Santiago R Santos (@santiagoroel) on X (original) (raw)

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  I’m building a chain. Inversion. Instead of differentiating on consensus mechanisms or the nth technical improvement, we are inverting and differentiating on solving crypto’s biggest problem: go to market. The user journey in crypto today is broken and traumatic because it
  
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  long term investor but refreshes prices every hour
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  You can spot a self-made person a mile away. There is a persistent hunger and drive that rarely goes away because they know how hard it can be, and are humbly wondering how much of their success has been luck or skill. And they have a soft spot for giving back and helping others
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  But but I was told it’s consensus
  
  the market must've just found out about hSOL
  
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  If you’re in shock, disbelief or don’t like how this played out let me spell it out: - the leader of the free world launched a coin currently worth $70 billion (in a span of a few days) - it has shown the future of capital formation and markets in the digital age. One where
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  The total market cap of DeFi is still less than Gamestop
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  . One is a struggling Dallas-based video game retailer, the other is core infrastructure of a new global, decentralized financial system.
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  every business will adopt crypto as an operating system to run their back-end infrastructure (especially for payments and customer acquisition and retention programs) in the next decade those that do it sooner will overtake those that resist this change crypto is simply a
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  Don’t have strong opinions on things you don’t understand.
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  Elon is shilling Dogecoin. That tells you everything about his character. I don’t care how wealthy or successful you are, this is not how you use your influence.
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  A lot of people categorically call Web3 (NFTs, tokens etc) a scam. The real scam is all the Web2 companies that profit off of user-generated content without sharing that with creators.
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  Hear me out. Why would you spend $1k to get started on a Web3 game when you can buy a PS5 for less and play great games? Owning digital property in games is a powerful primitive but thinking users will just come to earn is not enough or sustainable if the game is not fun to play
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  Solana is 30% of Ethereum’s market cap and I can’t think of a compelling reason why it shouldn’t be worth at least 100%
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  “Ether beats bitcoin as a store of value. The Ethereum ecosystem...provides developers a way to create new apps. Most of DeFi apps are being built on Ethereum. The greater number of transactions in ether vs bitcoin reflects this dominance” - Goldman Sachs Global Macro Research
  
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  You never truly understand crypto until you use it. Until you use ETH to pay for gas, stake and earn. Use ETH for DeFi protocols. Use crypto. Then talk.