No one took him seriously. Now, his company stores more than $90 billion dollars in assets. Here’s how Brian Armstrong built Coinbase, America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
@brian_armstrong @coinbase #cryptocurrency
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- The Oculus VR inventor is now modernizing military technology. Palmer Luckey and his team of outside-the-box thinkers at @anduriltech is creating tech that the government does not yet believe is possible.
00:00 - Casey Handmer (@CJHandmer) and @TerraformIndies are making cheap, synthetic, natural gas out of thin air. Timestamps 0:00 - Welcome to Hard Reset 1:16 - Meet Casey Handmer 3:06 - A cheaper kind of fuel 6:13 - Casey’s plan 7:08 - The terraformer 8:27 - The carbon capture system
00:00 - Meet Scott Tilley (@coastal8049) the amateur astronomer who found a lost NASA satellite. youtube.com/watch?v=hMsE1r…
- “This is a system that will enable the sub-thousand dollar ticket from San Francisco to Tokyo in 3.5 hours.” - @AstroMechanica‘s @ianbrooke Timestamps: 0:00 - Welcome to Hard Reset 1:18 - Astro Mechanica HQ 2:46 - An affordable, electric plane 3:16 - The tech powering AM 4:25 - A
00:00 - It’s 2050. The global population has increased to nearly 10 billion and we’ve eliminated one of humanity’s oldest foes: tonight, no one will go to bed hungry. Here’s how we’ll (maybe) do it. 🧵
- "I predict that by 2042 95% of humanity's energy usage will be downstream of solar." — Casey Handmer @CJHandmer
- The culture today is toxic. Media reflects it and amplifies it. As a society, we’ve become… Cynical about the motivations of others Simplistic in our thinking about complex issues Certain that we have all the answers Scared of the challenges we face It’s understandable, but
00:00 - Watch relentless principal Hamish Brewer (@brewerhm) as he tries to lead Fred Lynn Middle School to accreditation - with the help of @felderpaul. It's the long-awaited followup to the viral hit "Relentless": youtube.com/watch?v=HlMReQ…
00:00 - "10 years ago, my colleagues and I looked at the prognosis for Climate Change, and it looked pretty hopeless. There really was no way out.” Then, they found a way out. In our first-ever Freethink Interview, Casey Handmer (@CJHandmer) explains how.
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00:00- Meet @clonerobotics' humanoid robot prototype. Artificial muscles, hydraulic actuators, and machine learning could make these androids as capable as humans.
00:00 - How did a Christian homeschooler become a cam star? One sex worker tells her story - and why we should destigmatize the industry. @Aella_Girl
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