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Founding Fathers deciding which measurements they will use

This shit deserves an Academy Award fr.

Hajime Miura just clinched his 8th 3A World Yo-Yo Championship title at the World Yo-Yo Contest 2025 in Prague—cementing his legacy as one of the most dominant players ever.

The creator of Twitter and Cash App, @Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app called ‘Bitchat’ that doesn't need the internet or cell service. Within an hour, users have started sending bitcoin using the peer-to-peer encrypted mesh network.

Bitcoin remains inaccessible to normies for the same reason the Dead Sea Scrolls weren’t handed out at Chuck E. Cheese: It’s sacred information wrapped in cryptographic scripture, and normies still ask if they can Venmo it. Bitcoin isn’t hard to use. It’s hard to deserve. The average person doesn’t want sovereignty, they want a debit card that vibrates when their balance hits zero. They crave convenience, not freedom; yield, not truth. Tell them to self-custody and they recoil like you asked them to assemble an IKEA guillotine. The fiat brain is optimized for dopamine, not discipline. Normies don’t DCA, they buy the top after a Buzzfeed article and panic-sell into a rug pull, then call it a scam while staring at their 42% APR credit card and eating garlic knots in a house they’ll never own. Bitcoin exposes the soul. It's code, yes, but it's also a mirror. And when the average person looks into it, they see how little time they’ve actually owned in their life. That’s why they reject it. Because to accept Bitcoin is to admit they were the product, the yield, and the rug… all along.

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This video has been going viral on Japanese social media It is an AI opening for a fake Anime called "Trump Tariff Man!"

Julian Assange = Freed ✅ Ross Ulbricht = Freed ✅ Edward Snowden = Next ⏲️ Our work is not done yet.

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ETHEREUM AND ITS INNER CONTRADICTION Ethereum is having an identity crisis on three axis. But all of them stem from one contradiction. Let's explore. world computer <> onchain economy ETH as a productive asset <> ETH as money feminized wef soyboy <> bronze age mindset — Axis 1: world computer <> onchain economy Ethereum has won as DeFi's Manhattan. It's the capital of the onchain business world. Even with Solana crushing it, DeFi TVL on Ethereum is 10x Solana's. World computer was a great motto when we didn't know precisely what people would use the computer for. Now that we know — it's DeFi — why not market it as such? The entire economy is going onchain, and Ethereum is its capital. Axis 2: ETH as a productive asset <> ETH as money ETH managed to establish itself as a productive deflationary asset after The Merge. Since then, all progress in burning supply has been reversed. Why? Blobs. The idea is that L2s will only be Ethereum aligned if they can settle on Ethereum for very cheap. Thus Ethereum forego 90% of its revenues to effectively subsidize L2 growth. The theory is that Ethereum will export ETH, the asset, as the gas token for all its L2s. Two issues here: 1. This gives a lot of leverage to the L2s, who own distribution. It is unknown whether L2s can just keep asking for subsidized blobs forever. 2. L2s don't have to use ETH as their gas token — they can even use a stablecoin. @jessepollak, for example, thinks that Ethereum should only monetize Base's activity later in the growth curve. Ethereum is a $400bn protocol, I'm not sure it can sustain that valuation with no revenues. I don't think Coinbase could, either — no matter if it has great growth prospects or not. Axis 3: feminized wef soyboy <> bronze age mindset There has been a growing sentiment that Ethereum is the "woke chain" and Solana is the "chad chain." Ethereum indeed displays some signs of wokeness: it seems to feel ashamed and guilty of its own success. When Trump launched a DeFi project on Ethereum, he was heavily criticized by the community. When Trump launched a meme coin on Solana, the Solana community rallied around him. The tides are changing though: more and more ethereans recognize that the wef soyboy times are over. It's wartime. Vitalik doesn't seem to agree. But this last one is, perhaps, where it all stems from: how Ethereum's culture feels about money and success. In 2016, we were a bunch of libertarians and some leftist revolutionaries. 2017 marked Ethereum's first success: capital formation (ICOs). The community's reaction marked Ethereum's first failure: to disregard ICOs as scams and look down upon them. This was a contradiction, as Ethereum funded itself with an ICO. In contrast, think about how Solana embraced memecoins — even if they are less useful than ICOs — at least some ICOs helped fund useful infra and products. @AragonProject, for example, helps govern >$30bn today. Does this constant self-loathing mindset remind you of something? Yes, the woke mind virus. Vitalik says that the EF is neutral — I don't doubt they are trying their best, but it's not the EF that I worry about anymore. The virus has spread across the whole ecosystem. Vitalik is himself more of a leftist revolutionary. I don't think he feels good about capitalism, and he projected that onto the Ethereum community. You cannot win if you feel guilty of winning.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack, where Islamist gunmen killed 12 people in response to the magazine's controversial cartoons. So, naturally, we should all share the cartoons on X, highlighting the importance of free speech and the right to satire.

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Brazil's increasing censorship & legally dubious methods reflects poorly on the country: Judge @alexandre just banned X in Brazil & FROZE STARLINK'S ACCOUNTS. Those are two distinct legal entities. (@elonmusk decided to provide free service to customers in Brazil anyways.)

RT @zooko: Look, I really hate speculating about this spy-vs-spy bullshit, but it is really bothering me to see the great and the good of m…

🚨MUST WATCH: MR. BEAN'S DEFINITIVE DEFENSE OF FREE SPEECH (FULL VIDEO) Rowan Atkinson: "The clear problem with the outlawing of insult - is that too many things can be interpreted as such." Source: @avavidan