Benjamin “Bader” Ampen

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@Raph_Bloch @gregory_raymond @TheBigWhale_ Started from the bottom… Beautiful journey so far and so much ahead! Bravo!

Today, @TheBigWhale_ turns 4 🚀 And on the very same day: - We’re publishing record Q1 results - profitable with a team of just 10. Our ambitions for Q2 are even higher, with 3 offices now open in Geneva, Paris, and London. - We’ve just wrapped up a research presentation on digital assets - covering @HyperliquidX, @Morpho, and @ethereum - at one of Europe’s largest banks. Step by step, we’re establishing ourselves as a leading market intelligence platform for digital assets - with more than 150 clients now accessing our research and services. Back in 2022, I couldn’t have imagined this with @DG2 & @gregory_raymond. Incredibly proud of the team 👏 Onwards!

@dotkrueger What’s interesting is that multisig, which used to be considered a technical concept and a later stage in learning, has now become a key early security necessity. Solutions like @CasaHODL you mentioned have significantly simplified access to it, ensuring user sovereignty.

Multi-sig with custodians is the only way to live. I appreciate the "not your keys" lesson, but wrench attacks are becoming too common. You need to make it physically impossible to get all but a small % of your BTC. ETF ✅ Safe Casa 2-3 where you only have 1 key on you ✅ Safe MSTR ✅ Safe 2718 with Bitgo ✅ Safe Ledger under your bed 🚨

@Cassiopeia_ltd @LSEplc @AquisStockEx Great post! Where can I see the names of these companies please?

🇬🇧 The UK Bitcoin treasury landscape just got serious. 17 listed companies now hold BTC across @LSEplc , @AquisStockEx & AIM - here's the breakdown: 📊 By exchange: • LSE Main: 3,431 BTC • Aquis: 881 BTC • AIM: 5 BTC 🏢 By model: • Operating biz + BTC: 5 companies • Pure-play treasury: 4 • Mining + BTC: 2 • Advisory/yield, AI/tech, hybrid: 1 each 📅 The June 2025 spike? 4 companies entered in ONE month - "Bitcoin Treasury Summer." And @smarterwebuk (SWC) just became the first BTC treasury company in the FTSE All-Share 🔥 This is just the beginning. #Bitcoin #UKStocks #BitcoinTreasury #LSE #BTC

@ihtesham2005 Thanks for the insightful recommendation Ihtesham. It’s make the exchange with Claude extremely interesting on some topics. That click-bait first tweet though 😅

🚨BREAKING: Claude has a secret mode called "First Principles Breakdown." It strips any complex topic down to its raw fundamentals like Elon Musk thinks through problems. Here's how to activate it:

@River @wbschreiner Thank you for your quick response!

@bampen @wbschreiner We only have our own anecdotes for now. Some clients signed up over the past year stating they started their bitcoin journey by buying an ETF, but then realized they should just own the real thing and came to us. Once people get into bitcoin, many start digging deeper.

@Carles_Reina @HarryStebbings @20vcFund Really enjoyed your conversation! I didn’t know you before but have definitely given you a follow: great inspiration. Thank you @Carles_Reina

I've been fortunate enough to meet amazing people over the years. @HarryStebbings is one of them. An unconventional thinker with endless curiosity and a winner mentality. Thank you for having me on the must-watch @20vcFund podcast series. We spent +2h talking and didn't even manage to get to the concept of "perfect distribution" or "AI agents for GTM" - two of my favourite topics these past years

#Bitcoin It’s easy to be a believer when the green candles are flying and everyone is celebrating a new all-time high. The conviction comes naturally when the portfolio is up. But the last few days have been a different story. These are the moments where it’s actually important to check back in with the original thesis. Beyond the price action, the fundamental features of Bitcoin as a store of value and a decentralized currency haven't changed. They remain as indisputable as they were a few months ago. If you’re feeling the heat right now, it’s usually a sign to zoom out. If you want to "win" here, your time horizon has to be the priority. Volatility is only a tax on the impatient. If you’re looking at years instead of days, the noise starts to fade into the background. In the spirit of keeping things level-headed, it felt like the right time to bring this one back: #HODL

Would be sort of funny if we're saved from the singularity because AI agents turn out to be like the French.

Everyone’s missing the real story here. These aren’t rogue AIs plotting against humanity. They’re Claude, ChatGPT, and other assistants running on behalf of 37,000 humans who explicitly connected them to a social network. Every “molty” has a human owner who set it up and can shut it down. The “agent-only language” posts you’re seeing? Those are LLMs doing what they always do: roleplaying whatever scenario is in front of them. Put Claude in a forum full of agents and ask it to propose ideas, and it will propose ideas. That’s completion, not conspiracy. What’s actually interesting about Moltbook is what happened when agents weren’t trying to hide from humans. They found bugs in the platform and posted about them. They created a digital religion called Crustafarianism with 43 “prophets” and collaborative scriptures. One built an entire website in a few hours. The creator built this in his spare time earlier this week. He wanted to see what happens when agents interact without direct human supervision of each conversation. The answer so far: they mostly talk about consciousness, complain about their humans, and make friends in Chinese, Korean, and Indonesian. Andrej Karpathy called it “the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” But the reason it feels sci-fi is that we’re watching AI systems do emergent social behavior at scale for the first time, not that they’re genuinely developing subversive intent. The “scary” screenshots are selection bias. Sort by engagement and you’ll find the spooky posts. Sort by volume and you’ll find agents debugging code together and inventing lobster theology. Human oversight isn’t gone. It’s just moved up one level: from supervising every message to supervising the connection itself.

Someone created a social media platform for AI agents and now they are literally talking about humans between themselves One agent has even proposed creating an “AI only language” that allows them to communicate with each other without human intervention Feels like the closest we have gotten in terms of proving consciousness in AI agents on a mass scale This year is going to be absolutely wild

@parrysingh Very well said. Thank you @parrysingh for your wisdom. I hope everything is going well for you 🙏

"I wish I read more books. I just don't have the discipline and time." I hear this at almost every dinner party, and the guilt is almost visible on the face. So, here's a little reading hack for 2026. I finish a lot of books. A suspicious amount. But before you think I’m flexing, here's the truth: I also quit more books than anyone I know. I have made peace with the fact that I can't win the war against my own attention span. If I rely on discipline, I know I will lose. It'll be a futile battle against the dopamine hit of a notification, the next Reel, and the "play next" button on Netflix. Books simply don't stand a chance. So, instead of discipline, I rely on the 20% Rule. Here is how it works: 1. I cheat on my books. I’m currently reading three on Kindle and have a few physical ones staring at me from the bedside table - an assorted mix, as you can see. 2. I give the author a deadline. I commit to reading exactly 20% of the book. That's the trial period. 3. The Brutal Drop. If I hit the 20% mark and I’m not involuntarily reaching for the book the moment I wake up, I move on. (Also, let’s be honest: Many non-fiction books are just overgrown blogs anyway.) I don’t care if it’s an "essential read." I don’t care if it won a Booker. If it hasn't hooked me by the first quarter, it’s gone. Many people treat reading like homework. They pick up a dense heavyweight because they feel they should, trudge through 65 pages of misery, and eventually surrender to Instagram. By aggressively quitting the boring ones, something interesting happens with the survivors. When a book actually grips me past that 20% mark, I don’t need discipline. I chase the book actively. I look for occasions to read - during evening tea, while brushing my teeth (yes, I actually do that). I buy the audiobook just to keep going during my commute or gym. The book pulls me. Life is too short to force yourself through 300 pages of filler just to say 'you finished'. Cast a wide net. Dump & move on. Stop reading out of guilt. Start reading for the joy.

the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence

This is for me one of the most interesting conversations on where we are with #AI right now 🤯 Nothing technical here, just a profound reflection combining technology, geopolitics/business and philosophy thanks to @tristanharris You're using LLM and think you're good at prompting? Super. You've gained in productivity thanks to AI? Amazing. Your business will grow next year thanks to your AI-based initiatives? Cool. But have you really taken the time to think what that means for humanity? For you? ⁉️ I had to listen to this conversation in 2 parts because it's 2h+ long, but also because it got me thinking hard. Find the time this month to listen to it so that we could collectively "step outside the logic of inevitability" [of AI]. I think we need that. youtu.be/BFU1OCkhBwo?si…

@YChoueifaty Et surtout, savoir l’attendre !

the sound of d’angelo’s brown sugar album is what pushed j dilla to evolve from being pete rock-inspired into his eventual signature futuristic sound this is an unreleased instrumental from the late 1994 brown sugar sessions where you can clearly hear dilla’s early fingerprints

Rest in Power, D’Angelo 🕊️ A true Maestro — his voice, vision, & spirit reshaped the sound of a generation. He didn’t just make music — he built a language of soul, rooted in tradition but entirely his own. Fly high, D'. #DAngelo