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Founder @Stacks, enabling the Bitcoin onchain economy. Previously, distributed systems PhD at Princeton.
Joined March 2008
- Sphere at Vegas turning orange for Bitcoin
- Bitcoin maximalism is limiting the growth of Bitcoin. Retweet for visibility if you agree. Tweet thread👇
- 13 years later, crypto founders are realizing why Satoshi was pseudonymous.
- So @BankofAmerica just closed my personal bank account that I’ve used for 15 years. No reason given. Real reason? I do Coinbase transactions through this account for Bitcoin. This is a war on Bitcoin & crypto. Please RT to warn others. We won’t stay silent.
- Microsoft is now the largest contributor to open-source on GitHub. The times they are a-changin.
- It’s still early in crypto. No one has missed the boat. We’re learning to build the boat.
- Bitcoin maxi paradoxes: - Love decentralization yet use centralized exchanges (no DEX for BTC). - Love free markets yet hate venture capitalists (free market actors). - Love open-source yet hate an entire revolution of new open-source apps.
- The Bitcoin market has its way of separating true believers from tourists.
- BREAKING: City of Miami will give residents bitcoin wallets and pay them in BTC using their treasury yield. Powered by Stacks, smart contracts for Bitcoin. @FrancisSuarez is a visionary leader who is on a roll these days!
- Buying bitcoins is easy; holding on to them for a decade is the hard part.
- Facebook stole the metaverse username from their own user. This perfectly captures the concept of property rights in Zuck’s world. Not your keys, not your usernames.
- Balaji is putting up a $2M bet that Bitcoin will be north of $1M in 90 days.
- Can’t be evil. This message is now displayed outside Google HQ in Mountain View.







