@JLKHatesYou Essentially it’s a modified form of Cysteine an amino acid helps make the toxic byproduct of alcohol that causes hangover less damaging and more easily flushed out of the body leaving less negative effect on you. I don’t drink without it.
At some point, every man reaches a crossroads:
One path is comfort. The other is growth.
Most men know exactly which habits are holding them back.
The hard part is having the discipline to let them go.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
I largely think of "crypto" as a failed asset class at this point.
I've written about the causes multiple times. Mainly, most crypto assets are worthless, or have dreadful value accrual, and most founders have abused the lack of guardrails and dumped on people indiscriminately, or are outright scammers.
On top of that we had the Memecoins SuperBullshitCycle, a trend that brought the worst out of people, and sucked everyone's souls & pockets dry. And then came the never-ending wave of DeFi hacks, which has dramatically increased since last April.
This can seem contradictory, as adoption of "crypto" is surging:
> Stablecoin adoption continues growing fast
> Politicians in the US are openly pro crypto
> Tradfi is looking at tokenizing everything
> Usage of equities & commodities perps is exploding in offshore and DeFi exchanges
> The US is in the early stages of adopting perps
> Prediction markets are becoming part of everyone's daily lives
These are more "blockchain" than "crypto", although there are some exceptions with a token in those fields, most of which have been performing very well in recent months. A few among those exceptions even distribute most revenue to holders via buybacks (Hyperliquid in particular), which is what every investor actually wants to see to be invested in a good business rather than a fleeting narrative.
We also have the privacy category. The one old school crypto category that is not liquid diarrhea. The world needs private non-custodial stores of value.
Crime in particular needs privacy, as proven by the DoJ confiscation of $15 billion in Bitcoin from Cambodia's pig butchering farms, legal filing for which was submitted on October 8, 2025 (coincidentally right before 10/10). Of course, everyone needs privacy, not just criminals, but crime flows are real, and large.
The asset attracting the most flows in this niche is Zcash. Zcash's recent performance has been fascinating, as it has been trending higher with bitcoin trending lower, a sign of real reallocation among bitcoiners.
Another crypto category that is not dead is the "AI" category, full of high flying, fundamentally lacking, narrative driven tokens. The standout exception is Venice, a private AI platform with growing users and revenue, whose tokens are directly backed by the business rather than a narrative.
So one could say old "crypto" is a failed asset class, but from the ashes come new beginnings, and the new face of crypto is one heavily dominated by the needs of Tradfi, prediction markets, AI, and privacy.
Crypto sucks. Long live crypto.
@DrWednesday@shash_cs@AutismCapital Good place to start is to
stop optimizing for money
or status
Become a bike salesman,
A snake charmer,
A palm reader
Figure out what you
truly love to do
Only then will you be able
to morph the world to your will
When you stop morphing yourself
To the will of the world
Social media is likely to get more like this over time.
In my recent novel, the internet is pretty divided into centralized/censored core networks and decentralized/uncensored edge networks.
This tick crisis is getting out of hand and it’s going to be almost impossible to avoid if you are in these areas
- The black speck all the way to the right is pepper
- The speck in the middle is a grain of salt
- That tiny speck to the left, that’s a tick
Here’s everything that’s being effected
Northeast highest activity overall
Connecticut especially high submission rates with 40% Lyme-positive ticks
New York
Pennsylvania leads in Lyme cases
Massachusetts
Maine
New Jersey
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rhode Island: ER visits for tick bites are at record highs for this time of year
Upper Midwest
Michigan Lyme cases rising sharply
Wisconsin
Minnesota significant increases in tick activity and related illnesses
Mid-Atlantic states
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
Delaware strong populations of blacklegged and lone star ticks
Parts of the Southeast and South
Georgia
Texas
North Carolina
Expanding to gulf coast area
Also
Ohio
Illinois
Scattered reports in California and Florida
Isn’t it amazing that Lyme disease rates from ticks are skyrocketing right when Pfizer is working on a a Lyme disease vaccine