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David Marcus
Lightspark
@davidmarcus
CEO & co-founder @Lightspark ➡️ building the open Money Grid on Bitcoin + @spark. Ran Payments/Crypto & @Messenger at @Meta, led @PayPal + 3 startups.
California, USA
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Jul 31, 2024
    I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump. Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Oct 8, 2022
    It’s hard for me to openly criticize a company I used to love and gave so much to. But @PayPal’s new AUP goes against everything I believe in. A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity. paypalobjects.com/marketing/ua/p…
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Aug 15, 2024
    Realizing that this was and continues to be a lie was a turning point for me. Regardless of where you stand on this election, you should watch the video below and compare it with the spin pushed by the campaign just to know you’re being manipulated.
    End Wokeness
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    End Wokeness
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    Headquarters
    @HQNewsNow
    Aug 15, 2024
    On this day 7 years ago, Donald Trump said white supremacists and neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville are “very fine people”
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Nov 30, 2024
    How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan’s pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Apr 28, 2024
    Went to UCLA this afternoon to talk to people peacefully. Few interesting takeaways: 1) Most of them openly say they support Hamas, a designated terrorist organization; 2) They say 10/7 atrocities, rapes, murders, didn’t happen. The official line is “even the NYT debunked it!”;
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Jun 21, 2025
    This timeline is so off. Can you imagine a prominent Congress representative from another time celebrating someone who openly supported Osama Bin Laden, ISIS… and organized anti-West / American uprising? Wild.
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Aug 12, 2024
    This is so wild. Let me get this straight, the EU is trying to censor an interview with a US Presidential candidate on a US platform? Insane.
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    Thierry Breton
    @ThierryBreton
    Aug 12, 2024
    With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in 🇪🇺 in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to @elonmusk 📧⤵️
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Nov 17, 2022
    Worth pointing out that when we announced a mere whitepaper for Libra on 6/18/19, it took less than 24h for me to be called to testify in front of both the Senate and the House. Meanwhile the total meltdown of FTX unscrupulously misappropriating ≈$10B of customers funds…
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Nov 30, 2022
    I watched that SBF @andrewrsorkin interview, and I have to say that I still can't believe what I just witnessed. I'm actually speechless at the level of reality distortion field at play here. Also... audience applauding at the end? WTF!
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Oct 30, 2025
    Wait. Did 1X just invent remote immigration?
    will yeh ᯅ/acc
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    will yeh ᯅ/acc
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Dec 9, 2024
    I don’t think most people fully understand the significance of this breakthrough.
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    Sundar Pichai
    Google
    @sundarpichai
    Dec 9, 2024
    Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Jun 1, 2025
    It’s exhausting. Exhausting to see the hate against Jews rise from every corner of the world, and from people who have no connection to the Middle East whatsoever. These very people who have never felt outrage for real atrocities taking place all around the world. No Jews, no
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Oct 6, 2025
    To all the people planning to celebrate October 7 in America: fuck off you vile little shits.
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    David Marcus
    Lightspark
    @davidmarcus
    Jul 7, 2022
    Dropping AirTags in checked-in luggage is such a game changer.