Ron Harpa

Happy new year!

@Jehoseph @FlexaHQ @dannymccb

@HarpaRon @FlexaHQ @dannymccb Someone hasn't listened to Daniel McCabe's recent interviews.

No announcements. No integrations. Just a demo I built to show what may be possible. @FlexaHQ CEO @dannymccb said just last year: "I think you know them. I think people know these merchants. I wouldn't be surprised if people sat down and made a list of their top 10 merchants it might be... it's them." Amazon is a top-10 Fortune 500 company. Walmart (US retailer, massive physical footprint), Costco, Target, Kroger, Home Depot, Walgreens, CVS: These are all top brick-and-mortar merchants, all of which fit the bill of the kind of store that could one day easily go live with the tech Flexa offers. What you're seeing is a functional mockup of what checkout could look like powered by @FlexaHQ and BasePay. In practice it'd be cleaner, more under the hood. Might not even say "Flexa" at all...might just say BasePay. The surface doesn't matter. The settlement layer underneath does. That layer requires collateral. The only neutral, purpose-built collateral asset in this ecosystem is $AMP. Not a guess, folks. I've studied the architecture since January 2021 and nothing has changed that equation for Flexa. 99.9% of people still haven't found it. New to this? Start here: 🔗 flexa.co 🔗 amp.xyz Follow @FlexaHQ and @base for actual announcements. DYOR. Not financial advice. This is a demo, not a product announcement.

@smrtcntrctr @FlexaHQ Sir amp is cooked. It’s just like 1 of the 100s of dead NFT projects.

I genuinely don’t get @FlexaHQ’s ongoing silence. If they’re building something cool, why not imply even the vaguest thing to keep the community’s morale afloat? Is it an utter lack of consideration or just poor PR skills? Either way, I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

@cryptobolics 😂

Topped up the $AMP bag, couldn't resist at these prices 🤷‍♂️

@HRBtrends @HardRockBet 🤔 I like the under! #hardrockbet

90% of the bets are on Paul Skenes OVER 6.5 strikeouts 😬

@palis Good luck. Stick with the rehab. Going to be months. Shoulder rehab is brutal. Be ready for mental warfare. It will seem hopeless but if you stick with the rehab all of a sudden you’ll start feeling better.

Looks like I tore my AC joint rock climbing underhang today, aka a grade 2 separated shoulder I go maybe 1 day per month not in the gym past 4 years so this is my personal 9/11. Sauna, cardio, abs, some legs, counting the stuff I’ll still be able to do during PT Won’t be able to do anything that requires 2 hands for a while like cutting steak 😭

@palis Loved tubby cats. Lot of different variations

My friendship with yv was built entirely on being the only 2 tubby cat enjoyers on CT after everyone else gave up on them

@ScizRtrading 🤮

at disneyland for first time in my life and what is this small little castle disneyworld mogs

Record heat and still incredible snow. The grooming team are magicians. I’m officially a spring guy @sunvalley

@palis It’s a nice little bit. It’s like fat people wondering why they don’t lose weight. It’s all calories. Just eat more calories than you burn. Simple math.

@HarpaRon Do people thinking I’m lying?? Gaining weight is a real struggle for some 😂😭

Timeline always talking about weight loss but what about those of us who struggle to gain? I only eat meat, fruit and honey, occasional salads, olive oil/ghee, and I can’t seem to put on weight. I eat 2-3lbs of beef per day, few pieces of fruit, 1/4-1/2 cup of honey per day, 1/4-1/3 cup of olive oil per day I can easily fast and go days in calorie deficit without feeling it, dropping weight is extremely easy not that I want to. But I’ve been struggle to get past 175lbs at 6’1” since I cut out white rice

Spring ski trip with my boy! @sunvalley

@lucidzk @lex_node Kids? My kids have grown old before my eyes since I started buying $eth

idk man ~60% of this industry still settles around those “kids in the sandbox” called ethereum so if you’re betting against that, you’re kinda just betting against crypto itself ergo i’ll take the kids stubbornly iterating toward decentralization, fundamental human privacy, permissionlessness, and credible neutrality with a network spirituality mandate over whatever the shiny permissionless non-permissionless corpo-run re-building not re-building finance is currently being shoved in my face milady

@TrustlessState @ethereumfndn Yup let’s get some adoption and growth. If a tree falls in the woods with no one around, does it make a sound?

There's an ideological schism between the @ethereumfndn and the for-profit ecosystem in Ethereum's orbit - Is Ethereum a tool you keep in your pocket? - Or an institution that competes with the world? My take: A soul without a body is just a ghost Read👇

@OhioTate @StoolAfterDark They needed jerseys. As a viewer it was impossible to tell what was going on.

What a stream. We finally beat the Pros!!!! (when it was 15 on 2) W to all the guys that came out. W to our behind the scenes crew. W to the announcers. And as always, W chat. W @StoolAfterDark!!!

@OhioTate They needed jerseys. I couldn’t tell what was going on

Highlight of my life: Hitting a jumper over 4x All-American Tyler Hansborough

@MiladyBonkle @lex_node @TrustlessState Does the EF smell its own farts?

Which do you have a problem with? Censorship Resistance, Open Source and Free, Privacy, or Security? These are exactly Ethereum's "product relevancy". These are the only things that distinguish a blockchain from a centralized database. Beneath all the edgy fanfare, a smart contract is only distinguished from server-hosted code by CROPS. The stablecoin chains already demonstrate this (to not even entertain some fight over hosting memetokens). Like do you want Ethereum to compromise the entire chain so it can "compete" with institutional clubs like Tempo, Arc, or Plasma? It would lose. It's only a quirk of temporary future-blindless that an intra-bank blockchain-aware faction has to drag the slow behemoth along with it through these games appealing to our industry. They will always resolve to the most profitable outcome for their oligopolistic incumbency. This is about speed and security to them. They could just abolish ACH and have cybersecurity upgrades to their systems. But they're not nimble so it has to look like disruption and alternative (so long as these are effectively no less outside their authoritarian purview). Fortunately, information and markets naturally free themselves of inefficiencies posed by vestigial intermediaries. I.e., the CROPS chain will attract flow in the long-run, only after the negative cost of vampiric middle-men is demonstrated by the market. This will take time. The 21st century stages man's digitization. It is a 100 year battle. Ethereum is the single most important project on the side of liberty. The technological affordances of the coming epoch will end in Singleton unless freedom is unavoidable. We already see this tendency in the AI wars. CROPS is the bedrock for any conceivable alternative. I, and even cynical bag-defending you, should want nothing less than this extreme solemnity in the hearts of the World Computer's stewards. If they took it any less seriously we wouldn't stand a chance.

David Hoffman appears on my feed now and then exclusively to signal his anxiety for his ether bags. At some point we just need to come right out and get rid of these types. Here: treat "ETH the asset" as a myth. Ethereum is a platform to save the Internet. It is not here to make you rich. Go get high on solana shitcoins or hoard Bitcoin under your mattress if that's what you want. Sure, Ethereum's assured victory ultimately means hoarding ether-as-gas is a viable investment strategy, but only in the long-run; only when centralized, permissioned, insecure, unsustainable chains all crumble under the weight of their complicity. There's no ophthalmologist on Earth who can treat a nearsightedness so severe it can't see past Solana, of all things. Just roll over and drop the ETH-maxi shtick. Or, better yet, sell your ether bags and continue to cover the space. If you're actually here for some social movement for freedom (or whatever the "Bankless" MO is), why the personal concern for "bad looks" on twitter? (as if these are perfectly correlated with short-term price action) That Ethereum can hold its head high, committed to principles, is exactly the reason for my support. Ethereum is exceptional. If it listened to stochastic barking online (your claimed "real world"), it would be massified. It would be Solana. Thank God for protecting cypherpunk from such an ignoble death as that.

@VentureCoinist Than why is $uma dead

@kennyistyping My children are growing old. I’d like my investment to be worth the time.

so misguided everything we have today is downstream of our cypherpunk values sorry if we don't want to sell out to simp for centralized finance at the first opportunity, some of us care about bigger goals

@itamarl Our bags will never pump

Ethereum's focus on open-source and censorship resistance gives it zero chance to compete with centralised commercial alternatives. If that strategy could work, we would all be running our infrastructure on Linux instead of Windows Server.