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When it comes to trading, I am all into compactness and simplicity. All these multi screen big office operations are for the “show.” Simplicity is for the “go.” Totally not impressed with the 10 screen layout.

Bitcoin’s correlation to gold has been crashing, while the correlation to equities has been rising. Every bitcoin investor should be paying attention 👀

Bitcoin never care about the war. Just moving regardless. Could it start dipping now or we are still bullish

@APompliano Bitcoin doesn’t care about the war.

Since the Iran conflict started, the following assets are down: 👉 Nasdaq: -2.2% 👉 S&P 500: -3.45% 👉 Gold: -3.5% 👉 TLT: -4.71% The asset that is up in the same timeframe? 👉 Bitcoin: +7.75% The chaos hedge is working perfectly.

@Kelvinking_ Killing it

Arrrrrrrhhhhhh

I was recently at Real World Crypto (that's crypto as in cryptography) and the associated side events, and one thing that struck me was that it was a clarifying experience in terms of understanding *what blockchains are for*. We blockchain people (myself included) often have a tendency to start off from the perspective that we are Ethereum, and therefore we need to go around and find use cases for Ethereum - and generate arguments for why sticking Ethereum into all kinds of places is beneficial. But recently I have been thinking from a different perspective. For a moment, let us forget that we are "the Ethereum community". Rather, we are maintainers of the Ethereum tool, and members of the {CROPS (censorship-resistant, open-source, private, secure) tech | sanctuary tech | non-corposlop tech | d/acc | ...} community. Going in with zero attachment to Ethereum specifically, and entering a context (like RWC) where there are people with in-principle aligned values but no blockchain baggage, can we re-derive from zero in what places Ethereum adds the most value? From attending the events, the first answer that comes up is actually not what you think. It's not smart contracts, it's not even payments. It's what cryptographers call a "public bulletin board". See, lots of cryptographic protocols - including secure online voting, secure software and website version control, certificate revocation... - all require some publicly writable and readable place where people can post blobs of data. This does not require any computation functionality. In fact, it does not directly require money - though it does _indirectly_ require money, because if you want permissionless anti-spam it has to be economic. The only thing it _fundamentally_ requires is data availability. And it just so happened that Ethereum recently did an upgrade (PeerDAS) to increase the amount of data availability it provides by 2.3x, with a path to going another 10-100x higher! Next, payments. Many protocols require payments for many reasons. Some things need to be charged for to reduce spam. Other things because they are services provided by someone who expends resources and needs to be compensated. If you want a permissionless API that does not get spammed to death, you need payments. And Ethereum + ZK payment channels (eg. ethresear.ch/t/zk-api-usage… ) is one of the best payment systems for APIs you can come up with. If you are making a private and secure application (eg. a messenger, or many other things), and you do not want to let people to spam the system by creating a million accounts and then uploading a gigabyte-sized video on each one, you need sybil resistance, and if you care about security and privacy, you really should care about permissionless participation (ie. don't have mandatory phone number dependency). ETH payment as anti-sybil tool is a natural backstop in such use cases. Finally, smart contracts. One major use case is _security deposits_: ETH put into lockboxes that provably get destroyed if a proof is submitted that the owner violated some protocol rule. Another is actually implementing things like ZK payment channels. A third is making it easy to have pointers to "digital objects" that represent some socially defined external entity (not necessarily an RWA!), and for those pointers to interact with each other. *Technically*, for every use case other than use cases handling ETH itself, the smart contracts are "just a convenience": you could just use the chain as a bulletin board, and use ZK-SNARKs to provide the results of any computations over it. But in practice, standardizing such things is hard, and you get the most interoperability if you just take the same mechanism that enables programs to control ETH, and let other digital objects use it too. And from here, we start getting into a huge number of potential applications, including all of the things happening in defi. --- So yes, Ethereum has a lot of value, that you can see from first principles if you take a step back and see it purely as a technical tool: global shared memory. I suspect that a big bottleneck to seeing more of this kind of usage is that the world has not yet updated to the fact that we are no longer in 2020-22, fees are now extremely low, and we have a much stronger scaling roadmap to make sure that they will continue to stay low, even if much higher levels of usage return. Infrastructure for not exposing fee volatility to users is much more mature (eg. one way to do this for many use cases is to just operate a blob publisher). Ethereum blobs as a bulletin board, ETH as an asset and universal-backup means of payment, and Ethereum smart contracts as a shared programming layer, all make total sense as part of a decentralized, private and secure open source software stack. But we should continue to improve the Ethereum protocol and infrastructure so that it's actually effective in all of these situations.

@ahmedxm01 Fact

Capital is not your problem ⚠️ Stop telling yourself that capital is the problem. The real problem is skill. Trading capital without trading skill is just money waiting to be lost. Stop giving excuses that you don’t have money to fund your account. Most of us didn’t start with money. I certainly didn’t. Did I go online begging mentors? Did I sit around criticizing people who were doing better than me? No. I went to construction sites and worked for ₦500–₦700 per day back in 2019. I drove keke napep and earned about ₦10,000 per day after settling the owner. I sold SIM cards. I even worked on my mother’s farm, doing jobs she would normally pay other farm workers to do, just so I could collect the money myself. I did whatever was necessary to raise money for my trading account. So stop saying $100 is too much money. Stand up, go out, work for it, fund your account and grow it. In 2019, I turned $100 of my hard-earned money into $1,000. Since then, turning $100 to $1,000 has never been a challenge for me. People who have followed me for years know this has always been my favorite way to help beginners trading with them from $100 to $1,000, because that’s exactly how I started. If I could do it, you can too.

@VicktorJayden Biggest

What works and Consistency 📈

@PeterLBrandt More downs

Who wants to own U.S. government debt for 30 years? Let the Dems back in the WH and there will be no U.S. as we know it

Great insight

@Kelvintalent_ Amen.

You will buy your own car before the end of this year Claim it and get to Work🙏

All this geopolitical tension are becoming much, Iran sitting there compass

@VicktorJayden The skill

Proof Of Life...

@Mrcryptoxwhale Don’t say bullish yet. We still have a long way to go

@cryptorover He isn’t begging for help. He has it all so no need to join. Trump all the way

💥BREAKING: President Trump to UK PM Starmer: "We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!"

@APompliano Cuba is now the next. Is all this worth the life’s of innocent people been taken.

Trump just said that “Cuba is going to fall pretty soon.” I have been saying the triple parlay of the century would be for Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba to all have regime change and become more friendly to the US. It looks like that outcome is more likely every day.

@WatcherGuru The whales are trying to fool you again.

JUST IN: Jim Cramer says now is a "chance for people to sell."

Full detailed insight about the War with US and Iran, Venezuela

@APompliano People always don’t understand it well when I do say Let Ai work for you , everyone must not have a brand or build an empire yes. But you can create something that Ai can’t replace rather , you use Ai to speed up the work flow

AI is coming for more jobs than you thought.