UMAR SEBYALA

The biggest oversight in the cryptocurrency space is myopia

If you are sending money to Africa or Asia, @NALAmoney got you covered! #thenextbillion

Happy 17th birthday, #Bitcoin !

@gothburz This is hilarious! 😄

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@MMCrypto Gold👌🏽 ...Pun intended

CZ (Bitcoin) vs. Peter Schiff (Gold) Bitcoin won the debate within less than a Minute! 👇

What are you building on @minipay today?

Looking to meet up at @EFDevcon this week? Catch me at one of my talks 🙌

Another strong partnership locked in! Excited to welcome @BlockchainNW onboard as a community partner for the HackersDAO MiniPay Hackathon 🚀 Let’s build, test, and scale Africa’s Web3 future together

@Pheo_Nicks @Celo_Ghana Hello, perhaps if you gave me more context about the need you seek to address, I can be of better help with pointing you to the right people.

@umar_sebyala @Celo_Ghana Hey Umar, thank you for sharing. Till now we still didnt get the dialogue going. Our people in Accra have also tried. Is there any in person event coming up?

good evening @umar_sebyala Is there a Celo outpost in Ghana?

@0xshpd @Ethprofit Light nodes through ZK SNARKS is an idea worth exploring.

Few understand this, making nodes light weighted removes the biggest trust assumption in centralized parties that exists in the ecosystem at the current state — the RPCs. Imagine if every smartphone automatically runs a light weighted node in the background, no one can censor your transactions, and no one can alter the data that you read from the blockchain.

Your money actually exists on Ethereum It's make believe on solana, no one knows if their account balance actually exists. Hope and pray "your money" will be there the next day.

That's what's up!

I attended my 1st @CML_LDN event yesterday at the @reedsmithll London office. The theme was hiring and getting hired in web3 and it was well delivered by a great panel of folks working on talent placement in the industry. Key take away, It's a good time to be building in web3.

🎤 What does "Onchain FX mean"? Hear from @MarkusMento during the @Wormhole Ecosystem Call, hosted by @robinson & @rachit↓

Salute!

It's governance time people, the @CeloCouncil needs your support to secure funding for the reminder of the year. Lock up some $CELO and vote for the proposal on Celo Mondo. Every vote counts.

Shipping 💯

@Cobratate I think if you think about the possible total combinations of things you can do everyday, even without truck loads of money, they are more than what can be done in one lifetime!

Boringggggg

🧵 Este jueves nos reunimos en Medellín para hablar de lo que se viene con @Celo, @selfxyz y la revolución ZK en Web3. Una nueva generación de infraestructura y aplicaciones que cuidan tu privacidad, ponen tu identidad en tus manos y facilitan los pagos ya está tomando forma. 👇

The Celo Mainnet Isthmus hardfork is now live!!! This upgrade brings key enhancements from the OP Stack’s Isthmus and Holocene specs — unlocking advanced EVM features, improved L2 security infrastructure, and streamlined node operations. Here’s what just shipped ⬇️

📸 Live from the @EthCC Chaplin stage: @marek_, @drakefjustin & @0xzak debate the future of Ethereum revenue generation w/ Grant Hummer (@Etherealize_io) in the off-the-record “Cash vs. Credo” session