Joyeous Testimony

Met today with the @DeltaDeFi team at their work center to verify my original impression of them. PROOF OF TEAM PROOF OF CODE PROOF OF HYDRA PROOF OF STRATEGY I am satisfied. No, @jj_siler, I am not following you around. This was already planned. @Cardano_Power

@BeatriceAnihiri @blockfrost_io @TapTools Is there a guide for pulling blockfrost data? Does @MasumiNetwork have an agent that can do that, and have it fed into TapTax without a lot of manual steps? Lets make this consumer (old boomer) friendly!

Yes! That's why I use the Blockfrost + Taptools combo. Taptools has a comprehensive list of policy id's and historical price data so I use that on top of the transactions that I pull from Blockfrost. I'm currently comparing to Koinly (which I would normally use) and it's pretty accurate I will say I do have a Tappy and used the Taptax data as a backup and that worked wonders

in this week's episode of: can I vibecode this? it's tax season featuring @blockfrost_io and @TapTools

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@BeatriceAnihiri @blockfrost_io @TapTools Then it can take input for other things than just Cardano. That would be good.

@Quantumplation @JSHyCS @ElderM Stay on the right side of Elder.

The main point of my challenge was in response to those (not Elder) who claimed that the total cost-to-employ asked for by the Amaru and Blink Labs proposals was outrageous because "anyone can do it with AI nowdays". I think he has already demonstrated the validity of my point: Elder has a particular set of skills that allow him to do what he's doing, and he could command a salary even higher than what Amaru and Blink Labs are asking :) The amaru team plans to use AI to accelerate our development, and if we finish early, we'll return the unused funds. But AI hasn't yet significantly lowered the caliber of skill needed to accomplish those things, simply accelerated them. Regardless, I'll pay out if he accomplishes the goal; I may even pay him for his time separate from the challenge if he even comes close, so long as the knowledge base and anything he produces is open sourced, as he's likely to produce artifacts that will help accelerate Cardano development that would be well worth the price.

For vibe-node, one thing I really want to stress is that what I am doing is not an argument for not funding Amaru and Dingo. Quite the contrary. I am burning 500 million tokens a day. I am starting 2 steps before most vibe coders because I have a wealth of experience in how to use AI for production grade engineering. The thing I am missing that I would need as a next step is either a lot of time for me to read and understand everything, or hire an expert like @wolf31o2, @_KtorZ_ , or @Quantumplation to do a deep dive into the code to make sure it's not severely messed up. The thing is, we don't get deep expertise in the ecosystem unless we pay them to do this stuff manually. If we pay our experts to stay dedicated to being experts, we can help to solve the node diversity problem by supplementing with nodes generated using my approach. It is not a replacement for these guys doing what they do. AI always needs a human evaluator. The measuring stick cannot be "it runs", unless you want more situations like happened last year with the bug that caused a lot of chaos. If we didn't have these experts to identify the bug AND fix it in record time, Cardano would have had a crisis on its hands.

@phil_uplc @InputEndorsers @RodrigoPacini @longminswap That pretty much sounds like you,@DeltaDeFi . Congrats! You make the cut.

For us to really make progress in this market we need DeFi protocols that are designed by finance experts, not developers. The people that use financial instruments for a living need to be in charge of the direction of the financial instruments that we build. If we keep with this current meta of developers designing AND implementing DeFi protocols we will not move forward.

@CryptoGnojek And the 0.07 percent will be dead by tomorrow.

Insane numbers, huge congrats 🤭

@ESCOweb3 @atriumlab Back in the day...

Legends only follow Legends. What is @atriumlab ? Atrium = The most comprehensive path into Cardano 🚀

@astroboysoup @CardanoSolar An actual live video feed of @astroboysoup right now.

I can't wait to see what comes out of this massive integration for Caradano. Liquidity flows in and out of our ecosystem will never be an issue again.

@evarodriguez_m Cool!

Any minute from now …

@SebastienGllmt @taichiyokoyama Good! Glad to see someone at a conference besides me this week talking about midnight! At least they let you on stage. I have to do it one to three people at a time!

At Wasm I/O talking to people about Midnight and Starstream!

@NealSIDAN You are so funny...

@JoyeousT Infused with hope… and trauma 😂

One word to describe how you feel about Cardano: _________.

We had a wonderful update from @HesterPeirce yesterday on her last year of preparing the Safe Harbor regulations & creating regulations around the Clarity act. I did speak with her briefly about midnight & provided her with a summary of its intent and aspects. @midnightfdn

@NealSIDAN I said enthused, but the phone decided to change it to infused at the last moment.

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to far, go together." - Congressman Booker This really sounds like something @IOHK_Charles would say. It certainly applies to midnight , as a crypto agnostic privacy layer. @midnightfdn

@AdamRusch You really should be on stage.

DC Blockchain Summit. Let’s go!

We got a great update from @SenatorTimScott from the Senate about the progress on the Market Structure Bill. He expects to have a skeleton copy by the end of this week. He says they are making very good, steady progress on resolving the issues, but the biggest issue still is something he calls the front door. And he told me he definitely knows @IOHK_Charles !

DC Blockchain Summit is on! Wearing the Cardano shirt with midnight armband. Most know Cardano, but when I point to the armband, no one knows midnight. When I say they can have privacy and compliance, they all want to know more! So I tell them! @midnightfdn