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@pascalbouvier
i invest in fintech startups • co-founder @middlegamevc • healthy skeptic • chess • views from my doppelgänger • burgundy wine • rugby • baudelaireian flâneur
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our latest research distilled into a blog post on @middlegamevc ‘s web site. thank you team @walia_kanishk @PinschmidtP @LMichaelMeyer
our latest blog post: wallets are eating financial services. freshly squeezed from our web site directly to you. middlegamevc.com/insights/walle…
The big new thing in stablecoins are delta-one enhanced strategies that aim to synthesize higher yields. They depend on perpetual futures to basically engineer a type of crypto native “contango trade” but without the roll headache. It’s all bloody fascinating. But there’s more.…
Mature democracies have entered a dystopia: the smaller the injustice, the more extreme the response; the greater the injustice, the deeper the bureaucratic indifference.
The World in Which We Live (Trying Substack) open.substack.com/pub/nntaleb/p/…
Who will be replaced first? Zelensky or Netanyahu? (or both almost simultaneously) What impact may it have on Russia/Palestine, on the EU? What impact will it have on interest rates, alternative assets, digital assets?
Strange times. Europe is largely composed of museum ethnostates straining and failing to become pluralistic civic societies; the U.S. is a pluralistic immigrant civic state now straining and failing to become an ethnostate.
The ability to know what you can't predict and work with unpredictability is the best measure of intelligence. (Fooled by Randomness, Chapter on Philostratus).
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; and idiots discuss local real estate. (Completing Eleanor Roosevelt)
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
ChatGPT *already* reaches 1/10th of the world population as its userbase. If there is a force that can shift power dynamics from FAANG dominance it's ChatGPT.
Long blog - Why Stablecoins represent the biggest card network growth opportunity in the next 10 yrs. Both network expansion and volume. V/MA are already leading the way. Today's blog is focused on how stablecoins solve cross border with an overview of what is happening and…
We just lived through most consequential 24 hours in financial services law for the past two decades. And it will bring the biggest transformation of financial technology since the 1970s. Here's what happened and why it matters 👇
Over-generalizing, but in a start-up: First 10 employees looking to do it their way First 51-100 employees looking to be part of something great 100-500 just don't want to work at a Big Company 501+ want to work at a more nimble Big Company. they just don't know it.
You’re so close.
Another serious question: Do you think it’s rational Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino are conspiring with . . . the deep state . . . to protect people like . . . Bill Clinton and Bill Gates? Please stop being insane.
so low bar then.
Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously.
Stablecoin thought for the day (US). The cost to a merchant to accept a debit card is fixed at $0.21+5bps (for non exempt). Some merchants process at $0.06-$0.10 (Pinless PIN). These credentials are with every US banked consumer and accepted by every merchant. Consumers don't…
The problem of waiting too long for revenge is seeing your enemy's downfall without your involvement.
Tokenization isn’t progress if it doesn’t do something better. Stablecoins didn’t win because they were new. They won because they actually worked. If your RWA doesn’t reduce cost, add access, or add functionality, it’s just a worse version of TradFi.
All of financial ‘innovation’ - all of it! - is designed either to securitize something or apply leverage to something. Stablecoin ‘innovation’ securitizes the ~2T in $100 bills in circulation, mostly outside US, and creates a politically palatable CBDC by wrapping it in various…
Don't get too angry abt class privilege & get blocked here; people from aristocratic background (or modern patrician class) can take positions that reflect their conscience, & have no fear for their reputation (Russell, Wittgenstein, & of course our @DalrympleWill).
The majority of people care more about their reputation than their integrity; they are scared of being labeled. This is the trick used by that "certain lobby group" to terrorize them into submission. But the trick fails with right wing excentrics such as @mtgreenee.
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