Udi Wertheimer

@tszzl i hate it when my c++ compiler ignores my assembly style guide

@mert this is why i love solana. the CEO supports small accounts like toly

im a big fan of HL, jeff, & shoku they are excellent I have noticed though a certain class of .HLs, who are obviously new here, disrespect toly in increasingly cheap ways toly is a monumental mind in the trajectory of crypto ppl dont remember now but there was a long and aggressive period of time where we had to fight every single day, for years, to show that actually you CAN scale crypto to planetary scale and that the ethereum way is not the only option this took an immense amount of work in spite of tremendous setbacks and many near death moments but now the engineering bar in crypto is meaningfully different than before toly. solana has created hundreds of new startups and businesses the dude is rich beyond belief, has nothing left to prove, and instead of checking out like 99% of people here, shows up every single day and has fun doing it you can and should criticize many things about solana, but personal attacks against one of the very rare instances of a missionary founder is unserious and will do nothing but give solana founders free and limitless energy

i mean, something like spotify? it's just not going to exist, your phone will just play music for you automatically and it'll pick songs better than you ever could, there won't be an app for it you'll just put your AirPods in and the phone will contextually know if you're trying to take a call of watch a video or play music and do the right thing. at some point it'll generate the music for you on the fly too

@udiWertheimer I have not even thought about this. Where is it gonna go?

the age of mobile apps and homescreen icons is almost over anyway if you still have homescreen real estate you might as well do something memorable with it. you won’t have it for long

@kai_xbt @notthreadguy there’s a reason for this btw, it’s an illiquid swiss shit stonk, the fact that you can even trade it spot on robinhood at all is a modern day miracle, not every US broker will let you do that, you sure as hell can’t do it with leverage it’s an illiquid shit market

@kai_xbt @notthreadguy dafuq is this retarded rant you can’t trade $SWGAY on hyperliquid at all. not spot not options not perps not anything. how is that better? robinhood: can trade swatch hyperliquid: can’t which is better for trading swatch? hmm damn i don’t know

Threadguy tries to long Swatch Group on Robinhood and realizes how terrible it is compared to Hyperliquid "I go to deposit money on Robinhood, I rip a stablecoin transaction and it's 24 hours settlement. I'm like bro what? 24 hours to settle stablecoins on Robinhood. Then I go to trade Swatch Group, no options. I'm like bro what am I gonna do with spot? No options?" "I take a second and I'm like hold on, this app is terrible. Genuinely this app is terrible. I get on Hyperliquid and it's not even close. It isn't even comparable. And the two biggest Robinhood bulls we've interviewed, both who I love very dearly, have never used Hyperliquid. So I once again ask, why would you hold HOOD in the big 26? It doesn't make sense to me at all."

100% agree. demand solves all problems. if demand is high enough, people are more willing to jump through any necessary hoops, AND simultaneously the incentives align for builders to also fix the UX issues i’m using ordinals as a wedge to start this conversation because i’m the “ordinals guy” but this isn’t really about ordinals for me. it applies broadly to all protocols. when people want to buy art it’s rarely *because* it’s on “chain X”. it’s because they feel something about some artwork and they want to own it

IMO this is all downstream of desire. We haven’t given collectors a real reason to want ordinals, not just tolerate them. Fix that and the UX stuff becomes solvable, because people make time for what they actually care about. Skip it and all the enhancements won’t save us. The friction isn’t the problem, it’s just what’s left visible when the wanting isn’t there.

on this saturday morning i am going to WALK INTO FIRE for no reason whatsoever 🔥🔥🔥 since i’m still known as the “ordinals guy”, i want to pose a question to ordinals fans: why was this @SHL0MS auction not on ordinals? why isn’t @Jediwolf (the auction winner) an ordinals enjoyer? as is often the case in crypto, ordinals folks might be tempted to say that the reason is “because they are stupid and uneducated” but that of course would be unequivocally false while i’d agree in principle that, ALL ELSE BEING EQUAL, a timeless piece like this one could have much to gain from being stored forever on bitcoin… the fact is that all else is NOT equal: 1. one simple superficial reason is that there simply isn’t an easy platform to auction 1-of-1 ordinals. even if some obscure, half-baked ones exist, they do not carry manifold’s trusted brand and relatively simple UX. attempting an auction with the lack of smart contracts and with slow blocks is genuinely a miserable experience. i would know 2. more fundamentally, there just aren’t enough people who have ordinals wallets with meaningful amounts of BTC in it who are ready to bid at a moment’s notice. a stealth-dropped auction relies on the existence of an audience that is ready to bid. if shl0ms’ monet auction required people to download and install a new wallet and then bridge into BTC, it necessarily would’ve settled at a lower price, if at all. when my team prepared for large mints/auctions on ordinals, the playbook included a campaign to have potential bidders pre-fund their own wallets weeks in advance, because we knew that otherwise the bid simply wouldn’t be ready in time. this type of thing tends to be overlooked but is absolutely critical 3. quite frankly, most people who are serious about collecting digital art have a (much) stronger affinity to ethereum. that is just the reality, and ignoring this reality is not going to help ordinals artists be more successful. there are much fewer digital art patrons who are ordinals-native, and targeting them exclusively isn’t a very wise business decision i’m saying all of this not to dunk on ordinals but because i genuinely do still think that bitcoin should play a bigger part in digital art than it currently does. but the ordinals protocol and ecosystem are very far from perfect and if we want to improve bitcoin’s standing in this sector we need to acknowledge that and work on solutions i think eventually a more compelling vision might look more like “artwork stored on bitcoin, but accessible everywhere”. it’ll require the ordinals community to drop their (largely un-earned) pretentiousness about other chains, but ultimately could improve bitcoin’s standing in the art world i genuinely think that if “inferior image” was still an ethereum nft auctioned on manifold, but with the metadata pointing to permanent storage of the artwork on bitcoin, it would’ve been an even stronger piece than it already is. those who care about art on bitcoin would do well to work towards making that a possibility for the next time a piece like this emerges.

@chooserich brother posting an image like this is the biggest flex for a brand. they know exactly what they’re doing

We are so shocked that people rushed the stores when we didn’t make it available online! That would have been too difficult despite having infinite supply!

@AFuckingNobody @SHL0MS > I remember when you blocked me back in the day i don’t remember you at all

Holy shit bruh, you must be like an art expert with the finest tastes or something. I remember when you blocked me back in the day like a little bitch for calling your dumb ass out on something too unimportant for me to recall, but that I was right about. Kinda like your automated @s8n @SHL0MS cock you have your lips around. Lol.

the monet by @shl0ms is the creme de la creme of performance art mass-rage-baiting is the most elusive art form that exists. so many variables have to fall into place for it to be effective and yet when it works you can’t help but ask “how did i not think of that myself” because it feels so naturally obvious dragging the entire hive mind kicking and screaming into a taboo realization, instantly destroying all previous models, and doing it so effortlessly that it feels like the conclusion was never even in question history was made yesterday ladies and gentlemen. you just don’t know it yet

> I just do not see much merit or hard work behind it the best mass rage bait is like that but it requires true mastery how many basic shitposters would’ve come up with intentionally watermarking the image so that X natively tags it as “made by ai”? that level of familiarity with platform quirks is a shl0ms staple and a byproduct of years of experimentation how many basic shitposters would’ve picked a monet (vs a van gogh) because his first name was claude, but resist the urge to say anything, giving people the agency to discover it themselves and amplify to feel smart? thus expertly baiting both sides instead of just one side how many basic shitposters would’ve spent 48 hours continuously curating a collection of “greatest fails” turning the work into a living document these are just 3 small examples there are many more, i don’t want to completely ruin it by naming all of them

Sure, there is still something to it, but people like to attribute too much merit to some “shitposts.” I appreciate what he did. I just do not see much merit or hard work behind it. My biggest liked post was literally just me posting a meme once. It got something like 3k likes, but at the end of the day, it was still bullshit. I am not a genius for that. I did not work hard for it. In fact, the things I actually work hard on usually rarely pay off, or at least they have not paid off yet.

@interfaceChiral @Jediwolf @SHL0MS quite simply i disagree. sent this to my team as soon as i first saw it

@udiWertheimer @Jediwolf @SHL0MS I enjoy this work by shl0ms a lot and have been engaging as I think it’s very interesting It’s very far from the creme de la creme of performance art though, even in the digital space. Good example of it, and very culturally relevant tho!

maybe a tiny bit having 80k followers doesn’t get you to 6 million impressions and 8,000 likes and 1,000 comments for a single post, the followers are essentially inconsequential for this scale, you have more or less the same chance to hit those numbers as a 80k follower account has, assuming you execute on the same level

@udiWertheimer @SHL0MS well & having +30k followers definitely help a bit.

@0xinc @SHL0MS can you name any artwork that people cared about without it getting a reaction isn’t that contradictory

@SHL0MS I’ll take it

The most devastating critique of this really is that if it didn’t get a reaction nobody would care. Completely reliant on a predictable response from 0.01% of the Twittersphere (90% of which are probably bots anyways). I say this as someone who absolutely loves everything about it all.

@VahnAeris @SHL0MS mass rage bait is never about the idea, always about execution

@udiWertheimer @SHL0MS I already saw bait exactly tailored the same before him, his worked for the fact that monet was specifically bullshit enough in a certain corner of reality.

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@udiWertheimer yes and no. tiktok yt ig and your bank app aren’t going anywhere fast

the real issue with the monet — and it’ll probably take months for people to realize this — is that it’s too unforgiving it leaves the fools affected with absolutely no way to save face, instead pushing them to double down on idiocy. and it was so successful that you will probably be driven to double down on clowning them, further cornering them into the permanent underclass, instead of becoming their path to enlightenment

i might seem thin-skinned, but i yearn to be critiqued. what i despise is being misunderstood to criticize something properly is to truly understand it

i might just write a brutal critique of my own work it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than the slop the bitter washed up NFT artists are producing today, and more incisive since i actually understand it

as for the nft: it was underpriced. this event will be taught to future kids in LLM-based history classes as the moment that the art world had to contend with AI dominance. every child will recognize it

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@rexamphetamine you’ll just ask your phone to do things and it’ll do them often you won’t even have to ask MAYBE apps like tiktok and instagram will still exist and basically become the superapps for entertainment and consumption

@udiWertheimer what comes after mobile apps?