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I really wish people in the blockchain space would think more about how the tech we’re building can help in situations like Myanmar. Open governance and finance seem like a perfect fit for mature revolutions and organizing non-state actors for what comes next.

@ameensol @TrustlessState @nic_carter Can't wait for the Shah to rule over the rubble once Iran is free, of buildings, and infrastructure, and life.

@nic_carter @JavierBlas @fernandoulrich So our strategy is to start sinking Chinese oil tankers if they don’t help us keep the straight open? That was our plan all along?

@JavierBlas @fernandoulrich The US isn’t going to tolerate a status quo where just China gets oil and no one else does Either the strait is reopened to everyone or no one gets oil, and China is much much worse off than us. China should probably help reopen the strait.

So let’s see if I got this right: The White House had anticipated (and prepared) for Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz. And part of that response is for the President to ask via social media geopolitical foes like China to send warships to keep the waterway open?

The economy President nuked the economy The no war President started a war in the Middle East The drain the swamp President promotes corruption The crypto President launched rugs The release the Epstein files President is in them The cheap oil President made oil moon Alright...

You know who else was a private person, Zohran? Eva Braun.

@TrustlessState @libsoftiktok @nyuniversity No doubt. I’m sure khamenei thought the same thing.

@TroxNewsNetwork @libsoftiktok @nyuniversity Or, alternatively, I’m just doing what I think is right

Students at @nyuniversity held a vigil today for their dear leader Ayatollah Khamenei who’s responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans

@TrustlessState @libsoftiktok @nyuniversity so funny to correct the record of the far right propagandist to maintain the purity of your centrist, pro-war propaganda. These are your allies now my guy.

@libsoftiktok @nyuniversity I was there - no one there looked like a student

@Eve_Barlow "international law" lol.

These cluster missiles are illegal - as in “against international law”. But watch a single leftist say anything about one missile suddenly becoming 80 missiles when it’s Israel under attack. Leftists want all Jews to die and not have the infrastructure to defend ourselves. Well guess what, fuckers. It’s not 1939 any more.

@TrustlessState @divine_economy The lack of self-awareness in this comment hurts my eyes.

You are not the gatekeeper of our industries ideals The Islamic regime is the most barbaric and warmongering state on the planet. They are a death cult in charge of an incredible stockpile of munitions. Sadly, we cannot naively pacifist our way to a better future. We are doing what we must in order to create the future we deserve.

nearly the entire og guard of anti-state crypto—udi, nic, bankless, ameen, toly—is now whiling away their days clamoring for war i say this with no great animus. it's just a testament to how profoundly out of touch this industry is with the world's ideals—and its own.

the response to this shook me on a human level. generally i see twitter as "performance art for office drones like me" but i'm going to try to write this one as an actual human. mask-off. for the past couple years, i've been sharing political takes, always wishing i was dumb enough to just play the game. surely it's bad for business to alienate half the people i need to work with? and isn't the reason i'm here to build a business? but i shared for a few reasons: > this is not 2006 baby. we now live in a world that rewards people for polarizing opinions. these people have more integrity. and—and i'll return to this—the algorithm prioritizes them more. *isn't this* the game? > as long as i was expressing a contrarian view, i hoped that in some small way, i could help expand the overton window of this space, normalize more diverse discourse, and give space for more people to speak freely who might be scared to do so. i have a lot less to risk here than others. > these things matter to me a lot, and they reflect the ideals of why i got into this space in the first place. to put that simply, naively, i believe in a borderless world, and that it's insane we've created global class hierarchies based on where people are born. i said in the post below that i was writing "with no great animus." and that was true. i know many of the figures i mentioned personally. and i know that most are driven by good intentions, and as @toly noted in a reply that really pierced me, a lot of family trauma. and i relate to this intensely. because the fact is, i am too. we are humans having human responses. this is not the only explanation of course. i think it's genuinely hard to continue rallying for your anti-state ideology-coins when the state peeks its head in your doorway and tells you it wants to pump your bags. and maybe most significantly, i think it's hard not to pick barroom brawls over politics when this is effectively the *only* content that the algorithm wants to surface. stick around on social media enough, and you eventually will cede your identity to the mandates of the algorithm in the hope that if you feed it, it will reward the rest of your content in turn. but it rarely does. what i have tried to avoid admitting is that this has happened to me too. and yet, when i look at my track record here, i have started *a lot* of barroom brawls on twitter. and i know. at some point to succeed here, we all must take on the role of the swaggering shoulder-chipped macho man desperate to mask his insecurity in aggro rhetorical feints. this is not the majority of content i've produced, by any means, but it is the majority of my content that's gone viral, and i've continued to feed the algorithm with an increasingly blustering persona, as have so many of the people i mentioned. and what other option is there? we all are desperate to reassert some semblance of moral order in a world where it's clearly failing, even if only some of us are suspicious that the path to evil is asserting you have carte blanche for your behaviors because you're on the side of good. (see: US interventions in korea, vietnam, guatemala, panama, chile, indonesia, haiti, libya, sudan, libya, afghanistan, iraq, libya, etc.) but one thing i learned from the comments: i do think there's a very real risk that at some point when you stop seeing others as people, and only see them as social media personas, you'll do the same to yourself. lobotomy-by-algorithm. the fact is, i'm not sure how to continue posting with an algorithm that only wants me to be the most desperately insecure machismo version of myself. and maybe there isn't a way. but the last few days helped remind me both that the worst people we know are still human, and that they're the worst people we know because they refuse to see others as humans too. it feels more than ever that humanity is a sacrifice the algorithm demands from us—which, in the fight against fascism, can feel like a fair enough sacrifice to make. but that calculus becomes more and more unclear every day. and in relation to the conversation and responses below, the most important point to call out.

honestly everyone pivoting from crypto libertarianism in 2018 to pro-war statism in 2026 makes perfect sense. and you have to admire these people. for whatever era they're in, they are geniuses at being contrarian and wrong. they're like opposite day forrest gumps

@trent_vanepps @nic_carter was punched in the head too many times. CTE makes you fascist I guess

i keep wanting to make an ironic Miami dunk but man… 😶 this is such a bleak reversal of principles

@_tolks i need to align myself with the industry doing the coolest crimes being a national security risk is a way sicker than infinite insider trading

AI is now anti-government and crypto is now co-opted by the establishment this one stings

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I'm an optimist. I see a future where Ethereum is no longer overshadowed by pet rock zealots and grifters. Believe in som⟠ing.

worst ppl in crypto: - ryan selkis - nic carter

@THESTAKERCLASS @bobpail Least of all @RichardHeartWin

It’s hard for me to take someone seriously as an honest thinker when they argue guns are for resisting state overreach, but also accept “obey or get shot” as legitimate.