SuggsSzn
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Your phone company sold access to your real-time location. This month it lost at the Supreme Court.
Here's what happened. The four big carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) sold access to where their customers physically were to outside data brokers, without consent. That access trickled down a chain that, in some cases, let bounty hunters buy a person's live location for a few hundred dollars.
In 2024 the FCC fined the carriers nearly $200 million for it. The carriers fought back with a constitutional argument: they claimed the government could not fine them at all without a jury trial.
On June 4, 2026, the Supreme Court rejected that argument 8 to 1. The FCC's power to impose these fines stands. The carriers lost their escape hatch.
The case is FCC v. AT&T. And the bigger point is this: the location data in your pocket has been treated as a product to be sold, and the fight over who answers for that is just getting started.

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The Daily Call is on France and Senegal both to score in their match today, and @johnsaponaro pulled up to On The Record and told @dannyburke5 why he agrees with this call.
We’re looking to continue our run with this one, are you on it with us?!
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2.5K → 800 validators. Nakamoto coefficient dropped from 34 → 20. We're watching centralization happen.
Subsidies getting cut is just the symptom. The actual problem — PoH needs sequential hashing. You're looking at 5GHz CPUs, 256GB RAM, $17M staked to break even. Hardware-based ordering creates an arms race. Arms races always consolidate.
This isn't just a Solana thing. ETH is centralizing around Lido/Coinbase. BTC around Foundry/AntPool. Different roads, same destination.
Root cause: indiscriminate ordering. Forcing all transactions into one sequence means hardware has to scale exponentially with demand. That's a one-way road to centralization.
What we need is parallel consensus on shared objects. Context-aware, participant-centric ordering. Your DEX consensus independent from game consensus, running in parallel on the same network.
Real decentralization at scale and real-world hyper-local utility requires intelligent ordering. Not hardware arms races. Not capital barriers.
Without that, centralization isn't a risk. It's the destination.
@rahullenkala @MOI_Tech @PimaBD
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Wish i had a time machine
MOI@MOI_Tech
I wonder where this guy is right now, $50,000 into Bitcoin 13 years ago!
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