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Officially graduated from @AcademyPolkadot ♥️ Blockchain totally changed my life, and it's only the beginning. Keep fighting for your dreams, frens 🙌

@shu_bit_ I'm curious to know which book inspired you to write that tweet 👀

Reading books is one of the best things you can do for yourself

Unpopular opinion: Solidity is such a beautiful programming language. The whole paradigm is "code a vending machine, deploy it forever" There's something deeply elegant about that constraint.

@MerlinEgalite imho, the new wave of dApps and blockchains with traction will prove that the idea of a necessary pivot is an error. It’s more about how to efficiently combine the strengths of these two tech rather than picking one over the other.

I think there won’t be any “pivot to crypto” or "pivot to AI" anymore. Blockchain based protocols will provide the foundational railroads. AI agents will take care of the last mile: fix the last UX and integration quirks. The entities that master how to combine both layers are going to crush competition by providing the best services, at the best price with per-user tailored UX that we haven’t seen before.

brb, exploring the agentic future ✨

@MerlinEgalite gm Merlin, I sent you a dm about this. Kindly check it when you have time :)

A lot of small teams are reaching out to get advice on how to build on Morpho. Most of the Morpho team is currently under water but i'd still like to support them in a way that is scalable. Wdyt is missing in Morpho's doc so they have all the necessary tools to keep building?

Tibetan monks spend days constructing sand mandalas - intricate, geometrically precise, extraordinarily beautiful. Colored sand arranged grain by grain into sacred geometry. And then, when they're finished, they destroy them. Impermanence is not tragic. It's the point. The mandala was never meant to be forever. Its completion is the moment of its release. Every transaction has this quality. It is complete in itself. Real, verifiable, final. And then: done.

@BhosalePratim Aha, unfortunately I can relate 🤭 By the way Pratim, I sent you a DM here, kindly check it when you have time

Personal attac 😓

it's going to get harder to justify a $200 claude sub in the next few months

@zachxbt I know I’ve told you this many times before, but thank you so much for doing things like this. Your penguin doesn’t need a cape to be a hero.

In late 2023, French streamer TeufeurS was extorted for a ransom after a family member was kidnapped in France. I can finally share that I helped lead efforts that resulted in an ~$800K freeze with the Binance Security team after a $2M ransom was paid. Six suspects tied to the incident were later arrested. Given the sensitivity of the case, I held off commenting until now. I have since assisted with asset freezes and identifying culprits in several of the recent France home invasion robberies, and hope to share details in the coming months. If you or someone you know falls victim, reach out as soon as possible rather than delay. I prioritize these types of cases as they have grown more frequent amidst this disturbing trend.

Every cell of my being is meant to be against what Arbitrum just did. Yet I understand their decision, People getting their money back matters more than convictions that would allow unc Kim to walk away with a payday.

@MerlinEgalite Big congrats, you already are a big source of inspiration for many builders here 🤜🤛

Morpho is now officially a unicorn 🦄 We've been busy building Morpho over the past few years, and reaching that milestone is a huge validation of this effort. But our goal remains even more ambitious than building a billion-dollar company. The main quest is to bring the whole financial system onto the Morpho network: a more open, efficient, and transparent system. A side quest is to show that, regardless of what others say, it is possible to create ambitious, impactful, and global projects in Europe, and particularly in France. I hope this becomes a source of inspiration for a lot of builders & dreamers across Europe 🇪🇺

Curated picks for great books, articles and software to try by our Neocypherpunk Summit speaker @ _wjth x @nymproject— Part 1: Books to read: • The Dispossessed — hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ursula-… • Terra Ignota series — us.macmillan.com/series/terraig… • Blindsight — us.macmillan.com/books/97807653… Articles: • Technically Radical — wedontagree.net/essays/technic… • The Uses of Disorder — boundary2.org/2024/12/alexan… • The Problem of Scale in Anarchism and the Case for Cybernetic Communism — c4ss.org/content/52970 Software to explore: • Soulseek — slsknet.org • MeshCore — meshcore.co.uk • Cwtch — openprivacy.ca/work/cwtch/ If you are interested in seeing some more media and hardware recommendations, stay tuned for part 2! Register to Neocypherpunk Summit at: luma.com/f47k4xnd #neocypherpunkrecs

@fckftmny Can relate. You got the vision. If you did it once, you can do it twice 🤜🤛

2021 - now: Had a vision. Took risk. Changed my life. Got lucky. Sun on my skin for 4 years. Internally unhappy. Never stabled. Roundtripped >800k €. Burnout. Back to 0. From tropical beach to basement. Rain on my skin. 1 year of fighting demons. Recovery. Let‘s go.

Do you remember the old internet? Forums, IRC, TeamSpeak, Jabber… Strangers becoming friends over shared hobbies. No profit. No noise. Just community. What did we do wrong to end up with monetized AI slop?

i'm not building it to win i'm not building it to make money i'm not building it to be the best i'm building it to help myself, and then you and everyone else there's nothing else worth building

@bneiluj Just like dApps/airdrops incentives: if your system is vulnerable to extractooors, you need to reform the former because you can't avoid the latter.

France offers free education, healthcare, and protection. If you come just to exploit the system, dodge work, and drain companies and the state, shame on you, you’re a fucking pest.

partially agree but you're solving the wrong problem here. morpho is fully permissionless. anyone deploys a market, anyone spins a vault. the protocol grows only if external teams build on it. steakhouse, re7, gauntlet didn't appear because of a sales deck. someone had to explain the curator model IRL, answer dumb questions at 11pm, make people care. that's devrel. not the hackathon tourist kind. the kind that actually knows the stack and talks to builders. you don't replace that with a SA.

Hot take: most companies don't need devrel they need integration engineers and solution architects. Blockchain software is now used by enterprises, which means we need to actually graduate into the mindset of: how can we best service our customers? There was a flaw in the early DeFi days that teams needed an active community of devs working on top of your protocol, that need devrels jumping in every hackathons across the world, having community calls, doing youtube videos, etc. The truth is: - it's 95% a waste of time and money: hackathons are very expensive, sending a few team members is very expensive as well, and the community of developers you create does not bring much value. - it's even more true now than it was in 2020/21: the space is more mature, instits and classic web2 companies are all coming onchain. they dont need devrel they need to be reassured on tech, business, legal first - people chasing hackathons usually don't care about your product/protocol or don't care about building a long-term product (they usually care about leveling their skills or grabbing money so they can attend the next hackathon in Bali). The few that do end up building a product have 95%+ of failing and the few that survive won't bring much value before a year or so - yes it's a lot of fun for those devrels that you hired, but the right question is: where could this money be better spent? What has the biggest ROI? You have to restart from 1st principle - you'd better allocate that money on sales people to close customers - and you'd better have solution architect and integration engineers that can provide great support to those customers - you'd rather focus your energy on existing and live projects for which you're truly solving a problem *now* - you have to realize that in many B2B companies, the one who makes the decision are often not the developers but the exec or product people Dont get me wrong, i do think having comprehensive documentation is important, i do see value for some projects in doing hackathons to battle-test your product, or hire talents or whatever, i do see value in having a developer community. But I strongly think that people should apply more 1st principle thinking before allocating significant resources to creating a community of developers.

Something is clearly off when folks recommend high spec hardware to send POST requests 🫠

no need for april fools this year just open your portfolio

@Capetlevrai Pourquoi pas router l'ip de ton VPS via OpenVPN plutôt?

Mes bros bricoleurs : j’ai un souci OpenAI n’aime pas les IP de datacenter et commence à bloquer mon VPS Hetzner (Error 403) pour utiliser OpenClaw / Hermes Agent Je peux contourner ça avec Tailscale, mais je n’ai pas envie d’avoir ma gros PC Gamer qui consomme un max d’électricité allumé H24 Donc je pensais prendre un Raspberry Pi sue je garde allumé h24 à la maison Il y a mieux ou plus pratique pour cet usage ? Je veux quelque chose de non encombrant type Raspberry Pi ou mini pc Je cherche une solution low cost hébergée chez moi