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@_choppingblock @TrustlessState Hey David. The doc does not dictate that Ethereum is "not going to be an economic engine". There's no version of a misread that gets that far off base. The doc is for EF, and goes over, among EF's role and other things, (a) deep adoption and (b) broad adoption. (cont.)

Who cares about words anyway ...

fastconfirm.it The fast confirmation rule is incredible So many years in the making. Super excited to see it finally ship!

Danny Ryan did not lead the Merge to be catching strays like this 😔😤

Once @leanethereum is fully deployed, Ethereum will be the only major chain that simultaneously has (i) theoretically optimal security properties under synchrony [requires 51% of online validators honest], and (ii) strong economic finality under asynchrony. Most "semi-centralized fast chains" pick (ii) only, PoW chains pick (i) only, Ethereum gets both.

happy St. Patrick’s Day

@dougie944 @leolanza The source is that it is close. Leo said so.

@leolanza Any hint to the source and conviction of this?

JUST IN: CLARITY Act deal is getting VERY close.

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ETH moving up on the news that no one in the world trusts each other anymore and we need a new transparent global settlement layer in Ethereum which no one has to trust

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Majority of Ethereum and Bitmine bag holders mentality…. 🤣🤣🤣 $ETH $BMNR

I do find it kind of hilarious that the a main criticism of Ethereum has been that it remains laser focused on the reasons blockchains exists at all

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@leolanza @fockgeorgieboy In a few years you can finance a coffee shop to yourself without selling any.

@fockgeorgieboy “Sweetie, right now I can only buy you 1 pumpkin spiced latte but in a few years I’ll be able to buy you 95 pumpkin spiced lattes”

If you sell 1 ETH today to buy something for $2,100. Whatever you’re buying is actually costing you $100,000-$200,000 in future value.

A seed phrase is not a password you can reset. If someone gets those 12–24 words, they can recover your wallet and move your funds. No legitimate service will ever ask for it. Store it securely. Keep it offline. Treat it like the most sensitive credential you have.

A truth bomb for you. ETH will never earn fees. Ok, never is a strong word - let me rephrase - ETH won't earn fees anytime soon or in sustained amounts necessary to justify a centa-billion dollar asset. The reason is written in the roadmap. Ethereum intends to massively increase blockspace supply in the coming years. If we get to Justin Drake's gigagas in 5 years, that's a 200x increase in blockspace supply. ETH only generates fees when demand exceeds supply - demand won't outstrip supply during this rapid expansion era, that means low fees. So if your reason for holding ETH is fee generation, sell now - send it to zero. Or...re-consider how to value ETH. Consider what the market is already telling you. What assets don't earn fees but are worth trillions? Gold. Silver. Oil. Bitcoin. Together worth $170 trillion in value. Commodity money and store of value assets aren't priced on their ability to generate fees. They're priced on consumptive usage, and store of value demand relative to their scarcity. ETH is scarce. Lower annual issuance than gold or bitcoin. ETH has store of value demand. A censorship resistant digital money, a cyberpunk money, native to AI and the internet, economic bandwidth for DeFi. You can try to value ETH as a fee generating DCF asset and continue to be confused or you can value it as the market already does. ETH is an emerging commodity money.

it will be so obvious in hindsight that @austingriffith might be one of the tipping points in that process

I love you @poapxyz

Today, the SDNY prosecutors filed a letter to Judge Failla requesting a retrial date. They want to go again in October. The prosecutors want to retry me on 2 counts the jury couldn't unanimously decide on. A jury of 12 Americans heard 4 weeks of evidence and deadlocked: no verdict on money laundering, and no verdict on sanctions violations. The government's response? Try again to make writing code a crime. @realDonaldTrump declared the "War on Crypto is over." 🇺🇸 AG @DAGToddBlanche's memo: DOJ "is not a digital assets regulator" and won't target mixers for end-user acts. @USTreasury lifted Tornado Cash sanctions entirely. ✅ Also Treasury, March 2026: "Lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to enable financial privacy." — official report to Congress under the GENIUS Act. But the SDNY prosecutors — same country, same DOJ — just filed to retry me anyway. 🤔 ⠀ The 2 counts = up to 40 years in federal prison. ⛓️ For writing open-source code. For a protocol I don't control. For transactions I never touched. A jury already couldn't agree this was criminal. But the SDNY prosecutors want to keep trying with the hope of getting a different answer. ⠀ I have a daughter. I have a life in Seattle. I will never stop fighting for freedom. ❤️ But I need to be honest with you: Four weeks of trial. A hung jury. Now they want to do it all over again in October. I have basically exhausted my legal defense funds. And I'm staring down another full federal trial. 😔 Every dollar raised goes directly to keeping this fight alive — attorneys, experts, the full defense apparatus it takes to stand up to the SDNY prosecutors. This isn't abstract. If I can't fund a defense, they win by default. If you care about financial privacy, if you write code and believe that code is speech — this is the moment. 💻🔐 👇

@ninja_dev3 @0FJAKE Agreed. Such an awesome project.

@ProDJKC @0FJAKE Yep I've seen lots of great teams go. Always hurts kuz they were always solid teams not extracors. But working on something new that could last a bear or bull, and last/run on its own. Maybe it works maybe it doesn't, but worth a shot trying to change this space.

I don’t recall ever seeing this many crypto companies shutting down before all around the same time.