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@levelsio burn it to reduce money supply

I found €10 on the street, nobody is around What should I do with it???

if you don’t support the vision of Ethereum, you’re just in crypto for different reasons than me, and that’s ok. But don’t pretend you’re making some principled stand by ragequitting the bottom. Ethereum is still the only fully decentralized, credibly neutral, censorship resistant blockchain with smart contracts that allow you to build almost anything onchain. Plus it’s tackling quantum resistance and native privacy head on, and has network effects and Lindy cred that can’t be easily recreated. Network effects will accrue value to network tokens, but maybe just not on the schedule you anticipated. As a builder and a sovereign investor, I’m long and strong Ethereum and $ETH, and putting this out into the ether for posterity. Believe in SomETHing.

Listening to David’s explanation of why he sold was pretty mind numbing lol… I recently shared that I was a toxic Bitcoin maximalist for roughly 8 years, from 2017 to late 2024. Stablecoins are what initially made me revisit my thesis on Ethereum, and on ether as Ethereum’s native asset. That, combined with the rapid approach of the agentic economy - a world with an infinite number of autonomous economic actors sending value through stablecoins across a small handful of networks that society has deemed valuable - made me reevaluate further. So I went back and revisited my priors on Ethereum. Were my early concerns around centralization, monetary policy, and network effects still valid after all these years? Surely, yes. I set out to prove myself right. I found out I was wrong. The centralization concerns I had entirely faded. While I was 100% encapsulated in my Bitcoin bubble, Ethereum had slowly, quietly, and relentlessly built the only other WWIII-proof, global, credibly neutral, decentralized protocol. And in some areas, Ethereum had actually become more decentralized than Bitcoin: client diversity, validator distribution, and a secure long-term scaling/security model through proof of stake. Ethereum had matured. It had grown out of its early “shitcoin” association. It had become the only truly permissionless, censorship resistant, credibly neutral, and valuable protocol outside of Bitcoin. It grew up. That matters because the only reason I was ever Bitcoin-only was that, at the time, there were no other networks with the protocol traits that could plausibly make all of global finance, and eventually much of humanity, value them at the deepest level. Back then, it was only Bitcoin. So the irony here is incredible. Just as Ethereum and ether have finally matured, just as Ethereum has distanced itself from the decentralized-in-name-only, venture-backed, fake startup, “we’re hiding behind a blockchain” mentality, now a small group of influencers have decided to become negative on Ethereum. When Bitcoiners use the term “shitcoiner,” this is what they are usually talking about. Bag chasers. People who want their chain to act like a company. Permissioned. Hyper-structured. Marketing team. CEO. Quarterly reports. Revenue. Earnings. Some polished growth narrative for VCs. Basically, a bunch of stupid shit that already exists in the fiat world. The same world Bitcoin, and now Ethereum, were created to help us escape from. To suddenly be disappointed that Ethereum has a broader mandate than “pump my bag,” and is instead focused on hardening the traits that make the network valuable over decades, tells you a lot about how these people misunderstand it. CROPS is the value proposition. Censorship resistance. Resilience. Openness. Permissionlessness. Security. That is why society values Bitcoin. That is why society now values Ethereum. And that is why the Laura Shins, Ansems, and David Hoffmans of the world jumping ship now is so revealing. They are not leaving because the thesis broke. They are leaving because they never had the thesis in the first place. They do not and never have seen the value in decentralized, global, open systems - sanctuary technologies or neutral rails that can materially improve people’s lives. What they have always chased is a high-growth stock equivalent with a smaller market cap. A shiny new object that appears once or twice per cycle; violent upward momentum, narrative, and upside without the patience required to actually understand what is being built. They need to chase because they do not have the time horizon to hold a thesis and let conviction compound over time. CROPS is the entire value proposition. Do not let startup-brain influencers, who never understood why this ecosystem was created in the first place, gaslight you out of conviction.

@CoinbaseDuck @base @coinbase coinbase is an eth seller. we have enough sellers.

Unlike what Vitalik said in the past about L2. ETH needs @base more than ever now. It needs business that can build and distribute actual use cases on Ethereum. L2 is a part of Ethereum. @coinbase has onboarded way more users to Ethereum with actual use case than any other companies.

if ethereum has a million fans, then i am one of them if ethereum has ten fans, then i am one of them if ethereum has only one fan then that is me if ethereum has no fans, then that means i am no longer on earth if ct is against ethereum, then i am against ct

@sassal0x welcome back king.

Ethereum is the Ethereum of crypto.

@etheraider @Bankless Wishing David all the worst

Reality is @Bankless guys don't seem to realize that their entire brand was built early on because the ethereum:native community rallied around them and consciously championed them. As the years went on and the undermining of Ethereum grew, the community felt rugged by the social contract (imo justifiably). People are free to hold whatever assets they want and shouldn't be judged by any of that, but the public shitting on ethereum:native is just adding insult to injury to an audience that is the literal reason for where you are today. You want to sell, trade, etc? Great, by all means, do your thing, but why make a spectacle of it? Don't like where the EF is going? Great, do something about it, get loud, use your platform to push for change, etc. The hilarious part is there isn't a Plan B here unfortunately for the world. @ethereum, for better and for worse is still the best hedge to all this insanity. If I'm wrong here, prove it. The Titanic is sinking, and running around grabbing $$$ is a fool's errand. Believe in somETHing. ethereum:native

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@jamesrichardfry It’s just you

is it just me or does Opus 4.7 feel worse than Opus 4.6?

@WatcherGuru Run the models on @cz_binance personal account

JUST IN: Binance says it prevented over $10,000,000,000 in fraud using 100+ AI models.

@TrustlessState hope you're not baiting, because it would be actually super bullish for eth

Has there been a huge vibe shift in CT over the last 2 weeks, or was that just me selling the last of my ETH

@dcfgod ethskills.com

What y'all recommend for existing MCP servers that let claude read on chain transactions?

@sashaaa @ethconf @CryptoNomads_gm coming?

@simoneDotDev @ethconf @CryptoNomads_gm Oh really? Hell yes.

Pretty excited for @ethconf the new north American ethereum conference replacing the clusterfuck that is ethdenver. Thank you @CryptoNomads_gm for the ticket!

I just got my @EFDevcon ticket — paid for with ETH! Next stop: Mumbai 🇮🇳 Join me at Devcon 8 from November 3–6, 2026 for four days of big ideas, technical depth, community, and the people building the future of open source technology. devcon.org/ticket/simone.…

@TrustlessState @AskVenice the fuck you're fudding DIEM for? oh here's an alt, with actual utility and PMF, time to shit on them. more shameless than bankless

Is $DIEM not wildly overpriced? 1 $DIEM = $1/day of free inference from @AskVenice 1 DIEM is $1,700, and you'll get your worth of inference after 4.65 years, if you use Venice every day. Seems just a lil bit high?

@lou3ee 1 week before it starts collecting dust in a shelf

this weekend I bought my dream analog film camera. I really urge everyone to explore the beauty of film cameras, or at least the history of Leica. slow down, be present, and enjoy limitation in a world that no longer has limits. > Leica M6 > Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4

@CarlBeek thank you, legend. please don't go to tempo

After 7 incredible years, I've decided that Friday May 29th will be my last day at the Ethereum Foundation. I'm humbled by the projects I got to work on along the way: from the KZG ceremony, to helping architect the early design of the Beacon Chain, and a lot in between. At the age of 23, the Ethereum space welcomed me on the basis of having some great (and many stupid) ideas and let me influence a multi-billion dollar technology, an incredible opportunity I will remain forever grateful for. Ethereum has had a huge impact on me, and I hope my work has had an impact on Ethereum, and in turn on the world. To every researcher, core dev, EFer, and community member, whether we worked together closely or not: thank you. The strength of Ethereum is, and always will be, the people behind it striving to make it what it is. I'm grateful to have spent these years among you. What's next: I don't entirely know yet. For now I'll be enjoying time with my wife and our 1-month-old while I figure it out. Longer term, I'll find or create something with brilliant people at the intersection of engineering excellence, hard problems, and useful products driving economic activity at scale. If that resonates, or you just want to catch up, slide into my DMs!

@samanthaaouyang @elsewhere_today $200 codex is basically unlimited... an hetzner full metal server is 40 bucks a month. you no longer need to provider lock yourself in expensive cloud

anyone have links or connects for free gcp/aws credits and claude/openai credits? building out @elsewhere_today mvp and need more :0