Now that #Pelosi is coming it's time to repeat the @Taiwan 101. Is Taiwan independent? Why it is called the Republic of China? Why does China want Taiwan?

Thread! And if you are not interested in early history, skip to the 11th tweet :) 1/n Taiwan is the ancestral home of all Polynesian people; to this date, there is a thriving indigenous community here. In the age of explorations the Spanish and the Dutch set up trading posts. Note, they arrived before the Chinese! But they started "importing" Han laborers 2/n

But Kind Sir, this is just a dip right, 2017 fractal, 2013 fractal, it will come back, right? Are we in *gulp* a bear market?

OK seriously, are we?

Thread. How you define a "bear market" is an endless debate. One classic definition "we are trading above the daily cloud". See this chart from 2017, we traded well above it from March all the way to the end and even after (it's a lagging indicator).

I am such an ethhead but I've spent this weekend exploring #DeFi outside #Ethereum. I was pretty much blown away. If you don't look elsewhere, you are likely missing out, so let me give you a rundown from a power user perspective (so not as a developer etc). First, I tried the @terra_money ecosystem. They have a protocol coin, $LUNA, that's also like $MKR, underpinning their stablecoins, $UST, $KRT, etc. These stablecoins are actually kinda large now and good at maintaining parity. Not so interesting, right? Wrong.

(If you don't care about geopolitics, kindly scroll through.)
Living in Taiwan, I am obviously watching #China with great interest. And what I see is an unmitigated PR disaster that will have an enormous impact on the country even short term, more so long term. 1/n If you are not familiar with Chinese culture, the most important thing you should know is "face". It doesn't matter how bad the situation is internally, the only thing you can't afford to lose is your "face". Appearing weak, being criticized, God forbid being laughed at. 2/n