Lauris (@lzminsky) / X

Lauris

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Lauris

@lzminsky

forward deployed philosopher. prev founder in consumer and FinTech. @lsenews

london / nyc

Joined April 2009

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@lzminsky
May 30
Happy to ship the first version of Hedgebook, powered by @Kalshi : an app showing how every SPX companies can hedge their core business risks using Kalshi event contract markets. Event contracts and perpetual contracts consolidated into a single, onshore, regulated exchange is
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@lzminsky
Feb 18, 2025
Met a guy today. Age: 22 Portfolio: $1 Million Started investing post covid. Goal: To retire at 30. I asked him how he has managed to build $1 Million at this age. He said post covid he worked hard & convince his dad to give him $5 Million and invested it all in $BLAST.
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@lzminsky
Jan 10, 2025
Article
The common origins of the best crypto founders
Every successful crypto founder I've met shares a secret origin story. They were hardcore MMORPG players as kids. OS Runescape, EVE, WOW. Or they spent a lot of time playing strategy games like Civ,...
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@lzminsky
Sep 6, 2024
To GCR, This letter will be the last thing we ever write. The decision to take our own lives is a direct consequence of your predicaon that Ethereum would reach $10,000. You didn't just suggest it-you convinced us to believe it. You made us feel like it was a certainty, and
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@lzminsky
Apr 21, 2025
I fucked up. We raised ~$150K in the first 24 hours and projected out, that’s a potential $1.5M raise over just 10 days. The good news? We don’t actually need that money from the raise. Our product alone is generating strong revenue ($445k just the past week, though not all of
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@lzminsky
Apr 17, 2025
Article
The Pro-Social Case for Tokenizing Babies (proposal and design)
For most of human history, babies were productive economic assets. A child wasn’t just a dependent; they were labor. By age five, they’d herd goats. By ten, they’d be planting crops or apprenticing....
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@lzminsky
Dec 18, 2024
gmabs @AbstractChain mainnet is coming soon and the @multiplierfun dev team wants to get some user research done to make the prod amaze if you want to help out, REPLY BELOW or slide into my DMs. it won't take more than 20 minutes of your time you will be rewarded👀
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@lzminsky
Oct 14, 2024
why are former Runescape players usually sitting at a comfortable 7-figures liquid while the same does not apply to any other old MMORPGs?
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@lzminsky
Jan 14, 2025
of course you hate L2s youre a first year cycler. you just started your CT account. bet your first follow was ansem. youre gonna be convinced of solanas fast throughput until next month when you discover the nakamoto institute. then youre gonna be talking about szabos history
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@lzminsky
Aug 20, 2025
Article
Play As Mechanism: An Intro to Hypergamblified Market Design
Hypergamblification Is Inevitable At its core, play has always been about risk, speculation, and dopamine. Casinos are the bluntest form; blackjack, poker, slots, pure probabilistic thrill. Sports...
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@lzminsky
Jan 27, 2025
if you want a @multiplierfun code on @AbstractChain lmk dm or reply below
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@lzminsky
Jan 27, 2025
SENDING CODES RN TRYING TO REPLY TO DMS TIRED DEV TRYING HIS BEST PLEASE HOLD ON still scaling @multiplierfun servers so trying to do it in batches
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@lzminsky
Sep 4, 2025
the only people who are worthy of respect are those who are willing to live or die by the sword put your name on it. cross the rubicon. do it even if it fails flat on your face. don't be a coward. don't max optionality. conviction-max and ride the volatility.
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@lzminsky
Aug 28, 2025
Article
Hypergamblification as a Positive-Sum Financial Primitive
For centuries, gambling has been framed as a negative-sum pursuit. The house always won, extracting value from both sides of every wager. From state lotteries to Las Vegas casinos, gambling functioned...
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