Connor Loewen

I like/re-tweet Motorsports, Counter-Strike, MTG, Warhammer 40k, firearms, computer hardware, #ethereum, #bitcoin and #monero stuff. NFA

[Kasey Quanrud @digitalspaz]

I dream to see certain things in my lifetime, even though they’re unlikely

[Adam @Rhynotic]

it's so embarrassing to be in crypto that it's cool again. i'm back to telling everyone i do "boring crypto shit" for work

[Connor Loewen @ConnorALoewen]

@Polysesouvient @DanforthFSC @grcrcmppolice I think the bigger miss is the fact that replica firearms/airsoft which are very commonly used by criminals/homeless are included in the statistic. Super misleading.

[Connor Loewen @ConnorALoewen]

@notcee_fan Zeitgeist. No idea why my parents let me watch that.

[Connor Loewen @ConnorALoewen]

@hthieblot YTMND

[Connor Loewen @ConnorALoewen]

@LorenzoARK @TrustlessState Total onchain value transferred (ETH, stables, tokens, nfts) across all EVM is the signal. Ethereum is lapping the competition, even bitcoin by a growing margin. 10’s of trillions in value a year and growing. Every single transaction involves ETH. It’s gg for alt l1’s

[calle @callebtc]

Bitcoin is suffering because too many Bitcoiners have abandoned every principle they once claimed to stand for, and now bootlick every conman or politician who gives them even a shred of attention.

Every politician has rugged them so far. Every single one.

And still, the next fraud will show up tomorrow, say a few flattering words about Bitcoin, and the same fools will fall for it all over again.

[T mac @btctmac]

The value of your house has not increased

The value of the currency you price it in has went through the floor

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

Ethereum has been winning, is winning, and has never lost.

The most-used subprotocol or subchain by actual users is EVM-based. Every major wallet either supports ETH natively or is built entirely on EVM architecture.

Every chain that tried to compete failed to attract meaningful developer adoption. Algorand, Tezos, Polkadot - none crossed the threshold. Most “ETH killers” eventually found a single niche and settled: NEAR became a solid intent-based bridge layer, TRON became a USDT wallet. That’s not winning, that’s narrowing.

Cheap L2s never retained long-term users either. The pattern is always the same: airdrop announcement, usage spike, MEV bots flood in because gas is cheap, then silence. Base is a clean example of that cycle.

Ethereum sets the vision. Every fork and new proposal chases the EIP backlog because the entire infrastructure stack - Etherscan, Infura, Alchemy, Blockscout - standardized on EVM. Deviate from that standard and you’re on your own. That’s why deploying a forked contract to TRON is a nightmare, why Optimism shipped multiple broken hard forks chasing weird gas estimation edge cases, and why dapp developers refuse to write chains of if/else blocks just to handle behavioral differences across 10+ forked EVMs.

No one wants that complexity in their JavaScript. No wallet team wants to maintain it either.

Conform to EVM or get left behind. Ethereum didn’t enforce that rule - the ecosystem did.

[funcry @funcry]

buy rumors, buy conspiracies, buy uncertainty, buy confusion, buy doubt, buy chaos, buy the part where nobody knows what’s real yet.

when it reveals, you’re not buying alpha anymore.

you are buying confirmed information.

and confirmed information is usually sold to you by the people who bought the mess before you.

[Connor Loewen @ConnorALoewen]

@xescure @5dayoldburrito @jillgun If the ico funds are raised full kyc it will have no path, imo

[Julian Figueroa @kinetic_finance]

⚠️They say no one can explain Bitcoin Mining in under 12 minutes.

Most overcomplicate it.
Most miss the point.

Challenge accepted.

Give me 11 minutes and you’ll finally get it.

The system... and the hidden idea that makes it all work.

💥THE EXIT MANUAL – EPISODE #34

[Connor Loewen @ConnorALoewen]

@MartyBent If Bitcoin is the best P2P cash system today, then why does the EVM settle more P2P value than Bitcoin? Or is that a failed Bitcoin narrative?

[Connor Loewen @ConnorALoewen]

@MiddleEarth_xD Morrowind

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

An important case before the Supreme Court of Canada will decide if the government can prohibit billions of dollars in legally owned private property through cabinet order rather than legislation. The case raises important constitutional questions about both property rights and the scope of executive authority.
https://t.co/lPpdKLj9qa

[Debbie Bloodclot. @bettybloodclot]

Don't forget , the Liberals are importing 300,000 foreign military men to serve in the Canadian army , while threatening legal gun owners if they keep their property

[Connor Loewen @ConnorALoewen]

@GailSmithlegal @JoshuaBurton Let's see what the supreme court has to say about that. It's quite sad you enjoy seeing steadfast Canadians' assets be seized. Some of us are out of 10's of thousands of dollars on property we indeed paid taxes for at time of sale.

[Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs]

Many celebrate certain crypto assets getting classified as non-securities.

If you look at those assets, they are clearly securities, sold as such and are designed only to enrich insiders.

We need better securities laws and more fair and accessible markets, not exemptions.

[L0la L33tz @L0laL33tz]

“Oh my god, the Treasury said we can use mixers if we promise we won’t do crime”

Listen here you fucking idiots. The very notion of “lawful users of digital assets” implicates a mechanism to distinguish between “lawful” and “unlawful” use.

The report very clearly lays out how this will be distinguished, and it isn’t magic wands and fairy dust.

Since no one who claims this report is “a win for privacy” seems to have actually read it, here’s some of the recommendations the Treasury actually makes:

Finalization of the regulation of mixers under the PATRIOT Act as well as the introduction of a sixth special measure under the PATRIOT Act targeted at non-custodial software

The creation of sub-types of non-bank financial institutions in the BSA targeted at DeFi services

To recind, modify, or update 2013 & 2019 FinCEN guidance that has been protecting non-custodial software and developers

To incentivize the development and integration of digital identity tools aimed at countering illicit finance

Nothing, and I mean **nothing** about this is good for privacy at all.

[Mandrik @Mandrik]

I am an ancap at heart, but my brain understands the world we live in.