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let’s make real world impact | mostly crypto & AI thoughts | founding team @HashKeyGroup
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Mar 28, 2025
    In the age of intelligence, what if the most counterintuitive Jevons Paradox actually turns out to be demand for human labor? eg AI-driven increasing efficiency of human labor -> leads to increases in human labor productivity -> leads to increasing demand for human labor
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    Aaron Levie
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    @levie
    Mar 28, 2025
    The two biggest launches in AI in the past month are now constrained by capacity. This is what we meant by Jevons paradox.
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Apr 13, 2023
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    May 23, 2023
    #HongKong, one of Asia’s biggest international financial centers, *today* just formally approved retail trading of #crypto assets. Effective 1 June 2023. Huge deal for #Web3 economy in Asia + #币圈 11 key points from the conclusion paper drop from the SFC today:
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Apr 25, 2025
    In just seven weeks, all three major U.S. banking regulators rescinded their prior restrictive crypto guidance. Attached a banking regulator map below for reference. OCC March 7: - rescinded prior crypto guidance and removed pre-approval requirements, allowing national banks to
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    nicolas, 30 ans
    @nic_carter
    Apr 24, 2025
    last piece of the puzzle ✅ federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pre…
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Apr 11, 2023
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Apr 11, 2024
    Quick explainer on HashKey Global’s trade to earn HSK airdrop program: Airdrop Pool 1 (standard trades): - earn 1.4 HSK for every $1000 in daily trading volume - hard cap per user of 500 HSK daily Airdrop Pool 2 (API trades): - you automatically receive VIP4 tier status upon
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Feb 21, 2025
    Replying to @yogrishiramdev @bryan_johnson and 10 others
    Ayurvedic Bryan would be a game changer
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Apr 14, 2025
    Replying to @culturaltutor
    In some ways, RGB pixels are the modern extension of Pointillism theory
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Apr 18, 2025
    Bombshell follow up piece by @nic_carter on OCP2.0, deep diving into Signature's 2023 closure. The main argument is that Signature's closure was not due to insolvency, but rather it was due to a politically motivated decision by regulators to justify a bailout of Silicon Valley
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    nicolas, 30 ans
    @nic_carter
    Apr 17, 2025
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    Signature Didn’t Have to Die, Either | Piratewires
    cataloging the four days of chaos that led to the collapse of signature bank during the 2023 regional banking crisis [Article originally published in Piratewires on 04/15, slightly edited for X....
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    May 28, 2023
    After the Celsius claims deal, there’s a big question: “What could FTX2.0 learn from it?” What if you combined ideas from both the Celsius deal and the 2016 Bitfinex IOU token deal? What might it look like? Here’s an FTX2.0 🧵 to spark ideas 👇 pls share+comment. Never know!
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Nov 6, 2024
    Replying to @hosseeb
    You forgot to include the 80,000 Monte Carlo simulations of Nate Silver
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Jun 3, 2023
    Imagine that FTX 2.0 restarts, new money comes in, creditors get IOU tokens or equity. What drives whether FTX 2.0 profits and returns 100%+? Biz model. I liked @adamscochran’s post on this. My question: Could FTX 2.0 win without an internal MM? I think so, thoughts 👇
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    Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
    @adamscochran
    Jun 2, 2023
    1/30 Thoughts on FTX 2.0: As someone who has run an exchange, and who was building a (now scraped) product on FTX's whitelabel API, I wanted to share my thoughts on both the pros and cons of an FTX 2.0 strategy.
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Nov 6, 2024
    Replying to @wassielawyer and @elonmusk
    Diablo 4 Expansion Pack unlocked
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    Baz
    @ben_el_baz
    Sep 20, 2023
    Replying to @alexisohanian and @sama
    Now add Eleven Labs style voice over capabilities/integration and you’ve got something super cool
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