Alvaro Gomez 🐂⭕️

Many Software Engineers are anxious about AI right now. Not because they can’t code. But because they can see where things are going. Tools are getting better at writing code. Faster than anyone expected. So the natural question is: - “What happens to my job?” Here’s the part that’s easy to miss. The pressure is not on engineers. It’s on execution-only roles. For years, you could focus on: - Implementing tickets - Improving code quality - Shipping what was defined That was enough. But now the value shifted toward: - Understanding the problem - Deciding what’s worth building - Owning something end to end That shift feels uncomfortable. Because it’s less defined. Less predictable. Closer to business decisions. But it’s also where the leverage is. AI didn’t remove the need for Engineers. It raised the bar on what being an Engineer means. If you stay where the work is shrinking, it will feel risky. If you move toward where decisions are made, it will feel like opportunity. Same tools. Different mindset.

@deeberiroz someone is getting sued

Poor fellow swapped $50m -> $35k on eth mainnet 😭😭😭 etherscan.io/tx/0x9fa9feab3…

@Phislash @grok is this true or AI?

Irán está siendo bombardeado en este momento. No puedes salir con oro, menos aún con la plata o los inmuebles.  Solo te quedan las doce palabras. Ahí está tu riqueza allá donde vayas. La primera vez en 10.000 años que la riqueza puede existir como puro pensamiento sin peso.

@burkov What do you think this will do for existing full time remote developers?

The Indian and Eastern European offshore software development industries are no longer relevant. Western developers should prepare for a wave of layoffs, followed by subsequent offers to be rehired with a 30-50% reduction in salary. California will become too expensive for developers. Many will leave to work remotely from cheaper locations, and Silicon Valley will shrink.

@EricLDaugh @grok is it factually true that there are no windmills in china? and i dont mean 0 i mean not enough so it makes Trump statements correct

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is CALLING OUT the "stupid people" who support wind energy in Davos "China is smart. They make windmills, sell 'em for a fortune, and sell 'em to the STUPID PEOPLE that buy them!" 🤣 "Windmills all over Europe, all over the place, and they are LOSERS. One thing I've learned: the more windmills a country has, the more money that country LOSES. CHINA makes almost all the windmills, and yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China!"

@unusual_whales @grok do you think there is a true lobby to protect big banks or is coinbase just being a cry baby

The White House is considering pulling its support for the crypto market structure bill entirely if Coinbase does not come back to the table with a yield agreement that satisfies the banks and gets everyone to a deal, per Eleanor Terrett. The White House is said to be furious with Coinbase’s “unilateral” action, which it apparently was not notified of in advance, calling it a “rug pull” against the White House and the rest of the industry.

@AlanRMacLeod @grok can you fact check his claims one by one with actual data?

A lot of people seem unaware of the achievements of the socialists in Venezuela 🇻🇪 before US sanctions wrecked the economy. Here's a rundown by the numbers (taken from the United Nations and quoted in my book, "Bad News From Venezuela, 20 Years of Fake News and Misreporting"): GDP per capita: 1999: $5150 2012: $6434 Poverty: 1999: 49.4% 2012: 25.4% Extreme Poverty: 1999: 17.9% 2012: 7.1% Unemployment: 1999: 15.0% 2012: 8.1% School Enrollment: 1999: under 50% 2012: Almost 75% Undernourished population: 2000-2002: 3.8 million 2010-2012: "Not statistically significant number" [i.e.: close to zero] Doctors per 10,000 inhabitants: 1998: 18 2012: 58 Number of free health clinics built, 1999-2012: 7,000 Number of people receiving old age pensions: 1999: 0.39 million 2012: 2.1 million During the years of Hugo Chavez (1999-2012/2013), the government built a nationalized healthcare and education system from scratch. In 2005, UNESCO declared Venezuela free of illiteracy. This doesn't mean everything was perfect by any means, but the gigantic and extraordinary successes the country was making attracted academics, statisticians, and epidemiologists from around the world to study it. Indeed, in 2013, the UN awarded Venezuela special recognition in combatting poverty and achieving rapid human development. They were able to do this because Chavez nationalized the country's resources (oil) and used the profits to fund social programs, rather than enrich foreign billionaires. It was precisely this threat of a good example that precipitated a massive US economic blockade of the country, which crippled the economy, and led to mass emigration and hardship. The United States is and was terrified that such a successful example of socialism would inspire people across the planet into believing a better world is possible.

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Calling it “incapable” ignores incentives. In a dollar-centric system, power comes from controlling commodity exports + FX. That favors extraction over industrialization and concentrates wealth. Corruption isn’t a bug in these societies, it’s the business model, and the system rewards keeping it that way forever.

People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources. The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned. Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources! Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all? It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no. All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep. Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!" But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful. Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa. Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.

@eurofounder I cant tell if this is sarcasm or not.

Witnessed something incredible at the Amsterdam train station yesterday Fat and loud American tourist was trying to buy a water bottle for €4.50 Threw a €5 bill on the counter and started walking away ""Keep the change man" said in a typical annoying Californian accent "We don't do tips here. This isn't America" cashier responded The American tried to leave again but luckily security blocked the exit "You didn't get your receipt for tax purposes" "What?" Store manager appeared with a form "Did you attempt to give our cashier extra money?" "That's unreported income. He has to declare it now. Pay social contributions. It becomes €0.24 after tax" The American was baffled "Bro but in the US—" "In the US, workers beg for tips because they're underpaid. Here, we pay living wages" manager swiftly interrupted him They made him take his €0.50 back and quickly filed an incident report for "attempted tax circumvention" This is what a properly functioning society looks like

If you're a developer who ships code daily, remember these: - First, make it work; nobody cares how elegant broken code is - Then make it fast, slow code that works still frustrates users - After that, make it pretty, your teammates read code more than they write it - Add tests that actually catch bugs, not just boost coverage metrics - Refactor when you finally understand what you're building (usually the second time through) Perfect code on the first try is a myth. Fast iteration beats slow perfection every time.

THE SILENT APOCALYPSE: Bitcoin's $110K Mirage Masks The Largest Wealth Transfer In Human History While you slept, the architecture of money died. Bitcoin sits at humanity's crossroads, dismissed and mocked while trading sideways at $110K. Behind the "boring" 16% gain lies a seismic truth. 350 TRILLION dollars in global debt is collapsing into 21 million scarce coins. This is not speculation. It is thermodynamics. THE NUMBERS THAT SHATTER WORLDS Gold is up 46% in 2025. Nvidia is up 134%. Bitcoin appears flat. But here is the earthquake. 900 BILLION dollars in institutional inflows met zero supply response. BlackRock holds over 800,000 BTC. Michael Saylor’s Strategy holds over 640,000 BTC. Even China, which banned Bitcoin, hoards 190,000 BTC coins. Governments know what you do not. Scarcity is the only sovereign hedge when money printers run infinite. December's Fed liquidity thaw combined with the US China truce has activated the detonation sequence. Bitcoin's correlation to Nasdaq has dropped from 0.7 to 0.2. Bitcoin has decoupled from traditional risk. It is not following stocks anymore. It is rewriting the rules. THE BRUTAL TRUTH Every sideways day at $110K is accumulated undervaluation. The mining floor is $55K. Fair value models point to $150K to $180K by year end. When correlation re syncs, when the fog clears, when institutions rotate back, this will coil like 1979 gold's 140% explosion. WHAT THEY WILL NOT TELL YOU You are watching the Byzantine Generals Problem solved in real time. A triple entry ledger that makes central banks obsolete. A Nash equilibrium where attacking costs 500 times more than defending. This is not just an asset. It is the thermodynamic separation of money from state control. The shutdown ends. Data returns. Liquidity floods. And 159x dilution potential meets the hardest money ever created. Survive or be left behind. The paradigm does not shift. It already shifted. You just have not felt the ground move yet. The question is not if Bitcoin rallies. The question is whether you understood that money died and was reborn before the world noticed.

@cz_binance In a single day you destroyed the trust of the entire industry. Shame on you

Our industry is terrible at marketing. Instead of trolling ourselves (which I admit I do a lot), we should be educating these people about bitcoin. 😭

Para los que tienen memoria selectiva. Hoy se cumplen dos años del 7 de octubre, el día de mayor matanza de judíos en décadas. Miles fueron asesinados en un ataque sin precedentes que fue celebrado por los palestinos. Secuestraron ancianos, decapitaron bebés, torturaron gente inocente, después Israel respondió para defender a su pueblo y entonces, allí sí, la izquierda mundial se indignó. Que quede para el recuerdo y para la historia, toda nación, todo grupo poblacional, toda familia, tiene derecho a defenderse de hordas salvajes que intentan asesinarles; la vida es un derecho sagrado y si empiezas una guerra, después no puedes sencillamente victimizarte. Ojalá se liberen a todos los rehenes, se establezca un ente gubernamental en Palestina, se ofrezcan medidas de seguridad para ambos pueblos y se dé por terminado este triste capítulo de la historia. Agresor no es víctima.

BITCOIN AND GOLD COULD SIT ON CENTRAL BANK BALANCE SHEETS BY 2030: DEUTSCHE BANK Deutsche Bank expects both Bitcoin and gold to become part of central bank reserves by 2030, as a weaker dollar and rising geopolitical risks reshape global finance. In its report “Gold’s Reign, Bitcoin’s Rise,” the bank noted Bitcoin’s record 2025, surpassing $125,000, while gold is up ~50% and could reach $4,000 by year-end. The bank said central banks may view Bitcoin as a modern reserve asset alongside gold, citing improving liquidity, strategic value, and trust. Both assets, it concluded, are likely to play a structural role in global reserves as governments seek protection from inflation and currency risk.

@superxjon @maxkeiser How exactly would they confiscate it?

@maxkeiser They just lock ppl up & confiscate, they won’t beg

Max Keiser: “I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the time will come when governments come to Bitcoiners with their begging bowls, hoping for a bailout, because all they can do is print money. And when you print money, it makes our Bitcoin worth more. So go ahead, keep printing. You're making us fabulously wealthy and individually sovereign”.

@JoeCarlasare 90% of solana transactions are failures. Out of the remaining 10% around 99% is wash trading and MM

Visa does 0.88B tx/day and its market cap is $679B. Solana does 70M tx/day with MC of $120B. Ethereum does 1.6–1.8M tx/day and has MC $543B. XRP: 1.0M tx/day and MC of $180B. Bitcoin does 0.45–0.60M tx/day. MC $2.5T. BOTTOM LINE: raw tx count ≠ value. Why does most of CT believe it does when the market is telling you otherwise? “Utility” is a nothing more than a meme. A story folks tell to convince you to buy. In reality, the valuation of non-productive assets comes from network effects, supply dynamics, and confidence / belief. NOT TRANSACTION UTILITY. As the tech improves, the margins for tx vol will get thinner. From an investor standpoint, it is far better to focus on assets whose pitch has little to do with tx volume (e.g. Bitcoin with its digital gold narrative).

@CryptoJebb The way things are going at some point in time you will be subject to arrest for making such posts.

Separation of Money and State. Bitcoin.

@BitPaine LOL

BREAKING: Person who will never be Governor of California likes bitcoin.