Blindness only exists because of our broken healthcare system.

"Digital world: CPU manipulates bits, storage stores bits, networks move bits. Physical world: Manufacturing manipulates atoms, real estate stores atoms, transport/logistics move atoms." @travisk The next big frontier is digitizing the physical world - we are doing this for communities @ipecity.

this is incredible -- anyone with an internet connection can buy spacex equity on solana. its redeemable for the underlying shares, you are entitled to dividends (paid in kind) -- its the real deal. what stablecoins did to USD, solana is doing to equities -- where anyone with a phone can own these assets. countries will liberalise their securities law to allow easy foreign investment via tokenization -- as capital mkts become strategic to ensuring currency and fiscal stability. access to global equities and commodities is going to define the next cycle. internet capital markets 🤠

Pessimists sound smart.  Optimists build the world.

The only way to prevent billionaires and trillionaires from existing in free markets is to oppose the very mechanisms that make wealth creation possible in the first place. And opposing wealth creation is, in practice, opposing the most powerful force for eliminating poverty. What should actually make people angry are trillion-dollar centralized institutions that don’t operate in fair markets, extract money through coercion, and consistently fail to allocate capital in ways that lift people out of scarcity.

No, you don't get it. He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies. To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined. Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems". $100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12 If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation. But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

The irony is that just a few years ago, before Elon's takeover, this post would have been taken down per hate speech. thanks to elon now you can write things like this, even against him.

Imagine if there was a system where you could transfer money 24/7 instantly globally for free. 👀 I'm actually curious to see how the legacy monetary and financial system will survive the agentic economy that will obviously use crypto.

or you could come to @ipecity and actually create a real relationship while exploring frontier technology and enjoying a paradise island.

asking AI to write a text from scratch: slop. asking AI to rewrite a text you put a lot of effort and thinking into: mind-blowing.

Technology disappears when it works. The most powerful inventions in history don’t stay magical for long. They become part of the background. A light switch. A toilet. A car. A microwave. An airplane. A wireless device connected to the entire internet. At first, they feel impossible. Then they feel normal. Then we forget they are technology at all. That’s why techno-optimism matters. It reminds us to notice the miracle hidden inside ordinary life. It teaches us to appreciate the systems, people, institutions, and experiments that make these miracles possible. Because when we stop seeing technology, we stop defending the conditions that create it. And sometimes, without realizing it, we start fighting the very process that improves human life. Techno-optimism is the belief that technology is not separate from humanity. It is one of the deepest expressions of what humanity is. We are the species that turns imagination into tools, tools into civilization, and civilization into new frontiers.

We actually need to move from voting with our voice to voting with our feet and wallet. Instead of millions of residents making hundreds of decisions in a direct democracy, we create millions of different jurisdictions with entirely different governance systems, and you choose which one you want to live in.

If I were to guess, I think Skills won't last much. It seems they are a workaround for a context limitation instead of a primitive that will endure over time. Agents will manage skills internally based on our data and inputs, abstracting them from the user.

AI is not creating something totally new. It’s just making it way more common. Even before vibecoding, there were already millions of developers, and most of them couldn’t build successful apps. They usually worked for someone who knew how to identify a market demand and build a product to fill that gap. Everyone knows how to write. Very few people know how to write a successful book. Apps are the same. AI lowers the technical barrier, so good entrepreneurs who couldn’t build before will now have a real shot. But the ratio of apps launched to successful apps will drop dramatically.

Very proud to have interviewed @magattew. A real powerhouse pro freedom in Africa. startupsociety.film.

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Networks are the next governance paradigm.

The slightest chance that the Zcash protocol had been exploited and inflated was enough to trigger a 50% crash on the coin. Meanwhile, the global economy runs on fiat money, where arbitrarily printing money in plain sight is the norm, and life goes on as usual. That’s very curious societal behavior.

I'm not a Bitcoin maxi, very far from that, but one thing we need to admit - every attempt of a new coin to FUD Bitcoin and claim its store of value position has ended up pretty bad for the project. Bitcoin is a force of nature at this point. Really difficult to overcome.

On the other side of this AI-hacks bear market, we’ll end up with the most robust and antifragile crypto protocols ever built.

Wrapping up @tokennation_io. This is my fourth participation, and it never disappoints. Congrats, Marco and team, for this amazing event. Always great to meet with entrepreneurs building on the frontier of tech. I participated in two panels sharing about @ipecity - what we've been building this year, and the next steps for the future. See you guys next year.