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LONG TAKE Bitcoin = default store-of-value. Ethereum = programmable settlement layer. For smart contracts, it combines deepest programmable liquidity, the largest staked security budget (over $100 billion across ~1 million validators) & broadest developer tools. Roll-ups already handle majority of transactions & upcoming upgrades like danksharding, and account-abstracted wallets should cut costs and make more user friendly. Spot ETFs add steady demand and institutional legitimacy. Weak spots remain. Gas still spikes in heavy traffic. Validator influence is clustering in liquid-staking pools and large custodians, roll-ups mostly rely on a single or very small sequencer set (multi-sequencer and shared-sequencer systems are planned but not live) and moving assets between L2s is still clunky. Competitors press those gaps: • Solana delivers sub-second finality and tiny fees but must prove multi-year uptime and broaden its validator base. • BNB Chain is EVM-compatible and backed by Binance’s user base, yet it runs on a tiny validator set with heavy insider ownership. • Tron dominates low-fee stable-coin transfers but is tightly governed and light on DeFi breadth. • XRP Ledger targets banks via a USD stable-coin and an EVM side-chain, though cross-app composability is thin. • Cardano offers formal verification and thousands of stake pools, but TVL and mainstream developer traction remain modest. • Celestia and EigenDA promise cheaper data availability that could lure some roll-up activity away from Ethereum, but they are not full settlement layers today. Ethereum still leads on security, neutrality and composability. It keeps that lead only if upcoming upgrades cuts costs, increases decentralisation and cross-roll-up UX becomes seamless. Miss those goals and faster, cheaper or better integrated chains steal users, capital and developers - Ethereum stumbles and falls back into the pack. Now I take a nap 😅

Are we all becoming LLM wrappers for real-world problems?

@binance Digital gold, obvs

You are my _______

@AutismCapital @CollinRugg And if the lunatic shot him first? Oh, it works both ways

Real question what is someone supposed to do in this situation? This is California right? So Harry Dresdon, this lunatic, breaks into this guys house, terrorizes his wife and kid, the homeowner races home and then what? He’s supposed to stop him with his kung fu skills? It says he sustained a head injury. Was this guy supposed to wrestle him to the ground? If the homeowner just shot this guy the second he got home, he’d go to prison for the rest of his life being in California. But if he shot him he’d also have no injuries. What kind of incentive structure is this? He even got there before police and he has to somehow subdue a crazy person? How does this work when he can’t just shoot the guy to keep both himself and his family safe for fear of having his entire future destroyed and families future destroyed without him there because California?

NEW: Police have released more info about the "Harry Dresden" break-in in Fairfield, CA, say both the homeowner & Nichols sustained head injuries. Police are praising the "actions of the homeowner" who raced home to confront 30-year-old Jason Nichols with a shovel. Authorities say that the homeowner's wife and child were inside when Nichols broke in. When Nichols was unable to break in through the front door, he broke in through a sliding glass door. "The homeowner's husband, who was away at the time, observed the suspect through a home security camera and immediately returned to the residence," said police. "As the suspect entered the home, the homeowner returned, armed himself with a shovel, and confronted Nichols." "A physical altercation ensued, during which both the homeowner and Nichols sustained head injuries." "We are grateful that the family is safe and commend our officers for their swift response in bringing this dangerous situation to a safe resolution." The woman and child were reportedly unharmed.

@mert Had this impression of LLM providers for a while - they get you in with great performance then throttle back to save on resources. Expect some dodgy stories to break on this in time

anthropic must almost certainly give you a nerfed version of claude without telling you adhoc there are certain periods of time, usually on the weekend, where it's very clearly much dumber than it usually is

@sama Easy, domain specific questions by experts - noticed impressive improvement here

"What is the hardest question I could ask you that you might get right?"

@agazdecki This hits home... Damn you, @Replit

Founders after spending $50,000 vibe coding an app no one uses:

@NicHulscher Some helpful links Korea cohort (PubMed): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41013858/ Italy cohort (PMCID): pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12… EMA key facts (cancer line): ema.europa.eu/en/human-regul… NCI Q&A: cancer.gov/about-cancer/c… Al Jazeera fact-check: aljazeera.com/features/2025/…

@NicHulscher Bbig datasets can throw up signals worth checking. But they’re hypothesis-generating. The right test is longer follow-up with latency windows, adjustment for screening + smoking + healthcare use, and replication across countries before anyone screams “oncogenic mechanisms”.

Two landmark studies, encompassing 8.7 MILLION people, found that COVID-19 “vaccines” increase your risk of SEVEN major cancers: Prostate: +69% Breast: +54% Bladder: +62% Lung: +53% Thyroid: +35% Gastric: +34% Colorectal: +35% All explained by mRNA’s 17 oncogenic mechanisms.

@NicHulscher The other study often cited is ~296k in one Italian province and tracks cancer hospitalisation; results shift with different lag assumptions - another sign it’s not settled causation.

@mert Lean startup?

99% of business books are trash and should be blog posts I've wasted a lot of time reading stupid ones, here are the ones that are actually useful: - only the paranoid survive (grove) - amp it up (slootman) - hard thing about hard things (horowitz) - score takes care of itself (walsh) - zero to one (thiel) - skin in the game (taleb, not really business book but can make it into one) - alchemy (rory) - confessions of an advertising man (ogilvy) - what you do is who you are (horowitz) bonus: - beginning of infinity (deutsch), which really everyone should read several times per year - biographies of other business people skip anything by grant, sinek, greene, maxwell or gladwell

Solar energy at night = the best light show on earth. Aurora Borealis is what happens when a solar storm hits our atmosphere. The same sun that powers your panels can also paint the sky! #AirPV #Aurora #Ireland #Solar #Solarpanels

@BitcoinArchive @Gemini Breaking: broken again

JUST IN: Bitcoin surges over $90,000 $100k by Christmas? 👀

@mert Part of me just wants him liquidated and removed, take the pain then regroup with better decentralisation and no leverage-drunk cringe corporate figurehead

what level of narcissism is it when you post a different AI sloppified version of yourself everyday for 600 days straight

@mert @perplexity_ai Explain the eternal importance of our lives based on the very fact that they're fleeting

@mert But that's what makes the blink so precious "The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again"

if you ever think you're hot shit, recall that within a cosmic blink you will die and vanish into eternal nothingness

@nikitabier To procreate We must obey our gene overlords

In 2 words, what is your purpose in life?