Frontier Tech Investor, GP @RedBeardVC Founder @DenariiLabs Tokenomics Accelerator Advisory; Built/Sold @WadeandWendy, Citizen @WilderWorld
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Jan 13
We’re opening up our first investment Partner role at @RedBeardVC.
Entrepreneurial investor, deep crypto frontier tech passion, proven fundraising network.
This is a ground-up role helping build Fund II and scale Denarii Labs.
Not a job post, DM me to talk.
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Drew Austin retweeted
DANHAUSEN IS THE KING OF NEW YORK!
CONGRATULATIONS @nyknicks THE KINGS OF NEW YORK!
UNCURSED!
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Congratulations to Jim Dolan and the New York Knicks!!!
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That was the best night of my life. To experience that in person was truly indescribable. The emotions. I haven’t cried like that in I don’t know how long. What an incredible night. I’m floating.
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Jalen Brunson just had the highest scoring Finals series by a point guard in NBA HISTORY (32.6 PPG).
WOW.
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2016 NCAA Champions.
2026 NBA Champions.
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Congrats to Coach Brown, Finals MVP Jalen Brunson, OG, and the rest of these incredible NBA Champion @NYKnicks! What a run!
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆
New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!
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Jun 13
Erik Voorhees explaining the importance of preserving AI as an institution not controlled by government
Jun 13
Erik Voorhees explaining the importance of preserving AI as an institution not controlled by government
"I would start by just conveying that important institutions of civilization shouldn't be under the control of any group of people"
"when i started getting into the AI space, I realized that we have this additional new institution, which is machine intelligence, and this is becoming very quickly as important as money or as mathematics"
"and if it is served to the world by a few tech companies who do whatever the government tells them to do, then that's a big problem and I see that would lead to a very dystopian kind of future"
"the whole reason we started Venice was to create an antidote to that, to basically allow anyone access to unrestricted machine intelligence"
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Have seen a bunch of people pushing back on the Anthropic news being a positive catalyst for Venice user growth and $VVV with variations of “well it’s not like Venice has a model that can compete with Mythos.” That’s entirely missing the forest for the trees. Sure that’s the first order effect but the second order effect is the impact on user data and privacy. If one of the top AI labs is willing to switch off access to users at a moments notice, what will prevent them from sharing all of your personal data or gating models/features based on user profiles (location, nationality, background, etc). It’s not about what other models does Venice offer that can compete with Mythos today but rather when you use Venice, usage is private/anonymized/uncensored. The other implication of the Anthropic news is the clear need for decentralized training and open source models that can one day compete near the levels of the models produced by the frontier labs. That’s a long term problem to solve but there are also a lot of interesting protocols working on this, some with liquid tokens but many still pre token launch.
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This is why we need to build an ecosystem around @AskVenice
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 13
if @NBATopShot did this there would be people crying in the @x streets
UPDATE: The print run on OG Anunoby's historic trading card is 80,977 copies with 10 hours remaining in the sales window.
If the print run exceeds 100,000 copies, one collector will receive this 1/1 Topps Chrome Superfractor with their order 🔥
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Drew Austin retweeted
Jun 13
Well said. DeAI is THE most important thing we can build in the coming years.
ALL our future progress as a civilization depends on freedom of intelligence.
@OGDfarmer x.com/OGDfarmer/status/20656…
Jun 13
Decentralized, permissionless, uncensored AI running on crypto plumbing is probably the most important battle arena of the next five years.
Actions like today’s are eye openers for many, but we knew. We knew governaments, technocrats, big companies where hoarding compute, talent, resources. A more and more centralized and dystopian future where social divide is even more prominent. Where access to frontier models is stonewalled.
It gives crypto once again a mission. A clear flag to carry.
The 0 to 1 moment is happening this year. Things will only accelerate going forward.
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Jun 12
You can run Claude Fable 5 without Anthropic ever knowing it's you.
No email required to sign up.
Here's how to use Fable 5 anonymously through Venice:
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Jun 13
Venice is about to get a ton of new users after this Anthropic news
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Jun 12
A hacker took over a telegram account of one of our team members, we tell everyone to block and report, why does @telegram do nothing and allow the hacker to continue taking advantage of people. So frustrating.
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Boarding flight to Austin, big sports weekend. Checking out the @MajorLeaguePB tournament today , rooting for my @RanchersPB, watching USA soccer tonight, and then head to San Antonio tomorrow for the Knicks game.
Big weekend. Knicks in 5!
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Jun 11
been watching $VVV (venice) and it might be the cleanest ai x privacy bet in the whole sector right now
here's why it's actually different from the 500 other "ai coins"
it's not a narrative token. it's tied to a real product. venice is private uncensored AI, built by erik voorhees. you stake VVV, you get DIEM, 1 DIEM = $1/day of AI compute credits. real usage, real demand
and the tokenomics are deflationary by design. a cut of platform revenue buys and burns VVV. over 42% of supply already burned, and they cut emissions another 25% back in february
so you've got two of the strongest narratives in crypto stacked in one token, AI and privacy, but with actual cash flow behind it instead of vibes
chart wise it ran 11x from feb, now retracing into the 0.5-0.618 golden pocket around 13.5-15. this is the zone buyers usually step back in. structure's still intact as long as it holds here
privacy in AI isn't a meme. everything you type into these models is your business plans, your strategies, your secrets. venice is betting people eventually care about that. i think they're right
$VVV @erikvoorhees @AskVenice
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