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I’m not big on identities, but I am extremely proud to be American. This is true every day, but especially today—I firmly believe this is the greatest country ever on Earth. The American miracle stands alone in world history. I believe in techno-capitalism. We should encourage people to make tons of money and then also find ways to widely distribute wealth and share the compounding magic of capitalism. One doesn’t work without the other; you cannot raise the floor and not also raise the ceiling for very long. The world should get richer every year through science and technology, but everyone has to be in the “up elevator”. I think the government usually does a worse job than markets, and so we need to encourage our culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. I also believe that education is critically important to keeping the American edge. I believed this when I was 20, when I was 30, and now I am 40 and still believe it. The Democratic party seemed reasonably aligned with it when I was 20, losing the plot when I was 30, and completely to have moved somewhere else at this point. So now I am politically homeless. But that’s fine; I care much, much more about being American than any political party. I’d rather hear from candidates about how they are going to make everyone have the stuff billionaires have instead of how they are going to eliminate billionaires. The American experiment has always been messy. I am hopeful for another great 250 years. Happy 4th!

NEW TODAY: There’s no point of a multiplanetary future if there are no people left to populate it The U.S. fertility rate sits at an anemic 1.79, far below the required level to replace our population. The global rate is not much better. This means we’re watching civilization compound into oblivion through the powerful force of exponential decline. Even in countries with state-funded IVF programs, policy and technology have had little effect, because depopulation isn’t something you can fix with tax subsidies and robots. It stems from a fundamental devaluation of family life in post-industrial economies. Once, having children was how you joined the world. Today — with help from parenthood’s total absence from narratives that celebrate professional ambition, romantic conquest, and lone-wolf heroism — it’s framed as opting out of it. Freedom is childlessness. Kids are a burden. DINK life (Double Income, No Kids) is not only accepted but vaunted like an achievement. In a culture addicted to self-optimization, the case against children practically writes itself. Some people have deeply personal reasons not to have children. As for the rest of us, especially the self-proclaimed futurists who are resourced and capable? Wake up to the programming. Have kids now. Don’t wait for the perfect apartment with a nursery. Don’t wait until you can afford a night nurse, like I did, cutting into the window of opportunity to have another, and another. Don’t wait for your startup to exit, or to make partner, or to hit some phantom “ready” (readiness is just control, repackaged). Stop shitposting. Stop procrastinating. You need less money, space, and time than you think. Let it be messy. Let it be visible. Choose this fundamentally creative act, a reason for living that breaks you open and remakes you. The future of humanity — whether on Earth, Mars, or beyond — depends on it. (No pressure.) (Link to the full piece is threaded.) 👇

Most fascinating part of the CLARITY act in the House is the bright line decentralization test. Pass - token is a commodity ✅ Fail - token likely a security❌ According to chatgpt... BTC, ETH, LTC, XMR, Doge currently pass. XRP, BNB, SOL, Tron, Aptos, Sui currently fail.

Neither $TAO nor $KAS are structurally and Architectural equipped for decentralized AI at scale. TAO’s limitations go far beyond Substrate. It lacks encrypted memory, persistent agent state, sovereign storage, private identity, and any form of on-chain model training. It still relies heavily on AWS and has no native memory for agents or AI. Switching to Kaspa doesn’t solve this. Kaspa is optimized for speed, not depth. It has no compute layer, no agent runtime, no encrypted memory, no privacy, and no ability to host verifiable or sovereign AI. Even smart contracts are still a dream outsourced to third-party teams trying to duct-tape something onto L2s. Kaspa is fast and wide like the Amazon River sure. But what’s flowing through it? You can’t run an AI economy on a payments pipe. That’s like suggesting Visa should host OpenAI just because it’s fast. Most people in TAO see subnets doing “something” and get excited by slick frontends. But under the hood, it’s mostly old OpenAI or other pre-trained models wrapped in a UI. No models are being trained. No decentralized AI is being created. It’s just inference hitting centralized APIs. Take Chutes, for example. Marketed as decentralized compute, but it lacks training, encrypted memory, agent persistence, and any sovereign infra. It’s deployment theater just spinning up models on AWS with some UI sugar on top. They all just farming and enjoying emissions with beautiful User interfaces. No one asks the hard questions. In crypto, loud marketing often wins over real architecture. There’s only one protocol I’ve seen that can actually solve this at the base layer: $QUIL. I’m not here to shill. Don’t invest if you’re unsure. But if you understand architecture, read the whitepaper or wait for 2.1 and see what it enables. This isn’t hype. It’s a pointer for those who can tell the difference between frontend noise and substrate gravity. Do your homework. You don’t need to be a protocol expert or rocket scientist , but it’s your capital. Don’t follow the loudest voice follow the logic. Many don’t understand what they are talking about and can easily mislead people who decide to be sheeps eg. 👇🏼