BREAKING: Kash Patel fails to answer @ChrisVanHollen twice when asked if he knows it's illegal to lie to Congress:
Van Hollen: My final question to you, Mr. Director, is do you know that it is a crime to lie to Congress?
Patel: I have not lied to Congress.
Van Hollen: I didn't ask that. I'm not testifying here
Patel: Maybe the next time you run up a $7,000 bar tab, we can talk about that.
Van Hollen: Well, see, I'm glad that you have agreed to take the test regarding, you know, whether you have alcohol problems. I'm glad you agreed with me to do that. You still haven't answered my final question. Do you know, Mr. Director, that it is a crime to lie to Congress? Do you know that?
Patel: I do not lie to Congress.
On Covenant exit from Bittensor:
Bitcoin had Mt. Gox. It had the block size war that tore the community in half and produced an actual hard fork... Ethereum had The DAO hack, a chain rollback that critics still call a betrayal of immutability...
Every one of those moments was framed at the time as the end of the experiment.
None of them brought down the thriving ecosystem at its inflection point.
Decentralized networks do not arrive finished. They get assembled in public, under load, with real money on the line and real people disagreeing about what the thing is supposed to be.
The plane gets built while it is flying, and sometimes turbulence hits hard enough and the crew has to keep welding through it. Bittensor is in that phase right now.
Covenant leaving is a stress test. One team left loudly and the protocol kept running. The other subnets kept running. Blocks kept producing.
Once the dust settles, what people will remember is what was already true before this week. Bittensor has traction.
@const_reborn@markjeffrey@covenant_ai So many people with tear it down comments( ok normal X) when the majority have so little understanding of the network and inter-workings. (actually normal X also) #bittensor#tao
Price action shows me how early to the party we truly are. I have to think that, at this point at $270/TAO, no one who knows the magnitude of the project is selling. Only token speculators. This could be back over $300+ in a matter of hours. Regardless of price: #Bittensor#TAO
#TAO#Bittensor To be clear, TAO did not go down because Covenant bitterly planned the scorched earth exit, cause their wittle feelers were hurt. TAO went down because people who don't understand really, panic sold TAO
@brahmresnik@GovernorHobbs Good decision. Keep partisan as far away for people's taxes as possible on both sides .
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