André De Castro 🟧

Founder & CEO, Blockchain of Things & CryptoCircle Meetup | Bitcoin OG since 2012 | Inventor w/ Multi Patents | US Policy influencer for #bitcoin

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

@tony_day25 @theblackvault So the lights surrounding all these crafts are engines? Absurd, so technologically advanced that they all emit light even during a bright day?

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

Power grows fastest when disguised as compassion.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

@FarmerJoe0x Untill you need some to pay your bills

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

Wow this is very nostalgic for me

[Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife]

If you were on ICQ, how’s your tech career going now? 😁

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

There is a stock trading lesson in here:

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

A look back at the stocks that traded above 10x sales at the dot-com peak.

What happened next:

– Cisco: ~25x sales, P/E above 200. Crashed -90%. Finally broke its 2000 peak in December 2025. 25 years and 8 months later.
– Intel: ~13x sales. Crashed -82%. Finally broke its 2000 peak in May 2026. Almost exactly 26 years later.
– Microsoft: ~25x sales. Crashed -65%. Took 16 years and 8 months to make a new high (October 2016).
– Qualcomm: ~30x sales. Crashed -88%. Took roughly 20 years to break even.
– Sun Microsystems: ~10x sales. Crashed -97%. Acquired by Oracle in 2009.
– JDSU: ~50x sales. Crashed -99%. Broken into pieces.
– Yahoo: ~50x sales. Crashed -97%. Sold to Verizon for a fraction.
– Lucent: ~10x sales. Crashed -99%. Eventually absorbed by Nokia.
– Nortel: ~15x sales. Bankrupt in 2009.

Then there's the famous mega survivor.

Amazon traded at ~30x sales at the peak. It still crashed -97%. The investor who bought at the top held through a 97% drawdown before eventually making money roughly a decade later.

The lesson isn't that every 10x sales stock ends in zero.

It's that even the eventual winners crash 90%+ first, and break even only after a generation.

Cisco. Intel. Microsoft. Amazon. The four greatest tech survivors of the dot-com era. Average time to break even on price alone: roughly 19 years. Inflation-adjusted, the math is uglier.

You have to be very right, very early, and willing to hold through unimaginable pain.

Most people aren't.

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

If you don’t think this is influencing the price of BTC then think again.

[Treasury Department @USTreasury]

Today, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Nobitex, Iran’s largest digital asset exchange, along with three other Iranian digital asset exchanges, as part of Economic Fury and the Trump Administration’s efforts to eliminate the threat posed by the Iranian regime.

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

Less manipulation on the horizon.

[MartyParty @martypartymusic]

CMEGroup launches 24/7 futures trading tomorrow, ending the famous crypto "CME gap" that traders have exploited for years.

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

They are all deep state operatives

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

Nice!

[cat @_catwu]

Read more here: https://t.co/AHObs2DIel

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

Gensler the Dem stooge

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Former SEC Chair Gary Gensler says President Trump is wrong to give the CFTC authority over prediction markets, arguing it should be left to the states.

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

@csuwildcat You don’t loose your paid off car if you stop paying your car insurance 🤡. Stop embarrassing yourself

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

Here is a real life example of the law of unintended consequences in action

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

franchement l'annonce de Huawei hier à Shanghai vient de mettre noir sur blanc ce que j'essaie de vous faire comprendre ici depuis des années

pour vulgariser Huawei vient d’annoncer au sympoisum ieee iscas une nouvelle loi physique qui remplace la loi de moore, ils l’appellent la tau scaling law et elle change littéralement le paradigme du semiconducteur mondial, en gros au lieu de continuer à rétrécir les transistors ce qui se heurte à des limites physiques quantiques infranchissables, ils optimisent dorénavant la constante de temps tau à 4 niveaux simultanément et obtiennent des gains de performance équivalents à ce que les américains atteignent avec leur lithographie euv à 200 millions de dollars la machine, sauf qu’eux n’ont pas accès à cette lithographie depuis les sanctions de 2019

la Chine dépasse donc la silicon valley sur son propre terrain et la rend périmée et ce qui se joue réellement est l'exact contraire de ce que Washington imaginait en décidant des sanctions de 2019

en ce sens je crois que très peu de gens ont pris la peine de regarder vraiment les slides de la présentation parce que le coeur de la rupture se cache ailleurs que dans le concept marketing de tau scaling law, il se trouve dans un détail technique que seuls quelques ingénieurs spécialisés ont remarqué (et que je suis parti fouiller haha), il existe visiblement un procédé de collage entre couches de silicium avec un espacement + petit que 2 micromètres, ce qui transforme les fils verticaux reliant les différentes couches d'une même puce en chemins de calcul à part entière, ils maîtrisent là l'intégration en 3 dimensions au sens fort pendant que le reste du monde raisonne encore sur un seul plan horizontal

pour moi la meilleure image c'est celle d'un architecte qui construit une tour pendant que ses concurrents continuent d'étaler des maisons individuelles à l'horizontale, intel et tsmc se battent pour graver des transistors toujours plus minuscules parce que leurs lithographies euv les enferment dans cette logique, huawei coupé de ces lithographies depuis 2019 a choisi un autre combat, raccourcir au maximum le temps qu'un signal électrique met pour traverser l'ensemble du système, cette durée qu'ils nomment tau et qu'ils minimisent simultanément au niveau du composant du circuit de la puce et de la machine complète, c'est de la physique réelle présentée dans la conférence ieee la plus sérieuse au monde sur le sujet

d’ailleurs les chiffres font réfléchir, allez jeter un coupé d’œil et vous allez voir que la densité de transistors monte de 126 à plus de 400 millions par millimètre carré entre 2024 et 2031, la fréquence des coeurs grimpe de 2,6 à 5 gigahertz, même la performance des systèmes complets fait x125 en 4 ans entre 2026 et 2030 & surtout 381 puces ont déjà été fabriquées en série selon ces principes depuis 2020, autant dire qu'ils ont commencé à changer de paradigme dès la première vague de sanctions américaines, 6 années de travail discret pendant que les analystes occidentaux les croyaient en mode survie mdr ce que tout le monde prenait pour de la résistance était en réalité un virage stratégique médité et mené avec la patience d'un peuple qui voit à 50 ans (la vision à très long terme de la Chine dont je vous parle souvent )

je vous le répète depuis des années ici, les sanctions occidentales accélèrent la politique industrielle et tech de Chine au lieu de la freiner, elles l'obligent à inventer le monde d'après pendant que l’occident reste coincé dans celui d'avant, d’ailleurs pour info même BYD a créé la batterie LFP face au blocage du nickel et il domine désormais le marché mondial de la voiture électrique, deepseek a conçu son architecture multi-head latent attention face au blocage des puces h100 et il a divisé par 10 le coût des grands modèles de langage, Huawei vient de poser logicfolding et tau scaling face au blocage de l'euv et il redessine déjà la trajectoire mondiale du semiconducteur jusqu'en 2031

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

This is the real power of crypto!

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

The crypto industry has had an almost perfect night so far when it comes to backing winning candidates.

@KenPaxtonTX, backed by @Fellowship_PAC, defeated @JohnCornyn in the Republican Senate primary runoff.

@RepCDMenefee and @JonBonckTX also won after receiving support from @Fairshake and @BlockchainLF.

Fairshake-backed candidates @AlexMealerTX and @SellForTexas19 also won their respective races, while @CarlosForTexas is currently projected to win.

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

That’s because the EU is a disaster

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🚨GERMANY WANTS TO WITHDRAW FROM THE 🇪🇺 EUROPEAN UNION!

🇩🇪 Germany’s RIGHT-WING party (AfD), the Alternative for Germany, is rapidly gaining popularity across the nation and wants to LEAVE the European Union if it secures a victory in the upcoming election.

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

Grok knows

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

Hey @Grok, did Iran just now drop a BOMBSHELL claiming the US told them to IGNORE Trump's peace deal statements saying they're just 'domestic propaganda'?! Very concise.

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

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[GG @UnruggableGG]

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[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

If you did not know it’s all fake volume and many market makers are mostly criminals, now you know.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES..

THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!!

The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing"..

It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point..

Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume"..

Every single firm said yes..

Here's what they recorded..

Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume"..

When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200"..

$200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume..

MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera..

"We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit"..

He said that on a recorded FBI video call..

CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely..

ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic..

All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded..

And the clients were even worse..

Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors..

$7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic..

One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook..

Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything..

When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture..

But here's the part that broke my brain..

Real people bought NexFundAI..

The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish..

When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token..

The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back..

And it gets worse..

Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day..

Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for..

Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore..

IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular..

The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected..

The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured..

And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.

[André De Castro 🟧 @AndreTechExec]

@Holden_Culotta Yet, he lost. let's get real, Congress is now terrified of going against Trump.