Talking with Charles was insane, he searched all over my page looking for things to interrogate me, which is fine but through me off, than his co-host started calling me names and booted me. Please take a look at who is running Cardano/Midnight and figure out if they believe him or me... (proof at the end they booted me and lie about it) Esco I think you new your co-host blocked me and I believe you, Charles and him all had a private chat going on too. You pretend to act like I ran away, what a liar!

I am not trying to be super unfriendly here, BUT i HAVE to. 1. Yo YUTA, how about stop tagging me, told you a couple of times. I do not need a babysitter - I vote and upgrade how and WHEN i want. 2. You are not even close to be in the position to create "social pressure" on people and remind them what to do: You were the one who constantly changed your vote, even at the last minute, despite having close to 500 million in voting power. Remember the proposal where you voted one way, and then Charles tried to guilt-force you and your country into voting "yes"? - You folded like a house of cards and gave in. I see signs of why you did this, and I genuinely feel sorry for you if I am right about my suspicion. I am sure 99% of people do not know that, because there is much more going on in the background than Charles. Charles was just the public trigger. 3. Upgrading a Cardano Node should not be just done because someone tagged you on X and created some hype and/or social pressure on you. Upgrading your node means you agree that the network and all key participants are ready for the fork and the changes it brings. IF a certain amount of Nodes run the fork-ready version, then the countdown for the fork is being started. So if some people are not ready and/or have other concerns to delay a fork, then the only way to delay the fork is by not upgrading. That being said,... IF you do not mind, PLEASE let everyone make his own decision when and what to upgrade to. THAT is the part of the decentralized system by the way: - Every single Pool makes his own decision when and how he wants to upgrade. If we all just followed someone like you and upgraded whenever someone told us to, we might as well have an auto-update function where Charles presses a button and off we go - new Charles law applied to the chain. Cheers! ⚠️Give this Post some live and retweets/shares, so that people understand that upgrading also comes with some responsibility for the chain. Thank you!❤️

Unfortunately they don't care about blocking out the noise for themselves. That is already possible on x with block/mute. They want to control what YOU see and hear. I believe I'm grown enough to choose my own filters ty

I have literally never seen a crypto project try to "take the conversation private" like this. It suggests leadership sentiment that ANY public discussion of $ADA is net negative going forward. And, of course, that Charles is a whiny, fragile little authoritarian snowflake.

Over invested; we all did it at one point or another You don’t owe no one here shit. You owe your friends, family and community to be present and in the world This cult of Cardano has been a net negative in society Don’t worry, youre not alone but you don’t need to keep killing your IRL opportunities for cardano It doesn’t love you back, its a ledger state

Also monitoring their voting behavior reveals to me that they are leveraging this delegation for maximum political gain instead of Ecosystem gain.

So are you going to start backing my claim that EMURGO is adversarial and it is in Cardanos long term interest to down vote all their proposals direct people away from their products?

Discord groups have existed in this ecosystem for years. In practice, they have often functioned less like public forums and more like caves: small groups talking among themselves, with decisions and narratives forming in isolation. I think it is delusional to believe that people will simply change their social behavior, stop discussing things on X, and suddenly start organizing meaningful public debate inside specific Discord channels. Cardano has hundreds of peer-reviewed papers, yet somehow basic concepts like network effects still seem to be ignored when convenient. We have already had several attempts to create “proper” channels for discussion. The Cardano Forum has existed for years and is barely used by most of the community. At times, it feels less like a civic space and more like a graveyard of abandoned conversations. Catalyst and Intersect Discord servers have also existed for years. They may be useful for coordination, but if the goal is to create an echo chamber where the same people talk to the same people, then yes, Discord is probably the perfect venue. The issue is not that X is healthy. It obviously is not. The issue is pretending that moving conversations into more controlled spaces automatically creates better discourse, broader legitimacy, or a more representative community. It does not. It mostly creates quieter rooms. And in an ecosystem that claims to care about decentralization, public accountability, and open governance, confusing silence with alignment is a dangerous mistake. The level of disconnection from reality in this ecosystem keeps growing.

Grandpa vibecoding and running discord like its 2019 after 7 billion dollar extraction.

Who needs FUD to hurt price when we have Patrick Tobler, Yoram, and Seomon draining every grant mechanism we have by the millions. Here is like 15 million in funding asks from just three people 🤷‍♂️ What this signals to me is that there are certain people here who feel they are gods gift to Cardano and somehow are proposing solutions to everything (at cost). Delusional and tone deaf 🧏‍♂️

We are both using extreme examples to prove a point and hope we both understand the true argument here. I believed Charles when he said we can't be evil not "it didn't happen to me yet". If you allow our freedom of speech to be isolated to a censored discord channel GG.

If you want to trust someone to curate your media GL. I'll take open source, decentralized, permissionless, and freedom of speech all day as a first principal the way crypto is supposed to be

If you think going to a moderated central service for an entity to control what you read than stick with fiat. This is supposed to be a permissionless decentralized protocol. This is a joke and the @Cardano_CF should speak against this

Imagine media hosting that can’t disappear. No renewal games. No server bills. No platform rug. 🧱🔥 Just immutable publishing, anchored to Cardano. ✅ One fee ✅ Zero renewals ✅ Hosted by the ledger itself ✅ SHA-256 verified in your browser on every read ✅ Publisher identity tied to a minting policy only your key controls This is what permanent media should feel like. 🕯️📜 beacnpool.github.io/ledger-s…

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Ya know; a good way to get IO to take action and enforce some form of standards on their staffers when it comes to racism and discrimination is to contact the Universities that IO depends on for research partnerships and showcase these racist comments by their staff as means to kill their partnerships. Collegiate research institutes have no place for blatant racism and they will quickly distance themselves from any such actors. To reach out to the University of Edinburgh; contact their head of research with your concerns here: Liz Baggs, VP of Research at University of Edinburgh Email: A.Penman@ed.ac.uk To reach out to the University of Wyoming with your concerns contact Parag Chitnis at his email: pchitnis@uwyo.edu (He is Indian so I’m sure he would appreciate hearing IO staffers description of @NaVi_GaT0R as a third world monkey or whatever Lucas and Riley said) Accountability comes in all shapes and sizes. Drop the worst racist clips from IOG staffers below and I’ll report all of it myself 🙏🫡 The more reporting the merrier 🗣️

Charles doesnt like free speech, he also thinks he's entitled to moderate it for this decentralized permissionless protocol. Ill stick with free speech

So Charles - the space pinned to my profile he tells me he no longer controls ADA since he burned the Genesis keys But he also: -keeps receiving hundreds of millions of USD of ADA through all his companies to keep working on Cardano (he made threats to dreps if they didnt approve) - makes threats that Cardano will fail if his "4th generation" new blockchain midnight fails - and now tells us we should stop using open public town hall forums that promote free speach and instead move towards his private discord? HAHAHAHAHAHA When i think he couldnt get more brazen

The TL is pure hate and vitriol lately. Maybe it's just human nature but it's hard not to notice that while everyone is busy fighting each other, the most powerful keep looting and consolidating power. Divide. Distract. Consolidate.

Best comeback in an NBA finals?