@Sassafrass_84 I have Sarah Thompson calling me daily …..saying good morning …wanted to catch you before your day got started …at 3pm or later😆damn annoying!
America turns 250 today.
Every other nation in history was built on blood, soil, or a crown. This one was built on an idea: that you are free, and your life belongs to you, not the state.
I'm a security engineer, so I read the Constitution the way I read code. It is the greatest security architecture ever shipped. Power is distributed, so there is no single point of failure. The Bill of Rights is the access control list. The amendment process is the patch pipeline. The whole design assumes that people in power cannot be trusted, and that assumption is exactly why it still runs.
Read the access control list closely:
The First: speak, publish, assemble, worship, without asking anyone's permission.
The Second: a free people are never defenseless.
The Fourth: no one searches your home, your papers, or your effects without cause. This one is personal to the founding. The Revolution caught fire partly over general warrants, when the Crown claimed the right to rifle through any colonist's home looking for something to charge him with. Your "papers and effects" now live on servers. The principle hasn't changed.
The Ninth: the quiet genius of the document. The rights not written down still belong to you. Privacy lives there.
Now notice what these four have in common. None of them survive surveillance. Speech dies when every word is recorded, because watched people self-censor. Defense means nothing when the state already knows what you have and where. Security in your own home and effects is privacy by definition. And the Ninth exists precisely because the founders knew liberty is bigger than any list.
There is no freedom without privacy. There never has been, anywhere, at any point in history.
250 years of uptime for an idea most of history called impossible. Not perfect. Never claimed to be. Fixable by design, and that is the feature every free nation since has copied.
Happy 250th, America. Land of the free.
Fight with every fiber of your being to keep it that way. 🇺🇸
Imagine telling someone in 1999…
The year is 2026.
The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.
The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.
Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.
People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.
The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.
Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.
AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.
The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.
You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.
People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.
The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.
And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.
You were taught crypto very poorly.
Public blockchains are global supercomputers.
Anyone anywhere in the world can run a program on them and anyone in the world can use the program.
Bitcoin supercomputer only runs the Bitcoin ledger.
Solana supercomputer can run any Rust program.
SUI supercomputer can run any Move program.
Ethereum supercomputer can run any Solidity program.
The supercomputers are constructed as a distributed set of nodes all around the world and are connected via physical networks to act as one. To stop the supercomputer you have to stop all the nodes all around the world.
To run programs on the supercomputers requires gas tokens or "native" tokens to the particular supercomputer. To use the programs the user requires these tokens. These tokens are public and can be used as currency on the supercomputers. Examples of "native execution network" tokens are $BTC, $SOL, $SUI, $ETH.
Note: No different from running a AI LLM supercomputers which also requires tokens to run but LLM tokens are not yet tradable or public and represent one word of a AI query.
Bitcoin does not have the ability to run arbitrary programs, it only runs the Bitcoin ledger. This means it is not an "execution network". An "execution network" can run arbitrary programs that represent functionality or other token ledgers. Solana, SUI and Ethereum are examples of "execution networks" and are typically called Layer 1 execution networks because they can execute user programs.
Now understand all other "tokens" or "crypto" are just programs running on one of these "execution network" supercomputers. StableCoin like USDC or USDT are just programs running on each of the supercomputers. Defi applications and DEX's are just programs running on the supercomputers. Meme coins are just programs running on an "execution network". Anyone can run a program and anyone can use the program.
Now you can imagine how these global supercomputers that store and run programs will be used by everyone, institutions and governments will run everything on them and an entire agentic infrastructure will use them.
Start to learn what crypto really is. Understand you were PURPOSEFULLY taught it incorrectly. You were the early testers of the supercomputers. Everything we see in crypto today can be thought of as a test.
Together with AI these supercomputers will run the world.