Matt Luongo ✜

Thrilled to announce that we've acquired @trylolli! For me, this is a homecoming. After helping start the Bitcoin rewards space @fold_app in 2014, I’m doubling down on our vision to help the world stack sats. Here’s why this acquisition is HUGE for Bitcoin rewards 👇

@MrHodl @brian_trollz 💪

Beautyon got a few things right. I’ve never had real influence. All I’ve done is shitpost and somehow gained a few followers along the way. I don’t do podcasts, I’ve never written a blog post, and I don’t read or write code. For the last 15 years I’ve simply mined and bought Bitcoin while talking about it 24/7. My only goal was to wake people up to it. But he’s completely wrong on this part: If Bitcoin died tomorrow, I’d be 100× more screwed than Adam and 10× more screwed than Shinobi. I’d be homeless with no family to fall back on... I know the advice is never to put all your eggs in one basket. Fortuantly/Unfortunately, I didn’t listen. My entire life is in this one basket, and there are no more eggs coming.

@Vladcostea @rogerkver These days I primarily see BTC ads in airports, run by the ETF issuers.

@Vladcostea @rogerkver The exception proving the rule. But also... the whole conference was a Bitcoin conference ha! That's why the XRP ads were there - to get BTC interested folks to buy, which is good for Ripple, the advertiser.

Not gonna lie, noticing how Las Vegas boulevard is surrounded by Ripple ads triggered me a bit “Why isn’t it Bitcoin?”, I thought But then again, what’s the difference? If you’re gonna use BTC and XRP speculatively without making any payments, they are mere tickers in your portfolio. It doesn’t matter that one is centralized and the other one is decentralized if they’re used in the exact same way. And after seeing so many otherwise hardcore bitcoiners tap their cards to pay in Vegas (a few of them were even happy to pay with their Gemini cards because they earn BTC on the exchange), I’m more bearish than ever on this community If the guys who preach about the separation of money and state choose not to use the freedom tech for payments, we’re really screwed And also, in this scenario there’s no fundamental difference between BTC and XRP. They’re just speculative investments 🤷🏻‍♂️

@_TomHoward @Vladcostea I also took a pic of those, good placement right after getting out of an Uber.

@mhluongo @Vladcostea Zcash community is amazing x.com/chewiewins/sta…

@MonetSupply @hotpot_dao @_jhunsaker Not suggesting they'll do that today, just saying it can happen.

@MonetSupply @hotpot_dao @_jhunsaker KEEP did back in 2020 FWIW.

No MEGA has been provided as airdrop or marketing fees to CEXs for listing purposes. I had Bread delete his tweet because, as an ecosystem lead, he did not understand how asset listing works and misspoke. @_jhunsaker did the CEXs that listed MON go onto Monad to buy the asset? I thought not LOL. I recommend focusing on yourself king and not baiting bread unless you want a naked dude to get all on you 🙂 Also, as much as people want to villainize Binance, our experience with them was professional/non-predatory.

@robin_linus @adam3us 😂

No quantum computer will ever factor any elliptic curve!

DeFi needs a new primitive where emissions go beyond subsidizing liquidity and instead help price credit risk. Mezo wants to develop a market where emissions reveal risk appetite and route capital accordingly. @thesis_co CEO @mhluongo authored an essay on this recently, check it out here 👇 mezo.org/blog/aerodrome…

@MezoNetwork *primitive 100% verified not-AI :D

@katrin_fwa @MezoNetwork Hmm, we've shipped a chain, BTC-backed stable, ve-nomic DEX, and now we're extending that ve-nomics to lending. Where's the vaporware?

@MezoNetwork Another vaporware pitch wrapped in buzzwords. Just ship something real for once.

@brian_trollz > auto-immune disease 😁

Bitcoin Core does have a dysfunction. It's the lack of drive and leadership and willingness to continue pushing the Bitcoin protocol itself forward with improvements at the consensus level. Why does that dysfunction exist? Partially internal issues, and partially shit like a mob of deranged retards screaming Core is compromised because they will not act to censor users the retards don't like at the consensus level. Look in the mirror dumbshits. You are literally a cause of Core's dysfunction while you shriek and misdiagnose where it actually functions properly (refusing to bow to narrative manipulation, or act to censor users at the protocol level) as a dysfunction. "Bitcoiners" are a full blown auto-immune disease at this point.

This is remarkable and you should watch this entire video. The House was going to pass a 45 day extension of FISA 702 (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), BY VOICE WITHOUT VOTING, and Thomas Massie courageously forced a debate and demanded a recorded vote. Jim Jordan who has fought FOR warrants for FISA for years ironically led the debate AGAINST warrants and urged a YES vote for a clean extension WITHOUT warrants, which is what Trump is demanding even after FISA was used against him by the Democrats to spy on him and his campaign. Trump literally says give up your rights and just pass it and Jordan won’t go against Trump even though he wants warrant requirements. Chip Roy, Warren Davidson, and Keith Self joined Thomas Massie and made strong cases as to why Congress must add warrant requirements to FISA 702 and why a Central Bank Digital Currency must be banned and how both are powerful tools of control and surveillance and violation of your privacy and liberties. And Jamie Raskin (D) gave compelling arguments as to why bipartisanship is needed in the House to make reforms to FISA 702 yet after doing so he voted YES to a clean 45 day extension of FISA 702 without warrant requirements, which makes no sense. Why demand change and then literally vote for what you just argued against? However never forget under Biden and Democrats FISA 702 was used to spy on hundreds of thousands of Americans. Also, the Republican controlled Senate and its leader John Thune will not vote for a ban on Central Bank Digital Currency, saying it’s dead on arrival in the Senate. And neither will the Democrats. To sum it up, Americans are literally losing our precious privacy and freedoms right now under Trump and Republicans, yet Democrats are no better and have made no major policy changes that caused them to lose in 2024. They are only winning because Trump and Republicans have betrayed the most important campaign promises. 111 members of Congress voted NAY (NO) to the 45 day FISA 702 extension without warrant requirements for Americans so that your government can spy on you. Some voted NO in a partisan manner and because they hate Trump and some voted NO because they truly want change. Either way, those who voted NO should be recognized. Out of 111 ONLY 26 Republicans bravely voted NO. Here is the list of GOP NOs and pictured is the full list of both D’s and R’s who voted NO. Republican NO votes: Begich, Biggs (SC), Boebert, Brecheen, Burchett, Cammack, Cloud, Collins, Crane, Davidson, Downing, Fry, Fulcher, Gosar, Hageman, Harshbarger, Higgins (LA), Kennedy (UT), Luttrell, Massie, Miller (IL), Ogles, Perry, Roy, Self, and Tiffany. But after all this, the House passed the clean 45 day extension of FISA 702. After years of Trump and Republicans campaigning and demanding on Fox News that warrant requirements must be added to FISA, nothing changed. The promises they made to you are broken. The only thing that matters is voting records, none of their words. Words are meaningless puffs of air. If your Representative is not on this list, who voted NO, then you should tell them you are withdrawing your support and not voting for them. On both sides of the aisle. It doesn’t matter anymore whether you vote Republican or Democrat. Behind the veil, they are one and the same. Lastly, KY-4 your Representative Thomas Massie is a giant among men in Congress and fights for you harder than the entire House and Senate combined. Don’t be fools, vote for Thomas Massie!!!

@brian_trollz Hear hear

Was awesome seeing everyone. Fuck Vegas, I am never coming back to this shithole the rest of my life.

VOTE THEM ALL OUT. 42 democrats flipped their vote from a few weeks ago. List and details coming shortly.

FISA 702 just passed the House. This bill lets the government search Americans’ private communications without a warrant—in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. But don’t blame the GOP alone. Forty-two Democrats betrayed the American people to help Mike Johnson pass it.

The House will vote today on a three-year FISA 702 extension. Any Republican telling you they’re voting yes on FISA in exchange for a CBDC ban is a liar or a fool. The Senate will strip the CBDC ban. They know this or should know it. And no one should support FISA regardless!

🧵 THREAD 1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on. Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else. This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables every other piece of the digital control grid. If we lose this fight, we lose everything.

@paoloardoino @btc Hm, wonder if there's something we can do together with @trylolli

Our bitcoin faucet got used 10k+ times in just 24h, onboarding thousands of new users on the tether wallet @btc

@dgt10011 @BrainHarrington Ditto. Overdid it on the steak though 😂

I think this was my first Vegas trip as an adult with zero alcohol. Never felt better.