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soundhuman retweeted
Rebecca Black’s second album constructs a voyeuristic fantasy out of durable, club-friendly dance-pop with enough eccentricities to keep things interesting
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spent years pushing the creator-coin thesis hard (including stuff like Songcoins), ton of people rekt following the narrative, then when it clearly flopped he drops a long thread that boils down to “I was definitively wrong… oops, my bad, now I’m focusing on the real stuff.”
lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months.
first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong.
the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad.
but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase?
I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work.
on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base.
it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning.
we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.
in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents.
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soundhuman retweeted
A billionaire using AI to write an op-ed is funny because they’re supposed to be the deepest thinkers in all the land, the smartest boys, geniuses of the mind, true kings, and they’re all like, “Claude, could you help me with an eight paragraph personal essay on what I believe?”
New - Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller tells me "of course" he used AI to write op-ed on Bessent & bond market
"There's a reason I moved from an English major to being an economics major," he says, "I'm not embarrassed by it"
No response from WSJ
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soundhuman retweeted
Bring back cheap second run movie theaters. I don’t give a shit if it’s on streaming already. Charge $5 for the odyssey or spider-man in December and people would go just to kill time. Don’t ask me if it’s economically feasible became I don’t fucking know.
If you didn't predict this short squeeze in crypto - the biggest one to date liquidations-wise if I'm not mistaken - then there is no reason to join your paid telegram/discord group
I bet this shit hits so hard if you're stupid
soundhuman retweeted
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
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soundhuman retweeted
“You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not gonna help that teacher in Queens.”
This is always the billionaire trick:
First, pretend no single tax policy can solve every structural problem in America. Then use that as an excuse to argue against contributing more at all.
By that logic, no billionaire should ever fund a rocket company either, because one rocket launch won’t solve humanity.
A society where teachers buy classroom supplies out of pocket while individuals accumulate enough wealth to casually purchase newspapers, yachts, and space programs is already screaming that something is fundamentally broken.
But somehow the proposed fix is always: “let me keep more.”
soundhuman retweeted
can’t believe this needs to be said yet again but here we go
the premise of crypto is self-sovereignty. you should be able to control your money. you should be able to control your body.
if you’re anti trans, you’re against the basic values of this industry
soundhuman retweeted
BTC should have never even lost $112.7K - $114.8K demand.
The reclaim of that area looks strong.
Passing the POC once more and pushing above $120K will reshape the chart structure and set up the breakout.
The range being priced in is on the clock. GOLD | BTC.
But the local strength of the mean reversion is already giving signal.
$150K-$182K minimum target range, and this can increase much higher if we see more progress on Gold and DXY having another leg down before EOY.
It can happen sooner, but the idea is that BTC is following a similar path to Gold — and yet to be injected with liquidity from Gold itself.
soundhuman retweeted
If you've been sidelined, believe this is a good opportunity to scale into high conviction tokens
If you're fully invested, just survive, hold your spot positions and do not capitulate
Someone once said, liquidations are forced transfer of wealth from traders who need leverage to wealthy spot buyers
I don't want to see my brother get shaken out when the future is still so bright
soundhuman retweeted
OKX adding the Community Recognized badge to $NYAN is HUGE news.
Many coins have claimed to be $NYAN before, but this is the only $NYAN that has thrived long enough to receive an exchange badge.
If you search X history, you can see Chris has shot down every $NYAN prior to this one. The fact he is willing to let this coin exist without interference is a breakthrough moment, and we should be grateful.
