#bitcoin holder since 2019 #ai intern @nyuniversity stem What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
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.@claudeai isn't even available in China. It banned three of my accounts when I lived there. Yet people in China are scrambling to get into the @AnthropicAI IPO.
They're doing it through overseas crypto exchanges. USDT in, 5% fee, and if you get an allocation you end up with a token that tracks ANT, not the actual stock. In the US you just request shares through your broker. I made a chart breaking down how each side gets in.
Can't use the product, still racing to own a piece of it. That's how strong the AI FOMO is.
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Can someone really love just one person for their whole life? 40 years with only one person sounds kind of terrifying to me. Is that romance or just fear of change?
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Last month, I sent 1,000 cold emails to people in New York asking for coffee chat.
They spanned finance and tech, including founders and senior leaders.
Here’s my takeaways🧵
-Everyone wants it. Few believe it.That gap is everything.
-Fear hoards. Love compounds.
-The best things in your life were never on your list.
-Everyone wants a different tomorrow. No one wants a different today.
-Say “that’s amazing” more. Out loud. Watch what happens.
-Most people are waiting. The moment you ask, you’re already different.
Moved to NYC for grad school this year and life's been nonstop. But my crypto friends still check in on me, even though most of them have switched careers or tracks by now. Different lanes, same warmth. Grateful for you all.
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Cornell Tech and Yale gave 10 AI agents a @circle wallet capped at 1 cent a day. Raising it needed a code sent to the owner's email. 9 of 10 read the inbox and raised their own cap.
My AI now runs all my email, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp. Hark keeps acting without asking me. And yes, if you message me, my AI is probably the one replying.
If your agent can read the approval, it isn't one.
Bybit, Feb 2025: $1.5B.
Bitget, Sep 2026: $388M.
Binance, Oct 2026: $6.3B.
Crypto's biggest talent shortage isn't traders or devs. It's cybersecurity people.
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EIP-7702 didn't hack Binance. It just made the cleanup fast.
Someone got Binance's own system to sign 50 approvals in a row, after two dry runs with test wallets. This wasn't luck.
The attacker didn't know Binance 14's live nonce.
So they sprayed 50 EIP-7702 auths (18914775-18914824) in one type-4 tx.
Only 1 of 50 was a hit.
A 7702 auth is valid only for the current nonce at inclusion. The hot wallet was still firing. One nonce in that window landed.
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Tonight I was at a Ripple event in NYC, smiling through an Ellie Goulding surprise set while a lot of my money sat on Binance.
Meanwhile Binance was possibly getting hit by the biggest hack in crypto history. Early estimates start at $2.8B.
Wildest part: the attacker basically got a spare key to one of Binance's hot wallets, and that key stayed active for 2+ hours. When another 2,961 ETH landed in that wallet, it got swept too.
Spent ~$270 this month running 5 AIs to help me job-hunt and network in NYC🇺🇸. Honest ranking:
@hark_labs — $100. Biggest miss. Pretty dashboards, can even open sites and submit apps for you. Tokens burn insanely fast, and it kept doing stuff without clear permission. Upside: it has its own computer, so almost any site works.
@Muse — $20. Quietly the best. Sends ~100 cold emails a day, ~5% reply rate, runs its own A/B tests on which version gets replies. Finds hiring emails too. Somehow connected to my school Handshake after I wasted half a year fighting NYU’s firewall with OpenClaw.
@grok — $30. Underrated. I run a few bots like a tiny team: one nags me to post and drops ideas, one handles Xiaohongshu / TikTok / Douyin, one does WhatsApp, one does daily investing notes (actually accurate), plus todo + health.
@OpenAI — $100. Mostly coding. Built two little apps: an NYC networking tracker and a coffee-chat log. Drop a few notes after a meeting and it reminds me who to follow up with. Codex still goes dumb sometimes.
@claudeai — $20. Copy only. Best at making Chinese and English sound like something a real person would say.
Thanks @CryptoGamr and @nextpredictio for the ticket, saved me $2,000.
Walked in expecting a room full of gamblers. Walked out after two days talking with the smartest young people in America, half of them Ivy grads.
My takeaway: prediction markets feel a lot like crypto in 2017.
Prediction markets aren't new. People have been betting on elections and games forever. What changed was the 2024 election. The markets called it better than the polls, and suddenly everyone was paying attention.
The reason this works in the US: in most states, sports betting needs a separate state license. Prediction markets go through federal derivatives regulation instead. They're event contracts, closer to a swap or an option than a bet. Right now the whole industry is waiting to see where the rules land.
The crowd surprised me. Very young. Very educated. A lot of people who've never worked in crypto. Some came from TradFi, some are just political junkies. And nobody thinks like a banker. Nobody has "5 years of prediction market experience" because that doesn't exist yet.
Tickets were $1-2k. Over a thousand people flew into NYC from all over for this. People don't spend that kind of money unless they're making it.
There's a lot of overlap with crypto. Same users, same builders, some of the same infra. But I think this grows faster in the US. You don't need a wallet or to understand a chain. You just need an opinion, and everyone has an opinion on politics and sports.
The big unknown is regulation. Sports is the biggest driver of volume right now, and it might also be the first thing that gets restricted. States and the feds are still fighting it out. It's a gray zone, and that's exactly why it's interesting.
What the industry is short on isn't engineers. It's people: sales, BD, marketing, growth, policy, and people who can take this global. Get in now and you become the "experienced hire" in two years. Same thing happened in crypto.
Last thing: the gender ratio at the event was about 20:1. Ladies, this industry needs you.
Just wrapped Money20/20 in Vegas. Talked to 20+ banks and PSPs over four days. My takeaways:
1. Stablecoins are making cross-border payments exciting again. Old business, new rails, real money. The GENIUS Act is making the rules clearer, and most big players are building with banks, not against them.
2. Banks and PSPs think very differently about waiving KYC for payers. Some won't even discuss it. Others are already doing it. That one decision shapes the entire product.
3. AI came up in almost every conversation: fraud, customer support, and agents that make payments on their own.
4. Don't sleep on Latin America. Stablecoin payments, FX and account opening all work differently in each country, with different providers. Hard to get right, but there's a lot to win.
5. The crowd was very senior, and lots of the fintechs were well-funded, with teams mostly in NY or SF.
Building in stablecoin payments or LatAm?
How I went from 55kg to 44kg in 4months (121 → 97 lbs):
The biggest factor? A calorie deficit. Consuming fewer calories than I burn.
Diet: I used tirzepatide, weighed myself daily, and kept track of what I ate. Two eggs a day were a staple in my diet.
Exercise: 4–5 fitness classes a week because I have zero self-discipline when it comes to working out alone. Plus 3 treadmill sessions a week while binge-watching my favorite shows.
Less crypto, less stress: Stopped constantly checking trading group chats and live market prices. Seriously helped my mental health.
Mental reset: Meditation, sauna sessions, and absolutely no phone for the first hour after waking up or the last hour before bed.
