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Special attention needs to be paid to the ebb and flow of power between the platform creators and the peers.

Robin Chase • Peers Inc

Because the Embedded Lender splits the infrastructure costs across multiple brand partners and drives down unit costs with scale, the Embedded Lender can be profitable even when a brand could not be.

Alex Hartz • Embedded Lending

Our Grommets aren’t just things. Grommets are products with a purpose invented by people with stories.”22

Robin Chase • Peers Inc

We have entered a blurry era in which there’s no sharp line to be drawn between what is and isn’t corporate or private.

Robin Chase • Peers Inc

The first, General Public License (GPL), is an example of how innovative licensing can prevent the privatization of community-built assets in perpetuity, and sometimes expand them.

We got these phone booths (a K6 from the 1930s, and a KX100 from the 1990s) for the @stripe lobby, as a reminder that there are always two paths in everything we make: something that elevates and makes you smile, or, well, whatever the thing on the right is. https://t.co/OREBUJElp6

Patrick Collison

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To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following: - Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible. - All payments must also include a rationale fo... See more

Elon Musk

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The earliest assets leveraged are peers’ excess capacity. This idea isn’t unique to Bitcoin as you now well know. The

Robin Chase • Peers Inc

Paying more early on attracts people when the platform has the least value. The reward structure effectively borrows value from the future (when an established Bitcoin currency will have value) to finance the infrastructure building of the nascent and risky idea (when there is very little value). This is genius.