Seriously, do not let your mind be infected by the timeline. Be an optimist.
The world is getting better, faster, more enjoyable. There will be peace and harmony on earth eventually, soon, and prosperity for all.
Even if things are tough, you can talk to people anywhere in the world, enjoy the best content ever created with TikTok or YouTube or Netflix or even here on X. The best video games. You can get anything delivered to your door instantly. You can procure a car with a button. I mean these are truly incredible things.
You are told this tech is bad and rotting brains and making us lazy, making us lonely etc., leading to hypergambling and depression and this and that, but even your freedom to consume ideas and opinions like that is a blessing that our ancestors couldn't imagine.
AI is incredible. I'm sure that it will eliminate some jobs. But also create many others. If anything, it will help us work less and spend more time doing things we like. Creating content, for example, is way more fun for most than sitting at a desk in an office. It's also pretty obvious from using today's LLMs that AGI is incredibly far away, no matter what any founder wants to sell you.
Imagined old-world concepts like borders are becoming things of the past. Crypto is an important last puzzle piece of that story, because money is power and it's often been used to divide us instead of lift humanity up. Crypto money is money of the people.
You do not have to succumb to nihilism or doomerism, even though it occupies the feed at all times. Hard to believe being optimistic is a contrarian view, but it is.
Being optimistic is a way more valuable mindset, and will make you happier. Your mind is a filter through which you interpret the facts of the world. Which means, you are completely in charge of how you feel about it.
Choose to see the good. And you will be happy.
17b is one of the most prized Curio Cards, because of its unique history.
Dubbed the "Misprint Card," 17b came from an incorrectly deployed contract, which collectors still minted.
This duplicate was an uncanny coincidence, because the art is about forking Bitcoin in 2017.
For advancing global financial markets into a new and better future. For embracing internet capital markets.
Thank you @SECPaulSAtkins.
With love, the global Solana community 💜
There’s a shift happening in plain sight. We’re watching two worlds run on separate tracks.
On one side, you have NFTs priced out of discovery. Premium markets where entry points feel insurmountable, where the UI is clunky, and where "collectors" means a very narrow group of people who already figured out the maze. It's not sustainable, and frankly, it's not reaching the audience that should be engaging with this technology.
On the other side, you have millions of people already collecting, trading, and obsessing over digital items every single day. They're just doing it in gaming environments where the experience is seamless, intuitive, and built around actual utility and enjoyment rather than speculation.
The gap between these two worlds isn't technological. NFTs are the underpinning technology that can serve both. The gap is experiential. It's in how we present, price, and distribute these assets across the entire demand curve.
What we're building toward isn't about convincing traditional collectors to try gaming, or convincing gamers to become NFT collectors. It's about recognizing that collecting is collecting, regardless of the environment. The technology exists to make digital collectibles accessible, discoverable, and valuable across every price point and every platform.
The future isn't about choosing sides between premium collectibles and gaming assets. It's about building the infrastructure that lets these markets speak to each other, where someone can start their collecting journey at any level and grow with genuine discovery and engagement.
We're not disrupting collecting. We're completing it.
29 FUN weekend activities that don't involve alcohol:
1. Take a cooking class or pick up some fresh ingredients and experiment with new recipes to unlock some of your favorite flavor combinations.