{ "schema_version": 1, "id": "2071709344366834009", "url": "https://x.com/Diankamaxi/status/2071709344366834009", "generated_at": "2026-10-15T09:54:54.281862+00:00", "used_by": [ "ART-XD-003", "SRC-XD-014" ], "post": { "id": "2071709344366834009", "url": "https://x.com/Diankamaxi/status/2071709344366834009", "author": "Diankamaxi", "author_name": "Diana ๐Ÿธ", "published_at": "Mon Jun 29 21:36:12 +0000 2026", "text": "https://t.co/z9cmTXHSF8", "article": { "created_at": "2026-06-29T21:36:12.000Z", "modified_at": "2026-06-29T21:36:12.000Z", "id": "2070930895817826304", "title": "The Machine Behind the Noise", "preview_text": "I left Crypto Twitter six months ago. I am back for one post, the one you are reading right now, and the moment it's finished I'm logging off again.\nI came back because I'm tired of explaining the", "cover_media": { "id": "QXBpTWVkaWE6DAAFCgABHL8X9cgWgAEKAAIT2gfPUVcgAAAA", "media_id": "2071400698005061633", "media_info": { "__typename": "ApiImage", "color_info": { "palette": [ { "percentage": 59.65, "rgb": { "blue": 206, "green": 206, "red": 206 } }, { "percentage": 28.51, "rgb": { "blue": 17, "green": 17, "red": 17 } }, { "percentage": 2.79, "rgb": { "blue": 29, "green": 32, "red": 157 } }, { "percentage": 2.47, "rgb": { "blue": 109, "green": 111, "red": 180 } } ] }, "original_img_height": 1306, "original_img_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL8X9cgWgAETPl1.jpg", "original_img_width": 3264 }, "media_key": "3_2071400698005061633" }, "content": { "blocks": [ { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "81hhc", "text": "I left Crypto Twitter six months ago. I am back for one post, the one you are reading right now, and the moment it's finished I'm logging off again.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "3hl75", "text": "I came back because I'm tired of explaining the same thing to my friends one message at a time. They send me a screenshot of some senator posting about the CLARITY Act, or some account screaming that crypto history is about to be made, and they ask whether it's real, whether they should be doing something, whether they're missing the moment. I've been in this since 2016 and I've run out of patience for answering it privately. So I'm writing the answer down once, and the next time someone sends me one of these, I'm going to send them this instead.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "465is", "text": "Almost nobody posting about the CLARITY Act, or cheering on some politician who has suddenly discovered a passion for crypto, has spent five minutes finding out how American law actually gets made or how political money actually moves. What I want is for you to see the machine clearly, because the people shaping how you feel about it mostly haven't looked.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 0, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "50mum", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "1jp17", "text": "Start with what you're actually being shown.", "type": "header-two" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 1, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2hlhq", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "b1afv", "text": "This one promises that in two hours the Senate will vote on the CLARITY Act and two and a half trillion dollars will pour into crypto. The Senate was not voting that day, nothing poured into anything, and there is no mechanism anywhere by which a vote releases trillions of dollars on a schedule. It's a lie from top to bottom, and in a minute I'll show you exactly how big a lie it is. I'm starting with it because it's typical. Almost every post about the CLARITY Act, and about bills like it, is built the same way. It invents a deadline and some stakes to go with it, and it's written by someone who has no idea how the thing actually works.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 2, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "3rb89", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "86iuj", "text": "Then there's this. A sitting U.S. senator posts an AI image of herself on a throne, captioned that clarity is coming. It looks like a signal โ€” like she knows something, like the bill must be close. It isn't. Being the crypto senator is her whole political identity, her brand and her base, so the picture is just a postcard to the people who fund and elect her, telling them in their own language that she is one of them. And once a post like that goes up, the crypto accounts swarm it for the engagement. A senator playing to the crowd is free material.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 3, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2aa2d", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "f9h31", "text": "The third one comes from the official account of a United States Senate committee, posting in the exact vocabulary of someone shilling you a token โ€” watch, historic, don't miss it. The institution itself is farming engagement. At that point the question more or less asks itself. Do you really need to be tracking this minute by minute, or have you just signed up for a dopamine machine that happens to be themed around crypto?", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 4, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "1lg6a", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "4ebiv", "text": "What actually has to happen for this to become law.", "type": "header-two" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "8g2f6", "text": "If you've never had to follow how Congress works, let me give you the short version, using the CLARITY Act.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 129, "offset": 807, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "dgq9p", "text": "A law is not made in a single vote. It gets assembled slowly, out of a long chain of them. Congress has two halves, the House of Representatives and the Senate, and a bill has to survive both. This one started in the House, the larger of the two chambers, where a draft gets written and voted on. The House passed its draft of the CLARITY Act last summer, which is only the first step. It then moves to the Senate, and for this particular bill the Senate is where it slows to a crawl, because crypto is split between two different regulators, the SEC for securities and the CFTC for commodities. So in the Senate two committees handle the bill: the Banking Committee, which covers the SEC side, and the Agriculture Committee, which covers the CFTC side. Each writes and votes on its own version of its half. What got live-tweeted as the Senate voting on the CLARITY Act was the Banking Committee voting its own version one step forward.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 28, "offset": 510, "style": "Bold" }, { "length": 50, "offset": 646, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "61f8s", "text": "From there the road is long. The two Senate versions have to be merged into a single bill. The full Senate then has to pass it, which in practice means sixty of the hundred senators agreeing, not a simple majority. After that, the Senate's bill and the House's bill โ€” which are not the same text โ€” have to be reconciled into one identical version that both halves of Congress pass again. Then the President signs it. And even his signature isn't the moment anything changes, because a law like this mostly says what should happen, not how. It hands the regulators the job of writing the actual, detailed rules that companies will have to follow, and the bill gives them close to a year to do it. Only once those rules are finished and take effect does any of this start to matter in the real world. Even then, rules like these are routinely challenged in court, which stacks on more time.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 5, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "6fh9h", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": { "mentions": [ { "fromIndex": 3, "text": "CryptoTice_", "toIndex": 15 } ] }, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 41, "offset": 28, "style": "Bold" }, { "length": 141, "offset": 283, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "6ft5c", "text": "So @CryptoTice_'s post took a single procedural step in one committee and turned it into the biggest capital unlock in the history of financial markets. The honest version of that day is much smaller. A committee moved a bill one notch along a road that is still years from its end. His post is only one example. Dressing up a small procedural step as history is the basic move behind almost every loud post about this bill.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "dol24", "text": "Write the accurate version of this, that it's one early step in something that takes years, and you get a handful of retweets and silence. Write that history will be made in two hours and you get fifty thousand views and a message offering to pay you to run an ad. The reward goes to whoever is loudest and least accurate. This is also why I won't give you a date for when any of this becomes law. A countdown is exactly the kind of bait this piece is about.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 6, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "brsue", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "8l8q6", "text": "So why does everyone, from the anonymous accounts to a Senate committee, post like this? ", "type": "header-two" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "bet65", "text": "The reason is the money sitting behind all of it.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "6uk80", "text": "There's a thing called Fairshake. It's a super PAC, meaning it can raise and spend unlimited money to support or attack candidates without handing the money to the candidates themselves. The crypto industry built it, along with a few affiliates, to get friendly people into Congress and remove unfriendly ones. The money came from the names you'd expect: Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz, Ripple, a few trading firms and founders. Across its life this network has raised somewhere around a quarter of a billion dollars.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 79, "offset": 99, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "2hdp7", "text": "To put that in proportion, for the coming election this network is sitting on a war chest a little larger than what the entire American oil and gas industry spent on the last one. One industry, younger than a lot of the people reading this, now spends more on elections than oil. In the last cycle, crypto money made up close to half of all the corporate money that went into federal races. Fairshake is only one of several crypto PACs. I'm using it because it's the cleanest window into how the whole thing works, not because it's the whole thing.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 7, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "8672g", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "18d28", "text": "What the money does is simpler than people assume. Most of it is spent on advertising rather than handed to candidates directly โ€” ads boosting one person, or ads burying another. ", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 72, "offset": 422, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "qkqu", "text": "What decides which way the money points at you is whether you've taken crypto's side or stood in its way. Party isn't the thing that decides it. They have spent heavily to elect candidates who back crypto and just as heavily to defeat candidates who don't, and they have done both to members of the same party in the same election. The message all of this sends to every politician watching, in either party, is the same: get in crypto's way, and they will pay to put someone else in your seat.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "bn5br", "text": "The ads almost never mention crypto. In the races this money decided, the spots were about other things entirely, because the industry knows most people don't like crypto and aren't moved by it. Instead, the money quietly put specific people into specific seats, and most of the candidates it backed won.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 8, "length": 17, "offset": 70 }, { "key": 9, "length": 11, "offset": 107 }, { "key": 10, "length": 49, "offset": 123 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2ge5v", "text": "You can check every word of this yourself. Fairshake's filings sit on the FEC's website; OpenSecrets lists every donor and every dollar spent for and against each candidate. None of it takes an analyst to read.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 11, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "72tvd", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 12, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "b2lu4", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 125, "offset": 0, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "9mpal", "text": "Once you've seen the money, you start reading the posts as what they are: messages, addressed to the people who pay for them.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2s42p", "text": "There are really only two reasons a politician posts about crypto, and both lead back to the same pool of money:", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 23, "offset": 0, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "eq9br", "text": "The first is a receipt. The industry's money helped put you where you are, so you post to show the people who paid that it was worth it, and that the next round will be too. ", "type": "unordered-list-item" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 27, "offset": 0, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "d7tgt", "text": "The second is an audition. You aren't getting that money yet, so you start sounding like crypto's best friend in the hope that the people handing it out will notice you and fund you the way they funded your colleagues. ", "type": "unordered-list-item" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 112, "offset": 0, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "tb0e", "text": "He who pays the piper calls the tune, and a lot of people are auditioning, very publicly, to get on the payroll.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 13, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "aj25m", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "40lki", "text": "That is the whole machine in one anecdote, and the two halves of this article meeting in one place. A senator who owes her seat to crypto donors posts that clarity is coming, and what she is really doing is writing back to the people who paid for the seat: your money is working, send more. The official committee account livestreams a markup under the word historic, and that is the same receipt, filed in real time, confirming the thing the industry bought is on schedule. The account promising trillions in two hours is a different animal. It has no donors to answer to, only an audience to convert, and its income is tied directly to how much you feel, so history in two hours is just the most profitable sentence it can write that day. ", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 102, "offset": 293, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "76ego", "text": "Put the three of them together and the loop closes on itself. Money elects the politician, the politician moves the bill and posts about it, the posts get inflated into HISTORIC and IN TWO HOURS, the donors see the engagement and decide the investment is working, and the next check goes out. Everyone inside that loop is getting paid, except the person refreshing the timeline for the next hit.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 14, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "6v2gh", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2md8i", "text": "None of this is unique to crypto. Pharma and defense and oil have run versions of the same machine for decades. They do it more quietly, with more lawyers and fewer memes, and nobody from an oil major has ever posted an AI picture of a senator on a throne. Crypto is young and fast and hasn't learned to be discreet, which in a strange way makes it the most honest one in the room. Strip away the branding and you're watching the ordinary way money and politics work in this country, usually described in duller words than these.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "8qpgo", "text": "The one habit that has actually helped me is sorting the people talking at me into two groups: the ones who want me to understand something, and the ones who want me to feel something. Once that line is clear, the noise stops being able to move me. It still reaches me โ€” my friends see to that โ€” but knowing which group a post belongs to takes all the charge out of it.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 15, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "crf6c", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "903p5", "text": "So what do you actually do with all this?", "type": "header-two" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "bt5ji", "text": "Here's the only real advice I have, and you can do whatever you want with it.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 16, "length": 1, "offset": 465 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "e64h4", "text": "If you actually want to make it in crypto, the bravest and probably smartest thing you can do right now is close the app for the next twelve to fourteen months. Go outside, learn something with your hands, get back the attention span you're going to need when there's finally a moment that deserves it. Or stay, and let a crowd of people who don't care about crypto or its future yank your emotions around for free. That's a real choice too, and it's yours to make ๐Ÿธ", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "bgclc", "text": "I'm closing the tab now, the same way I did six months ago. 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I am back for one post, the one you are reading right now, and the moment it's finished I'm logging off again.\nI came back because I'm tired of explaining the", "cover_media": { "id": "QXBpTWVkaWE6DAAFCgABHL8X9cgWgAEKAAIT2gfPUVcgAAAA", "media_id": "2071400698005061633", "media_info": { "__typename": "ApiImage", "color_info": { "palette": [ { "percentage": 59.65, "rgb": { "blue": 206, "green": 206, "red": 206 } }, { "percentage": 28.51, "rgb": { "blue": 17, "green": 17, "red": 17 } }, { "percentage": 2.79, "rgb": { "blue": 29, "green": 32, "red": 157 } }, { "percentage": 2.47, "rgb": { "blue": 109, "green": 111, "red": 180 } } ] }, "original_img_height": 1306, "original_img_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HL8X9cgWgAETPl1.jpg", "original_img_width": 3264 }, "media_key": "3_2071400698005061633" }, "content": { "blocks": [ { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "81hhc", "text": "I left Crypto Twitter six months ago. I am back for one post, the one you are reading right now, and the moment it's finished I'm logging off again.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "3hl75", "text": "I came back because I'm tired of explaining the same thing to my friends one message at a time. They send me a screenshot of some senator posting about the CLARITY Act, or some account screaming that crypto history is about to be made, and they ask whether it's real, whether they should be doing something, whether they're missing the moment. I've been in this since 2016 and I've run out of patience for answering it privately. 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What I want is for you to see the machine clearly, because the people shaping how you feel about it mostly haven't looked.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 0, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "50mum", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "1jp17", "text": "Start with what you're actually being shown.", "type": "header-two" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 1, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2hlhq", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "b1afv", "text": "This one promises that in two hours the Senate will vote on the CLARITY Act and two and a half trillion dollars will pour into crypto. The Senate was not voting that day, nothing poured into anything, and there is no mechanism anywhere by which a vote releases trillions of dollars on a schedule. It's a lie from top to bottom, and in a minute I'll show you exactly how big a lie it is. I'm starting with it because it's typical. Almost every post about the CLARITY Act, and about bills like it, is built the same way. It invents a deadline and some stakes to go with it, and it's written by someone who has no idea how the thing actually works.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 2, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "3rb89", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "86iuj", "text": "Then there's this. A sitting U.S. senator posts an AI image of herself on a throne, captioned that clarity is coming. It looks like a signal โ€” like she knows something, like the bill must be close. It isn't. Being the crypto senator is her whole political identity, her brand and her base, so the picture is just a postcard to the people who fund and elect her, telling them in their own language that she is one of them. And once a post like that goes up, the crypto accounts swarm it for the engagement. A senator playing to the crowd is free material.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 3, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2aa2d", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "f9h31", "text": "The third one comes from the official account of a United States Senate committee, posting in the exact vocabulary of someone shilling you a token โ€” watch, historic, don't miss it. The institution itself is farming engagement. At that point the question more or less asks itself. Do you really need to be tracking this minute by minute, or have you just signed up for a dopamine machine that happens to be themed around crypto?", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 4, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "1lg6a", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "4ebiv", "text": "What actually has to happen for this to become law.", "type": "header-two" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "8g2f6", "text": "If you've never had to follow how Congress works, let me give you the short version, using the CLARITY Act.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 129, "offset": 807, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "dgq9p", "text": "A law is not made in a single vote. It gets assembled slowly, out of a long chain of them. Congress has two halves, the House of Representatives and the Senate, and a bill has to survive both. This one started in the House, the larger of the two chambers, where a draft gets written and voted on. The House passed its draft of the CLARITY Act last summer, which is only the first step. It then moves to the Senate, and for this particular bill the Senate is where it slows to a crawl, because crypto is split between two different regulators, the SEC for securities and the CFTC for commodities. So in the Senate two committees handle the bill: the Banking Committee, which covers the SEC side, and the Agriculture Committee, which covers the CFTC side. Each writes and votes on its own version of its half. What got live-tweeted as the Senate voting on the CLARITY Act was the Banking Committee voting its own version one step forward.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 28, "offset": 510, "style": "Bold" }, { "length": 50, "offset": 646, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "61f8s", "text": "From there the road is long. The two Senate versions have to be merged into a single bill. The full Senate then has to pass it, which in practice means sixty of the hundred senators agreeing, not a simple majority. After that, the Senate's bill and the House's bill โ€” which are not the same text โ€” have to be reconciled into one identical version that both halves of Congress pass again. Then the President signs it. And even his signature isn't the moment anything changes, because a law like this mostly says what should happen, not how. It hands the regulators the job of writing the actual, detailed rules that companies will have to follow, and the bill gives them close to a year to do it. Only once those rules are finished and take effect does any of this start to matter in the real world. Even then, rules like these are routinely challenged in court, which stacks on more time.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 5, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "6fh9h", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": { "mentions": [ { "fromIndex": 3, "text": "CryptoTice_", "toIndex": 15 } ] }, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 41, "offset": 28, "style": "Bold" }, { "length": 141, "offset": 283, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "6ft5c", "text": "So @CryptoTice_'s post took a single procedural step in one committee and turned it into the biggest capital unlock in the history of financial markets. The honest version of that day is much smaller. A committee moved a bill one notch along a road that is still years from its end. His post is only one example. Dressing up a small procedural step as history is the basic move behind almost every loud post about this bill.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "dol24", "text": "Write the accurate version of this, that it's one early step in something that takes years, and you get a handful of retweets and silence. Write that history will be made in two hours and you get fifty thousand views and a message offering to pay you to run an ad. The reward goes to whoever is loudest and least accurate. This is also why I won't give you a date for when any of this becomes law. 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The money came from the names you'd expect: Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz, Ripple, a few trading firms and founders. Across its life this network has raised somewhere around a quarter of a billion dollars.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 79, "offset": 99, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "2hdp7", "text": "To put that in proportion, for the coming election this network is sitting on a war chest a little larger than what the entire American oil and gas industry spent on the last one. One industry, younger than a lot of the people reading this, now spends more on elections than oil. In the last cycle, crypto money made up close to half of all the corporate money that went into federal races. Fairshake is only one of several crypto PACs. I'm using it because it's the cleanest window into how the whole thing works, not because it's the whole thing.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 7, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "8672g", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "18d28", "text": "What the money does is simpler than people assume. Most of it is spent on advertising rather than handed to candidates directly โ€” ads boosting one person, or ads burying another. ", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 72, "offset": 422, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "qkqu", "text": "What decides which way the money points at you is whether you've taken crypto's side or stood in its way. Party isn't the thing that decides it. They have spent heavily to elect candidates who back crypto and just as heavily to defeat candidates who don't, and they have done both to members of the same party in the same election. The message all of this sends to every politician watching, in either party, is the same: get in crypto's way, and they will pay to put someone else in your seat.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "bn5br", "text": "The ads almost never mention crypto. In the races this money decided, the spots were about other things entirely, because the industry knows most people don't like crypto and aren't moved by it. Instead, the money quietly put specific people into specific seats, and most of the candidates it backed won.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 8, "length": 17, "offset": 70 }, { "key": 9, "length": 11, "offset": 107 }, { "key": 10, "length": 49, "offset": 123 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2ge5v", "text": "You can check every word of this yourself. Fairshake's filings sit on the FEC's website; OpenSecrets lists every donor and every dollar spent for and against each candidate. None of it takes an analyst to read.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 11, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "72tvd", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 12, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "b2lu4", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 125, "offset": 0, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "9mpal", "text": "Once you've seen the money, you start reading the posts as what they are: messages, addressed to the people who pay for them.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "2s42p", "text": "There are really only two reasons a politician posts about crypto, and both lead back to the same pool of money:", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 23, "offset": 0, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "eq9br", "text": "The first is a receipt. 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The official committee account livestreams a markup under the word historic, and that is the same receipt, filed in real time, confirming the thing the industry bought is on schedule. The account promising trillions in two hours is a different animal. It has no donors to answer to, only an audience to convert, and its income is tied directly to how much you feel, so history in two hours is just the most profitable sentence it can write that day. ", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [ { "length": 102, "offset": 293, "style": "Bold" } ], "key": "76ego", "text": "Put the three of them together and the loop closes on itself. Money elects the politician, the politician moves the bill and posts about it, the posts get inflated into HISTORIC and IN TWO HOURS, the donors see the engagement and decide the investment is working, and the next check goes out. 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It still reaches me โ€” my friends see to that โ€” but knowing which group a post belongs to takes all the charge out of it.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 15, "length": 1, "offset": 0 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "crf6c", "text": " ", "type": "atomic" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "903p5", "text": "So what do you actually do with all this?", "type": "header-two" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "bt5ji", "text": "Here's the only real advice I have, and you can do whatever you want with it.", "type": "unstyled" }, { "data": {}, "entityRanges": [ { "key": 16, "length": 1, "offset": 465 } ], "inlineStyleRanges": [], "key": "e64h4", "text": "If you actually want to make it in crypto, the bravest and probably smartest thing you can do right now is close the app for the next twelve to fourteen months. 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