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colin daymond hanna

@c01in.bsky.social

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dad x3, husband, founder at earendil.com happy earth resident. yet to discover another planet with this particular bouquet of jazz music, offshore winds, sea otters, and waves

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colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

the future will belong to those who create more so than those who process

colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Sentiment on illegal immigration in EU and USA (net positive fiscal stats below) is misplaced. In countries hampered by lackluster growth and shrinking pop, inflows of motivated, hard working working age people should be celebrated. You are a lucky country if people want to come work and pay taxes

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colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Ethereum and OpenAI both currently valued by the market at $300B Which will be worth more in 1, 3, 10 years?

colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Worth reading all the letters, but this one is the best

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Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca · 24/01/2025

On the risks of politician coins:

The risk of politician coins comes from the fact that they are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings passively.

Furthermore, there is deniability: holding the coin is, in terms of financial effect, a linear combination of donating to the issuer and gambling. Hence you can have the intention of doing the former but when challenged claim that you are doing the latter.

You can even hold the coin privately, and show that you are holding it to whoever you need to show; you do not need any zero knowledge proofs, you just send a test transaction.

This is all risky to democracy, for reasons very similar to what I wrote in https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html , https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/09/11/coordination.html and elsewhere. TLDR: the economic arguments for why markets are so great for "regular" goods and services do not extend to "markets for political influence".

I recommend politicians do not go down this path.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/01/2025

Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Dusting off this post I wrote in 2019 on privacy. Fun to be doing it on BlueSky venturing.ghost.io/a-brighter-v...

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colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Is it surprising to anyone else that South Korean police roll around in Cadillacs?

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colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Nothing better than a few days in Paris with dozens of CTOs geeking about how language models are changing how we write, scale, and maintain software

colin daymond hanna @c01in.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Meditation according to Alan Watts: “Grooving with the eternal now”