I see a lot of people saying “crypto is dying,” but I couldn’t disagree more. Distributed ledger technology is the next evolution of how humans, businesses (and agents) will interact globally. That part is already settled. What you’re watching is a war for the unit or unit(s) of account in that system, a war over the definition of value itself, not whether DLTs are the right solution. We are not going back to the way things were.

Higher + My DMs are open

AI = ego death

Rhode Island is an underrated state

The TL might have you feeling otherwise, but there is actually a shortage of USD.

Somebody plz hack instagram

Your job is to stay alive and ride the wave. You don’t get to control the ocean.

This hit my feed and made me think of @pronos_io pitch a couple months back in CDMX. Prediction markets need to be localized. This is not a political post. I didn't even watch the full video, I simply researched "Can you use Kalshi in Brasil?" after reading the headline. Turns out, its not even accessible. I wonder what the split would have been with a localized user base.

If there are no moats, you need to optimize for clarity. As a startup, your finance team should be building real time feedback loops. "yieldmaxxing" is a distraction without PMF...

send it

Giving up freedom and operational control of your business for FDIC insurance and 1% of yield is silly. Seems like every day recently my timeline is full of the same stories with a bunch of BDs piling into the comments saying they’re different. Cards suddenly down, accounts frozen mid-payroll, withdrawal limits out of nowhere, provider switches that lock funds for days, and support that can’t actually do anything because the real rails aren’t theirs. This is the predictable result of building on top of bank infrastructure you don’t control. If insurance coverage is actually the concern, the rational move is straightforward: open accounts at as many different banks as you need and park the balance you’re willing to insure in each one. You don’t need to concentrate everything in one place to get it. What you do give up when you stay inside those systems is control. As soon as the money sits with a third party that ultimately answers to bank partners, you inherit their freeze risk, their compliance triggers, their rate limits, their downtime, and their ability to change the rules on you. “We’re different” and “trust us” don’t change the stack. The promises are empty because they don’t have control either. We don’t have to keep doing this. Self-custody of operating capital (or at least the portion that needs to move freely) lets a business hold and move funds without asking permission, without artificial caps, and without a middleman who can unilaterally pause activity. Insurance on idle reserves can still live in traditional accounts. At the very minimum, the operational float doesn’t have to. The empty promise was that convenience and a logo would replace actual control. It hasn’t. I think that’s pretty clear.

spend volume on @altitude cards is up 3x in the last 3 months some data on where the money goes:

SpaceX to 100 trillion

I like to watch peoples reactions when they ask for my instagram and see I have no pictures

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If you’re running a services business with 1-10M in revenue you literally need: - CRM - @altitude - @bot That’s it.

We are approaching the “infinite ship” era. Trust. Compliance. Compute.

I think now is a good time to reshare that if you ask my parents why Venezuela collapsed, you receive two different answers. The world is changing, most people will disagree about the cause and what should come next.

Trust, compliance, compute.