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Mining MachinesZCash is making mining profitable againZCash’s Wall Street AdoptionOn Asset TransparencyMultiplatformStill uploading to Substack and Youtube, but view the two sites as platforms that are owned by another party, and X, to my knowledge, doesn't lead to subscribers on Substack. I considered Paragraph.com, a "web3"…ErebakenOn the frontier of crypto banking.Your phone will run an AI model, locally.What this means for the future of pricing.ClosedClawOpen source typically dies, but hardware wins.A crypto phone is good, actuallyI didn't really understand it until I held one.Prediction Markets, Jake Paul & The Black Sox TestWhy the 1919 scandal reveals what actually matters for market integrityi'm feeling 22reflections and projections for the future, from a 22 year oldcryptoceptioncommon macro misconceptions and false beliefs i encounterUpdates :)'Been an interesting month!PERPoceton perpdex mania and the battle for onchain derivativesANYONE can cookon undiscovered talents and a weekend in the woods"zihilism", and why young men are choosing the roulette wheel1/several pieces on this.why XRP cannot hit $10,000it's a falsehood too often spreadbitcoin lending Ion lava x roamwhy america can't build housingthe collective hallucinationthe death of ownershipon reclaiming property in an age of permission.strategy's stretch investmentit's....interesting..₿itcoin miningand the intrigue about it as a businessdon't pick sides. pick scalethe embattled frontierthe death of analog moneydigital beats physical when it really mattersmathematical certainty of $1,000,000 bitcoinhow a simple statistical model reveals bitcoin's inevitable trajectory and why the next decade represents the greatest wealth transfer opportunity in human historyno, this etf rule won’t moon bitcoin. it’s bigger than thata rule change with big implications for how bitcoin fits into the financial systemwhat we actually know about bitcoinan adaptationdigital panhandlingthe decline of work purposewhy seasteading won't work *without* crypto infrastructure for the real worldthere is a definitive crypto gapamericas exceptionalism resurgence🦅thesis behind hard_spaceyoutube channel specificallycrypto > socialismcrypto is the future that leftists seem to hypocritically hateuatx, decentralizedhow the university of austin's crypto-native approach signals the birth of verifiable human capitalinternet 3.0a thesis on cryptographic internet architecturedon't worry about the crypto marketon the mathematical inevitability of digital asset appreciationthe only way to get an internship (V)on subscription intern and emilio van cotthemcrypto pub-eda response to "richard j murphy"product distribution as a creative disciplinewhy the lines between the creator and a founder are now blurredmythmakerpopulism has its philosopher. what it lacks is a disciplined narrative machine.crypto ≥ ai, and always has beenwhy crypto has the deeper moat, and why ai will eventually rely on itzero to twenty-onewhy money is a shit motivatormamdani: the only candidate to piss on your leg and tell you it's raining.when a fraudulent opportunist attempts to take advantage of the average new yorker"x" raywhy the world's messiest platform might be its most honeststop burning the fucking waymo'swhy those burning them are actually burning themselvesthe last offline layerwhy the physical world still runs on paper, and why i'm building the rails to fix it.the u-uaul wasn't a mistakewhy the people who left san francisco weren't running away - they were running ahead.in a world obsessed with software, i fell in love with a 6,000-pound japanese brick.because not everything needs an update.Welcome to HardspaceDispatches from the frontlines of infrastructure - where assets move faster, systems work smarter, and the old rules don't stand a chance.Coming soonThis is Overround.