#Chia is too scary to acknowledge. Imagine the seismic shift once the market internalizes that #Bitcoin is NOT the most decentralized cryptocurrency anymore. People have a natural tendency to favor preserving the status-quo over drastic changes coming with unpredictable effects.

A few months ago I thought I’d start building my own blockchain explorer for Chia. I never really had time for anything substantial between the demand from work and family life but of course, AI helped fill the small gaps for something fun. Here is the current iteration of Saffron Explorer. Unfortunately, about 2 months ago I injured myself and am recovering from a large disc herniation so unable to push out new features atm (much pain, too ouch). I have some good idea about the direction I’d like to take it in, so hopefully I can get back (pun intended) on it soon. Of course, do not use this for anything critical, it’s likely to contain bugs and inaccuracies. saffron.hashtunes.xyz

Almost ready to put nokitlan on testnet. Matchmaking for 1v1 verifiable duels on Chia, with a referee that can't be bribed. #chia #chiagaming

This is the founder that you want to have, willing to help out others This is the type of person you back $XCH

Okay, this is seriously cool. A Linux kernel that fills up your free space with plots in the background and it automatically frees up space when you need it. Zero click farming xchos.com

[1/8] I wanted to share a personal update. After 8 incerdible years, I have decided to depart from @Lemniscap. When I started Lemniscap with my partner towards the end of 2017, crypto was a fringe experiment.

For many years, donations from the Chia community have helped keep SpaceScan running and growing. 💚 Today, we’re once again in need of community support. Even small donations help us continue operating the explorer, maintaining infrastructure, and building new features for everyone. We truly appreciate all the love and support this community has shown over the years. Support us here: spacescan.io/support-us #xch #chia

Bytecash is the most cypherpunkish stablecoin.

🔮 Our crystal ball is looking… very green. Nothing confirmed. Nothing promised. Just a strong feeling that reading This Week In Chia now will age extremely well. 🌱✨ Last week's Weekly Donation was to @spacescan_io the go-to Chia blockchain explorer! Dive into real-time XCH data, detailed charts, CAT & NFT explorers, powerful tools, API access, Offer file support, and more. A true pillar of the community! And big thank you to last week's advertiser @theNamesdao! Claim your identity on Chia 🌱✨ with Namesdao and turn your name into a powerful NFT—use it as a simple wallet address, a personal payment page, or even a decentralized website via .xch.limo. 💚 Movie Poster is minted! mintgarden.io/nfts/week-174-… Check out the Weekly Recap in the following Tweet Thread!

This is probably my most important post. The FED stole your future and there is no going back "The system is rigged. The deep state does not want us to be free. The American dream is dead." Statements like these conjure images of deep pessimism, a worldview where you have no agency, where you are merely a puppet dancing for malignant powers you cannot see or touch. We are not people who live in that camp. But sometimes, certain data points are so damning that they leave us no choice but to admit: something is seriously wrong, and it needs to be laid out in the open. Every time I visit India now, I find people agitated. Even those in the top 10% of the income bracket, earning anywhere from ₹50 lakhs to a crore per year, feel like they are running on a treadmill that keeps accelerating. No matter how fast they move, it is never enough. At the ground level, the situation is far worse. It is the same story everywhere. In Canada, both partners in a household work full time and still fall short each month. In Australia, young professionals earn well and own nothing. In Germany, the middle class quietly shrinks. The geography changes. The exhaustion does not. And the origins of this mess are not in New Delhi or Ottawa or Berlin. They are in Washington D.C. All of us are paying the price for a policy disaster handed down from ivory towers, by people most of us never elected and, frankly, never even saw. Consider this: the U.S. money supply (M2) grew by 40% in just 2 years *The Federal Reserve United States Money Supply M2* January 1, 2020: $15.4 trillion January 1, 2022: $21.6 trillion A staggering ~40% increase As of Mar-26, $ 22.6 Tn ( so they never reversed the increased money supply although Covid got over) Unprecedented in the history of the Federal Reserve post-World War 2 era. (Source: FRED) This massive injection of liquidity created asset bubbles across the economy. Wages stayed stagnant. Those who owned capital benefited enormously. Everyone else got the inflation. Most people have not yet identified the cause of their frustration, but they have begun to feel its effects viscerally. And that feeling, that the system simply cannot deliver on their aspirations, has become the quiet tailwind driving a very dangerous behavioural shift. The more people sense that conventional paths are closed off, the more they reach for asymmetric bets, even knowing the odds are stacked heavily against them. The explosion of betting apps and prediction markets, Kalshi, Polymarket, Dream11 and their many cousins, are not trends. They are symptoms of a broken economy. The feverish rise in F&O trading and the massive uptick in exchange volumes are different expressions of the same underlying truth: when people stop trusting the system to reward honest effort, they start gambling on outcomes instead.

Sage Apps is just the start of a much bigger ecosystem I'm building. If you want to see it evolve faster, consider sponsoring: github.com/sponsors/Hadamcik

Crypto has had a rough year. Maybe we should launch something to fix it.

How do you play cards online without trusting anyone — not even the server? 🃏 Mental Poker: two players shuffle, encrypt and deal where NEITHER can cheat, BOTH can verify. Building it on Chia Gaming Framework. Math enforces fairness, not trust. 🧵 #Chia #ChiaGaming #MentalPoker

It's never easy waiting for real things to get done, but for once, you won't be the yield. There is a adoption coming because the product is better - not because of some hype or meme...

The only narrative truly left for crypto is that real blockchains will bring real assets on chain. To succeed at that, there has to be something materially better about those assets to get people to switch. We're doing that @chia_project

Working on a board game for the Chia Gaming Framework. Think Snakes & Ladders — using a preset map asset that looks like the Super Mario World SNES overworld. Off-chain turns via state channels. #Chia #ChiaGaming #GameDev #ChiaLisp

In case you've been following github and are wondering: Yes, that firehose of code I've been checking in is real

Is there a bigger sign of geekiness than a pull request from the CEO of CNI to Python itself so it can sync nodes faster & stay sync'd using Starlink. Chia just works different.

Pam Bondi goes on a completely unhinged rant about the stock market when asked why she has not indicted any clients of Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi says all Americans need to focus on other topics, like the economy, and not on Jeffrey Epstein’s child trafficking network. “That’s what we should be talking about.”

Don't forget! Thurs Feb 12 @ 1pm PT, we are hosting a developer roundtable to discuss mempool parallelism. Come hear from @bramcohen and developers in the community discuss this technical topic. Link in the comments.