Jonathan | Tech, Crypto & Freedom

13 years ago today, Snowden exposed the NSA's mass surveillance. And he used Bitcoin to do it. Not as an investment. Not for "number go up." He just needed to pay for servers without a bank blocking the transaction, without a government tracing his name. That's what people forget when they look at the price today. Bitcoin was a tool for freedom before it was an asset. A shield before it was a trade. Snowden understood this in 2013 because he was a visionary — not in the sense of "he saw the price going up," but in the sense of "he saw that state-controlled money could also be a chain." And us? We flipped the story. We speculate on the shield. We trade the tool. We watch the price of something we forgot the purpose of. But history doesn't disappear. It waits. Tomorrow we'll wake up to another tool turned asset, another freedom turned commodity. So the real question is: What tool are you using today — actually using, every day — that the world will trade and speculate on tomorrow? #Bitcoin #Snowden #CryptoHistory #Web3 #DigitalFreedom

Quand je vois certaines réponses, il ne faut pas s’étonner que la France décroche. Le monde change, les métiers changent, l’IA arrive, et certains préfèrent rester bloqués dans leurs certitudes. La nature favorise ceux qui s’adaptent, pas ceux qui restent rigides sur leurs acquis. Bien content d’avoir quitté la France.

J’ai demandé à une « artiste » si elle pouvait me fournir un logo que j’ai créé avec Gemini au format SVG pour l’utiliser convenablement. Je suis prêt à payer !! Sa réponse est lunaire 🤡 Vous ne vous plaignez pas de ne pas trouver de travail… Ils sont tous comme elle ?

@nalinrajput23 France has Mistral Vibe 🥖🍷 Ultra-smooth AI Chat Work agents (emails, research, docs) Powerful coding agents (VS Code, terminal, long tasks) Even with tough regulations in Europe and France slowing things down, teams like @MistralAI keep pushing innovation. Bravo to them 🇫🇷💪

USA has ChatGPT USA has Grok USA has Claude USA has Gemini USA has Llama USA has Copilot China has DeepSeek China has Qwen China has Ernie China has GLM China has Kimi China has MiniMax Your Country has?

Cold analysis: BTC weekly bearish structure intact, 60k breakdown likely. My trader heart: please god a clean liquidation below 60k, then a massive bullish candle next week. 🙏 I know what the plan says. I see the structure. But watching this candle nuke... I still have that little hope. Is it hopium? Probably. We'll see. What about you — what does your analysis say vs what does your heart want right now?

Tonight I’ll be speaking on @BuilderBakery’s first X Space. Topic: AI Agents in Crypto. I’ve been deep into crypto for years, trading, DeFi, wallets, and lately exploring AI agents like OpenClaw, Hermes, etc. But one question remains: Can AI agents actually be useful in crypto today? Excited to discuss this with @SFI_AI, @Magne_Ai and @cgfy_Ai. 1 PM UTC 👇 x.com/i/spaces/1MJgN…

AI Agents in Crypto are everywhere. But beyond tokens and hype… what can people actually use today? 🎙️ Join our Builder Bakery Space with: @SFI_AI | @Magne_Ai | @cgfy_Ai 🗓️ June 3, 2026 ⏰ 1 PM UTC Set a reminder 👇 x.com/i/spaces/1MJgN…

@MalikHussa23485 Thanks for that — and yeah, the plan is everything. You been using SuperTrader Journal for a while? I just started keeping a journal recently, still figuring out my method. Right now I'm just using a basic Excel sheet, nothing fancy.

@JoCryptoTech That is still a win honestly because following the plan matters more than one trade Starting a journal was one of the best things I did too and using SuperTrader Journal made the whole review process way more organized for me

Finished backtesting a new strategy last week. Took my first live trade this morning — it was a loss, but I followed my plan. No regrets. Finally started a trading journal too. One step at a time.

Non. Apple a compris ce que personne n'ose dire : les labs IA sont des passoires à cash, et ce sont les VC qui vont payer. OpenAI : $14B brûlés/an, pas de profit avant 2030, $60B de coûts cloud pour $25B de revenus. Anthropic reverse chaque dollar gagné en compute à AWS. Le tout sur du capital circulaire : Nvidia → cloud → labs → Nvidia. Une bulle dot-com sous stéroïdes. Le LLM va devenir une commodité. Comme l'électricité, comme la bande passante, comme le cloud avant lui. Aucun moat technique : OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek produisent tous des modèles équivalents avec les mêmes ressources. Quand une techno se commoditise, ce ne sont pas les producteurs qui gagnent. Ce sont ceux qui construisent au-dessus. Google n'a pas inventé internet. Amazon n'a pas inventé le e-commerce. Ils ont bâti la couche qui capte la valeur sur 50 ans. Apple joue exactement ce coup. $3,6T de trésorerie, 2,5 milliards d'appareils, l'écosystème le plus rentable du monde. Pas besoin de gagner la course aux paramètres : il suffit d'attendre que les LLM soient pas chers et fiables, puis d'intégrer. Dans 3-5 ans : les VC actent les pertes, les valorisations s'effondrent, Apple rachète les survivants à prix cassé. Et continue à vendre des iPhone avec un Siri qui marche enfin. Le vrai jeu n'a jamais été le modèle. C'est la distribution.

J’ai testé OpenClaw et Hermes. Et honnêtement, je pense que la hype récente autour de “Hermes est 1000x meilleur” était surtout du putaclic. Pas parce que Hermes est mauvais. Il ne l’est pas. Mais ce n’est pas magique non plus. OpenClaw et Hermes sont simplement deux agents IA différents, avec leurs forces, leurs faiblesses, leurs bugs et leurs compromis. Certains préféreront l’un. D’autres préféreront l’autre. C’est normal. Mais le vrai problème est le même que partout dans l’IA, la crypto et les outils dev : Bonnes idées. Mauvaise UX. Setup compliqué. Expérience instable. Les devs continuent de construire des outils pour des devs, puis s’étonnent que les utilisateurs normaux ne les adoptent pas. Je pense toujours que des agents self-hosted comme OpenClaw ou Hermes sont plus intéressants que des outils 100% propriétaires comme Claude Code ou Codex. Mais il faut arrêter de faire comme si chaque nouvel outil/app était une révolution après l’avoir testé 20 minutes. La révolution est réelle. La hype est épuisante.

I tried both OpenClaw and Hermes. And honestly, I think the recent “Hermes is 1000x better” hype was mostly clickbait. Not because Hermes is bad. It’s not. But it’s not magic either. OpenClaw and Hermes are just different AI agents with different strengths, weaknesses, bugs, and tradeoffs. Some people will prefer one. Some will prefer the other. That’s normal. But the bigger issue is the same as always in AI, crypto, and dev tools: Great ideas. Poor UX. Messy setup. Unstable experience. Devs still build tools for devs, then wonder why normal users don’t adopt them. I still think self-hosted agents like OpenClaw or Hermes are more interesting than fully proprietary tools like Claude Code or Codex. But we should stop pretending every new tool is a revolution after testing it for 20 minutes. The revolution is real. The hype is exhausting.

@bradmillscan Thanks, I thought I was the only one! I did the same and moved from OpenClaw to Hermes. The promises of better memory and fewer bugs didn’t really hold up for me. In both cases, it’s still a lot of bugs. Not better or worse, just different agents with different pros and cons.

Hermes doing the exact same nonsense as OpenClaw did. Gateway full of errors. I'm barely doing anything. All I did was run hermes setup and add ChatGPT oauth as a model provider. Switched back to Grok and asked the agent to diagnose. and it's acting very incapable & erroring as well. Is this the UX most people have when switching to Hermes? Just as terrible as OpenClaw so far.

@qi9098 @maarcoofdezz Yes agree, can be gone few days after you bought it. Same as Netflix accounts sold on Taobao 🤣 I will try to buy a 7.9yuans 25usd worth tokens, just to test.

@JoCryptoTech @maarcoofdezz Xianyu + '$1 for $25 Claude tokens' is the part I'd test carefully. It can be real today and gone after one seller rename. I track the search-term layer here: x.com/qi9098/status/…

@AshCrypto Just by shorting the market.

Stocks are DUMPING. Gold is DUMPING. Silver is DUMPING. Bitcoin is DUMPING. Fiat is losing value. How the hell are we supposed to make money in this market?

@mrcarlos_ I have the same goal. Haven't succeeded yet, but I will keep trying until I reach that freedom and success in my businesses.

Un amigo italiano mío, a los 28 años, acumuló una fortuna de 500.000 € y dejó su trabajo. No lleva una vida de lujos. Vive en un apartamento con renta de 350€, cocina todos los días en casa y sus pasatiempos son caminar, leer y hacer deporte. Sus gastos mensuales son de 1.000€ aproximadamente. «Por los próximos 40 años he decido no tener que hacer nada», me dijo. Normalmente, uno sentiría envidia. Pero seis meses después, lo que él dijo fue:

My AI Agents Journey Day 1 → 3 months later 😂 #AIAgents #OpenClaw #Hermes

@Briviagra Félicitations ! Bonne à chance à toi. J'ai quitté la France il y a plus de 10 ans, je te comprends.

@realjvreis @openclaw Will try this thanks. Cannot be worse than current docs.

@JoCryptoTech @openclaw Just copy and paste the technical documentation to chat.com and ask it to make it readable for a "non-tech regular user".

OpenClaw 2026.5.18 is live 🤖 xAI/Grok OAuth + sidecar auth fixes 🎙️ Realtime Android Talk Mode 💬 Telegram media + forum-topic delivery fixes 🪟 Browser dialogs visible + answerable A week of polish, plumbing, and fewer papercuts. github.com/openclaw/openc…

@fndtnbuilder42 @openclaw Will try this. I was just asking him to tell me what were the new options and if it was useful for me, but the results were so-so. Maybe my LLM model is not good enough.

@JoCryptoTech @openclaw Give the release link to your claw and ask it to compare it against it's own enabled features from the configuration. It knows best what is enabled and what could be beneficial.