Tokens Magazine Charlene

Dear Sardonyx, on this day, April 28, that’s 11 years ago exactly with my packed baby bag. I drove myself to Pearl City to the Tripler army hospital where for the umpteen time where three times a week I checked in to monitor your life inside my tummy. You were supposed to be born today 11 years ago on April 28, this was the date the doctor put on your first ultrasound as the date you’re expected to be born at full gestation, healthy, strong baby, so I checked in the hospital. Ready. They gave me a bed. The birth contractions had been happening as expected. But the pains I feel today, 11 years later hurt more than the pain of those grueling 19 to 20 hours of labor at the pink lady hospital. From the beginning, it was just you and me. Inside my tummy you and I had many great moments, we talked we laughed we cried. I felt everything you were doing inside. I could feel your stretch. I could feel your fist. I could feel your legs. I felt every time you moved. I felt every time you try to say something. I taught you as much as I could before you were born. The songs I made for you that we sang all the time, you knew those songs before you were born, they’re your songs. Nobody else sings them. I hope you sing them in your heart now that we’re apart. Oh how the birds love you, they’re chirping a song for you. And in the morning is the earth turning to the sun, smiling at you giving you light, it makes the skyline yellow. I love you, Sardonyx. You are my world. You are everything I ever hoped you to be. Let me spare you the details of the laborious process of you coming out of my tummy. One day I will tell you when you can understand the medical miracles of bringing a baby out of mommy’s tummy. But today, April 28 you stayed with me one more day. You gave me one more day of peace with just you and me. You were so relaxed you weren’t in any rush. You were comfortable. All the nurses and doctors checking but you were taking your time, no rushing. You didn’t give me too much hurt. You wanted to come out, but you didn’t wanna give me too much pain. You wanted me to know you appreciated me the months we spent together. Just you and me. I never told you this. I never told anybody this but thank you for that one extra day, it means the world to me now. Now that they’ve stolen you away from my arms and trying to steal your name, these nine months I can honestly say were the greatest, enough for a lifetime of joy. And the 10 years since we’ve been together just you and me, means more than a lifetime of happiness, a lifetime of joy. Our little squabbles, as you got older and made up your mind and could debate and could argue, I miss. I want to argue with you now. I want to debate with you over how much exactly is in a teaspoon, or whether it’s a fire or a water truck. But I think I won that debate because it doesn’t carry fire, it’s a water truck, it carries water and it sprays water, not fire. So the next time you see a water truck remember to smile. And also the next time you see a Amazon prime truck remember to smile. When you see Coca-Cola truck remember to say I love you. Or a Pepsi truck, or UPS truck I can’t remember what the code is, but every time I see one I say I love you son. Tomorrow will be April 29, so I’ll wait till to say it’s your birthday. But if I see a Walmart truck or a JB Hunt truck I will say hello to Liz, because I think her birthday is exactly one year ahead of yours, very close very very close. Remember all our friends who have loved us from the beginning and been there for us year after year. And remember Camille the twins, they just had their birthday. Only your dates that I try hard to remember. You are the only one that I adore more than any other human. I am proud of you and I love you and I dedicate my entire life to your happiness and your success, all I have is yours, or what is left of me is yours and yours only. Sardonyx I love you my only son, my one true love. Charlene Brown Mommy.

DO YOU KNOW THE CHINESE WOMAN At last night’s dinner banquet, a Chinese woman from Hunan sat in the most prominent seat between two figures known to the entire world: to her left, Tim Cook, and to her right, Elon Musk. Forty years ago, she was a poor rural girl who left school at the age of 15. Her name is Zhou Qunfei She lost her mother at five, and her father was injured in an accident while making explosives, leaving him blind with damaged hands. The family survived by making handmade baskets. At fifteen, she left her village for Guangdong to work, joining a watch‑glass factory in Shenzhen. She worked on the production line during the day and studied at night school, earning certificates in accounting, computing, customs clearance, and driving. After just three years, she rose from a simple worker to a factory manager. But she later resigned after being sidelined in favor of the owners’ relatives. She left with modest capital: 20,000 yuan and eight of her relatives. They rented a small apartment that became both a factory and a home. She would go from factory to factory offering her services, then return at night to work until 3 a.m. She continued like this for ten years. Then came the first opportunity in 2003. Motorola wanted to manufacture its iconic V3 phone with nearly impossible specifications: ultra‑thin, ultra‑clear glass with zero defects. Every factory refused. She accepted. The mission succeeded, and the phone sold more than 100 million units worldwide. From there, **Lens Technology** was born. Then came Apple. When Steve Jobs wanted to build the first iPhone with a strengthened glass that had never been commercially produced, Apple’s engineers searched the world for a factory willing to take the challenge. They found only Zhou Qunfei. After months of joint work, she succeeded in producing the first iPhone screen, later becoming the largest supplier of glass for Apple devices—from iPhone to iPad, MacBook, and Apple Watch. Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, and others followed, entrusting her with manufacturing automotive glass, smart displays, and even components for humanoid robots. That is why she sat in the most prominent seat last night. To her left, Tim Cook, whose Apple has relied on her factories for 18 years; to her right, Elon Musk, whose Tesla and Optimus robots depend on her technologies. When asked about the secret of her success, she did not speak of luck, intelligence, or even hard work. She simply said: Dare to accept. Then added: The things others see as impossible… accept them. The tasks everyone runs away from… accept them. When you accept the challenge, you learn how to succeed in it. And when you succeed, bigger challenges come to you. Opportunities are not discovered by people… opportunities are the things others abandon, and you bend down to pick them up.

@TinfoilTricorn @rand_longevity nobody can opt out of this natural cure

@TokensMagazine @rand_longevity that's not a cure that is called failure.

how many of you actually believe me when I say we are gonna cure aging? I wanna know

@adcock_brett @DMcCall_2 Jimbo

The internet has named the humanoid Jim! p.s. That human is David McCall - the head of design at Figure. He's new here and has 31 followers - these are rookie numbers so give him a follow: @DMcCall_2

@neuralink @elonmusk Beauty and Brains! Go Audrey

After a car accident left her paralyzed from the neck down, Audrey didn’t think she would be able to draw or paint again. 20 years later, she became the first female participant in our clinical trials. Now, she uses her brain-computer interface to create art with her mind.

@cb_doge Repost by Elon… definitely

Qatar Airways app now opens with a Starlink onboard banner. Starlink is becoming a major selling point for airlines.

@nicksortor @ljjthe2 Congratulations Nick, when opportunity knocks, go for the knockout @nicksortor

I have been offered a full-time role as a White House Correspondent for a well-known news network. Financial sacrifices would have to be made to sign on the dotted line, but I genuinely believe I can help push our country forward in the role. Should I do it?

@BigImpactHumans @RaychiiLee May 19 @SpaceX to launch Starship Flight 12 Where will you be watching from?

Starship Flight 12 is in just a few days! Will you be watching? 🚀✨

@rawsalerts @straight2crypto Even the bees sniffed out the fake news and refused to even take one bite

🚨#BREAKING: Watch as a massive swarm of bees descends on the White House press corps’ Pebble Beach media area on the North Lawn of the White House after forming a hive in a nearby tree with some witnesses describing the scene as a bee tornado

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump has STEPPED OFF Air Force One in America's capital, returning from an HISTORIC trip to China Your prayers worked, and 47 made it back safe and sound 36+ hours of travel time in just a few days. But Trump never misses a beat God bless America 🇺🇸

Section 179 lets you deduct the hardware in Year 1. Most people stop there. What they miss: the electricity bill is a fully deductible business expense every single month. $1,350/month in hosting fees at $0.07/kWh. Deductible. $16,200/year in power costs. Deductible. Every year the machines run. The hardware deduction is front-loaded. The electricity deduction is ongoing. A business owner running 5 S21 Hydros for 5 years deducts the full hardware cost in Year 1 and $81,000 in electricity across the life of the fleet, while the machines produce Bitcoin the entire time. The IRS didn't create this for Bitcoin miners. It created it for any business that runs equipment and pays for power. Bitcoin miners just happen to be running equipment that pays them back in the scarcest asset on earth.

@btcnewsalerts So we should let sumb people “regulate” a technology they don’t understand, doesn’t want to understand, refuse to understand and will never understand

Bitcoin doesn’t need permission. Institutions do. And that’s why regulatory clarity matters. Cleaner rails + fixed supply = violent repricing. 🎥 5-min breakdown:

Bitcoin: The MEANS from All Ends. Bitcoin is the end, but not necessarily the end all, and not necessarily the beginning. Its SHA-256 Proof-of-Work, combined with the difficulty adjustment algorithm, creates the hardest, most thermodynamically secure monetary asset ever designed. Every 10 minutes, the Bitcoin network demands an ever-increasing amount of real-world work—exahashes of computation powered by real electricity, ENERGY, to produce the next block. Mining for higher revenue-per-hash chains, which rewards can be converted directly into BTC sats. The loop closes cleanly. This is not dilation or disloyalty, it’s hash-rate arbitrage rooted in protocol physics. Electricity is fungible. PoW algorithms are not. Different difficulty targets, block rewards, and hashing functions create persistent (or at least recurring) pockets where marginal energy converts into coins more efficiently on the altcoin side—before flowing straight into Bitcoin’s security budget. This isn’t marketing. It’s an elegant dance loop: price rises → more miners → difficulty rises → security budget grows → more unforgeable scarcity. Bitcoin turns chaotic, stranded, or low-marginal-cost joules (flared gas, hydro overflow, geothermal) into the most liquid, globally arbitraged security in history. No other chain matches this equilibrium. BTC is the thermodynamic energy sink. The final destination. Bitcoin maximalism is often framed as ideological purity: BTC only, everything else is crap. But, examine the protocol at the level of physics and code, exposes a more powerful formulae. Yet the means to reach that sink can—and often should—route through other blockchain PoW networks. Consider Zcash and its Equihash algorithm. Bitcoin’s difficulty is orders of magnitude higher than Zcash’s. The same fixed energy input (say, a 1.4 kW rig running on the same electricity tariff) solves blocks or shares far more frequently on Zcash because the work barrier is dramatically lower. This isn’t temporary hype; it’s baked into the protocols: •SHA-256 ASICs are hyper-optimized for Bitcoin’s moat. They dominate at scale but make small-to-mid operations capital-intensive at the margin. •Equihash’s memory-hard design creates a different efficiency curve. It opens niches where GPUs, lighter ASICs, or hardware that can’t compete on Bitcoin’s difficulty curve remain highly productive. •Result: materially higher revenue per kWh and faster hardware payback on the same electricity, especially for operators who aren’t running industrial-scale SHA-256 farms. Every ZEC → BTC swap increases demand for the end asset while the original work subsidized faster accumulation. Bitcoin’s own difficulty adjustment proves the principle. It turns volatile energy markets into predictable, ordered scarcity. Extending that logic across the multi-chain PoW landscape doesn’t weaken maximalism, rather it supercharges it. Treat every joule of energy on Earth as a potential input to the BTC flywheel, whether directly via SHA-256 or indirectly via Equihash (or any other PoW transducer). Energy doesn’t care about tribal purity. It flows to where the conversion is most efficient today, then compounds in the ultimate sink forever. Mine by all means. Stack Bitcoin Hash.

@YourFriendAndy Some see Bitcoin as the END of the means Some see Bitcoin as the MEANS from all ends

If you want to be Bitcoin only, I respect that. However, a Z15 Pro miner (mining Zcash) makes $38/day in profit. 20X+ more profits than a comparable BTC miner. Most people I know doing this convert to BTC each day. Just one example, but I like opportunities to stack more BTC.

@Jan812314 @Elevate_Joy Being opposite to the prevailing expectation is what makes one truly curious

Why does Elon always look so awkward?

No one will run a Bitaxe. ✅ Bitaxe will never hit a block. ✅ Bitaxe will never hit another block. ✅ Bitaxe won't put a dent in the network hashrate. ← We are here. Goal posts keep moving and builders keep building.

僕は日本人なので、日本語が第一言語です。そして、多くの日本人は第二言語として、英語を学んでいます🇯🇵🥰 そこで、アメリカ人に質問があります。アメリカ人は第二言語として、どんな言語を学んでいますか？🇺🇸🤭

@CollinRugg today its mopeds… tomorrow its your ride, your house, your property! WAKE up stupid people

NEW: NYPD crushes more than 200 illegal mopeds as the city ramps up seizures of the illegal rides. The 200 scooters are just a small portion of the nearly 6000 that have already been seized. Mopeds are legal; however, thousands of people living in New York aren't registering them, aren't insured, and don't have licenses. The mopeds are a popular ride for illegal immigrants, who swarmed New York City thanks to former President Joe Biden's open border. Video: New York Post.

@elonmusk fix Nikita

Please list the most important features to improve, fix or add in the replies below:

Try this early Grok Build (anything) beta and let us know what to improve. Much appreciated!

@nicksortor Nick what’s on the menu… is everything Chinese food, since you’re in China

Yes, I’m still up, and yes, I’m still monitoring President Trump’s movements in China. Will post as soon as I have a video feed. Someone send a Red Bull 🤣