I put my entire life into Cardano. My time, my expertise, my savings. I’ve literally gone all in, and for over 5 years now. No salary for 3 years, along with my co founder, and every payroll was paid on time. This isn’t meant as a guilt trip just context towards my reality. I forced my cofounders to envelope the ‘entrepreneur mindset’ and make sacrifices to make our vision of Anvil work. I thought we were in good company in Cardano. A bunch of scrappy, smart people who are building the future financial rails of the world. Unfortunately, not everyone was living like starving entrepreneurs and looted our community/treasury while keeping cushy salaries. Now the price is in the teens…and we can’t even get contracts on Cardano to sustain our business, with no indication that change is coming, all community business proposals are not passing atm. I gave up my 30s for this. I had a great career trajectory making solid money. I don’t regret the decision I just wish it went different. Believe it or not, we didn’t make many stupid decisions, we were responsible with salaries, and ran very lean operations. Did we fail? Or did Cardano fail to flourish and create real opportunity? I bought Ada, I believed in the token. I dropped my 401k on it. Held it religiously for 5 years, all to sell at .16 so I don’t lose my house? It’s insane lol was I supposed to sell on everyone’s heads? I thought being a believer was the whole point now I just feel like a sheep. I don’t even have the 100k Ada required anymore to go straight to the treasury. The only thing I can think of that hurt worse were my kidney stones. This is the most defeated I have felt in a long time. And now I’m watching 8 months of hard work and relationship building get thrown away. Can’t get a hold of half the DReps otherwise you come off as annoying. Didn’t do a Japan tour? Good luck! I had to waste 6 days explaining to one of our top DReps why the product needs Cardano. He basically said we didn’t need to use blockchain or cardano. Instead of explaining the value we create I gotta convince our top DReps why a project chose to build on Cardano? 🤯 Im not perfect but I damn sure tried to be! Answered everyone promptly, reached out to DReps, and did our best to listen/apply feedback. I show up everyday. Can someone explain to me why I should keep trying to build here? I’ve legit lost everything but my wife who isn’t getting any happier with me. Today is the first day I work towards getting my life back. IDK exactly what that means but I’m done feeling like this for nothing.

i lent my friend 15k in Solana (Solana was at 200 bucks and i sent him 75SOL) He's trying to square up with me and send me 75 solana today, but 75 solana is now worth 4875 am i wrong here that he owes 15k not 75 SOL?

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Excuse me, @gainzy222 You posted that people could “full port ZEC right now,” hit a clean 10x, retire, and that there was nothing anyone could do about it. I took that seriously. I made a decision based on your conviction, your platform, and the confidence of that statement. Since the timestamp of your post, ZEC has only moved against that call. I am now sitting on losses I was not prepared for, and the retirement scenario you described has turned into the exact opposite. I understand markets carry risk, but when someone with influence frames a trade as this certain, people listen. I listened. So I’m asking directly: what should people who followed that advice do now? Are you standing by the call, walking it back, or offering any accountability for the people who trusted you?

For me, it came down to friction. Too many people with opinions about how the man in the arena conducted his business. Then after the bridge hack, it got real hard to talk about anything without a hundred shitty comments. Why would I subject myself to that?

$ZORA: If I get to number 1 at the same time I am calling things out then we will all know I am right. zora.co/mr_lightspeed

The biggest problem in Web 3 is a bunch of engineers who think they are good leaders.