1/ We added a LOT to our $mob (ftx.com/trade/MOB/USD) position OTC over the past few days, here’s a summary of the memo I wrote to my partner with some added color for those who aren't familiar with the project. 2/ $MOB is a privacy coin designed for ultra fast private payments at global scale. It’s currently in public beta with @signalapp for UK users, and we think it's likely it’ll be available for global @signalapp users soon. testflight.apple.com/join/8FHtd1Jq (UK users check it out here!)

1/ why do we instinctively find superfans of brands pathetic? It’s because the relationship is so one-sided. You buy 10k of apple products and tell your friends about it for years. When you walk into the Apple store, they don’t even know your name. Ur not a fan, ur a simp 😖 2/ moreover, none of the wealth created your evangelism or patronage accrues to you—investors and consumers are totally separate groups.

one of my favorite books is a somewhat strange nonfiction piece by Tolstoy called “The Kingdom of God is Within You” It’s essentially a treatise on Christian pacifism—Tolstoy addresses the elephant in the room of every supposedly Christian government: that the use of violence to achieve the ends of man or the state is very unambiguously prohibited by Christ’s word in the NT.

1/ While everyone’s paying attention to it because of some stupid trading BS, I figure I’d give an intro to what @mobilecoin has built, because it’s rather unique and imo will have a huge impact 2/ The idea behind the project is simple; Bitcoin rules but it’s poorly suited for private payments (I say this as someone with almost all of my net worth in BTC—it’s awesome for many things but using it to buy coffee is like driving an M1 Abrams to drop ur kids off at school)

alpha Centauri quote thread lfg: post ur best ones, must include sweet pic of faction leader to count. My overall fav:

"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master." - Commisioner Pravin Lal The managers always talked about the view from 30,000 feet. The problem with 30,000 feet though, was at that height, all of the people look like ants.

Foreman Domai, "Genejack and the Beanstalk"

"Eth can do everything that Bitcoin can do, plus a lot more"

I hear this often from people who are very new to crypto, and figured it would maybe be useful to make a list of the things that make King Corn so special ⬇️ 1. Bitcoin is the hardest of hard money. There will never be more than 21 million bitcoins, because the culture of full-node-running curmudgeonly bastard Bitcoiners will never allow it. We proved this already (google S2x bitcoin if you want to read about an epic battle)

There's something I call the "bottom of the barrel" trap that is why things like @parler_app are unlikely to ever achieve significant success. Here's how it happens, and how crypto narrowly avoided this trap ⬇️ Twitter has a censorship problem, but if we're being frank, it's not a *huge* deal for most users most of the time, at least yet. It's ideologically frustrating though, so the @parler_app people went off and made their own Twitter, but with free speech as a core feature.

If you don’t believe that decentralized ridesharing, food delivery etc is coming and will be just as disruptive to uber as uber was to taxis, read this thread: 1/ It’s easy to see all the engineers and complexity that Uber has and imagine it would be insanely hard to compete. But the core is simple, and in locales where Uber doesn’t exist, the replacement is basically a chat group or message board which works shockingly well!