Sublime

He wants to enable a radical reimagining of how human beings self-organize, while maintaining a rigorous agnosticism about what people choose to do with that power.

Anton is a wonderfully intuitive and empathetic marketer, master storyteller, and champion of the customer experience,

If Daniel feels subtly afraid of them, he will pay attention. The twenty-first-century founder is akin to the pirate of the sixteenth century—an outsider overflowing with energy and brazen charisma.

In March 2020, a Silicon Valley engineer named Anatoly Yakovenko launched a new and better blockchain that offered a solution to maybe Bitcoin’s biggest weakness as a means of exchange: it was way too slow. Bitcoin could only validate seven transactions a second. The new Solana blockchain promised to process up to sixty-five thousand transactions a

tablets went from unusable to useful.

In almost every speech bitcoiners make about the potential for cryptocurrencies in the developing world, Argentina receives top billing.

Andy Warhol was wrong. In the future, we wouldn’t all be famous for fifteen minutes; we’d be famous 24/7 to fifteen people. That was the new paradigm, even if the outside world didn’t realize it yet. Facebook employees—we few, we happy few—knew what world was coming, and we’d help create it.

customers were happy to finally have the choice of paying high prices to get a smartphone that actually works.