As a man.
Only once you get rich will you realize how pointless it is.
The only REAL use for excessive money is providing an epic life for your family.
As a man. You don't need much $$ to be happy. The threshold is so low. You need purpose and freedom.
To do this, you need:
A reasonable apartment in a safe area
A computer
Something that can make money that you would do for free for the rest of your life
This can be achieved at $10k a month.
Don't get me wrong. $10k a month isn't chump change.
But it isn't the 7 figures people think you need to make it. You don't need to make 10s of millions of dollars.
You just need to get good enough at something you love to make slightly above the median household income in the US from your bedroom.
You. Yes, you reading this. If you're thinking the world's over and you can't make it.
You need to relax.
A big house. Cars. Nice things. They just simply won't make you happy. If anything, the bills for these things will STOP you from being happy as they will restrict your freedom.
What WILL make you happy is waking up and working on something that matters to you.
If you can then work in:
Having easy access to a gym
Picking up a creative hobby (instrument/writing/art)
Staying off social media
Picking up a combat sport
I'm sorry. If you have all that. You've won at that point.
No. I'm not saying making $10k a month from your bedroom is "easy."
But any man... high IQ. Low IQ. Etc. Is capable of pulling that off if they put their nose to the grindstone for a year or two.
But the mountain men think they have to climb to make it based on social media has hit retardation levels of stupid.
According to some sources, I'm worth close to multiple 9 figures.
Guess what. I still do the same shit and get off on the same shit I did when I was worth nothing.
I wake up. Go to my computer. Work on stuff I like. I lift weights. Play guitar (badly). Write. Read. Then go to bed.
I spent decades getting "rich" just to figure out I never needed to.
Don't get me wrong. More money is better than less money. Making lots of money is also fun.
BUT
Absolutely nothing that makes me happy requires a high income.
Absolutely nothing that will make you happy requires a high income either.
Everything you need in life is completely within your reach to achieve. Just relax, keep your chin up and go get it.
From today’s Binance hack, no $ADA or $NIGHT tokens were stolen.
And for a good reason:
- The attackers compromised a hot wallet key and an internal signing service, the same class of breach that has drained other exchanges before. But the ADA and NIGHT balances were not sitting in a simple account style hot wallet. They were held in a Cardano multi signature script (eUTxO) that required an additional on chain authorization from a separate, air gapped key controlled by a different team, plus a timelock that only released after a short challenge window.
- Midnight’s privacy layer added a second practical obstacle: the precise amounts and destination addresses were shielded with zk proofs. The attackers could see that “some” assets existed, but they could not confirm exact balances or craft a clean withdrawal transaction without generating valid selective disclosure proofs they did not possess. By the time they realized the funds were not freely spendable under the compromised key, the internal response team had already rotated the remaining signers and frozen the script.
- The only assets that left the platform were tokens that relied purely on centralized hot wallet controls. ADA and NIGHT stayed put because their movement was gated by on chain script conditions and privacy constraints that the stolen credentials alone could not satisfy.
In short: the keys were compromised, the script conditions and zk requirements were not.
I don’t think people realize how big this is.
Open Food Chain is using Cardano to anchor supply-chain proofs for @KraftHeinzCo and Interfood.
In simple terms, companies can verify what actually happened across the supply chain instead of just asking people to trust the data.
This is the kind of adoption I care about.
Real companies, real use cases, and Cardano quietly sitting underneath the infrastructure.
A lot more is happening on Cardano than people think.
JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "I've been in the blockchain industry for 15 years, and I've watched it grow from no people to 550M. What's truly remarkable, is it brings the entire world together, and the fastest-adopting countries are abroad, they're not here in America."
Τεράστιος Γιάννης Ιωαννίδης. Λέει τα πράγματα με το όνομα τους.
Δέκα πολιτικούς να είχε η Ελλάδα του «ύψους» του, θα ήταν σίγουρα στις πρώτες θέσεις των κρατών της Ευρώπης..!!
Welcome to the sharing economy, @elonmusk🤝
@Starlink is the best network ever put in orbit. Since 2021 it has been the backhaul for the largest sharing economy ground network in the world. Ours.
170,000+ community owned AirNodes across Africa, Asia and the US. The people who host them get paid for connecting their neighbours. The people who connect get an opportunity only half the world has today. Communities living in Swiss cheese coverage are whole again.
Below: North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. @SpaceX's Mike Coryell led the Starlink and Powerwall deployment. We worked alongside his team to connect the disconnected and made the rollout more efficient.
We bet on this model in 2018. We were right.
Connectivity is a human right.
UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson to attend a Midnight City workshop in Miami to "lock down how we get to 1M users by the end of 2027. They'll have Midnight Passports, Agentic Wallets, a ton of TXs—that plus RealFi, Pogun, we'll have a lot of users and TVL flowing through IOG products."
1/ This is what a universal privacy layer looks like in practice.
Wallets. DeFi. Identity. Payments. Infrastructure. AI.
Hundreds of teams and partners building across the Midnight ecosystem.
Here’s the bigger picture. 🧵
Look what we just shipped 👀
Cardano token terminal built to last.
Track token prices, market caps, volume, liquidity, trends and more.
We’ve been here through the bull runs, the bear markets, and everything in between
And we’re not going anywhere 🫡
https://t.co/l6i4uj9mKk
Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies.
Be wary of friends - they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical.
In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies.
The problem is that you often do not know your friends as well as you imagine.
Friends often agree on things in order to avoid an argument.
Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels.
What is Midnight?
Midnight (@MidnightNtwrk) officially launched its mainnet in March 2026 after years of development by Input Output.
Midnight is designed to bring programmable privacy and zero-knowledge technology to the Cardano (@Cardano) ecosystem.
Unlike Cardano, Midnight runs its own ledger, consensus mechanism and smart contract environment.
(1) Midnight uses zero-knowledge proofs to let applications verify information without exposing the underlying private data.
(2) It introduces programmable privacy, allowing developers to decide which information stays private and which data becomes publicly verifiable.
(3) Midnight also separates its capital asset from transaction costs.
NIGHT is a utility token that generates DUST, the shielded resource actually spent on transactions. Governance is a planned future role for NIGHT, not its defined one today.
(4) NIGHT is connected to Cardano through its partner-chain model, with the token existing across both Cardano and Midnight.
So is Midnight a rival to ADA?
Not really. Midnight is designed as a complementary network that expands what the Cardano ecosystem can offer.
Cardano remains focused on its core blockchain, while Midnight targets privacy-heavy use cases such as regulated DeFi, identity and institutional applications.
The bigger question is whether Midnight can turn Cardano’s privacy ambitions into real-world adoption.
Midnight describes itself as a Cardano partner chain, not a Layer 2 or replacement for Cardano. Its transactions operate independently, while interoperability connects the two ecosystems.
DUST regenerates roughly every seven days based on how much NIGHT a holder has, which keeps transaction costs predictable over time.