Pretty good case study in how to interview American fascists like Steve Bannon. You need to viligantly but respectfully challenge their constant stream of lies and hyperbolic exaggerations. I love how Inskeep "accidentally" called tarrifs "taxes" to get a rise out of him. www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

But yes I agree the $$$ they spent obviously helped out Coinbase here. While corporations buying politicians is hardly anything new, Trump is of course taking it to a near criminal level.

Coinbase collects the fees for $TRUMP sold on its platform, not Trump. Trump would only collect fees for tokens bought/sold on decentralized exchanges where they provide the liquidity. I'd also argue that the SEC's case was largely meritless, but that might get me cancelled here.

yikes

Good lecture explaining the value prop of blockchains/web3 for a non-technical but technically curious audience from @timroughgarden.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiMp...

It's definitely a better solution than murdering a figurehead who is powerless to really change things.
www.forbes.com/sites/chriss...

Crypto is just money but without all the asshole middlemen that make everything difficult.

Very accessible talk putting web3 into context of past technological shifts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlfx...

Someone asked me what's up with the DeLorean in my profile photo. Don't exactly remember, but I think I downloaded it when I wanted to post something to the effect of:

The DeLorean is to the 80s as the Tesla Cyber Truck is to the 2020s.

Make of that what you will.

Bullish on open social protocols. I mostly hang out at warpcast.com/bayardo.eth but glad to see bsky gaining momentum.

Of course my first post here has to be a complaint :)

Hey @bsydipity.bsky.social maybe simplify your e-mail confirmation codes a bit, and if you're going to insist on including both numbers and letters, don't use the letter O which one might interpret as a zero.