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Erik Voorhees
@ErikVoorhees
Toward peace, markets, and Bitcoin. Founder & CEO https://t.co/iUPC8ijDPN, Founder of ShapeShift
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May 10 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Announcing Venice

Today, we launch private, permissionless AI for the purpose of unfettered civilizational advancement:

Full announcement:


@TryVenice

A thread...
1/17Venice.ai
moneyandstate.com/blog/the-separ… is similar to @OpenAI's ChatGPT, @Grok or
@AnthropicAI's Claude, but w/o all the Orwellian stuff.

• Venice doesn’t spy on you

• Venice doesn’t censor your conversation

• Venice doesn’t inject bias, safetyism, or political propaganda

2/17 Venice.ai
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Aug 2, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A bunch of y'all didn't like this tweet. "Censorship!!" "Centralization!" Let's unpack...

Uniswap is two things: 1) a web interface and 2) a decentralized protocol (the DEX)

The interface is run by a centralized company in Brooklyn.

The DEX is decentralized/permissionless

1/ The centralized web interface has delisted multiple assets (most recently, HEX).

The decentralized protocol, however, has not. You can still buy HEX on the protocol (but you shouldn't because it's retarded)

Is it "censorship" for the central company to remove from web UI?

2/
Dec 4, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Well, I hear Yanis' sincere plea to do away with market-based money.

I'll quote several of his key points and address them...

🧵

1) "Under capitalism there can be no crypto money replacing fiat money." 1a Yanis begins upon a foundation of sophistry.

He claims capitalism requires fiat: demonstrably false considering modern fiat money only began in 1971 (prior it was gold). I believe capitalism existed (indeed thrived) for at least 250 years in US prior to 1971.
Jul 14, 2021 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Today, we announced that ShapeShift is decentralizing.

Unorthodox, but it is the only way to maintain fidelity to the most important principles of crypto; specifically, self-sovereignty over money.

Without that principle upheld, we’re all just LARP’ing.

A thread… ShapeShift has been a centralized company for 7 years.

We pioneered the self-custody revolution, enabling people to trade assets without counter-party risk.

It has always been our goal to protect users, while making self-custody easy and fun.
Jun 18, 2019 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Thoughts on Libra (and my first tweetstorm!): first, zoom out for a second and realize how far this industry has come. The biggest companies in the world are now launching cryptocurrencies. BOOM. 2/ I know, I know, “it’s not a cryptocurrency!!!” some will yell. Well, yes and no. Relative to PayPal or to the US dollar, Libra is very much a cryptocurrency. Relative to Bitcoin or ZCash or DAI, Libra is not all that crypto-y.