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me to taxi driver: thanks, have a good day! balkan driver in heavy slavic accent: zgood luck me: x.com/mert/status/209290123252…

Mert on why you build on Solana, live at Solana Summit Serbia: "You really don't have another choice today. There is no chain that can do more scale, that has incubated more startups disproportionately given the market cap, that has all the liquidity concentrated in one venue." t.co/jf0RbLf4mf

Is your validator on this list? Over-ride their vote (or lack of) and VOTE YES on SGP-0002 using your staked SOL by going to: t.co/zchWRZZHWj Double-disinflation is good for Solana. Make your voice heard. t.co/isD1WI21wQ

This is one of the best advices for entrepreneurs out there. I’ve told this to multiple entrepreneurs. Owning 100% of a good business is far better in many ways than owning 20% of it and forcing it into markets that don’t exist.

Imagine reading this and fading Zcash x.com/cozymaximalist/status/20…

the most common mistake I've seen after seeing hundreds of startup pitches: conflating a regular business with a startup - a regular business is something that has customers and makes money, but is limited in scale. most small businesses or lifestyle type businesses fit this shape - for example, if you're making 1M revenue yearly and then 1.1M the next year, and then 1M the next year etc, that's a nice business, but it's not yet a startup - a startup is determined almost exclusively by growth rate and scale - i.e you make $5, then $50, then $1,000, then 1M, then 10M, then 180M etc - that is to say, just having a good idea and a useful product with revenue is not enough to be a startup and hence raise venture capital. it must have the vision of an explosive growth shape - this is important because this is directly related to raising money. founders get upset when they get rejected despite having a good product or idea with some revenue, but the investor looks at the growth potential. they do not care about turning 1M into 1.5M, their economics require them to turn 10M into 1B - and frankly, you do not want VC ownership in a small business because it will directly hurt your freedom and take rate takeaway: before thinking of raising funds because you've seen others do it, ask if you're building a regular business or a startup the way to tell is by the growth rate and scale

what shitters are we shilling from main boys x.com/mert/status/209253759849…

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if you’re staking natively with everstake and disagree with their reasoning, you can override their vote visit t.co/Z9WUJ4bosK connect your wallet, and make your voice heard

Tron's moat amongst people not in crypto or in america must be studied the craziest shit I've ever seen no matter who I pay -- a flower shop, a moving guy, a zyn dude, a concierge, (future) mother in law -- they ALWAYS send their Tron address no exceptions

back in 3 digits let the hate flow through you x.com/mert/status/209208217115…

This is how excited I am about Zcash

dont mid curve it privacy is necessary for money in a world where cash is being phased out it enables fungibility, private txns (eg donations to Roman), and a choice for the individual you gain nothing by not having the option to shield your funds you may not take advantage of it, that's fine, but the option should always exist similar to your thoughts, files, or photos -- you may wish to publish them to share with others but there are some where you'd rather not it's insane that this is the case for those things but not cryptographic internet money zcash will change this

Solflare Perps are live.↓ And they are right where they should be. On mobile, on a real orderbook and on Solana, powered by @PhoenixTrade Trade price movements on 65+ markets with leverage, without holding the asset. You can long SOL or short ETH, and you always stay on t.co/hq1yq6lVnM

Why are Zcash donations to Roman Storm over 400x larger than Bitcoin donations? Perhaps Zcashers have extra sympathy for Roman because they care deeply about privacy and the freedom to write code. But I suspect the deeper reason is simply that you can’t donate to causes like

the vote to speed up solana disinflation is LIVE this is the most common feedback I've gotten in my time on Solana, so now's the time to vote on it if you are staking SOL, you can go on this site and vote now t.co/W49vti9PXG vote is only live for a few days so be fast

Zcash Becomes Dominant Source Of Support For Roman Storm A fundraiser for Roman Storm has now received more than $1.3 million in crypto donations. Zcash (@Zcash) zcash:native accounts for nearly $1.29 million of the total, according to the displayed figures. Bitcoin t.co/XIJYfGZsfN

That feeling that you don't own enough Zcash

the first $1,000 is the hardest

RT @Kaiz_294: Mert just made the strongest case for why Zcash privacy matters "In Zcash's case, the privacy isn't privacy for its own sake…

reminder as $ZEC runs: higher price → more capital shielded → larger anonymity set → stronger privacy → better product → more users → higher price for a privacy asset the anonymity set IS the product so price up = product up t.co/NP1nrfG3Tz

zec bears are like no I don't want my money to be private. what do you have to hide pal? I want everyone on earth to see what I've done with my money out there permanently recorded on an immutable ledger forever to be used against me

Solana Validator Governance Voting is now live for SGP 1, SGP 2, and SGP 3. - SGP-0001: The Solana Constitution - SGP-0002: Double Disinflation - SGP-0003: Resource and Inclusion Fee Voting lasts until the end of epoch 1023 (Thursday at approximately 15:30 UTC). See the

as far as rationale for the vote, I think this is the biggest no-brainer yes vote ever the math says vote yes if you think avoiding 19M additional SOL printed improves Solana’s valuation by more than 1.03% see details: x.com/mert/status/208833671018…

the vote to speed up solana disinflation is LIVE this is the most common feedback I've gotten in my time on Solana, so now's the time to vote on it if you are staking SOL, you can go on this site and vote now governance.solana.com/proposal… vote is only live for a few days so be fast