Steph Curdy

PART 2 - FROM BIG BANG TO BLOCKCHAIN Again, @mechanikalk and @jgreenhall back at it. This one covers the philosophy and design constraints of building a decentralized, scalable, monetary system. Enjoy!

Proof of Entropy Minima x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Starting the week with a 7D revenue snapshot ⚡️ The SOAP engine keeps running 24/7, converting all chain revenue directly into quai-network:native buybacks and burns. Here is where quai-network:native ranks on @DefiLlama:

Deeply reading and meditating on this today

@Pontifex @0xalank

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@thecyberfam No VIN assigned, but I did get a final $$ bill for my Model 3 lease return... but I already paid a final bill so not sure what this cost is about lol

The time has come! We have two reservations in our family so we're a little excited. 📐📐 Anybody else waiting for one? I'd love to hear from anybody who gets a VIN.

@AriDavidPaul What’s the right realm of professions for this archetype?

Sharing my mental and physical health journey and learnings on neurodivergence. My guess is this applies to many of you. 15 months ago I exited BlockTower and was beyond burnt out. I was anxious, depressed, and felt like I had the body and mind of a 70 year old. I spent the next year on the “basics.” Sleep, exercise, nutrition, minimizing screen time, connecting with close friends and family. That helped a lot, but I still struggled with a couple bad habits and felt far from being capable of tackling anything ambitious. The neurodivergence angle - a few years ago, I got assessed for autism and ADHD but definitively and clearly had neither (at least according to current tests, literature, and psychiatrists.) In the last month I connected with a couple new doctors including a brilliant neuroscientist that opened my eyes to various patterns. Almost all the literature and studies on these topics come from “average people.” High functioning people are largely absent from the literature because we don’t volunteer for medical studies and often “cope” so well that we go undiagnosed. I’m fairly certain now that I have some form of ADHD (and am somewhere lightly on the autism spectrum), very different from anything I’ve ever read about. My own pattern - hopping from rabbit hole to rabbit hole, a constantly working mind that’s only silenced by intense flow state like rock climbing, procrastination as my biggest (and almost sole) source of anxiety, and gravitating towards nicotine and THC with no desire for any other substances. Apparently this is an archetype for high functioning ADHD, and reflects a weak dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex that controls “executive function” in the brain. Buddhist style meditation and any type of arduous deep focus strengthens this part of the brain. Doom scrolling and staring at financial charts all day weakens it. I’m exploring a range of remediations - technological, nutritional, psychological, and already seeing benefits. Closer to the start of this journey than the end. Will share more soon with things that worked for me.

@thecrackofdan @iboQuai youtu.be/9JBdi8X9Pno?si… “Rage against the dying light”

I no longer have an employer, and it was very satisfying deleting the work contact from my phone. Bigger and better things are in my future and it all hinges on me to succeed. Today is just the beginning!

@QuaiNetwork on THORChain Podcast #202 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Don't kill our last remaining competitive advantage against China. “China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.” —Lee Kuan Yew

the world your parents grew up in is now gone. outstanding students loans have gone from ~$481B in 2006 to ~$1.87T in 2026 people were told to borrow against their future, go to school, get the job, pay it back later but now AI is coming for the white-collar jobs that were supposed to make the debt worth it the old system promised gen z opportunities but left them with a useless credential and debt how do we fix this?

@zawy3 Harmonious. Nice insight

Bitcoin is insurance the government makes possessing Zcash UTXOs illegal because it can't see them. Zcash is insurance it makes possessing certain Bitcoin UTXOs illegal because it can.

We need to keep smart people in the country to build the future and build tomorrow’s businesses that employ millions of people This is bad and misguided policy

Being able to walk like this everyday in the afternoon is what cities should strive to be.

Does this mean AI Researchers, employees, and students will now have to leave the country and wait through a backlog process to continue their work? Harmful move for tech, business, and America broadly...

The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.

I understand why we don’t want people to come to the US to be criminals, mooch on welfare, open learing centers and otherwise undermine the country. But I don’t understand why we make it harder for motivated, ambitious, hardworking people to come to the land of opportunity.

What made America great was the idea that it was like a team. No matter where you came from, you could join as long as you could prove yourself. A land of enthusiasm, but filled with challenges, because deep inside everyone in the team thinks that everything is possible and that this is the only place that can make it happen. That perfect coincidence made the ambition not one of identity, but one of shared purpose. And that shared purpose was America. And that shared purpose made America great. It is still hiding somewhere.

This is the most boneheaded decision I’ve seen in a while. Green card applications are often changes in status for people already in legal working visas. When I got my green card I was an assistant professor at MIT on an H1B visa. The institute handled all of the paperwork. The process was still slow, but I could continue working all the time.

@thecrackofdan Big win for us

@Steph_Curdy That's the gameplan...and whatever else I desire to learn about and pursue. So far so good.

The car is fixed. Minus a lost day today, I only have 36 hours of my time left in healthcare. My future starts in 3 days!