mert inspired memos

  • internet money means you have to be conservative given the amount of noise and speedrevisit
  • Internet money means more noise means more volatility means preparedness matters more than ever? Or just don’t look at market?revisit

mert w/ BTC takeover

  • On PoS (-1:14)
    • Voting means consensus (not really necessary)
    • Sol mkt cap: 100b
    • BTC, sol, zec, hyper liquid, eth

mert w/ when shift happens

  • Privacy means speed (<> focus)
    • <> faster computation <> aaronson
  • 0:15-0:28
    • Private to public won’t work, seizure risk (<> knowledge goes from private public)
    • Privacy and ideas (<> popper)
    • With privacy everything becomes a Turing test
    • On corporate network (initially) only corporate knows, onchain means everybody knows 
    • Digitization. Content YouTube. Shopping Shopify Amazon. TV Netflix. Trading SOL HYPE
    • Pareto efficient 
    • Prediction market = skin in the game
    • Internet connectivity means nothing is local (<> onchain) (e.g., Covid)
    • Brandolini’s law: easier to spread than verify (fake news) (<> bullshit) (<> truth is harder) (<> bullshit moves faster)
      • =relate with notes on news and media=
    • Metcalf’s law: connectivity isn’t linear
    • Money can move faster