⟠ JT Nichol 🦇🔊

TLDR - Trent worked at the Ethereum Foundation for 5 years coordinating core development, Protocol Guild funding, and political economy research. - Subtraction successfully signals reduced EF power yet legitimacy stubbornly pools at the Foundation via brand, Vitalik affiliation, treasury, and assets. - Treasury constraints and CIP expiration risk a slow-burning funding crisis that threatens institutional capacity for protocol maintenance and upgrades. - EF will not steward Ethereum’s next decade; a reset of social, political, and economic contracts is needed for effective institutional succession. - New mechanisms must enable scalable neutral funding, steward interdependent resources, and prioritize broad adoption for the World Computer.

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This is one of the most anti-crypto laws in the U.S. It taxes the exchange, transfer, or storage of digital assets—you buy BTC, you pay a tax; you hold your BTC on Coinbase, you pay a tax; and so on. There is effectively no comparable state financial transaction tax on stocks, bonds, or derivatives anywhere in the country. That means crypto is being singled out in violation of several federal laws. Further, the approach makes little sense—you aren’t taxed if you exchange a stock, bond, or derivative in paper form, but you are taxed if they happen to be recorded on a blockchain? That’s like taxing email. So, rather than embracing innovation and the cost efficiencies blockchains can deliver for ordinary people in Illinois, the state is poised to punish its entrepreneurs and citizens that want to use crypto. This is a shame—it was only just recently that Illinois embraced a constructive approach to blockchain technology through the adoption of the effectively-scoped Digital Assets and Consumer Protection Act. This new tax is a complete 180. When states adopt discriminatory, asset-specific taxes that drive builders and users elsewhere, we all lose.

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@leolanza Take the eth pill

Watching The Matrix for the first time

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@ethconf looks awesome

@pbrody It is for sure going to be a great day. That’s the plan.

GM. It's going to be a great day. That's the plan.

$ETH Issuance Reduction Tour 2026, Today @ethconf NYC 🗽 Come and ask me about how Ethereum is going to print less and burn more 🌠

@DCinvestor It’s all obvious bullshit. You are correct.

i really don't know why people would take any pronouncement of a cease-fire or end of the war at face value now it's all obvious bullshit and has been going on for months now they keep lying to our faces the reality is they don't know how to end this- at least not yet

@griffgreen @Vault__Summit @thomphreys @NYSE I can.

I can't believe they let us in the building. Great event @Vault__Summit

In 10 years there will be many tethers and only one ethereum

We are certainly not trying to be on a Bankless level but we consistently tell the Ethereum story from the Reddit daily thread at /r/ethereum That Daly thread gave birth to Bankless in some ways. Both Ryan and David are or were @EVMavericks Dailydoots.com is our podcast

If you weren't around 5 years ago, it's difficult to describe how Bankless felt back then. They were *The* ETH media. And amazing at it. It was glorious. Nobody on TV is telling Eth's story deeply and consistently at a professional level.

It has never been easier to build. I gave an LLM one prompt and built working mind-mapping software. That sounds insane, but this is the new reality. If you have an idea, you can speak it into existence. Now combine that with Ethereum. Anyone can build apps, smart contracts, financial products, games, tools, communities, and entire onchain businesses. And with Mythos coming, builders may soon be able to run high-quality security reviews on their own contracts and software before ever paying for a human audit. That changes everything. Lower build costs. Faster iteration. Better security. More experiments. We are about to see an explosion of new things being built on Ethereum.