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@hoskytoken Done dude

I will delete this tweet in 24 hours. Interact with it while you can because once it's gone you'll regret not doing it. If you’re not following me you will be disqualified. Comment "done" when done.

I voted YES on “Cardano DeFi Liquidity Budget – Withdrawal 1.” Legit concerns exist, but they’re outweighed by the need to act now. Execution beats paralysis—especially when the upside is this strong.

Honored to receive this delegation 🙏 Huge respect to the CF for distributing voting power to the community. Optional decentralization is the way forward. As a DRep, I’ll keep voting to drive real-world adoption.

I appreciate Dave’s thoughtful posts.

My thoughts on Charles Hoskinson's retirement from X... 🧵 I think the Cardano founder's decision to become a quieter public presence is a good and necessary step for the future of this blockchain, and this community. This is my perspective as a Bitcoiner, and as one of the few entrants into the Cardano eco within the past year. I have a fresh outsider's perspective on how Cardano is perceived by people not already involved - the sort who Cardano wants to recruit. The reality is this: when people think of Cardano, they think of Charles. They think of a single man, and all of the baggage that comes with that man. That man is flawed like the rest of us. When those flaws are brought to light, they are - rightfully or not - reflective on all of Cardano. Within that, they find a great irony in any attempt to take Cardano seriously: a "decentralized" blockchain that, as far as they can tell, is steered and championed by a single flawed leader. This is a problem Bitcoin never had to face. Satoshi is anonymous, and he went completely dark less than three years into the project, once he was done building the base protocol and incubating it. In the long run, this created clear skies for Bitcoin. It allowed Bitcoin to forge its own identity *outside* of a single founder. It allowed the massive community of businesses and developers building around the Bitcoin project to take the spotlight, rather than one man. It allowed EVERYONE to forge Bitcoin's future together, and for the project to evolve into something trusted by institutions and governments. Charles stepping back is a chance for Cardano to take a similar step. To quote @Sen_Palpameme, its time to "make Charles small" - to stop making Cardano about him and him alone. Cardano is a decentralized project that goes far beyond Charles, and it's time to act like it. Promote yourselves. Build your own tools. Make your own decisions. Forge your own identity. It's about time that the Cardano birdie left its nest. Like a child leaving its parents' home, it may seem difficult at first. But you'll be stronger for it, and the world will take you more seriously once you do. The Cardano community is massive, deeply enthusiastic, and motivated. You'll get along just fine, and we're going to build some really great things beyond our current imagination. The future is bright. 🌅

Who here still believes in the mission and vision of Cardano?

@DaddyCool1991 Very honest post. Thank you for sharing. perhaps we can do our next get together as a hike. Hope to see you soon! -sincerely, your cardano friend. :)

I've had a rough 2-3 years physically, financially, and emotionally. From my wife's health issues, to kids revolting against us, and my own personal business being shut down by the banking system and leeches coming for things from me that they never had any right to. I Never felt this beat up in my life before and it caused me for the first time in decades to not take care of myself properly. I knew I was down and frustrated, but I never realized the level of depression I was actually in. Even while supporting and helping others physically, financially, and emotionally. I gained weight, lost quite a bit of hair, lost the drive to meet new people or even people I knew, and found myself just trying to figure out how to stay positive when every day seemed to bring another punch to the gut. Most of those things are still happening to me on a daily basis but because of Jesus Christ in my life, and some core friends and family who have been there for me, I've been able to not just stay afloat, but regain my footing in more ways than one. One of the most important is my health. My wife, although mired in more health issues than I can mention here since her birth, has always tried to keep me healthy with good food, proper supplements, and encouraging words. I gained quite a bit of weight due to depression and inactivity and lost most of my prior physique and was starting to experience symptoms of long term health issues, but I'm finally starting to gain it back. I've lost a good portion of the bad weight to the tune of 3 belt notches over the last 3 months, and my overall outlook towards my long term habits have also changed. I do need to take supplements to help my stomach lining at this point, but other than that most of it is just eating better and giving my body the amount of exercise it needs. I'm still not back to the muscle mass or tone I used to have while in the military, but that is my goal. It shouldn't matter what age I am for that. I know I can do it with the proper mindset. I tell you this, because many of us experience this and may not even realize it and it becomes a slippery slope that takes a lot of hard work to get yourself back out of. You can do it on your own, but its much easier to do if you have a strong foundation of faith and physical/emotional support system through loved ones. Evil people are everywhere and they don't care about you, even if you only want good for others and try to always do the right thing. They only steal, kill, and destroy and sometimes you are their target. Just know there is always hope, there is always good, and there is always light in the darkness. It's only when we close our eyes to everything because of some things that hurt us that we don't see that. If that's you today, just know I love you and so do others. And that Jesus love you, too. You may not care right now, and you may never care. But He does. Just take a moment to open your eyes and you'll see Love in places you thought you'd never see them again.

@jasonappleton I wish i would have read this before I got divorced, not after. might have saved the marriage. NFA:

in case anyone else wants to geek out with two minutes of watching the bad fork die on pooltool: go.screenpal.com/watch/cTXr3Tnq…

Want to watch a chain die? head on over to pooltool.io/realtime to see the "good" chain overtake the "bad" chain. And see the mess the "bad" chain pools are making of things. We are now about 100 blocks from containing the issue.

@BBHMM_Stake Yes, blocks were made. My point though is depending on which pool mined your transaction it may have appeared to have succeeded but actually failed. Honestly there are still transactions being mined that will get reverted later magically.

@Pooltoolio Not an outage. Block performance slowed down, but Cardano did not go offline.

Yes, its our first Cardano outage because interacting with the chain had a 50/50 chance of succeeding even though it might have said it succeeded. Thats BAD HOWEVER... the network is self healing nicely now due to node version diversity which attests to our decentralization.

RT @StakeWithPride: Cardano did not go down. PRIDE has been producing $ADA blocks non-stop. 💪 All my nodes are on version 10.1.4. Mess…

Its interesting to watch the chain dynamics at play on pooltool. Right now we have a competition between two chains for just the reporters to pooltool. You can see the majority max height is oscillating between two different block heights.

Today (20th Oct 2025) many people noticed a slower Internet and partially unavailable services due to a significant outage of AWS (Amazon Web Services) How did this affect a global Blockchain with many servers in AWS datacenters? The monitoring metrics say not at all. The expected Cardano block density of 5% (one block ~20 sec) remained stable and did not leave the green area.

DREPS, please vote on the Stablecoin DeFi Liquidity Budget. Cardano has a liquidity challenge. This will help.

Hydra Node version 1.0.0 has finally been released! Now, Cardano can leverage a new kind of solution that most smart contract chains including Ethereum simply can’t implement. Even though I work as an engineer in another ecosystem, I honestly think Cardano’s Hydra is on a completely different level compared to other scaling solutions. It’s more efficient, simpler, and incredibly fast.

Crypto rises on the debasement trade. But coins with weak decentralization are ticking time bombs—ripe for hacks and manipulation. In the end, decentralization wins. The timeline? Unknown.