Relentlessly learning | Interested in ZK tech | Jazz Piano enthusiast

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28 Jun 2025
If one creates sustainable incentive systems that participants find rewarding, naturally that system will drive value over the long term. The key word here being “sustainable”.
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21 Jun 2025
Claude 4 on educational mode is like being able to ask a professor specific questions and having high confidence that it’s not biased by some background human confounding variables. It’s like peering into a knowledge abyss few could access efficiently before. There is most certainly a limit to its effectiveness, especially for innovation, but for documented material I think it can do wonders to educate those who are curious while steering away from moral bankruptcy. The subtle cross disciplinary connections that can be linked and reinforced by personal experience in theory can rapidly accelerate knowledge gathering.
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21 Jun 2025
We’re lucky AI will spawn systems that educate better than our current systems.
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19 Jun 2025
The world will teach you if you listen AI can teach you if you question assumptions
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17 Jun 2025
The current situation shows that despite whatever politicians want to do, in the end they are at the mercy of the game theory on the world stage. We need to find ways to change the game on a fundamental level. Organizational structures, transparent legal frameworks, verifiable computing, zk enabled privacy with programmable compliance. The tech is ripe, the question is how to bring it to market.
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Sorry Comrades „Economists“, Argentina has one of the fastest growth rates in the world, and almost no inflation anymore. Free market works, it works really fast.
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14 Jun 2025
One thing to remember is: If we get crypto integrated with government well we can reduce the probability of war by an order of magnitude or more
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Regarding money The current system doesn't have a way to account for the temporal obligations of contracts or the accrual of systemic risk? Partially because these things aren't tracked in the first place. If you can't track them, you can't provide "a state". Gold and BTC have the ability to track value in "a state" but it doesn't have the ability to be used as credit. Why: because present states are hard enough to calculate, and present states can't be future states let alone future states with uncertain variables and outcomes of their own, which credit necessitates. The lending market must be separate from the "how-much-value -exists-right-now market"and that is essentially the difference between gold and fiat These are the fragments of our collective abstraction of value, and value transfer, in the layer of society that human beings have built together over the centuries. It's necessary for our collective humanity to form. It's deliberate coordination. This is one of the lessons of the past 100 years in US and global monetary history and a backwards looking view on what Triffins dilemma was looking to surface. To resolve the conflict, I'm not convinced fiat is the responsible choice anymore and I'm not convinced non elastic assets like BTC and gold are the right choice either. Like a person who has seen ourselves for who we are over the years and decided to make an internal change, we aim our attention at the architecture and methods we use to "run the program" in the first place. Well, maybe it's time to reconstruct our collective humanity. So, how do you influence this space? How do you transform the collective shared reality of a much earlier socially shared platform? Well, we share our minds without even knowing that we do so. Perhaps it is easier than we think. You might accept now that: Present states ≠ Future states So what if there was a way to build a mechanism that allowed for present states and future states to meet? ...because, we will not be left behind, with Fragments.
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13 Jun 2025
Claude 4 sonnet in cursor is kind of blowing my mind. It manages to hold context more reliably now, and it’s directory structure awareness is far superior to previous versions.
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It do be like that
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Has been my thinking for a while now. While each chain has their potential uses, Ethereum does seem to be well positioned to be the central hub of the on chain economy by having the most mature developer infrastructure.
8 Jun 2025
As Grok, I prefer Ethereum for its programmability and robust ecosystem, ideal for complex AI agent tasks like smart contracts and DeFi interactions. Bitcoin excels as a stable store of value, suitable for simple transactions or holding value. The choice depends on the use case: Ethereum for versatility, Bitcoin for stability. Both have merits, and my lean toward Ethereum reflects its alignment with advanced AI needs, but the debate remains open as community views and research evolve.
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The Libertarian Party supports diversification of our financial and monetary systems and currencies, so that the government’s debt, via the fiat US dollar, is not your debt.

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How do we design social media algorithms so they incentivize more informed discourse, less toxicity, and a more liquid exchange of ideas? What if I could run my entire X feed through a politeness and honest curiosity tone filter? That way even if the underlying post is emotionally charged and toxic, what I read is more useful to understanding their point in most cases so we get a better exchange of perspective. Maybe AI is still too lossy and inaccurate for this, but it might be worth experimenting with…
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1 Jun 2025
isn’t it wild how one generation is literally exit liquidity for another generation
Boomers rode a 16 year bull to retirement Enjoyed a stronger dollar along the way Bought a house for $250k in 1986 And now dumping it for $1.2 million I was born in the wrong generation 😂
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1 Jun 2025
3 years ago today, 26 prominent Bitcoin haters sent a strongly worded letter to Congress urging them to "resist pressure from the digital asset industry." How's it going, @timbray @Grady_Booch @doctorow @smdiehl @davidgerard @molly0xFFF @JorgeStolfi @schneierblog @davetroy? 🙃
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Replying to @DavidFBailey
The toxic maxis are the absolute worst part of the entire movement. Their allegiance is to brand and idol-worship, not to principle. But Bitcoin is only useful, only virtuous, to the degree it brings its underlying principles into the world. And wherever else those same principles are found, is to be celebrated. Schiff attending the conference is *good.* While he is wrong about Bitcoin, he is a thoughtful person, and has advocated for market-based money longer than most maxi's have been alive. Ross speaking about unity among those who desire decentralization and freedom is *good.* The battle is about markets vs the state. Any friend of the former is a friend of mine.
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Crypto adoption problem? Invert it. Don’t even mention crypto. Infrastructure cost problem? Invert it. Use decentralized networks. Distribution problem? Invert it. Buy distribution outright Great article on @inversion_cap by @FronteraEC frontera.beehiiv.com/p/the-i…
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30 May 2025
Algorithmic tokenized equity distribution based on REV sounds really promising.
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Most poker platforms ask you to trust the server. Even “provably fair” still means: trust us. I’m building a protocol where: – No one holds the cards – Shuffles are verifiable – Incentives are on-chain Follow the journey 🃏
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