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Cathie Wood saw something special in Bitcoin very early on. She saw a technology that could meet the 3 roles of money: - A means of exchange - A store of value - And a unit of account A rules based, global, monetary system. Something that had been missing since the US went off the gold standard in 1971. And she thought to herself - That's a very big idea...

Ever heard of layer 1 and layer 2 but not known exactly what that means? Or what the difference between coins and tokens are? We got you. In simple terms you can think of it like this: Layer 1 = the highway. Layer 2 = the express lanes built on top. Here’s the breakdown: 🧱 Layer 1 (L1) = the base blockchain. Think of it as the foundation. These issue coins. Examples: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cardano. L1s: • Secure the network • Process transactions • Have their own native token • Prioritise decentralisation + security But they can be slower and more expensive at scale. ⚡ Layer 2 (L2) = built on top of a Layer 1. They inherit security from the base chain but improve speed + cost. These issue tokens. Examples: Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon. L2s: • Bundle transactions • Reduce fees • Increase throughput • Settle back to Layer 1 Both matter. One provides security. The other provides scale.

@SherryEncinitas @r0ck3t23 Yes, the fact that experts believe that the end result of all this AI development is superintelligence and that there’s a 1 in 4 chance that leads to our extinction is concerning. And our future is decided by a handful of people right now… Not cool.

@NoBrosCrypto @r0ck3t23 Are you serious? Fight with us against the Robots and their sycophants. 320 million regular folk against @ 1,000 billionaires in America. We can defeat them.

Elon Musk was asked what happens to people when the machines no longer need them. He didn’t soften it. Musk: “There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better. These are not things I wish would happen. They probably will.” Sit with that second sentence. He is not celebrating. He is not selling a vision. He is telling you what he believes is inevitable and admitting he wishes it weren’t. That is not optimism. That is a confession. Most people are still arguing over whether this is real. Whether it’s their job or someone else’s. Whether the timeline is years away or decades. Musk isn’t arguing. He resolved it. And it bothers him. Musk: “I think ultimately we will have to have some kind of universal basic income. I don’t think we’re going to have a choice.” Not a political position. Not a utopian proposal. A concession. We are building something so capable that human labor stops being a required input to the economy. The machine does not need rest. It does not need a salary. It does not call in sick. It does not ask for a raise. And it improves every single month. The jobs that feel safe right now are not safe because they are irreplaceable. They feel safe because the technology hasn’t fully arrived yet. It’s arriving. Musk: “How do people then have meaning? If there’s not a need for your labor, what’s the meaning? Do you feel useless?” He said that is the harder problem. Not the economics. Not the policy. Not how you fund UBI or make it hold. The harder problem is what happens to a person who built their entire identity around being needed. That is most people. You were trained from childhood to believe your value is what you produce. That your worth is what you earn. That rest is something you survive the week to reach, not something you deserve simply by existing. When the machine removes the need for your labor, that belief does not update. It breaks. The people least prepared for that moment are the ones who worked the hardest. The ones who took the most pride in being indispensable. The ones who made work the whole answer. Losing the job is survivable. Losing the reason to get up is not. That is what Musk is actually asking. Not how do we pay people. How do we build a world where people still feel like they matter when the economy no longer needs them. Nobody in power is seriously working on that answer. The machine didn’t wait.

@MDBitcoin Bitcoin does indeed offer a way to balance out this mess!

It genuinely pisses me off how few people understand this. I have spent a lot of time studying money, power, and incentives, and one thing becomes obvious fast governments do not need to “win” forever. They only need to keep the system alive long enough to push the cost forward. 1. Print. 2. Borrow. 3. Inflate. 4. Reset. That is the game. A trillion becomes normal. Then ten trillion. Then deficits so large people stop feeling the number. It shows up in weaker savings, higher prices, lower optionality, and a life that feels harder even when you are doing everything right. the system transfers its failure into your time and energy first. Bitcoin is the exit when you finally understand that.

@saylor Google’s trending search “What is iatrogenic…” 😂

Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycle is dead. Price is now driven by capital flows. Bank and digital credit will determine Bitcoin’s growth trajectory. The biggest risk is bad ideas driving iatrogenic protocol changes.

@EliBenSasson What do you mean by leaders hiding their head in the sand?

You're wrong. Bitcoin has not won. It's biggest risk is leaders hiding their head in the sand and Tradfi's Bear Hug of it.

This is key. This discipline is probably the most under-rated. You’re 100% right. People don’t save more, they spend more. They upgrade to a better car, more expensive clothes. They end up no better off, if not then worse off. Maintaining your lifestyle (assuming it is already decent) while your earning power grows and putting away that extra amount into scarce assets (property, equities, Bitcoin, etc.) is the way to grow wealth.

I used to think a bigger salary would fix everything. Got a raise. Spent more. Got another raise. Spent more. Nothing changed until I changed where the money went.

I still don’t understand how people can think one replaces the other or a focus on midnight means abandoning Cardano. It was purpose built to live alongside Cardano to solve the privacy challenge, and built by the same Charles-led IOG. This bickering is just a waste of energy and a net negative for both protocols. At a time when the Cardano community should be celebrating a great milestone, everyone’s decided civil war is a better path forward.

If you’re against @IOHK_Charles You’re against Cardano & Midnight It’s that simple There’s a difference between having concerns and airing them and flat out calling someone a bad actor and accusing someone of trying to destroy an ecosystem Some have tried before and lost badly I mean the fuckin guy is the vision behind Cardano & Midnight You have to be a lunatic to think he’s trying to to sabotage or leave behind one or the other He’s out here day and night fighting The guy’s a billionaire and could go sit on a beach somewhere but he’s out here listening to a bunch of whining hacks tell him he’s trying to destroy his chains I’ll stand behind the guy who literally built the damn thing and trust his vision over some random cartoon pfp dudes that have never shown their face

@basedlayer I think this would all be resolved with thresholds. We just need different standards for different amounts. All possible with smart contracts, just a matter of poor design and lack of risk controls.

Circle is getting destroyed right now for not freezing $285 million in stolen USDC fast enough after the Drift hack. ZachXBT put the total at $420 million in illicit funds that Circle was slow to freeze across multiple incidents. I keep thinking about this. The original promise of bitcoin was money that nobody could freeze, right. Pretty much the whole point? Years ago if you told someone a company could freeze your digital money, that was the argument against it. Now the biggest stablecoin issuer is getting publicly shamed for not freezing money fast enough. IMO any system where someone has a freeze button will eventually use it wrong, either too fast or too slow. Circle is learning the too slow version of that lesson this week. Eventually someone is going to fumble the ball and learn the too fast version as well.

Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=NUaNrR…

Money isn't taught in school, it really should be. Feel like you're losing every single year but don't know why? This will help you understand. TLDR: Those just earning a salary or only keeping money in the bank are essentially F*CKED in this monetary system.

Could there be a world where we run a dual standard with Bitcoin in treasury to offset interest burden, get the debt back under control, allow asset prices to plateau, cost of goods and services to drop to offset asset growth stagnation and then pivot to a Bitcoin standard? Spitballing a little.

Can there be such a thing as GOOD hyperinflation? According to Financial Physics, there is, if it's bottom-up. Unfortunately, we're experiencing the opposite: top-down hyperinflation. He explains our current scenario like this: Asset prices get propped up while wages stay flat. The people who already own things get richer and the people who work for money get crushed. And nobody in power has any incentive to fix it, because the people who broke it are the same ones running the show. This is why you feel like you're running harder just to fall further behind. So what do normal people do when saving money stops making sense? They stop saving. Doom spending, blowing it now because holding it is pointless. This is actually a rational response to a system that is punishing you for being responsible. The answer, of course, is returning to a hard money standard like Bitcoin. When you pay people in a currency that can't be printed, you can't inflate away their labor. There's no way to quietly cut their wages by 10% while pretending you gave them a 3% raise. And unlike the Federal Reserve, where nobody knows how much money was printed before 10am this morning, not even most people inside it, Bitcoin's supply is public, transparent, and fixed. This is a level of accountability no fiat system has ever had. Watch the full interview. Financial Physics breaks down exactly how this ends, and what you need to understand before it does. youtu.be/DiPQMywLmOo

I expected most people to be disappointed with the faucet because they’d get like 50 sats or so, but if this is true then it probably achieves the opposite of what they are hoping for. The original faucet was designed to introduce people to Bitcoin and help them acquire Bitcoin easily. Marketing Bitkey promotion as a faucet is very much in the opposite spirit to the original faucet. I think it will backfire if this turns out to be true. They have a day to change course at least…

Ok so.. they left their CDN exposed. If you ping the domain, you get this ip: 151.101.129.49 It turns out this is a fastly.com IP . I had never heard of fastly but it looked to be something similar to vercel, so I figured maybe they had custom deployment links like vercel does. Tried a few different combos and BINGO: btc.day.global.prod.fastly.net This took me to this: d325bmwzjz2yc7.cloudfront.net That’s their CDN bucket on AWS. They currently have it setup so that any invalid endpoints redirect back to index.html I went on a hunch and figured that they’d probably already have their production app stored somewhere in the CDN ready for deployment I used SECLISTs (github.com/danielmiessler… )and ffuf to try out over 20k different combinations on this URL. After some sleuthing, BINGO!! I found these two files: > live.html > .DS_STORE The important one here that immediately caught my eye was “live.html”. That sounded like a prod deployment. And sure enough, it was! This is what the btc.day site will look like on the day the faucet goes live: d325bmwzjz2yc7.cloudfront.net/live.html d325bmwzjz2yc7.cloudfront.net/bitkey.html It turns out the entire faucet will be revealed to just be a promotion scheme to get you to buy a bitkey and use cash app. There is no faucet - at least in the sense most were expecting.

Sorry to hear. But the best thing I’ve done is HODL through the ups and downs. The bears can be brutal. I can only suggest to switch off and have a long term view of 5-10 years. We still have a few months of pain left imo. If you take the long term approach then the swings don’t matter because over time, it has continued to outperform albeit with swings. Keep ya head up.

majority of people in crypto have been broke/desolate for months now and this is just punishment login everyday, interact with decimated feed, watch spot positions decrease in value, repeat humiliation ritual tomorrow next time take profit higher and get hobbies, get off ct

Everything evolves over time. Even money.

They’re just adapting to new models. This financial system has right royally screwed them over. They have no choice but to try a new way. And who defines riskier? If you go by mainstream media Bitcoin would be considered risky and yet it’s the only thing that makes sense for them and everybody else to jump on board with compared to the current fiat system that debases further every single year. Similarly, on the work front, I would call it the new paradigm of what actually pays the bills. There were no influencers and no social media careers in the age of Gen X. Now it’s a viable path. Gen Z is just adapting to this new landscape.

Generation Z is increasingly giving up on once-standard financial goals, especially home ownership, traditional saving patterns, and linear career models, and instead embracing immediate spending, riskier financial behavior, and lifestyle-first decisions, per FORTUNE

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Marc Andresson says the grand unification of AI and crypto has finally arrived. The future is already here, it just isn’t distributed.

I feel for everyone. Everyone’s doing it tough. But you can’t get different results playing the same game over and over. Central banks “print” money at an average rate of 7% per annum. Wages grow at 3-4%. That’s why your dollar doesn’t go as far each year and each year things get that little bit harder. We’re all frogs being slowly boiled to death without noticing. But you can’t expect change without fundamentally shifting the game. And that’s why Bitcoin matters. And it’s not just ordinary people who are researching this and switching. It is happening at institutional and Federal level. The US’ Strategic Bitcoin reserve is going to play a huge part in solving the debt crisis and help to underpin credit. If it can grow faster than the interest bill (and it has proven to do so over its 17 years of existence) then the government has a treasury that can underwrite its debt and guarantee serviceability. How? Because Bitcoin has a capped supply of 21 million and a decaying supply cycle - nobody can just print more of it, unlike the dollar. 20 million has already been mined, leaving only 1 million left to go - EVER. It will be one of the few growth assets remaining in the world and people will chase the return on investment so some portion of their capital would naturally flow into Bitcoin. Increasing demand with decreasing supply makes for a strong dynamic for price appreciation.

“My paycheck hits and DISAPPEARS before I can even breathe.” TWO full-time jobs, four kids, and every month she's left with the same choice: groceries OR the mortgage. That’s not bad budgeting — it’s a rigged system you can’t win.

@vitrupo Interesting. Blockchains would facilitate that very well. You nominate the bundle of assets you want and they bundle that into the equivalent of an NFT on demand. All verifiable on chain.

Diogo Mónica says if LLMs turn language into code and crypto turns code into financial products, language can become a financial product. When the marginal cost of creating a product goes to zero, there’s no reason to buy one. You generate what you need. Markets stop offering options and start responding to you.