

Jivaxie.ron 🦗
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$RON mAxie #AxieInfinityOG #Homelandplayer @Ronin_Network Joined Axie Infinity last July 2021




I'm back. Reflections on the experiment (no Discord/Slack/Twitter on a Saturday). 1. Boredom is a vulgar word for tranquility. 2. It works for me when I use the weekend to do deep, immersive thinking. Writing, planning the week ahead, and reframing the projects/strategies we're pursuing. 3. This is a cultural, economic, and political movement. We can only win by using asymmetric tactics by leaning into our natural advantages. We will lose if we make games, build products, speak, and work like the legacy institutions. 4. Being productive and being available are often related but sometimes need to be unlinked. Weekends are good for this. IE during the week, I must be available. But during the weekend, in order for me to be productive, I must not be available.









See you at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas next week. 🚀

1/7 Sovryn is launching the presale for $BOS - the token powering BitcoinOS @BTC_OS, the revolutionary operating system that brings unlimited computing to Bitcoin. Register for early access below 👇




BITCOIN RAILS EPISODE #23: Digital Property Rights & the Promise of Zero Knowledge Proofs | with Edan Yago @EdanYago Edan Yago has been in the “Bitcoin DeFi” ecosystem since before that term was a thing. An early adopter of Rootstock, Yago developed the “largest DeFi ecosystem in Bitcoin” through DEX @SovrynBTC before becoming obsessed with Zero Knowledge Proofs and the promise of BitVM for enabling more trustless rails into and out of Bitcoin. While Yago has most recently been working on the modular-style BitVM bridge @BTC_OS - we got deep in this episode about the early days of Bitcoin DeFi, including: – Why the internet didn’t work for libertarians… until bitcoin came along. – Why the concept of “securities” is fundamentally flawed – Why Bitcoin’s taproot upgrade was the true unlock for Bitcoin Season 2 – The under-appreciated role of Etheruem in “testnet-ing” Zero Knowledge Proofs – Why BOS decided NOT to build a rollup after all… and how they become the BitVM bridge for @Cardano As always, this episode can be viewed on Spotify or YouTube—full episode in the comments or linktree in my bio. This episode is powered by Best In Slot—the leading API for Ordinals and BRC20 data aggregation and indexing. TIMESTAMPS: — 01:08 Edan Yago, founder of BitcoinOS 01:58 How Yago discovered the Bitcoin whitepaper 03:20 What was so intriguing about Bitcoin? 05:58 Yago’s childhood gold story 08:00 Yago’s many Bitcoin ventures: from BTC gaming to BTC banking 12:20 Did Yago invent “blockchain not Bitcoin”!? 14:40 Using Bitcoin for remittances 17:00 Getting debanked by JPMorgan 19:30 Hot take: Bitcoin exchanges are a grift 20:45 Yago’s complicated take on tokens 22:50 “There are no such thing as securities” 25:40 Our population is native to true free markets 28:50 Wildcat banking: America’s most prosperous time 30:35 Moving away from the regulated space 33:13 The genius of decentralized stablecoins: Maker and Curve 36:45 Yago launches Sovryn: Bitcoin DEX on Rootstock 38:23 Sovryn’s success: earning dividends in BTC 40:30 Rootstocks problems: security and user frictions 42:50 How ZK Proofs changed everything 45:10 Yago’s early research into trustless bridging 46:45 The “holy shit” BitVM moment 48:15 Explaining Taproot and Taptrees 50:50 Verifying ZK Proofs on Bitcoin: What it meant 52:00 Major L1s coming home to Bitcoin 52:40 BitcoinOS: Bring everything home to Bitcoin 55:45 Crypto doesn’t know what it’s trying to do 56:50 Vitalik’s loss of patience and Ethereum’s mistake 58:20 Why we have too many tokens and blockchains 59:42 Why ZK trims away the redundant chains 01:00:32 What is a “Bitcoin Operating System”? 01:02:42 Graduating for “bridging” and “unchaining” crypto 01:06:20 Even in a pile of dirt, you’ll find a diamond

