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- GPG Gnu Privacy Guard.
- Installed and configured ledger live on all win+ios. They partner with coinify for direct transactions on the nano, 1%+ fees. Some (like sol) don’t support native account creation, you need an external addy (phantom or solflare).
- Inflation highest since 1982.
- 198327 for CL card waitlist.
- Old binance account (from back when not illegal in us) suspended. Random scattering of low value tokens. Can’t just extract private key and keep myself, these custodial exchange wallets are just hot entries in a db not an actual layer 1 address.
- DEXs will keep you in control of your private keys, of course, with oracles setting prices as automated market makers. Liquidity pools are provided by users, who then collect the transaction fees for the transactions executed with their liquidity. Can have off-chain order books too. Variable fees, based on liquidity.
- Uniswap’s primary pools have 0.05%, 0.3%, %1 fees.
- Eight Sleep has trash customer service. 2 weeks and counting now (with daily reachouts) and no hub, missing package 2b aside rest.
- Ledger staking is via Lido.
- There are staking-as-a-service providers (like Figment) if you want to stake directly on chain, lower fees than staking from your exchange cust wallet.
- Kraken allows staking off-chain, so non-PoS tokens can be staked (like BTC and even USD). All at diff interest %.
- Remember USDT is tether on bitcoin and USDC is on eth.
- https://www.bitcoinisdead.org/.
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- Read https://solana.com/solana-whitepaper.pdf and a bunch of yt videos.
- Friended all the other Brian Mahlstedts on LinkedIn (4).
- https://docs.solana.com/implemented-proposals/tower-bft.
- Refresher on the algorithm internals of SHA256.
- https://solanabeach.io/ 1387 current validators.
- Gary Vee…lol.
- Ahimsa and Semma this week.
- All detailed notes in drive, ~10 pages today.
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- Watched 2 Elon interviews on 2.5x (shoutout Video Speed Controller extension), The Babylon Bee and Lex Friedman.
- Interesting piece on neuralink; while it can go both directions, the output is much more important to accelerate because it’s the limiting factor. Think about the datarates of our senses (inputs) vs our communications (outputs). If you have a human in front of you, how quickly can you process the information that describes what’s in front of you? How they look, smell, sound etc. Very quickly. 1 second. Now how fast can you describe that information to someone else? Very slowly. Minutes. Constrained by speech. Same applies for other senses. Seeing a sculpture vs sculpting. Tasting a dessert vs recreating the taste. Smelling something vs understanding/describing the fragrance.
- Garbage collection for regulations. Keep law like code. Better to remove than add.
- Admitted incomplete understanding of smart contracts, surprisingly next to the public crypto support (albeit doge-esque).
- Paradigm 1.15b to CitSec.
- Researched lines against securities, homes, and pure margin (usually accrues daily and charges monthly). Securities best (subj). Avoid taxes. Variable interest, but ballpark 2%. Avoids liquidating, pushes to longterm cap gains, can get more. Maybe next home against spacex.
- FTX offers 0.07% taker (current best for entry amount, I believe), slightly better than binance’s 0.1%.
- Browsed pre-IPOs on EquityZen, submitted interest for a few.
- Formal criteria for accredited investor (never looked up exact before): 200k annual income for 2yrs (or 300 joint), or 1m net worth without home.
- Remember individual tax on gross, business tax on net. Deduct deduct deduct.
- Will diversify very small corners with bonds and REITs shortly.
- Installed and activated ExpressVPN on the new windows desktop, fedora laptop, chrome, and ios.
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- http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt.
- Did another wallet+exchange deepdive comparison. And looked into a few prediction markets.
- https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html (Moxie Marlinspike = Matthew Rosenfeld, creator of signal, but also co-authored encryption used by whatsapp/skype/fbmsgr, former twitter csec).
- Misc home: Distilled water, made peanut butter, powders, prep, niners in playoffs, steelers/jags/raiders/chargers crazy finish, klay thompson back, alabama georgia.
- The Jan 5/6 hashrate drop from Kazakhstan’s internet blackout was 11%. #2 (total) mining pool after US.
- Looked into a few eth oracles.
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/12-milestones-2022. 6G wifi, electric planes, condor (433 qubits) surpassing eagle (127) quantum processor.
- Read https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper.
- Found a 404 href on blockchain.com while looking around. Did a modern sync on broken link checking. Most static, but must render for 100% of course; can cypress or outsource to many linkcheckers.
- NYC’s Billionaire’s row. 111 w 57th. Pied-a-terre.
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- Watched some videos on JWST, investments, supercontest analytics, applied for more margin (TD a little better than Schwab), the usuals.
- -m cProfile for function perf stats. py-spy and line_profiler and py-heat (visual!) and memory_profiler can go deeper.
- Read The Bitcoin Standard and whitepaper to refresh. Very basic.
- Historical CPI: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator/consumer-price-index-1913-
- 10-Q/10-K.
- “Every election is an advanced auction on stolen goods.”
- The solution to one-way functions (or cryptographically secure functions, rather), via either mathematics or brute compute = chaos. All information loses all boundary, all value systems are tared.
- Introspective pause on my career. Ensuring balance of generic+specific, philanthropic+lucrative, satisfying+uncomfortable.
- Space. The advancement of interplanetary travel; a more existential pursuit with great purpose.
- Software. A critically broad platform in our ever-technological world. A toolbox that provides most innovation in most industries.
- Finance. Valuable knowledge to virtually any enterprise.
- Next?
