Sure I created a network of hostels in underserved cities that desperately needed alternative housing options.. It extended peoples options & reach. Activated dead zone neighborhoods, affordable downtown location, created serendipitous environments for human connections. We hosted the coolest bitcoin meetups & a livestream music venue

Reasons Crypto is so interesting to me now: - Private Money for everyone (not just elites) - Rapidly Evolving - Programable Money - Crypto is the currency of AI

If AI starts buying bitcoin/transacting, market psychology will change.

Dwarkesh asks Dario a fantastic question relating to how he is so bullish on AGI yet so conservative on data center build out - Dario has an amazing take on this: Dario Amodei details the staggering financial risk of the AI race, explaining that if growth continues at 10x a year, a company could be looking at a $1 trillion revenue run rate by the end of 2027. He notes that to support this, a firm might buy $5 trillion worth of compute. However, he highlights a "ruinous" dilemma: if that revenue is even slightly lower than projected. specifically if it comes in at $800 billion instead of $1 trillion the company would collapse. He explains that if you are off by just a year or if the growth rate drops to 5x, "there's no force on earth, there's no hedge on earth, that could stop me from going bankrupt" after committing to that level of spend. Because of this, Amodei argues that "behaving responsibly" means not just "yoloing" hundreds of billions of dollars. He suggests that some competitors may not have "written down the spreadsheet" and don't fully grasp the existential risks they are taking with these massive, unhedged bets on infrastructure.

If AI starts buying bitcoin/transacting, market psychology will change.

“JD Vance is subhuman” 💀

Realized I owe you an update on what’s been going on with @TheOceanCleanup’s work to clean up the Gulf of Honduras! Since 2023, we’ve been intercepting trash flowing down Guatemala’s Río Motagua (the most plastic-polluted river on Earth), with steadily increasing performance. This is reflected in our annual catches from the Motagua: • 2023: 4,271 metric tons • 2024: 9,552 metric tons • 2025: 17,025 metric tons (and counting) This year, we reached the point where almost all the trash flowing down this river is being intercepted and no longer reaches the Gulf of Honduras. This is very good news for the Caribbean, and I’m extremely proud of the team and our local partners (including @marnguate) for getting us to this point! So… are we done? Not yet! First, we want to try to capture the final few % of trash that still reaches the Gulf by adding a few more barriers to our existing deployments. Second, we now need to clean up decades of legacy pollution that has washed up along the shorelines of the Gulf and continues to affect the ecosystem and local communities. Only once this is done can we truly claim success over plastic pollution in this part of the world’s ocean. We will work hard to try to make this happen in 2026.