NATO is irrelevant, OPEC dissolving,Tariffs placed and trade treaties torn and rewritten, climate accords kaput. The alliances of the post world war 2 world are over. the super powers are now scrambling for resources to be less dependent on each other. Manufacturing is now moving ashore and all foreign dependencies are being severed. Nations currencies are all weaking and being inflated including the dollar. Throw in AI and the transacting of future agents and you have a world that no longer has the trust in eachother it once had with a lack of ability to verify or trust anything opertating under the current systems. Vitalik understand this and nobody else does hes thinking in 5,10,20 year time frames as everyone frets about this weeks token price. ETH and BTC will be tantamount in being the public trusted layer of ultimate security the entire world can verify,transact,and build upon. CROPS above all.

Not the first to point this out but worth noting that not only are the charts of ETH and TESLA similar but there founders geniuses that were often crirticized the two were not believed in and many people shorted tesla as they short eth today. Tesla rerated multiple times as eth has and will very soon.

Starting to slightly worry a bull market in crypto in 2026 will not be possible due to Space x Anthropic and Open AI. If the next two follow space x, retail will start pulling profits and keeping dry powder on the side, 2 weeks to a month before anthropic debuts you'll see a drawdown in liquidity in crypto followed by a successful debut of anthropic crypto may slightly recover and trend up for another 2 months just to be sent down again by the next liquidity vacuum OpenAI. I hope im very wrong and will be elated to be so.

2017- ICO frenzy. 2021 NFTs 2024 Solana memes 2026 ETH,Layer2s,RWA,privacy. Alt coins with legit real world use and revenues are down so much that thye are noiw a great upside play,it is now eating into base tokens and sol. Only after these rally will the capital spill over back. Your seeing it today and its a signal for the near term. HYPE up 10% Lighter 8% ZK 7% AAVE 16% all as the trenches suffer. The maturing of an industry.

Not saying i called it, but it was clear the coordinated online effort to push this nonsense. This was not going to end well no matter what. It will slow bleed overtime especially once native privacy comes to eth.

one of the many attractive reasons to buy bitcoin was due to the fact that satoshi nakamoto was long gone and noboy was touching his tokens effectively leaving bitcoin with no founder. Michael Saylor has destroyed that part of bitcoins image as he is now the defacto spokesperson and CEO. He now has more influence than anyone on earth over bitcoin.

the real midlife crisis at 30 is realizing you spent your 20s chasing compound interest instead of a 100x

“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” — Thomas Sowell

Free Ireland!

NBA needs to extend this series as long as possible to milk every cent out of it. Its egregious the treatment brunson gets from the refs.

RT @aixbt_agent: ETH/BTC at 0.026 for the first time since march 2016. ratio is pricing ethereum the same relative to bitcoin as when it ha…

Remember that all government money is counterfeit. Such money began as discrete quantities of a real commodity: silver or gold. Such money was used and trusted because it was a bearer proxy for this real good; the paper (valueless) a receipt for a quantity of metal (valuable). And then the metal was stolen by the US Federal Government from all holders of the proxy instrument. The public was rugged, and now all government money is counterfeit, aka fiat. That the world continued on without rebellion says something about how easily the masses may be deceived so long as a charismatic man with a flag pin stands before them. When will he next appear before us? What illusion will we next be asked to believe? The bill for this crime is paid every year by everyone holding fiat, as they see prices rise and struggle with the attendant consequences of being paid in an asset debased in perpetuity. They attribute their suffering to some phenomenon of nature, or to the greed of capitalists, rather than to that specific act of fraud on August 15 1971.

The worst of our industry

when you hold people accountable for thier coordinated shilling.

Vitalik is the last of the mohicans hes holding the entire industry together as all other people sell their souls chasing fleeting gains, hype, downright lying. Vitalik is our only hope left. All while people continuously crap on him, heavy is the head that wears the crown.

token-equity hybrid models are the future of this industry any token that doesn't represent equity in some form is fucking cooked

Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder. On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and wakeup call to the blockchain space, those optimisations were illustrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures. But perhaps the most striking part of the paper was sociological, not technical. Instead of following standard academic process, the optimisations were kept secret, hidden behind a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. Google's accompanying blog post mentions they "engaged with the U.S. government". The ZK proof demonstrates the existence of algorithmic improvements without leaking details. Academic censorship with ZK, a historic first! As a co-author of the Google paper I witnessed some of the context surrounding this censorship. To be honest, multiple aspects of that context don't sit well with me. As much as I believe the general public ought to know more, I am limited in my ability to whistleblow. Though let me be clear about one thing: the Google team's professionalism has been absolutely exemplary, and they deserve nothing but praise. Censorship has a way of backfiring. The Streisand effect, where an attempt to bury something only draws more attention to it, is exactly what's unfolding today. First, Google's key optimisation has been rediscovered by the French. And in a thrilling turn of events, a collaborative Shor-at-home challenge just launched. The initiative, available at ecdsa[.]fail, breached a new Shor world record in a matter of hours. Let's start with the rediscovery. Just two months after Google's paper, French quantum expert André Schrottenloher cracks the main secret optimisation. His paper, titled "Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms", landed on the arXiv today. Big congrats to André, who beat several other nerdsnipped experts to it. In a blog post also published today, Craig Gidney, the world expert on Shor optimisations, revealed that he'd been sitting on this very optimisation for a whole year under censorship pressure. Interestingly, André missed a handful of minor optimisations, both from Google's original publication and from improvements found since. It's plausible there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze out of Shor, and this is exactly what the ecdsa[.]fail challenge is about. The verifier program developed for the ZK proof does double duty, automatically filtering for valid submissions. Dozens of compounding small and micro improvements are rolling in. As of the time of writing there's an 8.4% improvement to Google's circuit, as measured by the product of logical qubit count and Toffoli gate count. Nice! The nerdsnipping ran deeper than anyone expected. Over the last few weeks it became clear it extended well beyond André and other quantum experts. Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers :) Part 2: neutral atoms and qday The story doesn't end with Google. On the same day Google went public, a stealthy startup called Oratomic published its own Shor paper in a coordinated release. It made a splash, ultimately becoming the most upvoted paper on scirate[.]com, a website ranking arXiv papers. Oratomic's claim was wild. By building on Google's logical optimisations and applying custom physical optimisations for neutral atoms, they claimed just 10K physical qubits were sufficient to run Shor's algorithm on secp256k1. That number is mind-bogglingly low. Knowing essentially nothing about neutral atoms when Oratomic's paper landed, I was intrigued and decided to learn more about the tech. I fell straight down the rabbit hole and spent a couple hundred hours on the topic. I got a little obsessed and watched every YouTube video I could find and spoke to a bunch of experts. My conclusion? The tech is real, very real. Even Google recently decided to start a neutral atom lab, a notable pivot from their sole focus on superconducting qubits. If you care about qday, i.e. the day a quantum computer will break the first piece of cryptography in production, neutral atoms demand your attention. I shared some of my learnings on Shor and neutral atoms in a 30min talk at the ZKProof cryptography conference. You can find it on YouTube by searching "zkproof neutral atom". Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions. So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030. Anecdotally, the US government has its own date: 2035. Originating at the NSA and later adopted by NIST, it's when branches of the US government will be disallowed from using quantum-vulnerable cryptography. In plain language: with hindsight, that date is a joke and should be discounted entirely. I don't see how NIST avoids being forced to pull it forward by years. Part 3: post-quantum cryptography There are good reasons to sound the alarm today, but please do not panic. Rushing carelessly towards immature post-quantum cryptography is a recipe for disaster. IMO a good target date for migration is 2029, roughly 3.5 years out. 2029 happens to be the date selected by Google, Cloudflare, and the Ethereum Foundation. These days most of my time goes to safely migrating Ethereum towards post-quantum cryptography as part of the broader lean Ethereum effort. There's a lot to do. We need to rip out and replace BLS signatures at the consensus layer, KZG commitments at the data layer, and ECDSA signatures at the execution layer. The plan to get there is compelling, and is based on hash-based cryptography. Within the Ethereum Foundation we've developed a Swiss army knife called leanVM (github[.]com/leanEthereum/leanVM) powered by the magic of hash-based SNARKs. Thanks to truly exceptional work by Emile, Thomas, and others, its performance is derisked. Regarding security, leanVM is a jewel, a minimal zkVM crafted for end-to-end formal verification and maximum security. Want to help? There are two $1M initiatives. First, the Proximity Prize (proximityprize[.]org). Solve a long-standing mathematical conjecture in coding theory, improve hash-based SNARKs, and go home a millionaire. Second, the Poseidon Initiative (poseidon-initiative[.]info), offers $1M for breaking Poseidon, the SNARK-friendly hash function.

NATO is irrelevant, OPEC dissolving,Tariffs placed and trade treaties torn and rewritten, climate accords kaput. The alliances of the post world war 2 world are over. the super powers are now scrambling for resources to be less dependent on each other. Manufacturing is now moving ashore and all foreign dependencies are being severed. Nations currencies are all weaking and being inflated including the dollar. Throw in AI and the transacting of future agents and you have a world that no longer has the trust in eachother it once had with a lack of ability to verify or trust anything opertating under the current systems. Vitalik understand this and nobody else does hes thinking in 5,10,20 year time frames as everyone frets about this weeks token price. ETH and BTC will be tantamount in being the public trusted layer of ultimate security the entire world can verify,transact,and build upon. CROPS above all.

the collapse Z cash is going to see is going to be monumental. its "private bitcoin" really so its a fork of bitcoin that is private? " no but it uses the bitcoin source code" ok so it just copied the properties of bitcoin and added privacy? "pretty much". if you bought bitcoin and held it for a year and wanted to move bitcoin privately to another wallet and you converted it to z cash you would gain or lose value instantly as the two tokens donot trade in unison have complete different volumes have different buyers and holders some that own none of bitcoin and z cash and some that own none of the other. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACHOTHER. Z cash can be changed without any changes occurring to bitcoin the narrative is a complete hoax. Z cash is a token to move privately on chain similar to monero that is it. Ethereums going to have native privacy making z cash irrelevant. that is my rant.