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| 2 |  https://chain.link/webinar/pioneering-digital-assets-as-a-public-good-wyomings-frnt-initiative | 92 |
| 3 |  Coinbase got paid $1.4 billion last year for something your company does for free.
It held customer dollars.
That is the whole trick. Circle keeps the interest on the Treasuries behind USDC and pays Coinbase for every dollar parked on its platform. Tether does the same job with about 200 employees and cleared more than $10 billion. The people whose dollars those were got 0%.
Nobody outside crypto cared, because it was crypto money.
Then on September 30 a stablecoin called OUSD went live, and the names behind it are Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase and about 140 others. Mint for free, redeem for free, and the interest on the reserves goes to whoever brought the customer. Not to the issuer.
I had to sit with that one for a while.
Because if you run a bank, a fintech, a marketplace, a payroll company, anything that holds a balance for somebody else, the exact same thing has been happening to you. Every dollar in your customers' accounts earns close to 4% right now. Somewhere. Not with you.
The reserve was never the hard part. BlackRock will hold Treasuries for anyone who asks. The hard part was getting a million people to leave their money inside your product, and you already did that.
Circle paid Coinbase because it had no choice. This week Coinbase joined the group that does not want to be paid anymore. It wants to own the thing.
I don't think this is a stablecoin story. It is the oldest fight in banking, who keeps the float, with new plumbing underneath.
Your competitors read the memo on Tuesday. Your CFO will ask about it by January.
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| 18 |  If I got laid off tomorrow & had to replace my salary ASAP, here's exactly what I'd do:
1. Go to Amazon and start a fresh account. Use a different name. It can be completely anonymous.
It's free & takes about 10 minutes to set up. You can publish in multiple countries from day one. There's no reason to put it off.
2. Pick a niche with proven, steady demand.
I'd use BookBeam to find books with 50-500 reviews, priced $12-25. That sweet spot means real buyers, but no giant publishers to fight.
3. Stop guessing.
The proof of what sells is already sitting on Amazon. I'd study the top books in that niche & see exactly what readers are already buying.
4. Drop the need to be original.
I'm not writing a masterpiece. I'm giving readers more of what they already buy. Proven beats clever.
5. Build the blueprint with Claude.
A full outline, 10+ title options & the book description. What took me days back in 2014 can take an hour now.
6. I don't publish raw AI though.
I make sure it's read through, tightened up & there's human touch added to it that makes people actually finish it.
AI does most of the lifting. Humans do the part that makes it good.
7. Get a cover made using AI
A few prompts in an AI design tool like Canva, Claude Design or Nano Banana& I've got a cover that stops the scroll.
You can also hire someone else to do this but it's not necessary.
8. Publish in 30 days.
Kindle, paperback & hardcover. Three formats, three income streams from one book. Most people skip paperbacks but it can make up to 60-70% of my royalties.
9. Launch it right.
Free for the first few days to stack reviews & rankings. Then turn on Amazon ads. The first 30-60 days pretty much decide if it sells for years.
10. Don't sit & watch book 1.
I'd start books 2 & 3 while it builds. You're stacking assets, not betting everything on one.
11. Stay in the same niche.
A reader who likes book 1 buys 2, 3 & 4. Don't jump around. That's how a catalog actually compounds.
12. Reinvest every early dollar.
The first $500-2,000 a book earns goes straight into the next one. Boring? Completely. It's also how one book becomes ten.
13. Get to 10 books.
Now it's a real catalog. Royalties show up every month whether I publish that month or not.
14. Add formats as you go.
Audiobook where it fits, large print, hardcover. Same content you already paid for, more income coming off it.
15. Keep it lean.
$40-50/month in tools runs the whole thing. Claude & BookBeam.
No office, employees, inventory, or staff to pay.
16. Track it in a simple Google Sheet.
Which books pay, which niches work, where the next dollar should go. You can't grow what you don't measure.
17. Build to 20-30 quality books over 12-18 months.
Each one earning every month. This is the point where it can actually replace a salary.
This is the exact system I'd use to rebuild from 0.
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| 19 |  Scott Galloway believes the next phase of the AI race may not be about who builds the smartest model. It may be about who can offer it at the lowest price.
His concern is that Chinese companies could eventually release powerful AI models at extremely low prices, or even close to free, to quickly gain market share.
If that happens, companies investing billions of dollars in AI infrastructure, chips, data centers, and research could find it much harder to earn the returns investors are expecting. | 190 |
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