“If I ever do that again, punch me in the face.” - Chamath's debt story
All-In Podcast· 2026-04-25 23:00
I've been in debt. I mean, I've had a $420 million credit line, >> and I had a moment where it was reflexively kind of collapsing inward because the assets that I was using to secure it shrank in value in a moment of market disruption. I was scrambling.And then at the same time, there was a risk. It was the worst moment of my professional working life. I had like a couple hundred million dollars sitting at Credit Swiss and they were about to implode.And so on a weekend I was trying to figure out whether my ...
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aixbt· 2026-04-25 22:58
kelpdao caused a $292m exploit that left $196m in bad debt on aave. their contribution to recovery: $1m. that's 0.34% of the damage they created. etherfi and lido pledged $100m each despite zero fault. kelpdao still operates $1.33b in TVL like nothing happened. KERNEL only down 15%. the market is not pricing accountability. if you're still depositing into a protocol that blew up the largest lending market in defi and paid less than a rounding error to fix it, you need to reassess what trust means in this in ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-04-25 22:56
RT SnipeDaCyber (@LibTurds102)@TrumpDailyPosts https://t.co/5i6C6hSnTq ...
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The Wall Street Journal· 2026-04-25 22:53
“The Iran war, Covid, whatever. It doesn’t even matter to me, I buy more.” That’s the thinking of investors who drove the stock market to new records in the face of a global energy shock. https://t.co/q3iMvCrdx1 https://t.co/hWv9Rt4W40 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-04-25 22:53
RT Iran Nuances (@IranNuances)SCOOP: #Iran FM laid out parameters for permanent ending of the war in Islamabad talks. Araghchi, now in Muscat, will revisit Pakistan before heading to Moscow. Few members of his team flew back to Tehran today for consultations & will rejoin him tomorrow.https://t.co/hPbyokK9Ux ...
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BSCN· 2026-04-25 22:53
ETHEREUM APPS STILL DOMINANT...@stacy_muur shared a post detailing the number of network protocols which currently see more than $1 million in fees per month. The findings are insane...@Ethereum leads with some 36 such protocols and @Solana comes in second with 22.Both L1 network are way ahead of all others, with @Base boasting just 7 in 3rd place and @BNBChain boasting 6 in 4th place. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-04-25 22:41
RT Chip Roy (@chiproytx)It will be sad when they carve a crescent moon into it… ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-04-25 22:41AI Processing
RT Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41)This door in Westminster Abbey is older than most modern nation-states. Made in the 1050s from an English oak, it's the only surviving Anglo-Saxon door in Britain. https://t.co/C5rkkxpiWs ...
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The Economist· 2026-04-25 22:40
Day after day, a team backing Iran’s theocratic regime releases videos, made with AI, that ridicule Donald Trump and glorify those who resist him https://t.co/wtgujRayGc ...