Dima

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

For 3 years I have kept my portfolio #BTC heavy in line with the goal of BTC dominance hitting 60%.

I did not want to diminish the Satoshi valuation of my portfolio by chasing altcoins that I would probably just end up losing money on, and that just bleed back to BTC.

[mert @mert]

- SOL ETF
- zk compression
- blinks
- new 60M solana startup fund

all within 5 days

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

but wait... there's more

[mert @mert]

hey @BlackRock — you up?

[mert @mert]

the big news is here

today we're introducing ZK compression to Solana, directly on the L1 — without requiring L2s

this changes everything you thought you knew about Solana and scaling L1s

TL;DR — we compress onchain state to get 10,000x scale improvements and get 1 step closer to building The Financial Computer — an unstoppable, global, atomic state machine syncing at the speed of light

for non-technical folks
developers can now build and scale literally anything they want directly on Solana without needing to leave it

example cost difference
take an airdrop to 1,000,000 users

this today would cost over $260,000 for state alone

now, it's $50 — 5,200x cheaper

but a token account is just one example of this — *everything* on Solana is an account, meaning everything can be scaled

for technical folks
there are two costs on Solana — compute and state

Solana already has cheap compute — but state is expensive

allocating accounts, paying rent, and scaling with users have all been shown to be a massive roadblock for Solana devs

this is now fixed

and if you're a bit more technical, you'll know that state-growth is a major issue for scaling blockchains

well...with this you can compress all Solana state!

and this has further implications for hardware requirements and the overall performance of the entire network

this is just Day 1, there will be challenges of course (and we will overcome them, as we have done before)

you combine this, add in firedancer, multiple concurrent leaders, async execution and an ecosystem of thousands of insanely cracked devs — and we have a real shot at this crypto thing

accelerate

[mert @mert]

basically

you're really gonna wanna stake with Helius' validator, starting now

0% fees (and 0% MEV fees), so you keep all yield

main motivation is to improve network performance

go to your fav wallet -> stake -> type Helius

HEL1USMZKAL2odpNBj2oCjffnFGaYwmbGmyewGv1e2TU

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

When Microstrategy’s market cap reaches ~ $14.5 billion it will be included in the S&P 500.

This will create a positive price feedback loop.

This is INCREDIBLY bullish for both #Bitcoin and for Microstrategy 🤯 MUST WATCH 👀

[beeple @beeple]

CONTAGION

[Logarithmic Rex @LogarithmicRex]

(1/25) Cryptography Fundamentals: Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Elliptic Curve Cryptography is (one of) our strongest cryptographic tools, vastly more secure than its predecessors. But... how does the moon math at the center of modern crypto work?

A layman's guide to Sci-Fi tech

[Lina Seiche @LinaSeiche]

We are not the same

[PlanB @100trillionUSD]

My first bitcoin investment was in 2015/16 at ~$400 (yellow circle), 2 yrs after I read the bitcoin white paper in 2013. My second investment was in 2018/19 at the bottom of the bear market at ~$4K, at the time when I published the S2F model. My third investment is now, at ~$20K.

[Dima @DimaHodl]

Not only did I find a hidden game inside the Wolt app, I also just beat the @woltapp record with a score of 66 and got a free delivery for it. #easteregg

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

One important corollary of this is better EIP 1559 performance (because fewer blocks bump up against the 2x limit). So far, the percentage of full blocks has dropped from ~20% to ~10%.

https://t.co/qmCkqzYn2z

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

And we finalized!

Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.

[InvestAnswers @Investanswers]

@PeterSchiff Meanwhile, #Gold down Minus 53% in real terms [Minus 2% in Nominal Terms] over the last 4,000 Days - 11 years.... and with the best Gold #Macroeconomic backdrop ever is still down YTD! #Bitcoin up over 210,000% in the same timeframe. Enjoy 🕊️☮️

[dannyryan @dannyryan]

Finalized no. 36

https://t.co/tSxJaViwbk

Merge sequence engaged 🚀

[Chainlink @chainlink]

#Chainlink Price Feeds have gained rapid adoption on @solana since going live last week, already helping secure stablecoins, lending protocols, and a #DeFi platform.

Check out Price Feeds integrations on #Solana by @ApricotFinance, @HedgeLabs, @Soi_Finance, and @upfi_network ⬇️

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Please stop using "real name" to refer to your passport name. Your government doesn't get to define who you "really" are. If you use a different name in most day-to-day interactions, that is your real name.

"Passport name", "legal name", "slave name" to be edgy are all fine.

[Bitcoin Archive @BitcoinArchive]

💥BREAKING: US inflation jumps to 8.6% - a 40-year record! 😳

#Bitcoin 😉

[₿IRB @crypto_birb]

👀

[Bitfly @etherchain_org]

The Ropsten network just merged!

One of the last testnets until we merge on the #Ethereum mainnet🐼

https://t.co/3lvlUfcAT4