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Brian Tubergen

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Brian Tubergen

@tubergen

Co-founder of coinwatch.co. Prev: Co-founder of @CoinList

Joined July 2010

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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Dec 16, 2024
@hosseeb asks: Why is the crypto industry returning to token sales when it previously abandoned them? I co-founded CoinList. Here's my insider's perspective: Lawyers killed token sales. Specifically, lawyers told projects that airdrops were a safer and better alternative to
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Oct 25, 2023
ACTION REQUESTED: New IRS proposals will effectively kill crypto in the US The good news? You can help stop it It takes less than 5 minutes - leave a comment using the tool here: bankless.cc/PreserveDeFi Explanation below 👇
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Jun 10, 2025
One of the all-time worst market maker deal structures is back from the dead The same old characters are back in the MM game, and they're pushing the same old deals on founders who weren't around the first time Don't want to get swindled? Read on 👇
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Sep 11, 2023
The poker video @chamath doesn't want you to see
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Nov 11, 2025
Replying to @EvgenyGaevoy and @_TomHoward
1. Other MMs provide verified data to projects. You provide unverified, self reported data to projects Neither is ideal, but the former is a way better market equilibrium than your approach Major difference in transparency and data quality. You’re grading your own homework 2.
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Feb 19, 2025
The strangest thing about the Libra / Hayden Davis saga is that somehow he went from d1 soccer player to Eric Cartman
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Nov 11, 2025
Replying to @EvgenyGaevoy and @_TomHoward
Happy to provide full transparency to the market The blocker is the NDAs in every Wintermute contract that prevent us (and anyone else) from disclosing data publicly Remove your NDAs and the market will have full transparency
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Nov 11, 2025
Replying to @EvgenyGaevoy and @_TomHoward
We have plenty of data on Wintermute that we don't share due to NDAs Happy to share publicly if you release us from NDAs In general, Coinwatch being paywalled is literally only because of market makers' NDAs We're happy to share any MM's data if they give us permission
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Nov 5, 2024
Replying to @paulg
There's an important difference between a one-off mistake by a sore loser versus a systemic embrace of censorship, lawfare, importing voters The latter threatens democracy far more than the former, and I'm not sure why you don't see it
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Mar 4, 2024
Last cycle: BTC ATH = $69K This cycle: BTC ATH = $420K So it is written so it shall be done
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Jul 9, 2024
Replying to @nikitabier
> If unemployment is low and deficits are high, why do democrats still think we need to spend more social programs? Because they discovered that they "can bribe the public with the public's money."
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
May 16, 2024
WHY CRYPTO WILL WIN In 2013 @naval hired me at AngelList. I was the 13th employee, and also the first person they hired straight out of college. Wall Street was sclerotic and widely hated. In no time, I thought, Silicon Valley startups would disrupt Wall Street, the same way
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Feb 19, 2024
Dear Sam Altman, Can Sora redo the final season of Game of Thrones? Sincerely, Everyone
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Brian Tubergen
@tubergen
Jul 1, 2025
Replying to @GwartyGwart and @udiWertheimer
FWIW a lot of this nomenclature was driven by fear of securities law If you're a company, the token looks a lot more like a security
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