine will democratize content creation.

When you combine that with #Ethereum, then anyone will be able to create and commercialize their work via NFTs.

🧵👇 DALL-E and Midjourney are just the beginning of something much, much bigger. AI assisted content creation will improve exponentially, and expand into other mediums... graphic novels, animated shorts, movies, sculptures, storytelling, music, games, metaverse worlds.
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I'm thinking of posting a daily AI generated art piece about #Ethereum... 2. #Ethereum Bloom in the Darkness

⚠️THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION⚠️
⚠️THIS IS NOT A DRILL⚠️

The US has just effectively frozen assets from thousands of law abiding Americans without prior notice and without providing evidence for the grounds of such action. They have also forbidden *all* Americans from having
1/ access to a privacy tool.

This was all done under the guise of imposing sanctions on state sponsored North Korean hackers. However, this new legislation is only affecting Americans. It is a sanction *on Americans*, but not the alleged bad actors.
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What happens if CBDCs are issued on public networks?

1. They will legitimize the entire crypto space.

2. Stablecoins like USDC will be able to use them as reserves, increasing transparency, public trust and adoption.

3. The adoption of CBDCs and, by proxy, the
1/ increased adoption of stablecoins will drive a massive new wave of users who will become familiarized with the tech.

4. These new users will be one step closer to decentralized cryptos. This will most likely accelerate the adoption of $BTC, $ETH and other
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#Ethereum is the largest, most decentralized, most reliable, fully programmable crypto network with native support for digital assets and 100% uptime.

It is a global general purpose technological infrastructure, just like the internet. This is why private businesses,
1/4 corporations and governments are going to end up integrating their operations, services and products with #Ethereum.

It wouldn't have made sense for these entities to create their own fragmented versions of the internet, and the same logic applies to #Ethereum.
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Too many people in the crypto space are still in complete denial about the growing level of interest intuitions have in $ETH and its potential to overtake $BTC's market capitalization.

It's time to shed some light on this subject. 🧵👇 2/It is extremely difficult to understand $ETH and #Ethereum. This has been the source of a lot of information asymmetry, which is one of the reasons why there is seemingly no consensus regarding investment theses for $ETH as an asset.

A wave of new technologies is coming in the next 12 months that will take VR into the next level.

Rich social interactions with persistent and permanent digital property (VR + cryptos and NFTs) will change the world forever.

And now for taste of things to come... 🧵👇 1. Real time capture of eyes and facial expressions.

Eye contact and facial expressions are critical for non verbal communication. Next gen VR headsets will come equipped with sensors to track it in real time.

The battle of narratives in the crypto space is a dispute regarding the ideal balance point between decentralization and functionality.

Each cryptocurrency must choose a balance between the two, and each design choice comes with consequences.

🧵👇 2/Sacrificing too much decentralization for functionality introduces central points of failure, which jeopardizes money's durability and property rights.

Sacrificing too much functionality in order to maximize decentralization results in excessive friction, but also

#Ethereum was never rolled back or reorganized the blockchain. $BTC maxis use this as a talking point without knowing exactly what the DAO hack was or how it was resolved.

$ETH was NEVER rolled back, and the process to resolve the hack was as decentralized as possible.

🧵👇 2/First, we need to determine what a crypto rollback is.
In a nutshell, a rollback is a coordinated reversal of one or multiple validated transactions. In the context of blockchains, it is achieved via a 51% attack or by retroactively forking the network. The end result is such

1/A lot of Bitcoiners are unaware that Strike (the wallet used to distribute BTC in El Salvador) is a custodial service. Others are spreading the narrative that Strike preserves the properties of the LN because it is built on top of it; this is incorrect.

🧵👇 2/Strike is using the LN for their internal operations (multiparty channels). This does NOT mean that they offer the same fundamental properties of the LN to the end-users. Strike controls all private keys, and users NEVER have access to keys unless funds are withdrawn.

1/ $ETH is MONEY, and it is more likely to become a global currency than $BTC.

Why?

🧵👇 2/Ether was created to finance the security of the network. It was designed to provide remuneration to miners (ether is used to PAY miners, and issuance is a form of subsidy). It's sole purpose is to function as a utility token, which is just a form of money that has a very