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@binance I ran the black teaser through multiple enhancement filters and uncovered hidden footage of the @AsteroidCoinOG celebrating early… Could be nothing though 🙄

Interesting timing honestly. You talk a lot here about privacy, intermediary minimization and resisting capture, while your recent 4% Asteroid sell moved into USDC and eventually touched privacy infrastructure. Whether people agree with it or not, it unintentionally became a real world example of the exact philosophical battle Ethereum is going through right now: open systems, privacy rights, social narratives and financial freedom colliding in public view onchain. That’s the part many people still underestimate about Ethereum. Everything becomes transparent history, culture and ideology at the same time.

@HTX_Global Speechless indeed... $ASTEROID OG @AsteroidCoinOG ✨️

BinanceWallet ☄️ $ASTEROID @AsteroidCoinOG is absolutely HEATING UP! 🔥 Hot searches exploding in the Binance Wallet, the masses are waking up to this OG Ethereum gem! Contract: 0xaff2565091e7207191dbe340b8528d02fa78d044 This isn’t just another meme, it’s the Original Asteroid with real community fire, strong organic growth, and massive upside still ahead. While others fade, $ASTEROID is launching to new orbits! Undervalued. Unstoppable. Unapologetic. If you’re not in yet… what are you waiting for? Get your ASTEROID on @BinanceWallet : web3.binance.com/en/token/eth/0…

Please read this @VitalikButerin - The OG ASTEROID on @ethereum : A Story of Respect, Resistance, and Real Decentralization

@justinsuntron Hey Justin, Check out $Asteroid OG on Ethereum , the official SpaceX mascot — very similar narrative to Neiro, which you found interesting before. Fully organic growth, very active community, OG positioning, and trademark already filed. 0xaff2565091e7207191dbe340b8528d02fa78d044

Good morning @VitalikButerin, 25 days ago, 4% of @AsteroidCoinOG token supply was sold for approximately $114,000 USDC. 12 days ago, $120,000 USDC was then transferred to Railgun. As members of the @AsteroidCoinOG community, we fully support the project’s charitable initiatives and would like to understand which specific cause(s) these funds were directed toward. We haven’t received any update on this yet, so we would greatly appreciate any clarification or details you can share. Thank you in advance for your transparency.

@Chesschick01 To the New World. Hope Asteroid will be part of the plan ☄️

UPDATE: The U.S. and Iran are closing in on a deal to extend the ceasefire by 60 days. Massive if true.

@HTX_Global They’re all going to join Asteroid by @AsteroidCoinOG and @elonmusk

OG $ASTEROID was live on Ethereum in 2024. Before the podcast. Before the trend. Before every copycat came in trying to extract value from a little girl’s memory. We were here first. We stayed. We did not run away. Now the shield is up. 🛡️ Benelux registration confirmed 🛡️ EUIPO published 🛡️ IP rights across 60+ countries This is not just talk anymore. This is the legal wall around OG ASTEROID. Copycats can copy a chart. They can copy a ticker. They can copy a narrative. But they cannot copy the original timeline, the community, the IP, and the truth. The IP is the shield. The community is the sword. The story is the soul. We are the OG ASTEROID on Ethereum with IP rights in 60+ countries. We will win. @admin_30778/the-og-asteroid-on-ethereum-a-story-of-respect-resistance-and-real-decentralization-7d022fe3be97" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@admin_30778/t… X: x.com/asteroidcoinog TG: t.me/asteroid_OG CA : 0xAFF2565091E7207191dBe340B8528D02FA78d044 $ASTEROID

@SpaceX Lets go! We are ready ☄️

@elonmusk It is rising at asteroid speed.🚀☄️

@wapodavenport US Federal Debt/GDP was 56% in 2000, now it is 126% & climbing fast

That could pay for a Mars mission: “Musk would pay as much as $50 billion under the tax over its first five years, while Bezos could pay as much as $44 billion.” Democrats’ billionaire tax would heavily target 10 wealthiest Americans. washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021…

ELON MUSK what if the road to Mars starts with ASTEROID 🤨

@justinsuntron @HuobiGlobal Talk of real community under a rock solid foundation. OG pls take a moment and see this

@elonmusk What is used to measure zero-g levels?

@elonmusk I am eagerly awaiting the mineral yield from the first asteroid. 🚀☄️

T-zero is currently 5:30 Texas time

@VitalikButerin @elonmusk @yishan @elonmusk

@elonmusk @yishan This is definitely not my domain of expertise, but it seems hard but not fundamentally impossible to make asteroid mining economically competitive, at least for higher-value materials?

I am going to outline the one (and only) strategy by which America can beat China. While I personally think the two great countries can and should learn to cooperate and co-exist, the governing midwits of our current age don't think that way, so I'm going to lay out the battle plan. Beware, China is probably reading this so you get one chance. First, realize that China outmatches the US in almost all aspects of relevant national power today, both in main KPIs ("number of factories") and key drivers ("ability to build factories"). If you don't think so, you're too far behind the real story and should just save time and close the thread now. You're ngmi. For everyone else: The reason China is ahead of the US is because China is exceptionally good at optimizing performance within any well-understood heuristic framework. What that means is that everywhere the rules of the game are known, China is going to beat the US. They're better, more numerous, more well-organized, and they have a better (collective) attitude. The simple form of this is "China is good at copying" except that's not really it. It's more like "if China knows the rules at all, it will beat you at the game." Not to be lightly racist about it, but think of the Asians you know in real life: any time the standards of performance and the parameters of the game are well-understood, they always top the leaderboard. And because the world is settled, and most of the geopolitical and techno-industrial game is known, China is just going to win. (They have already won at a lot of it; they're just hoping the US doesn't notice) Don't go thinking "Oh, the US simply needs to pull a heroic turnaround and beat those primitive commies." Those primitive commies are the ones pulling the heroic turnaround. And besides, the US will need to be heroic to pull off even this plan I'm about to tell you. What China is less good at is the utterly wild innovation that characterizes US culture. The Chinese themselves acknowledge this. They are innovative, but they are not as innovative as the US, which at its best is wildly, incredibly innovative and fearless in the extreme. China is brave and courageous, the US is wild and crazy. That is the difference. The problem is that innovations at the margins of current technology are not enough to yield a civilization-scale advantage to the US in this or the next generation. You think you're just going to develop AGI/ASI first? China will have it the next week and they'll have ten of them. It's not going to be in AI. There is one area where the US still maintains a decisive lead, one that cannot be immediately replicated (relatively-speaking), and it contains the inherent leverage needed to leapfrog the US economy and civilization ahead of all others. It is reusable self-landing rocketry. Yes, China is also currently working on this, but it will be at least a couple years before they can do what the US (through SpaceX) can do. Right now, SpaceX on its own is the world leader in both annual launch mass and number of launches. In Q1 2024 (most recent data I could find; maybe @elonmusk has better numbers), SpaceX itself lofted 429,125 kg. China's CASC was a distant second, at 29,426 kg, less than 7% of SpaceX. SpaceX launches over an order of magnitude more mass than China does. This is the only major area where the US maintains a decisive order-of-magnitude advantage over China. Not only that, but remember what I said earlier about KPI plus key drivers? The key drivers are what affect the likely rate of change. It doesn't matter if your current state is 2x of your competitor if that competitor is rising 10x as fast. SpaceX is ahead and has the higher rate of growth, and will accelerate once Starship is available. In other areas, China has the higher rate of growth and is ahead. Reusable space launch is the key industrial area that the United States has a decisive current advantage in and must now push forward in all ways possible. Why? Because unleashing low-cost space launch has allowed the US and US-based companies the exclusive opportunity to achieve asteroid mining. This is the only outcome within current reach that has a chance of yielding enough payback for the US to leapfrog China. Successfully lofting sufficient mining equipment, taking it to promising asteroids, mining it for ores and returning it will yield literally trillions of dollars. And because true power and value are actually about having things, and not money, it's not the trillion of dollars, but the fact that US-based companies will bring back untold amounts of precious and commodity minerals. Even certain single asteroids contain more of these minerals than the entire Earth's reserves of those materials. (If your reaction is "that will crash the market," your understanding of economics is shallow and you should also just close the window) US industry will be equipped with and have control over vast amounts of valuable basic materials, at a scale never seen on Earth. Forget Greenland, the current US rocketry advantage gives it a leg up on this race to the most economically valuable real estate in the solar system. My estimated ultra-aggressive timetable for this puts it at 7 years: 2 years: key technology development and testing 2 years: first mining mission 3 years: scaling and commercialization (ref: x.com/i/grok/share/s…) This means that putting the country's efforts on this path has to happen in this Presidential administration. It's all well and good to have grand plans, but setting them within the scope of that's already understood ("reshoring manufacturing jobs") is not going to work when played against an opponent who is more well-resourced, well-practiced, and operates smartly. If you're going to execute a grand plan to make America Great - truly GREAT - again, you need to pick the right goals for your grand plans. The US will only overcome China by changing the rules of the game, by opening the arena and finding a new place to compete, where the variables are radically different. The US is not smarter than China. The US is not more hard-working than China. The US is crazier than China. A week or so ago, I wrote a half-serious comment about one of the underrated cultural drivers of China's unusual success. Well, America has one too, and it is an asymmetric talent. America thrives best in total fucking chaos, in the wild untamed expanse of the unknown. I don't know why this is, maybe it's the generations of selection for immigrants (from everywhere, including China itself!) who are willing to cross an ocean and forge a new life with nothing. Americans are just the best in the world at jumping into a totally crazy situation, figuring out how to adapt, and then figuring out how to scale up organized structures so that everyone can thrive in it. Yes, chaos is painful, and there are many reasons why calm suburbs are nicer but do not forget that this is America's primary and most enduring strength. The US is not going to beat China in a kinetic war (maybe it will, but do you want to take the gamble?). The US is not going to beat China in an economic war. All of those things are a known terrestrial game, and China is very very good at playing any known game. But the US has a decisive cultural and technological advantage when competing on a truly new frontier of unknowns. And there just so happens to be one that SpaceX has opened the door to, and handed to the US a decisive early lead - and that is space launch. I am confident enough in this prediction that I am willing to have people call me on it in a decade. Go ahead, pull out your little reminder apps. Either the US makes this happen now and brings home a trillion dollars of minerals in the sky and locks down the most promising asteroids, or... .... it doesn't. It dithers and hems and haws and fights its little culture war, and in 2-3 years China masters reusable rockets and China goes and mines all the asteroids and the future lightcone of mankind is mostly Chinese because believe me, China will construct those space habitats and they will make very good use of all those minerals. (I don't, like the small-minded hawks, think that China will dominate and oppress the US. I just think China will leave the US to rot, and the US will go the way of the Europeans today) === Other details: Moonbase? Yes, moonbase for refueling and maybe He-3, but it's just something we do on the way. Do not just stop at the Moonbase. Mars settlement? I love the romance of settling Mars, but the honest story is that it's harder and the economic payback is not as clear. There's not as much on Mars that you can affordably ship back - it's not like New World colonization: even gold (if we found it on Mars) would not be worthwhile to ship back. The asteroids are different: there's tons of minerals, and they're high up in the gravity well so you can just drop them back down. Also, I think the US would prefer to be the nation controlling the "dropping back down towards Earth" of very heavy things from up in the gravity well, you know? === Disclosure: I am long SpaceX stock