Brady Dale

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Bitcoin is 'Inevitable' https://x.com/tbhs_sv/status/2021011832215896113

There's one thing blockchain technology offers finance that didn't exist before Bitcoin came along. The world will always need that one thing. https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/weve-been-here-before-and-weve-been

We had a nice back and forth about the pro's and con's of AI in the mix of the writing process on this new ep of Net Society Low on panicking about AI ending the literary world but also awareness of its limits https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xOd5KhCLMSvsORkww0Cjt

Last night, I slept as if I’d done a ton of weed, but I didn’t. I was Stone cold sober.

What if there were an electronic money that didn’t need witnesses? That’s the promise of quantum money. New Diamond Rhino podcast: https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/quantum-money-the-apotheosis-of-cypherpunk

Good: Seeing a joke someone makes, copying its form but inserting it into a new context so it's funny in a different way. Bad: Just stealing the joke and making it look like it was yours.

Justin Slaughter (a prominent crypto policy pro) wrote on X about his thoughts on why the American Left dislikes crypto. I've been thinking about this a lot too and had already come to a different conclusion than he has. Justin's take: https://x.com/JBSDC/status/2020265719674368381 And then mine: https://substack.com/@drabylad3/note/c-211721051? They may be more complementary than deeply opposed. If you prefer his, I'm not mad about it. Which do you find more compelling?

Stressed about market structure legislation? Take a load off https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/project-crypto-revives-the-sec-and

Ummm Is Vogue horny on main for Gavin Newsom?

The superposition of horny. * I will not be taking questions.

Prior ATH was 67K cool cool

A little more quantum, for funzees https://open.substack.com/pub/frontstageexit/p/backstage-pass-heroes-sail-around

There's historical precedent for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission entering into formal collaborative arrangements, such as the MoU each discussed last week. https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/project-crypto-revives-the-sec-and

Super exciting to hear about the crypto world establishing property in big cities, with the aim of recharging the ways people live in downtowns. 🎧 https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/as-frontier-tower-grows-network-states

For the next 44 days, I'm offering a 55% discount from my Substack newsletter. That discount will last forever if you sign up in the opening window. https://www.frontstageexit.com/58884828

LindyMan wrote a great essay about how men dress poorly because there's no standard expectation for mens clothing any longer. Men don't want to think about their clothes. They do want to look "right," but there is no answer about what's right. So! I wrote a spec! It delineates the context for clothes and the basics of what should be seen as acceptable in each context. The core idea is blazers and better shoes. The larger idea is that it's a way for responsible men to signal their allegiance to the brotherhood of other responsible adult men. Open for contributions: https://github.com/BradyDale/aams-1/tree/main

This will be a fun thing to bring up at the bar this weekend and watch people's heads spin "So — you see — like $60M got lost a decade ago. But, they fixed it and got a lot of people their money back. "So that was cool, and now there's $200M left over from the fix." https://paragraph.com/@thedao.fund/thedao-security-fund-activating-75000-eth-for-ethereum-security

There are many news roundups, but nothing in crypto is even close to this one. This week: Tether, Fidelity, Circle // Kansas Reserve // Bitcoin Difficulty eases // Many bears, permabull // NFTs? B(I)RB // HesabPay https://www.frontstageexit.com/p/backstage-pass-the-bitcoin-difficulty