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GM everyone. This is 2036, the newsletter that brings you the best of Web 3 and crypto in 3min/day.

Today is Favorite Friday, where we share with you some of the resources we most enjoyed this week.

So if you're looking for some sweet content to dig into this weekend, this is your list...

🤌 Our Top Picks

Stories to read if you’ve only got 1 minute

1/ US government coordinating meetings to rescue First Republic Bank

2/ China to create $58 billion railway system connecting it to Pakistan

3/ Why Coinbase stock is a scarce asset

🛠️ Our Favorite Resources

What we most enjoyed this week

1/ How to achieve tech independence - Derek Sivers

Earlier this week, we wrote about a hacker draining millions from old Bitcoin wallets.

Luckily for us, Tim Ferriss released an episode with Derek Sivers that included a segment on how to go from average Joe to James Bond in 12 minutes.

We don’t endorse doing too many complicated things, but for those of you willing to go the extra mile, it’s worth checking out.

If you’re looking for more stuff on crypto security, we’ve updated our list of the best Web 3 resources with a few pieces that are 100% worth reading.

2/ Why AI won’t cause unemployment

If you read 2036 this week, you probably read about Marc Andreessen. He’s the co-founder of a16z, the biggest and most prestigious venture capital firm on the planet.

Earlier last month, he wrote a seminal piece on why AI won’t cause unemployment like so many fear. It’s a great essay - and one everyone should read.

[He also has a super short essay on why he quit alcohol, which is 👌]

3/ Will the bitcoin halving make its price explode?

Last week, we wrote about the bitcoin halving. For those looking to go deeper, Anthony Pompliano released a short video going deeper into the halving and what it means for the price of bitcoin over the next 18 months.

It’s clear, concise, and worth checking out.

[The other day, I taught a class on crypto gaming for Coinbase employees going through Anthony’s crypto academy. Stay tuned for the full video.]

4/ AI, Crypto, QE & Beyond - The Everything Code with Raoul Pal

If you can sit through and understand the first 25min of this video, you’ll understand more about macro and crypto than 99% of people.

It’s the video that explains everything. Highly recommend:

• watching it

• looking up the terms that you don’t understand

• and then re-watching it again

5/ What is the Metaverse?

Mark Zuckerberg was all gung ho on the Metaverse in 2021.

But last quarter, Meta lost nearly $4 billion on its Metaverse initiatives… and let’s be honest, it don’t look so cool.

If you’re wondering:

• what the metaverse is

• whether it’s still relevant today

then read this.

It’s the most famous piece of writing on the metaverse to date. It’s seminal, as some like to call it. Enjoy.

And if you need a reminder to be grateful for all the technological progress of the last several hundred years, read this.

Or just watch this for a good laugh.

🐦 A couple of Tweets we found interesting

The best of the bird

For all of you degens invested in NFTs:

This next tweet is interactive - it only makes sense if you view it on Twitter.

We wrote about $PEPE on Monday… here’s the origin story:

🏆 The winner of this week’s task

Earn $15 in BTC for opening a bitcoin wallet

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s task.

Here’s a list of all the participants as well as the winner.

Congratulations to the winner 👏 - your $15 in BTC are on their way.

👋 Say hi on TikTok 

🖼️ Crypto meme of the day

From across the world wide information superhighway