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⌐◪-◪ → Elon Musk just asked the public why Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin left Twitter.

For those who don’t know, Vitalik left Twitter in favor of Farcaster, a more decentralized alternative that’s gained a lot of popularity with the crypto community.

This is pretty exciting for Farcaster as it puts them in direct competition with Twitter on a global stage; however, many still question Farcaster’s ability to sustain momentum/growth and compete long-term.

This whole exchange got me thinking…

It would be cool to listen to Elon and Vitalik discuss centralized vs. decentralized social media on Twitter Spaces. I for one would like to see a liquid market for usernames + the ability to export/migrate followers.

Let’s see if we can get Elon’s attention → Tweet this.

⌐◪-◪ → Famous actor Kevin Hart just sold his Bored Ape NFT for 13.79 ETH ($45k) through bids.

For context, it was purchased 2 years ago for 79.5 ETH ($250k), which makes this a massive 83% loss.

I wonder how much Kevin was involved with this decision or if it was simply made in isolation by his agency/manager.

I suppose short of asking Kevin directly, we’ll never know.

Personally, I’ll never understand why a wealthy Hollywood celebrity like Kevin would take such a big financial/reputational L just to recoup $45k, which I reckon is chump change to him.

⌐◪-◪ → Starting April 5th, Binance will end support for $USDC deposits and withdrawals on the TRON blockchain.

While this headline initially struck me as an anti-USDC headline, it’s actually a follow-up to Circle’s own decision to discontinue USDC support on Tron. So funny crypto-politics here.

Users will still be able to trade USDC on Binance and deposit/withdraw USDC on other networks.

Meanwhile, the great stablecoin race is still underway with the top 5 by market cap being

1. Tether (USDT) → $104B

2. Circle (USDC) → $32.2B

3. DAI (DAI) → $5.35B

4. First Digital USD (FUSD) → $2.62B

5. USDD (USDD) → $731.9M

And way down in 10th place is PayPal USD at $188.21M market cap, to be honest, I sort of forgot their stablecoin exited haha.

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