Andy Brown

If you borrow or leverage against illiquid or overvalued assets, don’t be surprised when you get margin called. Remember an asset is only worth what someone will pay for it.

HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY. JESUS CHRIST IS KING 🙏

Understand this: The movies and shows about the crucifixion have been tame when compared to what He actually went through. Even The Passion Of The Christ was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating. Crucifixion was, and still is, arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience. The night before in Gethsemane, He was sweating blood. This is known as hematidrosis. This would have caused His skin to become extremely sensitive, thus making the beatings to come even worse. The fear He felt was the beginning of His feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on Him. Yet - in this moment, He didn’t demand that the Father take it from Him. He only asked for the cup to pass Him over if it was within the Father’s will. Up next came the Cat of Nine Tails, or a Roman Flagrum. This was a weapon with long leather “tails”, each embedded with sharp bones and metal. He was flogged 39 times as Jewish law mandated “40 minus one”, because 40 was said to kill a man. This flogging wasn’t like being punished by your father’s leather belt. Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle. Every strike exposed nerve endings. Every strike tore flesh to the bone. This would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again, leading to hypovolemic shock from blood loss. Oh, and the crown of thorns? These weren’t rose thorns. These were thorns which were 2-3 inches long. Beaten into his skull. These thorns would have pierced his skull, tripping the trigeminal nerve, thus causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds. At this point, extreme nausea and dizziness would begin to set in. What came next? Carrying the cross. Which weighed around 300lbs. This would be like carrying two full kegs on your back. Splinters and wood grating against the open flesh on His back. And He had to carry it 650 yards, or close to a half mile. Imagine carrying a log on your back after being skinned alive. Up next? He was nailed to the cross with spikes 5-7in in length. Piercing His wrists - this no doubt pierced the median nerve, causing extreme burning sensations up and down His arms. A spike was driven through his ankles - severing nerves and tendons. This would have felt like standing on broken glass every time He pushed Himself up in order to breathe. He suffered for 6 hours. His chest muscles collapsing, making every single breath a fight for life. His shoulders were dislocated, His arms stretching unnaturally long. His heart was struggling to pump blood. He was extremely dehydrated, His lips cracking. His heart more than likely literally ruptured from the stress. And on top of all of that, He had to feel a separation with the Father for a period of time in order to REALLY bear the weight of our sin. He took up this burden for ALL sin before Him, and ALL sin which came after Him. HE DID IT ALL FOR US. To free us. To defeat sin. To give us a pathway to the Kingdom. Every sin we commit is exactly why He had to do it. And the real kicker? He knew what was coming when He rode into Jerusalem … and He didn’t turn around. He kept going. For us.

@MotivacionesF Even as a Spurs Fan, I can love this, and if you win us the World Cup you will be the Bobby Moore of your generation (along with our friend Harry of course). @_DeclanRice

DECLAN RICE: “Durante mucho tiempo, fui el niño del cuerpo raro. Piernas largas, espalda encorvada, torpe al correr. A los 14 años, soñaba con jugar al fútbol profesional pero parecía un chiste. Me rechazaron del Chelsea. Ni en sus equipos menores me quisieron. Me miraban como si fuera una broma. Y yo solo quería patear una pelota, como lo hacía desde que tengo memoria. El West Ham me abrió una puerta, pero entrar por ella fue durísimo. Tuve que dejar la casa de mis padres y mudarme con otra familia. Las primeras noches lloraba en silencio. Echaba de menos mi cama, mi rutina, mis padres, mi mundo. Estaba completamente desorientado. Con el tiempo empecé a entender mi cuerpo, a dominarlo. Pasé de sentir vergüenza a sentir poder. Me dieron la banda de capitán en el sub-18. Luego en el sub-21. Y cuando por fin debuté con el primer equipo, supe que cada lágrima, cada rechazo, había sido gasolina. Hoy juego en el Arsenal. En Champions. En Premier. En estadios donde antes ni me dejaban entrenar. No es fácil, nada lo es. Pero ya no tengo miedo. A veces cierro los ojos y pienso en ese chico que se sentía invisible. Me gustaría decirle: "Aguanta, hermano. Tu momento está más cerca de lo que crees."

Today is Good Friday. We remember the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. After being arrested the night before, Jesus was beaten, flogged, crowned with thorns and sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate. He carried His cross through Jerusalem and was nailed to it. Darkness covered the land from noon to 3pm. At 3pm He said: “It is finished.” And He died. (John 19:30) He was taken down from the cross and buried in a tomb before sundown. A large stone was rolled across the entrance and guards were posted outside in fear that His disciples might steal the body and claim He had risen from the dead. No greater love has ever been shown.

If Jesus is your Lord and Savior, type Amen.

🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Jesus Christ is coming soon kindly Retweet to remind someone on your timeline.

There is a criticism of Canton Network that keeps circulating and it is worth addressing directly because it conflates two completely different things. he criticism is that Super Validators are permissioned, meaning they go through a committee approval process rather than being open to anyone. That is true. And if Canton were just another enterprise blockchain, it would be a legitimate concern. But Canton is not just another enterprise blockchain and that distinction is the entire point. Every enterprise chain that came before Canton, Quorum, Corda, Hyperledger, had one thing in common. The value created by the network accrued to the companies running it. There was no public ownership vehicle. If you believed in the thesis you could not participate. The institutions building on those networks captured everything and everyone else watched. Canton broke that model entirely. There is no equity. No venture round. No preferred shareholders sitting above you in the capital structure. $CC is the only vehicle through which anyone participates in the economics of the network. The Super Validators earn it. The Foundation holds it. Everyone else can buy it, and staking is coming which means anyone can earn it by participating in network security. The permissioned validator criticism also misses what is actually happening on the ground. Startups are running regular validators right now. @Send is a startup running on Canton. @temple_ny is a startup running on Canton. The network is young and the Super Validator set reflects the institutional credibility required to attract Goldman, DTCC, and Broadridge into production settlement infrastructure. That credibility requirement is a feature not a bug. It is what makes the institutional adoption tangible rather than theoretical. The comparison to previous enterprise chains is the wrong frame entirely. Those chains had no public token. No open participation. No mechanism by which anyone outside the consortium could benefit from the network's growth. Canton has all three. Anyone can buy $CC. Anyone can build on the network. Anyone can operate on it. Staking is coming. @YuvalRooz catching flak for the Super Validator structure is people applying the wrong mental model to a genuinely new thing. This is not a permissioned enterprise chain with a token bolted on. This is institutional infrastructure with open economic participation built into the foundation from the start. The facts are being missed. The token is the only vehicle and anyone can own it. $CC

We're much closer than most people think! I hope I've been able to distill our differences in a way that you agree is factually correct, so readers can cut through all the noise. We agree that: 1. a blockchain MUST be decentralized 2. it MUST enable users to cryptographically self-verify state 3. smart contract bugs will exist and institutions MUST have a way to triage these bugs in production We disagree on two fundamental points: (1) Does the user need to verify all network state or is it sufficient that they verify only the state that's economically relevant to them? - zkSync's philosophy (which reflects most of crypto) is that it's critical that every user can validate the correctness of the entire network's state. - Canton's philosophy is that it's sufficient that every user can validate only the state that's relevant to that user. (2) Is ZKP a safe enough verification mechanism to protect the user from a malicious app operator? - zkSync's approach is that client-side ZKP verification is a safe enough primitive for the user to protect their interests from a malicious institution. It's sufficient that the institution, but not the user, can triage bugs due to incorrectly specified smart-contract logic. - Canton's approach is that ZKP is a strong additional primitive (which I expect we'll adopt over the next decade) but it can't come at the expense of the user's direct validation of state transitions, using the same state transition engine that the institution is using. --- For anyone with the patience to dive into the details, here's my direct response to all of the claims: On the strawman claim. We're in agreement: Resilience and containment must be built in. I have no fundamental problem with ZKP, only with uses of ZKP that do not enable containment. On multi-prover. You are wrong about Canton having only one layer of defense. Using your definition of layers of defense, both zkSync and Canton have two: (1) institutional node and (2) user verification. The difference is in how the user verifies. In zkSync the user relies on ZKP proofs for verification, in Canton on direct verification of execution. Canton protects the user from the institution without relying on ZKP. To be clear, Prividium's use of ZKP does enable triage by the institution. zkSync is NOT subject to my criticism on inability to triage. zkSync achieves this the same way Canton does - by giving the institution full visibility into its app's transactions. But this is exactly one of the properties of Canton that folks on CT are attacking us for! We're in the same boat. This institutional visibility is exactly the property that enables Canton to have consensus without ZKP. On smart contract bugs. We're in agreement that the potential for smart contracts bugs is "a property of every programmable ledger, not a Prividium problem". That's precisely why Canton's decentralized validation model is so strong! If there's a bug in the smart contract, the bug can be triaged by every affected user of the smart contract. Compare that with Prividum where only the institition can triage the bug. On self-validation. This is probably the biggest divergences between us in terms of desired properties. We both agree every stakeholder should validate their own transactions. zkSync enables every user to validate the entire state of the blockchain, and enables users to only validate those transactions that are relevant to them. I agree that Prividium participants can verify their own account state at every block via Merkle proofs. But they don't verify the state transitions independently, only via ZKP. This is a critical distinction. You claim "the next generation of institutional applications requires smart contracts that enforce aggregate network state" and I disagree with this. Individual applications may want to enforce aggregate application states. There's no need for network-wide enforcement. If you want to do that in zero-knowledge, you need ZKP. That's one area I've been tracking for a decade as a potential addition of ZKP to Canton. But in a decade of talking to app operators, none of them have stated this as important enough a property to justify adding so much complexity to the software stack. Canton has primitives to decentralize the app operator or for 3rd party auditors to cryptographically audit the app operator. To be clear, I do think this is a nice property to have. We're actively exploring adding it as an optional additional layer of verification (most likely using Jolt). But the importance of this property is completely overblown, and people are adding insane levels of complexity to their software stack to achieve it, at the expense of other critical security work. As always, thanks for the engaging discussion!

I think you will find its strategy not patience or laziness. If you can keep your head when all about you    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,    But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,    Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,    And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster    And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,    And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings    And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew    To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you    Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,    Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;    If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run—    Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

Apple really nailed AI by doing fucking nothing lol. $135 billion in the bank. stole google’s model for a measly $ 1B, now forcing competitors to plug their models into siri if they want access to 2.5B apple users patience (or laziness) paid off massively

Today is Holy Monday. The day Jesus kicked the money lenders out of the Temple. Modern Christianity wants to paint Jesus as a harmless pacifist who just wanted everyone to get along. They couldn’t be more wrong. He doesn't write a strongly worded letter. He doesn't ask them politely to leave. He physically braids a whip of cords, flips the heavy wooden tables, scatters the money and expells them from His Father's house. The Lord is not pleased with mere appearances, trees without fruit, rituals without prayer, temples without reverence. He calls for authentic worship, conversion of heart, and fruitful holiness. Today He asks each of us: 1) "Am I a fig tree full of leaves but no fruit?" 2) "Is My heart a house of prayer, or a den of distractions?" Let Him cleanse the temple within you. Let Him overturn the tables. Let Him cast out every idol. Because where He cleanses, He heals. Where He purifies, He restores. Follow Him with all your heart and BEAR FRUIT! “I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without Me you can do nothing.” - (John 15,5)

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He died for us… He was buried… On the third day He rose…✝️ I believe. Do you believe this ?? Put Amen if you believe.

Jesus is King. 100%

HE CAME HE DIED HE RESURRECTED HE ASCENDED HE WILL BE BACK HIS NAME IS JESUS.

@nettermike No Kings Brother, No Kings.

Bernie Sanders - millionaire socialist, owner of three houses, champion of the working class - was just caught flying Delta First Class out of Washington while the TSA agents he helped screw over cannot pay their bills. Not coach. Not economy. First Class. Leather seats and warm towels while the people keeping his flight safe go home to empty bank accounts. 😡 And here is what that image tells you about every single thing Bernie Sanders has ever said about income inequality. This is the man who has spent 40 years in Washington screaming about the billionaire class and the suffering of working Americans. He helped engineer the Democrat shutdown that left TSA workers without paychecks. He voted with Chuck Schumer to hold their salaries hostage for open border policies. Then he walked straight past those same underpaid workers, handed his bag to the First Class attendant, and settled into his seat without a moment of reflection. That is not a gaffe. That is who he is. That is who he has always been. The socialist lecture is for you. The First Class seat is for him. Remember every word Bernie Sanders has ever said about fairness and equality the next time you see him boarding from the front of the plane while the workers he claims to represent eat into their savings. No more excuses. No more games.

Happy Palm Sunday! Hosanna…

I lose followers every time I post about Jesus. So I will post it again. Jesus is Lord and King!

Happy Palm Sunday 🌿 #PalmSunday

🇫🇷 BREAKING: Paris ERUPTS tonight — Thousands of French citizens flood the streets with candles & crosses, boldly declaring FRANCE IS A CHRISTIAN NATION! Europe is finally waking up. Enough is enough. Time to TAKE OUR COUNTRIES BACK and defend our Christian heritage before it’s gone forever. The Great Awakening is here. Who’s standing with them?