Nick Barrett

@_The_Prophet__ @midnight offers a better way. It uses zero-knowledge proofs so you can prove you are a real person or meet certain conditions without sharing all your data. Individuals control their identity data and who gets access, while institutions stay as the source

⚡️This is the collapse of visual reality as a social contract. For the internet age, video was the final court of appeal. Text could be faked. Photos could be edited. Accounts could be bots. But a moving face holding an ID still felt like reality breaking through the screen. That layer is now being eaten. The clip matters because the machine is no longer generating “content.” It is generating the entire trust performance: face, room, gesture, lighting, document, confidence, micro-expression, normalness. That is the terrifying part. The fake does not need to look perfect. It only needs to look socially plausible for two seconds inside a verification flow, a dating app, a support call, a banking process, a hiring screen, or a viral post. This turns identity into theater. Once identity becomes theater, every institution has to retreat from “seeing” to “verifying.” The face stops being proof. The document stops being proof. The video stops being proof. Trust migrates into backend rails: issuer databases, device signatures, cryptographic credentials, platform reputation, biometric history, payment trails, network graphs, and eventually state-backed digital identity. That is the trap. AI destroys soft human trust, then hard institutional trust fills the vacuum. The same technology that lets anyone create a fake person also gives governments, banks, and platforms the justification to demand stronger identity controls from everyone. More verification. More gatekeeping. More surveillance. More dependence on whoever controls the proof layer. The deeper civilizational shift is that the human face is being separated from the human being. For all of history, the face carried presence. Recognition. Accountability. Intimacy. Reputation. Now the face becomes an interface object. Renderable, transferable, improvable, disposable. That breaks something ancient. The next internet will split into two worlds: synthetic abundance and verified scarcity. Endless fake humans on one side. Expensive proof of real personhood on the other. The poor and anonymous will be treated as suspect by default. The powerful will live behind authenticated rails. The open internet becomes a mask carnival. The serious internet becomes a checkpoint. Deepest truth: this is the beginning of the end of naive digital personhood. A screen can no longer tell you who is real. A face can no longer settle the question. A document can no longer settle the question. Reality is moving behind the interface. The new scarce asset is proof that a real person is standing behind the signal.

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says Midnight has had a "public testnet for over a year." Testnet has now surpassed 340,000 transactions according to Midnight Explorer, the largest data explorer for $NIGHT.

@sciencegirl Top 5 potential threats to humanity on a global scale in my opinion would be: 1. Creation of AGI that's not aligned and or not benevolent 2. Nuclear war 3. Severe pandemic 4. Extreme natural disaster eg large asteroid, gamma ray burst, super volcano erupting 5. Aliens

In your opinion what is the biggest threat to humanity

The blockchain industry has developed an obsession with performance metrics that look impressive but reveal very little about a protocol’s real integrity. Transaction volume, total value locked, daily active users and fees generated are often presented as definitive measures of success. These numbers dominate marketing narratives, amplified by paid influencers and venture capital interests, yet they are among the least meaningful indicators of long-term value. Most of these figures are easily engineered. Blockchains are designed to inflate them through circular liquidity, recursive staking and automated transactions that simulate adoption. Near zero fees invite spam that permanently expands the ledger, while claims of high throughput often depend on centralised infrastructure that compromises resilience. Some blockchains have already experienced repeated outages and emergency interventions, the direct result of architectures built for optics rather than endurance. This culture of over engineering rewards constant change. When metrics begin to fade, the response is to pivot the design, alter the parameters or rework the consensus mechanism. Decisions are made not for security or sustainability but to improve metric Z so the narrative can continue. These reactive redesigns undermine immutability and erode the very trust that decentralised systems are meant to preserve. What is presented as progress is often instability disguised as innovation. I see this regularly when people respond to my posts with arguments that metric X is better on another blockchain. Yet many of those blockchains have struggled to achieve even a single uninterrupted year of operation. Their ledgers are already so bloated that searching historic transactions is nearly impossible for the average user. This is what happens when short-term metrics are prioritised over lasting design. By contrast, some blockchains have quietly operated for eight years or more without interruption, proving that reliability and restraint are the true markers of maturity. The measures that truly matter are rarely promoted because they cannot be gamed. Reliability, decentralisation, censorship resistance, immutability and monetary scarcity define the real strength of a blockchain. They are earned through consistency and proven through time, not fabricated through short term incentives or marketing campaigns. A fixed monetary base is one of the clearest examples. Hard limits in supply create predictable economic behaviour and align incentives through scarcity and trust in code. Blockchains without these constraints hold the same discretionary flexibility as central banks, able to expand supply or alter policy as needed. That flexibility may appear adaptive, but it reintroduces the same trust in human discretion that blockchains were built to replace, and that's exactly why Bitcoin has a capped max supply. Until the industry begins to value fundamentals over vanity metrics, it will continue to reward speed over stability and motion over meaning. True credibility is not measured by how many transactions a blockchain can process in a second, but by its ability to preserve integrity across decades without changing its rules to suit convenience. Throughout history, markets have consistently gravitated toward assets that preserve trust through time, long-term capital consolidates where predictability and scarcity exist. From gold to sound monetary systems. Market caps eventually anchor to credibility, not metrics the status quo created.

@mangonui08 No

Should the Waitangi Tribunal even continue to exist?

@CryptoChameleo2 @rickmccracken I have a nano s and s+ and both worked fine when claiming within the Yoroi wallet, give that a try before upgrading

@rickmccracken My plan exactly Rick

22 Days left to claim Cardano $NIGHT tokens! If you hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche AVAX, Binance BNB, Brave BAT, Ripple $XRP or Cardano Ada on their native chain, you may be eligible. Check the link below 👇

@gregmushen Checkout @IagonOfficial, already built a network of fully decentralized cloud storage with compute also coming soon I think

To give you an idea of how expensive cloud has gotten, I picked up a server off FB marketplace today for $500. 128Gb of RAM and a 1Tb SSD. It will cost about $6/month in electricity to run it. An equivalent server in AWS would cost $950/mo. so I'll have payback in two weeks. I'm going to buy a GPU for $600, and the cost of that in AWS would be about $350/mo. I think if someone created a distributed garage hosting network it would kill it.

After watching that summit, I think it's time for Crypto to change strategies

@StakeWithPride @MidnightNtwrk "after we did the cutoff" - my take is it's now in and new wallets therefore won't be eligible + regulatory confidence now achieved + not likely too far away to maximize the distribution among the 8 blockchain userbases 🚀🚀

. @MidnightNtwrk will airdrop to 37 million wallets across 8 blockchains including Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Cardano. This will be the largest economic event on Cardano yet as millions enter the ecosystem.

Well, I'm thinking this is a job for a triumvirate of Cardano, Bitcoin, and Midnight. Yo, dogemaster @elonmusk, give us a call. We'll do it for free

@kris @iluvpcs My Dec31 Bitcoin Price: $98,241.50

A lot of DMs asking me for another game after @iluvpcs win.. Ok guys, let’s do it! 😁 Guess Bitcoin price as at 31 Dec 2024, 23:59:59 UTC. I will give the person with the closest guess 1 BTC. The rules are simple: 1. Like, follow me and RT. 2. Comment: My Dec31 Bitcoin Price

@actparty Agree

The Treaty Principles Bill will honour the Treaty's original promise of ngā tikanga katoa rite tahi – the same rights and duties for all.

@kris 100k incoming

When Bitcoin hits $100,000 I will give 1 BTC to one person who follows me. The rules are simple: - like this tweet, follow me and RT - comment “100k incoming” Let’s go! $BTC #bitcoin

@lexfridman @JMilei Can't wait! Ask him about his thoughts on utilizing Blockchain technology to improve Argentina's economic foundations and government efficiency/transparency. Also ask about his recent meeting with Charles Hoskinson

I'm doing a podcast with Javier Milei (@JMilei) soon. 2+ hour conversation, in Spanish 😎 We'll subtitle & overdub it in English, so you can listen in either English or Spanish. Let me know if you have questions/topic suggestions.

@AltcoinDailyio Hell no not laura

6/ Laura Shin - A leading journalist in the crypto space with her podcast "Unchained." Laura's ability to explain complex topics could help in crafting clear, understandable regulations and fostering public trust in crypto policies.

🌐 Donald Trump's Crypto Advisory Council 🌐 Top 6 People Who NEED To Be On It! 🧵

@Holden_Culotta @joerogan @ShawnRyan762 When is RFK Jr going back on @joerogan? Now's the time and let's really dive into this and scale of censorship thats enabling this

Joe Rogan: “I think if RFK gets into office, he will expose a lot of this stuff, just like he did when he was an attorney” “The whole history of that guy’s work has been about protecting people from corporations that are poisoning them.” Rogan slams the “revolving door between the FDA and the CDC” and the industries they’re supposed to regulate: “They leave and get this amazing job working for some huge corporation that they were helping regulate. How is that legal?”

@hieupnh $2.83mil?

I will give away 10,000 MIN to the first person who correctly guesses how much we've spent developing Minswap over the past three years. 🤣

Tomorrow's launch of the first video DEA, the @stuff_io genesis asset, Episode 0 of "About Stuff," will be the biggest mint we have done on #Cardano since the Gutenberg Bible. Much like the Gute, the selling price will 180 $ADA, but 99 ADA for Gute Holders. It's good to have a Gute... so let's give one away. To Enter: Like, Repost, & follow us and @stuff_io.

Monsters of Audio Giveaway 🐋🧟‍♂️🧛🏻‍♂️ A chance to win The Trifecta of Terror... a Moby Dick, Frankenstein and Dracula audio book set! To enter: like, repost, and follow. Good luck! #OwnYourBooks #OwnYourStuff

Because #BookioCon24 starts today, let's give away the first Decentralized Encrypted Asset (DEA), the Gutenberg Bible. To enter: Like, Repost, and Follow. $BOOK #Cardano #ADA #OwnYourBooks