The concept of insurance in the US is very different from the concept of insurance in Europe. In Europe, insurance is reasonably priced and when something happens that is covered by your insurance: 1. you call your insurance 2. after some checks and some time, you receive money In the US, insurance is absolutely incredibly expensive and when something happens that is covered by your insurance: 1. you wonder if you should call your insurance at all because (a) they will do everything they can to not pay you (granted, they do that too in the EU but to a much lesser degree, I guarantee you) (b) they will increase your insurance cost, the not-so-hidden message being "How dare you use the insurance that you pay for??") I remember when I first arrived in the US, in the first 3 months, we had a water leakage and a broken pipe in our house. That's 2 claims. I called our insurance to report those... the woman on the phone could not believe it: "you want to report 2 claims??" And she went on to convince me to pick only 1 and report only the biggest issue, for my own good. The bottom line is: In the US, you pay your insurance only to insure you against the real big extremely costly issues like: you need cancer treatment, your house burnt down, your car got destroyed... etc... If the issue you're reporting is costing you less than ~$5K, most of the time, you're better off not asking your insurance to cover it.... even though it's covered and even though you're paying a high price for it 🤷🤦🇺🇸

It can be intimidating to put your work out in the world like that, but then you get feedback that people really got it and actually found it useful and that makes it all worth it ❤️ ALSO stay tuned...part II dropping soon 😊

As everyone is talking about tokenized stocks, I can only encourage you to read this paper by @CampbellJAustin and @TuongvyLe12 about "Crypto and the Evolution of the Capital Markets". As someone building at the intersection of crypto and tradfi for many years at @FairmintCo, I can say this is one of the best paper ever published on the topic. Everyone talks about "tokenizing securities" but few truly understand that crypto fixes the market plumbing, not just the assets! A thread...

The truth is that @Google has literally abandoned Gmail. For the 1st time ever, someone in the team asked if you should look for an alternative... That's how bad things have gotten! My main issue with Gmail is not the blurry icon, but just that it doesn't do its job anymore: Obviously legit emails are flagged as spam and obvious spams land in inbox 🤦‍♂️ Make @gmail Great Again

Day 1 of the Roman Storm trial is in the books, and perhaps we need to make something clear to the government: Normal 👏people 👏also 👏deserve 👏 financial👏 privacy👏 Privacy is NOT a crime.

Desperately trying to get someone at @ForestAdmin to answer me. A bug in their app just lost me hours of work... but the worst is that it seems that nobody cares!! No biggie... just a bug that loses customer data 😱 pinging @givebutter @SeyZ_

One problem for the future development of AI that everybody is overlooking is that we might soon run out of Sci-Fi names to use for AI projects... 😱

Welcome to the newest members of the @CantonNetwork! We’re excited to grow our ecosystem with: 🔹 @KaikoData – Institutional-grade digital asset data, now a Super Validator bridging TradFi and DeFi. 🔹 @BitSafe_Finance – Unlocking Bitcoin utility with wrapped BTC and yield solutions for institutions. 🔹 4M Group – Advancing private credit and fintech on Canton through secure validation. 🔹 @Lukka – Real-time compliance, risk, and market data as a Super Validator. 🔹 @AngelHack – Expanding our developer community with global innovation programs. 🔹 @TRMLabs – Strengthening AML and compliance as a Supporting Validator. 🔹 @FairmintCo – Onchain equity and programmable finance with SEC-aligned infrastructure. Learn more: #CantonNetwork #Web3 #DigitalAssets #FutureFinance

Seen last weekend👀 For only $49, you too can die from a heart attack, don't wait! #America #WTF

TL;DR: French air traffic controllers went on strike because they were asked to... **check notes**... do their job 🤷‍♂️