Devin Baker

While $FLY is meant to maintain a stable value or a set exchange rate, usage of $FLY earns both diners and restaurants ownership in the network, via Blackbird’s second token: $F2 . The more $FLY you hold and spend (as a diner) or hold and receive (as a restaurant), the more ownership you earn.

Don’t work for a company you would not invest money in, because when you are working you are investing the most valuable thing you have: your time.

While the tech, tech adjacent, oil and gas, commodities, food (real / hard assets and real production) etc kind of industries and surrounding industries plus the govt will continue to boom, the tech infrastructure will continue to reign supreme worldwide.

Tokens can represent the ownership of anything digital, including money, art, photos, music, text, code, game items, voting power, access, or whatever people come up with next. Using some additional building blocks, they can also represent real-world things, like physical goods, real estate, or dollars in a bank account. Anything that can be... See more

Everyone was happy to buy 18-24-36 months ago, when the horizon was cloudless and asset prices were sky-high. Now, with heretofore unimaginable risks on the table and priced in, it’s appropriate to sniff around for bargains: the babies that are being thrown out with the bath water. We’re on the case.

Before we get to the crack-up-boom phase in this crypto bull market, I believe the crypto markets will experience a harrowing dump around Trump’s January 20th 2025 inauguration day. Maelstrom will be lightening up on certain positions in advance, hoping to rebuy some core positions at lower prices sometime in 1H25. Obviously, every trader says this... See more

While deficits of $1T+ per year, with debt repayments of nearly $1T themselves, people think this is unsustainable short term and will combust. I disagree, there is atleast a 5-10 year runway without the existential crisis, however as I said in TechDollar 1, it will get worse every year, the money printing will exacerbate all the issues internally... See more

Stripe recently announced its acquisition of Bridge, a stablecoin payments platform, in a landmark $1.1 billion deal. This acquisition, Stripe's largest to date, positions the fintech giant to expand its services into crypto, offering businesses streamlined access to stablecoin infrastructure for global transactions. By integrating Bridge’s banking... See more

However, compromising on decentralization has never been an option for the Ethereum community. It's also essential because it is closely tied to security and gives the Ethereum network properties like neutrality, censorship resistance, and permissionless-ness, which are equally important as the ones in the scalability trilemma.