Death From Above Trees Are dying in Whangarei. Could it be the water? open.substack.com/pub/arthur…

The US is becoming the worlds largest supplier of hydrocarbons. All regional competitors to Israel are getting blown up . . . you could almost imagine this was the plan all along

EXCLUSIVE: Ethereum OGs and @VitalikButerin to create a $220 million Ethereum security fund 🤯 You'll never guess where the money comes from ...

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Today we officially launch the Kinic plugin. LIVE on the Chrome webstore! Kinic is your personal AI memory — a verifiable, searchable vault for everything you care about. It is secured with your biometrics and runs on blockchain. Ready? 👇👇👇 producthunt.com/products/kin…

Just had a great interview with Mayor of the Far North region, Moko Tepania. We discussed the tension between local and central government and the need for an NZ constitution. Cheers Moko! youtu.be/JD9UNOPrJDo?feature… @YouTube

I've read the official EF response a few times. Each time I read it, it seems crazier to me Two facts that destroy the narrative: 1. In 2024, I told Josh repeatedly that @WeekInEthNews would end the moment I no longer had my employee health insurance from EF. He took it away anyway on Dec 31. That's why WiE ended the moment it did. 2. A few weeks ago in mid-December he pinged me out of the blue to ask if WiE was going to die at the end of the year (as I had told him repeatedly) For him to act surprised now is....surreal. He knew WiE was going to end, he just didn't expect the reaction, I suppose? Josh is not a developer, so he never understood the value of WiE (despite sometimes saying the right words about how he did, his actions always showed he didn't) A few more facts: 1. I was an EF employee for 6.5 years. I didn't get paid for the first 2 years and never complained because the only thing I cared about was the good of Ethereum. 2. Sometime around midyear 2020, I started getting paid a salary (120k a year?). I am confident I never negotiated or asked for more. 3. A few months later (~q1 2021?) I asked to reduce my salary to ZERO but keep my health insurance because I was explicitly making a point to Josh about how EF was overspending and spending on the wrong things. Turns out you can't get paid zero, so I was paid the legal minimum necessary (~$30k) to give me health insurance. This continued until Dec 31, 2024 Counterfactuals are hard, but I'm almost definitely net poorer for having done WiE for 8.5 years...though my life and network are much richer. I think WiE mattered, even if Josh's actions repeatedly showed me that he/EF didn't think it did. And also when the market to buy WiE to keep it alive was non-existent Finally, hundreds of people (many of whom I thought were friends) accused me of lying after reading Josh's post. It's hard to condense 4 years of different perspectives, so if you think there's some inconsistency in my story, feel free to AMA for the next few hours. I have nothing to hide, everything I've said has been the truth. When the Arsenal game starts in a few hours, I'll probably mute this thread and be done with the topic (and WiE) forever except maybe for some RTs

Coming to Fjord via a Solana LBP is @HIOmusicapp! 🔵 Largest Web3 music catalog w/ 6M licensed songs 🔵 100% of subs go to rights holders 🔵 Built on Solana w/ apps for Saga, iOS, and Android 🔵 Rev from merch, tickets, and NFTs fuels token buybacks 🔗: app.fjordfoundry.com/token-s…

🔔 𝗛𝗜𝗢 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝘅 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗠𝗔 🔔 As the @HIOmusicapp draws near, we anticipate that Spores fellows may have numerous questions requiring clarification! Mark your calendar and prepare your questions in advance 👀 ⏰ Time: 3 AM UTC on 29th November 📍 Venue: Spores Twitter Space x.com/i/spaces/1nAJEpyeVmvGL 👤 Featured Guests: Ryder Havdale - Founder of HIO Music 🎁 Reward: $100 worth of $HIO The future of music streaming - for creators, by creators 🚀

The wait is over! 🤩 #Bitfinity Mainnet is officially live today, November 19th! We’re incredibly grateful to our amazing community for your support ❤️ and to the talented developers who made this milestone possible 💻✨ This marks an exciting new chapter for blockchain innovation🌟

Playlists are now live on HIO! Get ready for more features in the near future 🔥

@AdamBLevine was the first to use crypto tokens in many ways related to the site (also for advertising, etc.). He also auctioned tokens that were redeemable for an hour consultation, a few of which he's listed for collectors here: xchain.io/tx/373c8e305648263…

Just executed a major trade using @ICLighthouse. Fast clean, very happy. (I swapped using @ICPSwap and used the iclight.io router to get on and off the ethereum network) Took a few test transactions to get comfortable. If this had better liquidity it would be my goto

The @ICLighthouse defi router has to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen in crypto. A true decentralised implementation of a CEX. The product exists. If this had more liquidity, pairs, and a more mature interface, the DEX game would be over.

10 years ago, the most popular Bitcoin content site was @LetsTalkBitcoin (helmed by @AdamBLevine). It had podcasts, articles, forums, & used XCP tokens for payments to creators, to reward consumers, & for access to exclusive forums. Here's what it looked like 10 years ago today.

Dubai hit peak simulation for me when I was talking to the former CSO of a company now suing the SEC about his new L1 project and how unionized AI labor might upset the global pecking order, whilst we were surrounded by Russian escorts, one floor above the Polygon mafia compound

A world first: a demonstration of AI running *on* blockchain as a smart contract 🧠⚡️ The Internet Computer is used – the world's first 3rd gen. blockchain #ICP. AI will become the beating heart of our web3, multi-chain world, and this is only my first demo. Code will follow shortly. This is running on DFINITY's Internet Computer testnet, but you'll be able to take the code and run it on the public network as the NNS is expected to up the per-transaction instruction limit in the coming days. Some important notes. The inference engine used has not been optimized, and we will show vastly greater efficiency in subsequent demos, where the AI runs even faster, and consumes less gas/cycles. We will also propose to the NNS that smart contracts have access to SIMD instructions – which we have determined are deterministic – unlocking vastly more speed and efficiency. Lastly, currently the actor smart contracts ICP hosts run inside a 32 bit environment, which limits their main memory to 4GB. Within the next couple of months, we expect the Internet Computer to move to a 64 bit environment, allowing smart contract memory limits to be raised much higher – allowing for models with far more parameters, and thus power, to be run. Those of you who have followed my posts know that hardware optimization support is planned. Firstly this will involve WASM smart contracts shipping out matrices for processing by the CPUs on existing node machines (another advantage of the Internet Computer running on sovereign node hardware). Secondly, we plan to propose a new public node machine specification, which node providers can build to, for use in subnets specialized for hosting AI smart contracts, in which each machine will incorporate several GPUs. Naturally, this will be packaged with other technological developments that ensure smart contract determinism. This is part of our mission to enable powerful LLMs to run as smart contracts on the Internet Computer – in a forms that are tamperproof, unstoppable, and optionally autonomous (including under the exclusive control of DAOs). Our vision: you will be able to have a chat with a smart contract. A smart contract will be able to coordinate your organization (see my earlier tweet about a "Delphi"). ICP smart contracts will be able to audit Ethereum smart contracts, kitemarking those without backdoors and reentrancy bugs. And smart contracts will be able to do KYC autonmously, matching faces to driving licenses, and more. We will deliver new SDK enhancements, and work with partners, to turbocharge crypto AI developers. Secure and unstoppable AI and third generation blockchain will be two sides of the same coin. Security and AI will be indivisible. AI models will be traded as NFTs. Thanks to Internet Computer's chain key (trustless multi-chain) capabilities, all blockchains will be able to leverage AI smart contracts. The future is beyond exciting. Thanks for watching. Can't wait to give you more demos!

Deep dive on New Zealand's climate change strategy. How it works, where it came from, but most importantly, what is the impact? youtu.be/eXLiGq2w9WY?feature…