Frodo

Dad, PhD, PoS validator. #crypto class of 2017, #Bitcoin, #Ethereum

[kanav @kanavtwt]

Day 1 of vibecoding

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

https://t.co/puLXpatHvd

[Frodo @0xFrodo1]

@SDWouters @River Brillant 😂

[Tay 💖 @tayvano_]

I beg everyone in crypto to read this in full.

I expected this to be another case of social engineering, likely some recruiter/job offer shit.

I was very wrong.

And the depth of the operation and personas makes me think they already have multiple other teams on lock.

😳

[sugnerhan @swengsbelike]

@lporiginalg this really hit me in the feels

[isabel @izgnzlz]

https://t.co/4hffMRx4Z8

[Frodo @0xFrodo1]

@toshiXchain @boldleonidas Lol 😂

[beeple @beeple]

2025 BRAINROT✨

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Welcome to 2026! Milady is back.

Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)

But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission:

To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.

We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build.

These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord.

Ethereum is the rebellion against this.

To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more.

Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will.

Wishing everyone an exciting 2026.

Milady.

[Stani @StaniKulechov]

https://t.co/s1ozjoYDyX

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

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.

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

$4.46 trillion NVIDIA CEO: “Bitcoin is taking excess energy, storing it into a new form — it's called currency.”

“And you take that currency wherever you like. So you took energy from one place and now you've transported it everywhere.���

[Manthan Gupta @manthanguptaa]

I spent the last few days prompting ChatGPT to understand how its memory system actually works.

Spoiler alert: There is no RAG used

https://t.co/zxvRRP2GK8

[Ethereum @ethereum]

1/ Fusaka is coming December 3rd.

Ethereum’s next major upgrade shows that the network can grow to meet global demand, without compromising on decentralization or permissionlessness.

Whether you’re a user, builder, institution, or operator, here’s how Fusaka will impact you.

[Frodo @0xFrodo1]

@chooserich I felt embarrassed for Nick just watching it 😂

[Ross Ulbricht @RealRossU]

Ten years ago to the day, I was sentenced to die in prison. Instead I gave my first public speech in freedom.

I wore a red tie as an homage to @realDonaldTrump, the man who saved my life.

[Steve Hou @stevehou]

This honestly deserves some kind of an award…

[SpacBobby @SpacBobby]

@KobeissiLetter Degens on leverage

[naiive @naiivememe]

Bitcoin performance the last 3 months

[JAN3 @JAN3com]

Happy 17th #Bitcoin Whitepaper Anniversary! 🧡

Decades before Satoshi released the whitepaper in 2008, cryptographers, mathematicians, and cypherpunks had already laid the groundwork.

Here’s who they were, what they built, and how their ideas shaped Bitcoin.

A thread. 🧵👇