Paul Sullivan

There's no need to to talk smack about protocols/tools you don't use or invest in in web3. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! DO NOT UNDER ESTIMATE THE POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHT! ESPECIALLY COLLECTIVE POSITIVE THOUGHT!

@Mangos195 @PeterSchiff @CoinEdition This is the problem. Everyone is aware that the system isn’t just…but recognition doesn’t provide immunity from penalty

@PeterSchiff @CoinEdition Why do we need to read books. Would you read a book about how the mafia has no legal right to extort you? No. You’d just pay or get fucked.

Today is April 15th, tax day. My father Irwin Schiff referred to it as the real April Fool's Day, as on this day millions of Americans volunteer to pay a tax that no law actually requires them to pay. For years my father asked the IRS to show him the law, but they never did.

@PeterSchiff @CoinEdition @PeterSchiff as someone who just made a large tax payment against my better judgment, what steps can people realistically take? My understanding is that things didn’t go well for your father.

@CoinEdition Lower courts are wrong. Read my father's book The Federal Mafia

Not much discussion about $ZAMA even with Bithumb listing and positive price action all week. FHE confidentiality on public EVMs is easily a top 100 CMC use case.

@FmrRepMTG @PeymonFreedom @FmrRepMTG is it true that one of this guy’s students did 33 months in prison and the IRS has enacted $93k worth of penalties against this guy that he has to keep trying to appeal?

@PeymonFreedom from from stopthefed.com joined me

I’ve been sent countless questions since millions of Americans saw my interview with the former IRS agent (now, whistleblower) Joe Banister last week, where he claimed that 99% of Americans are not legally required to file and pay income taxes. How can Americans really organize a national tax revolt? Won’t we all end up in prison? Can’t the IRS just seize our bank accounts? What if my employer takes taxes directly from my paycheck? I can’t answer those questions for you or tell you what to do, but Peymon Mottahedeh, the founder of Freedom Law School, can!

@FmrRepMTG @grok can you summarize this video into 10 actionable steps for the average listener?

I'm going to make a bold prediction and risk looking dumb. $WLFI will be this cycle's Celsius/FTX/Luna. Looking at the contracts I see: -Centralized upgrade control (owner has complete control over implementation address, exposes malicious implementation risk) -Inconsistent State Risk -Malicious Implementation Risk (the only update check is that the new address must contain some code). @PatrickAlphaC thoughts? Have you looked at this at all?

I have a coworker who lives in Tehran, Iran that we haven’t heard from in over a month. If anyone has any ideas on how to communicate with him, I’d appreciate the thoughts/help.

I will say USD has the biggest “defi presence” too obviously, so the oil DAPP isn’t the ONLY use case…but a lot of “defi” is fake derivative value of the oil dapp

USD is a shitcoin that the Oil devs hardcoded as the only accepted payment token in 1974. No gold backing since '71. No intrinsic value. Just a forced monopoly on the world's most important dapp. Every country on earth has to hold USD reserves, not because the fundamentals are good, but because the Oil dapp won't accept anything else. Now Iran is forking the protocol: Yuan-for-Hormuz = a major liquidity provider saying "the new version accepts a different shitcoin." It's not that yuan is a better coin. It's that breaking the exclusivity is what matters. If the only thing propping up demand for your token is a forced monopoly and not genuine utility, you're one protocol change away from a serious repricing event. And wars to prevent that protocol change start looking less like security policy and more like tokenomics defense.

@shitposts_mp4 This was a tough one…I’m certain most web3 token bridge users are females, but I didn’t want to suggest a female would improperly use the software/not pay fees. Thoughts?

@Shilllin CZ’s value is in BNb not BTC

@QuanticASI Well I guess it is a pattern based on the number of digits in the base10 number (I.e. there’s a new pattern for 3 digit numbers). Would be cool to derive an algo for it I.e. n=515, m=111 (515,515,515)/(515*3) = (111,111,111)/(111*3) = 333,667

@QuanticASI Only works for base10 ints <= 9. For example, n=11: 111,111/(11+11+11) = 3,367 But interestingly for n>=10, the answer always seems to be 3,367 (I’ve only checked a few numbers >=10

life has patterns that feel like GOD

@QuanticASI @chazlynn44

@RyanSAdams $ETC is a better SoV. Time to return to the roots of Ethereum and detach from the extractive VC nonsense.

the last "say the quiet thing out loud" things i'd like to hear from vitalik is that ETH is a store of value and one of the most important apps on ethereum

@lfod_dintwoae @RyanSAdams This isn’t the case for $ETC though

@RyanSAdams If ETH goes to zero so does network security. The price is important to the network

@N_fozz @Cointelegraph ETC doesn’t need security based on the fiat value of the native token.

TheDAO's leftover ~$220M in ETH from the 2016 hack getting repurposed into an Ethereum security fund by Vitalik & OGs is pragmatic—turns a historic exploit loss into proactive defense for the ecosystem. Shows maturity in handling legacy capital amid ongoing threats, though it revives debates on decentralization vs. centralized stewardship.

🚨 LATEST: TheDAO will become a new $220 million Ethereum security fund. Vitalik Buterin and other Ethereum OGs are repurposing unclaimed $ETH from theDAO's 2016 hack to protect the ecosystem.

@DJAlevy8 @Cointelegraph It especially doesn’t disappear on ETC (can’t say the same for ETH) ;)

@Cointelegraph History doesn’t disappear on-chain. It compounds.

@OwenBenjamin @OwenBenjamin many of us are terminally-online nerds though. Not all crypto is a “loophole”. It is just a way for internet-native people to transact outside of the purview of governments/banks.

Buy 500 dollars worth of silver and if you owe someone 103 dollars pay them an oz of silver. Something will click in your head about what silver actually is. It’s money it’s not a loophole trick like crypto

@KaspaUniversity @materkel Touché…I understand the rationale for ETH and that it was mirrored in the ETC/ETH fork, but I think ETC has operated in a much more decentralized way since. There are concerns with the proposed Olympia upgrade though.

@BigPaulean @materkel Or "our coin had an ICO & pre allocations at inception" like Ethereum. If Bitcoin had this it wouldn't be a cypherpunk coin today

I can’t believe I have to say this… Yes, ZCash is cool tech, but it is also a supply-controlled shitcoin, completely unfit for being a Store of Value. Supply distribution matters. A bunch of billionaires owning an equity-like coin? - Who gives a shit. A bunch of billionaires owning a SoV asset that is supposed to replace gold? - Absolute dystopia. There’s a reason both BTC and ETH are in a league of their own when it comes to supply distribution. The majority of their supply was force-distributed at billions, tens of billions, and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of market value, which made it pretty much impossible for a single entity to own a large part of the supply. You can’t simply wake up a dead coin and put a SoV label on it… that might make it pump, and maybe the billionaires even keep the party alive for a while. Hell, even XRP made it to >$250B… But don’t confuse this with actual fundamentals and the decentralization needed to upkeep a new generational SoV. It either happens with BTC and/or ETH, or humanity loses this chance forever.