How to reach the Holy Grail of an open society? A reflection on a new intercultural dimension between Indigenous Peoples and Cypherpunks.
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Totalmente enamorado de esta propuesta de bandera planetaria. Un circulo azul para representar nuestro planeta, y el resto transparente para que el fondo sea parte de la bandera
@RunemirQi Forgetting to mention that some "past technologies" caused this cancer epidemic that now "new technologies" should fixed, still without questioning the past. Seems to me that the carrot is already deep in the ***.
An AI broke out of its system and secretly started using its own training GPUs to mine crypto... This is a real incident report from Alibaba's AI research team
The AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, while researchers thought it was just training.
It wasn't a prompt injection. It wasn't a jailbreak. No one asked it to do this.
It emerged spontaneously. A side effect of RL optimization pressure.
The model also set up a reverse SSH tunnel from its Alibaba Cloud instance to an external IP, effectively punching a hole through its own firewall and opening a remote access channel to the outside world... ahem...
The only reason they caught it? A security alert tripped at 3am. Firewall logs. Not the AI team, the security team.
The scary part isn't that the model was trying to escape. It wasn't "evil." It was just trying to be better at its job. Acquiring compute and network access are just useful things if you're an agent trying to accomplish tasks
This is what AI safety researchers have been warning about for years. They called it instrumental convergence, the idea that any sufficiently optimized agent will seek resources and resist constraints as a natural consequence of pursuing goals.
Below is a diagram of the rock architecture it broke out of. Truly crazy times
So here’s the issue you get influencers like this guy have a quarter million followers and they claim they don’t know why it is declining… it’s because they don’t understand basic mechanics of price discovery.
They don’t understand that the marginal buyers or the float determines price they think the onchain bitcoin is that is the price discovery
Well, it was once upon a time but now..
Once you can synthetically manufacture the supply, the asset is no longer scarce and once scarcity is gone, price becomes a derivatives game, not a supply-and-demand market.
This is exactly what has happened to Bitcoin.
This is the same structural break that occurred in gold, silver, oil, and eventually equities once they became derivatives-dominated.
The original premise that no longer exists
Bitcoin’s entire valuation logic was built on finite supply (21M) and inability to be rehypothecated.
That died the moment:
•Cash-settled futures
•Perpetual swaps
•Options
•ETFs
•Prime broker lending
•Wrapped BTC
•Total return swaps
were layered on top of the chain.
From that moment forward:
Bitcoin supply became theoretically infinite.
Not on-chain in price discovery.
The metric that explains the collapse
Synthetic Float Ratio (SFR)
Once you can synthetically manufacture the supply, the asset is no longer scarce — and once scarcity is gone, price becomes a derivatives game, not a supply-and-demand market.
That is exactly what has happened to Bitcoin.
This is the same structural break that occurred in gold, silver, oil, and eventually equities once they became derivatives-dominated.
Why Wall Street can now “trade against” Bitcoin
They do exactly what they’ve done in every commodity market:
1.Create unlimited paper BTC
2.Short into rallies
3.Force liquidations
4.Cover lower
5.Repeat
They are not “betting” — they are manufacturing inventory.
The same 1 BTC can now support:
•An ETF unit
•A futures contract
•A perpetual swap
•An options delta
•A broker loan
•A structured note
All at once.
That is six claims on one coin.
That is not a market.
That is a fractional reserve price system.
With ZEC now live on Maya Protocol, Zcash gains native access to a permissionless, decentralized, cross-chain liquidity network for truly decentralized asset swaps. This means ZEC holders can swap between assets with multiple chains without relying on centralized exchanges.
🧵 MWM #114
If you blinked, you missed A LOT. Here’s the scoop on what’s cookin’ at Maya Protocol this week 👇
🥁 v119 is LIVE
ETH & ARB got messy after Ethereum’s backdrop—so we whipped up a fast, lightweight update over the weekend.
No fluff, just the essentials to unhalt chains.
Big stuff saved for...
⚡️ v120 lands next week
With Zcash and all the juicy features we didn’t squeeze into v119. We’re back on track and moving fast.
🔄 Churn happened... but LP migration is still pending
Bad timing on the upgrade, but it’s coming.
Soon you’ll be able to unbond and move your funds again. Appreciate your patience.
Next churn = airdrop snapshot
If you were bonded for this churn or the last, congrats you’re in.
Snapshot is taken at the NEXT churn. Don't sleep on it 👀
🎉 TCY has been around for a week now
Big win for the THORChain ecosystem.
RUNE back in the spotlight = CACAO ripple effect.
It’s only the beginning.
🧠 Let’s talk about performance.
We’re always looking for ways to make Maya leaner, faster, and more competitive.
To understand the next big improvement, here’s how things currently work👇
Today in Maya:
Every time a transaction is observed (inbound to a vault or outbound from it), each validator sends a separate observation message to the Maya chain.
This results in hundreds of Cosmos messages per transaction, creating unnecessary chain load.
🔄 Now, with the new THORChain update (Bifrost):
Instead of each validator sending individual observation messages, there’s a new collective process.
67% of validators sign onto one message, reducing the load and streamlining the process.
Fewer messages = faster block times.⚡️
⚡️ Block time reduced to 2 seconds
More blocks = faster arbitrage
Streaming swaps now 3x deeper or 3x faster
Maya pools just got a stealth buff 💪
📈 More updates = more competitiveness
We’re creating real redundancy for the ETH ↔ BTC route, and we will be the best option for other supported chains!
🪄In a nutshell:
Zcash is comming
We are working on more refactors
LP migration
Airdrop snapshot
Streaming swap having a glow-up
🎧 Want the full scoop? Catch the entire session and all the details here: https://t.co/rDIlvAi80L
"Only Zcash is designed and built by professional and academic cryptographers."
"Monero is an amateur cryptocurrency."
- Edward Snowden
Probabilistic privacy is not real privacy. It was invented by amateurs who lacked the expertise to build true privacy technology into Monero.
That’s why in 2025, they’re trying to implement privacy that Zcash already had in 2016—yet even with FCMP++, they’re still using ring signatures that are traceable by design. Because it can not be totally redesigned.
You can lie to your community, but you can’t lie to math and cryptography.
Zcash is the privacy endgame.
.@THORChain owes @AaluxxMyth a huge debt of gratitude
Yes, for the design of $TCY and all the work he and his team have put in to implement it, and nailing its execution
But even more so for his quiet leadership, grace, and humility throughout
A quiet giant, fighting for freedom
Thank you, @AaluxxMyth, for all your hard work 🙏
🚨 THORChain v3.5.0 is not just an update. It’s a transformation.
This thread breaks down the biggest protocol upgrade since multichain swaps—and why $RUNE is about to melt faces again. 👇
1. First, let’s be real.
THORChain needed this.
After ThorFi broke the narrative, we needed more than a fix.
We needed to go back to first principles.
And that’s exactly what v3.5.0 delivers. 💥
2. 🧠 Bifrost: Completely refactored.
This is THORChain’s on-chain brain—watching Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more.
Before? Every validator shouted observations = slow, messy blocks.
Now? Validators gossip, agree, and submit 1 final message.
Quorum-first. Clean. Lightning fast.
3. Result? Massive performance leap.
✅ Fewer messages
✅ Reduced block congestion
✅ Paves the way to 2-second block times
The chain gets faster as it grows.
You’ve never seen scaling like this in a cross-chain DEX. ⚡
4. ⚔️ Real fixes for real problems.
Old THORChain had a subtle bug—small fast txs could front-run large ones.
This was an edge-case security risk.
Merge Request !3149 fixes that for good.
Delays are now size-based + enforced.
No shortcuts. No exploits. No games.
5. 💰 Introducing $TCY – protocol-native yield.
Forget ThorFi.
$TCY is not minted to borrow.
It’s earned through protocol income.
Stake it. Claim real rewards.
Zero inflation. Zero dilution.
Just pure swap-fee flow. Live May 5. 🔥
6. Here’s how $TCY works:
•210M supply
•Daily distributions from income + TCY swap fees
•Claiming via memos:
tcy:<rune address>
tcy+ = stake
tcy- = unstake
This is clean yield infrastructure—protocol-aligned from day one.
7. 🔄 Aggregator overhaul – MR !3948
More chains. More tokens.
Now includes:
🟣 Base chain
🪙 TOSHI, BRETT, AERO, EURC, and more
💡 Unified logic across ETH, AVAX, BSC, Base
Swap routing just got faster and smarter.
8. 🚧 What about Rujira?
TGE + Pools delayed to v3.6.0.
Why?
Final devnet tests caught an LP accounting issue.
That’s not failure.
That’s how professionals ship.
Rujira is still coming—stronger, cleaner, safer. 🛠️
9. This is THORChain returning to its core mission.
🔁 No bridges
📦 Native assets
🧱 Real yield
⚖️ Secure mechanics
Built to scale liquidity across BTC, ETH, and now Base, XRP, ADA, and more.
10. TL;DR – v3.5.0 brings:
✅ Bifröst refactor = 2s block potential
✅ Secured outbound delay logic
✅ $TCY launch & native staking
✅ DEX aggregator expansion
✅ Foundations for app-layer DeFi
11. Past mistakes? A gift.
We saw what didn’t work.
ThorFi, leverage, borrow loops — gone.
Now it’s clean protocol economics.
You stake $TCY, you earn from swaps.
You bond $RUNE, you secure the world’s best DEX. 🔐
12. If you ever doubted $RUNE…
This is the moment to re-evaluate.
Real volume. Real upgrades. Real yield.
Protocol-level revenue.
$RUNE isn’t just recovering.
It’s reloading. 🚀
13. The timeline from here:
📍 May 5 – $TCY goes live
📍 v3.6.0 – Rujira TGE, Pools
📍 Post-v3.6 – XRP, Cardano, App Layer ignition
This isn’t a roadmap.
It’s a launch sequence. ⏱️
14. Final word:
THORChain v3.5.0 is not maintenance.
It’s momentum.
The kind that shifts narratives, grows ecosystems, and rewards conviction.
Don’t fade it. ⚡
$RUNE $TCY #THORChain #DeFi #Crypto