We’ve been around CT for a few years, and while the road still appears curvy, we believe the pieces are moving into place and the destination becomes more clear with each passing day. The following people are all pioneers, when they speak you should listen.

Going to lay out who we think some of the most fascinating thinkers are and some of our favorite podcasts. While these people still differ on some of their viewpoints, they are either the thought leaders of the world we are moving towards or contributing towards building it.
1) Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4) - Truly one of the pioneers of our space and one of the first podcasts we ever listened to. Still the pod we send to people wanting to dip their toes in the space. Funny listening to nick, @naval, and @tferriss 4 years later.

https://t.co/yEP2TSJxPE
2) Naval (@naval) - Clearly a thought leader in the traditional world, but he understands and is dedicating time to bring the future to the present. When this guy speaks the whole world seems to listen. Once again @tferriss does a phenomenal job.

https://t.co/P7Tylq3uIF
3) Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) - The father of Ethereum and when Vitalik speaks we all should listen. He thinks differently than almost every human in this world. Yes...he’s a genius.

https://t.co/D89NkIOeei
4) Sergey Nazarov (@SergeyNazarov) - Sergey is building the infrastructure that will allow crypto to become what it’s meant to be. We honestly loved the last 40 mins of this interview the most and it was completely unrelated to crypto.

https://t.co/VQi7e7o38F
5) Bankless (@BanklessHQ) Love both these guys and what they’re doing for the community. Lol we feel this podcast may be the biggest driver behind the latest ETH run, but all their episodes are gold.

https://t.co/xh8ObYReEx
6) Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi) - Preethi has lived it, built it, and understood it. She’s doing a series recently introducing crypto to beginners, something that’s harder to do recently, and tuning workshops to teach people about the space.

https://t.co/hX7hNICQQN
7) Muneeb Ali (@muneeb) - The creator behind Stacks (fka Blockstack) and is working on bringing smart contracts to Bitcoin. Muneeb is brilliant and understands aligning incentives as well as anyone. Also the guy is just a hustler who grinded for it.

https://t.co/icYmb8O9sw
8) Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) - We’re convinced this guy is from the future. He sees where we are headed. Timing is tough to predict, but Balaji at least dares to imagine a world unlike anyone else and for that should be commended.

https://t.co/52hbhzTVUB
9) @BowTiedBull - We wouldn’t feel right leaving them off this list. Love or hate them, they just win, and are about to be giving out more content than ever before. And oh yeah, Banks are Zeros🤡

https://t.co/VsUvd4jGmB
This list isn’t fully comprehensive, but if you’re looking to understand the future we’re headed towards, it’s a good start.

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The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.

This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.

The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."

This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
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Step 1: $BTC has a huge correction. Every range starts with either a pump (or dump) and then follows with a dump (or pump). In this case, #Bitcoin pumped and is now pulling back. This is


Step 2: $BTC ranges big once it finds a bottom. This will allow it to reaccumulate for a big summer run in 2021. This is HEALTHY IMO.


Step 3: Once $BTC finds a bottom and starts to grind up again, I expect $ALTS to do very very well in both alt/usd and alt/btc pairs. ALTSZN is almost always characterized by strong alt/btc pairs moving- I've already accumulated most and have done my final buying today and more.

$BTC.D typically has a very nice time during this time of the year. I was off on December prediction bc I thought $BTC was going to pull back by then but oh well! #Altcoins will start their pumping time VERY soon now.


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I'm sure someone else has explained this, but it is just so cool and I want to explain how this works.


So Curve is awesome for swaps between similar assets, right? The fact that they trade very close to each other is a key part about how Curve works, using it's custom swap invariant function.

That's step 1

Step 2 is that Synthetix is awesome for creating "synthetic assets" (aka synths) which are assets that trade like other assets, that are backed by another, entirely different asset. Basically, a plastic banana that I can buy and sell like a real banana.

Synthetix has a feature that lets you swap between any two synths with zero slippage and a flat fee. That's because it is simply converting the sythentic asset into another synthetic asset, the backing for the synth doesn't change it just uses a different price oracle now.

This is important. Absolutely no slippage, at any size

Swap $1m sUSD for $1m sBTC? flat 0.3% fee

Swap $10m sUSD for $10m sBTC? flat 0.3% fee

swap $100m sUSD for $100m sBTC? Well, there isn't that many synths in Curve, yet but you get the point. The only limit is the pool depth

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