Yosemite Sam ⛏️

@higgyboson @RachelReevesMP A very long winded way to explain "The Laffer Curve"

I've just been doing some calculations. Since @RachelReevesMP became the Chancellor of the Exchequer and raised taxes, I've actually been spending LESS of my money on tax. Why? Because I don't buy as much "stuff" now - So I don't pay as much VAT as I did before. I'm probably paying about 25% LESS VAT than before. Also, I've cut down on the number of miles I drive to work and the number of "leisure" drives I take. I'm actually paying about 40% LESS in fuel taxes thanks to Rachel. I also don't have the heating on as long as before. I use less water too. And the savings I'm making have enabled me to reduce my working hours so I also pay less income tax. In summary - Raising taxes has reduced the tax she gets from the Higgy household.

@Wisemenmentors Ore is the way.

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@moodybtc Hey @ItsDave_ADA ... You still bagholding this?

I’ll be honest; $ADA made me a lot of money back in 2020. Bought early, rode the wave, took profits. Genuinely grateful for it. But that was a different era. Different market. Different Cardano. Today? I wouldn’t touch it with someone else’s money. Ecosystem collapsing, founder publicly checking out, summit cancelled because the community couldn’t even agree to fund it. $0.16 and bleeding. The same thesis that made it a great buy in 2020 is exactly why it’s uninvestable now. The hype carried it. The hype is gone. Sometimes the smartest trade is knowing when a chapter is closed. RIP Cardano 🪦

@moodybtc Nobody uses cardano.. They're all bagholders.

@AndrewHWestern Funding jobs with gov spending ( you spend more than taxes bring in) means yes... More will be in work, but with zero net gain as you'll tax them more to pay for what you borrowed to employ them. Spend less, be fiscally responsible, decrease the size of government.

Lots of people challenging what I have said below/claiming it’s incorrect - over the past year the number of people in work has increased from 33.975m (ONS Employment in the UK: May 2025) to 34.392m (same source for May 2026). So up by 417,000. There are almost 1.4m more people in employment since the general election. For economic inactivity the figure in the May 2025 report was 9.229m; for May 2026 the figure is 9.103m. So down 126,000. When the Tories left office there were 9.383m economically inactive people so :8!since July 2024 we have seen a total drop of 280,000. We are not complacent. There is significant work to do, but these figures are accurate and the Government is taking action to see further improvement, particularly where we see barriers that exist for young people who are not in education, employment or training. The Youth Guarantee. Incentives for employers to hire young people on Universal Credit. Payments to SMEs who take on apprentices. Expanding youth hubs. New foundation apprenticeships. Lots to do, but we are making a difference.

@ceagleoneism So far... 1 ore is worth more than 1 Sol... Even in this dip. Recalculate.

I think of it more like If SOL goes to $40.. ORE goes to.. $30 maybe? If SOL goes to $150... ORE goes to.. $800? $1000+? One of these is an emerging store of value. The other is a gas token mostly controlled by VCs with a ton of overhang and seemingly infinite sellers.

@CryptoRibdo @drip_haus Hot damn. I still have a wallet full of season 1 NFTs from the beginning.... Before Cnfts even existed.

🏆 LEGENDARY LOCKED 🏆 I’m guaranteed a 🟪Legendary from the next @drip_haus featured artist! 🔥 Yeah I still drippp

@usanewshq Depends if the windows are open or not.

Explain using physics: Is the drone stationary or moving at 50 kph?

@amelia_tweetz You think it's all cash 🤣🤣🤣?

@AllForProgress_ Great Tech, Hydrogen still more expensive than JetA1 per mile. That's not including storage, delivery or cryogenic tech at airports. Also Hydrogen goes Boom far easier than kerosene. This will take more time. Good luck to all involved.

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon. Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend. Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone. We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away. As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations. That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas. Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them. We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

I believe in a thing called Solana.

@CryptoRibdo @CryptoHayes Also, why is Hayes on video from a sweaty ass basement?

Been in crypto for quite some time, but somehow only came across @CryptoHayes a few weeks ago (apparently he’s a big deal). My first impression when I listened to him was straight “biiiiiiiiittttttccooooonnnnnnneeeecccct” “waaasup wasssup waaasup.” So I moved on and carried on with my day. I was right. Anyone who interacts with this dude and his circle I just skip past. I don’t like being exit liquidity. Find a solid product, real team, and strong community instead. Invest in what you actually believe in, work with that community, and explain why you’re all-in. What I love about the $ORE community is there are zero KOLs. Not one. The transparency in the mines is there for everyone to see: your wallet is fully visible on-chain, the project itself is completely open at ore.fyi, and the tokenomics are straight-up beautiful (3M max supply, zero team allocation, 100% of protocol revenue buys back and buries ORE). Simply put: if $ORE doesn’t reach billions in market cap, then crypto is truly dead. Because this is literally what crypto was supposed to be. Everyone who sees what this actually is should at least buy 1 $ORE (or as much as you can afford), especially right now while the price is still this low. This is easily the easiest buy-in of the last decade for me. Quantum-resistant, future-proof electronic cash. The hard hat stays on ⛏️🛡️🧊

@CryptoRibdo @CryptoHayes Just wait till CT introduces you to @RaoulGMI aka Rug Pal

@Jack4xb Not bother with ETH tbh. Use the chain, don't baghold it.

Last week I was excited to start topping up the crypto whilst the markets were hot. 🚀 After Fridays dip I’m now not sure what to do because all I see is discounts. Will it go down further ? Probably. ethereum:native is looking like a naughty ex though. What would you do?

@Tekeee What app is that?

Nobody has touched this app since 2023

@solanapoet Once the 300 are sold, would you dp typewriter commissions?

ngl at this rate, every typewriter physical, originally typed 1/1 will be sold. imagine pokemon cards but you get the actual physical art, paint & all, the card was originally designed with and there’s only like 300 total artworks

@OelingerCrypto @SolanaHub_ @solana Easy to get holders mate. You just get Claude to create 20,000 wallets and airdrop them.

@SolanaHub_ @solana $Hachi What other Solana project has 43k holders at this valuation?

Underrated @Solana projects right now? 👀

@sol_nxxn Buy $100 of $ORE and book mark this.

I’m about to have the greatest race in my wallet 🏁 Just bought $ETH, $HYPE, $ZEC, and $SOL Now I’m going to stop checking the charts and just watch it play out here Which one do you think will win the race? 🤔

@WhiteWhaleLabs 1 - SIMDs have been proposed to lower Sol inflation and increase Sol burn 2- the whole point of Sol is to use it as the means to pay to use the chain. 3 $ORE - Ore.com is the Store of Value on @solana Thankyou for your attention to this matter.

Dear Solana: Solana is my favorite blockchain to transact on. It is still one of my favorite assets to trade. And when price is attractive, I still think there is a good case for accumulating it. But I am less bullish on SOL’s next-cycle price targets than I was last time. Last cycle, while everyone was calling for $500+ SOL, I publicly said I planned to be out before $250. Solana’s ATH came earlier than BTC and much of the market, but that call ended up being pretty damn close. This time, unless I see a real fundamental shift, I will probably be lowering my targets. As things stand now, I would likely be out before $200 next cycle. That is not because I hate Solana. I don’t. But love is not a sound investment thesis. The reasons are pretty straightforward. Pump fun has historically made up a meaningful chunk of Solana volume, and I believe the pump (and broader memecoin casino) meta is dying. Maybe it evolves. Maybe something replaces it. But pretending that was not a significant driver of activity feels dishonest. Solana DeFi has also taken a serious hit. A lot of Solana DeFi was tied into Drift, and the damage there impacted dozens of protocols. It hurt the broader perception of Solana DeFi. Then there is the capital markets side. A lot of Solana DATs were formed at some of the worst possible price points, then unwound, restructured, or de-risked at some of the worst possible price points. CT forgets everything in 72 hours but institutional capital does not. If a bunch of institutions got dragged into Solana exposure near the highs, then unwound for losses, that leaves a mark. It does not mean they will never touch SOL again. But it does mean the next wave of institutional appetite may not be as easy, clean, or deep as people assume. Then there is the cultural layer. Solana feels disjointed right now. Some of the most prominent Solana voices have spent an incredible amount of time relentlessly shilling an entirely different blockchain. Yes, ZEC is it's own Layer 1. It does not exactly scream focus on Solana itself. It reads as devs thinking their bag is cooked and so they start pumping their next bag. Only now does there finally seem to be real traction around addressing the inflation issue, which should have been more meaningfully a long time ago. But what really read as desperation to me was the @PhoenixTrade push. That moment actually influenced my vision more than any of the others. Look, I have traded over $5B in perps across various protocols. I have tested or used almost every “perp DEX” worth testing. And Phoenix is about as basic as it gets. Yes, the engineering under the hood is interesting. Fine. Mad respect to the builders. But traders do not ultimately care about engineering. They care about three things: Does it work? Can I make money there? Is it safe? And right now, the best Solana-adjacent perps venue is @pacifica_fi . I say Solana-adjacent because it is mostly the stables on-ramp and Solana TVL. It is not generating massive activity for the Solana network itself. And even Pacifica has already talked about building its own L1. (A decision I'm skeptical about, even as a fan) My exact reaction to the huge marketing push on one of the most basic perp dexs I've ever traded on was: they are so very desperate for something to gain traction on Solana it actually scares me. Solana talks a lot about what it wants to be when it grows up. And to be clear, the vision is compelling. The ambition is real. The talent is definitely real. But ambition is not maturity. Every kid wants to be a doctor, an astronaut, or a superhero when they grow up. I care more about what something actually is than what it says it wants to become. So what is my favorite new blockchain? Solana. Because you can still love something and still be rational about it. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋

@rcsaviour_eth @anon_opin You kept quiet while they prayed... And while nobody was in there praying???? Just sang and shouted to your hearts content?

@anon_opin Cheap compared to home country Tax (VAT) rebate I know cos my wife just did that exact thing I spent 5% of that on the executive lounge and guzzled two bottles of red wine in the silent room (Only person in there it was fab - I kept quiet when people came in to pray)

Who actually buys designer clothes/watches etc in an airport? Genuinely curious as to how these retailers make any money and who it is that is daft enough to shop there.