Total $ICP Burned per month this year 🔥
JAN ███████ 82,763
FEB █████ 67,557
MAR ██████ 81,084
APR ████ 61,882
MAY █████████ 100,027
JUN ██ 30,300
JUL █ 24,818
Source: ICP Dashboard
$ICP friends, I owe @CaffeineAI an apology.
I said it had no reason to exist, so I pulled every Caffeine canister I could find on-chain.
Full article on Substack: https://t.co/rrZvZvh1xt
I expected abandoned throwaways, but instead I found:
1. Diagnostic clinic in Bhilai,
2. Pizzeria in Gorakhpur,
3. Pharmacy in Perundurai.
4. Drone event platform in Poland.
5. Tea shop,
6. Tailor shops.
Nobody spins up a website for a real orthopaedic clinic to "kick the tyres" on an AI toy. Somebody wanted a working site for their business, and they got one.
I was judging Caffeine as a developer tool and finding it thin. But developers were never the users.
It's not competing with Claude Code. It's competing with WordPress.
Here it is:
The Federal Reserve CONFIRMS: U.S. NGOs collectively hold assets worth half the size of the U.S. national debt—$14.2 trillion—of taxpayers’ money.
Government Funded-Non-Governmental Organization:
An NGO Family Endeavors (Endeavors), a San Antonio-based nonprofit called out by DOGE for receiving $18 million per month for an empty illegal alien shelter.
And it gets even worse: the contract began in 2021 after a BIDEN TRANSITION TEAM MEMBER Andrew Lorenzen-Strait JOINED THE NGO.
According to government disclosure forms, the organization’s revenues skyrocketed in 2021, increasing from $50 million to $658 million, before reaching a peak of $1.1 billion in 2022.
I found this moving Memorial to the Victims of Communism in a small park in Prague. The sculpture brilliantly captures the dehumanizing nature of Communism.
Here is the sobering statistics from Communist Czechoslovakia (1948–1989):
205,486 people convicted
248 executed
4,500 died in prison
327 killed while trying to cross the border
170,938 forced to emigrate
The Czech people survived four decades of Soviet-imposed Communism. But can they survive the EU-imposed neo-Communism?
@VoCommunism
A crazy new law from CA Dems just went into effect. It sets a minimum wage of $240k per year for goat herders. Here's what the new law entails and why it reflects the insanity of today's CA Dem politicians - WATCH: full episode available on YouTube!
DFINITY just improved how $ICP handles subnets with large numbers of canisters.
Subnet eq6en (~100k canisters) now runs at ~2.3 blocks/s — near the consensus limit — up from ~1 block/s.
Next step: Raising the canister limit from 120k → 250k.
16 years of TOTAL Democrat control in California, here are the results:
--YOU PAY MORE
CA cost of living is $30k more per family vs. national average!
--THEY SPEND MORE
State budget DOUBLED - even after adjusting for inflation!
--YOU GET LESS
CA lags nation in jobs and services to residents
It’s no longer Republican vs. Democrat.
It’s not even common sense vs. crazy.
It’s America-loving vs. America-hating COMMUNISTS, and today’s Democrat Party has shown us who they really are.
Democrats want to destroy America. Republicans LOVE America and will FIGHT to keep the United States the greatest country in the history of the world.
California voters passed a proposition capping healthcare taxes. Yet Governor Newsom just imposed a massive new healthcare tax anyway. Premiums will go up $400 for a family of four.
Californians can’t afford this. I've formally asked HHS to block the new tax.